Spinoff: What Stories Do You Want In A Stevie Autobiography?

[Neal]

Originally Posted by bluecalmsea

So, no rules- your dream autobiography.

What stories have you heard pieces of, that you want more detail about?

What would an ideal table of contents look like for you?

Off the top of my head:

Chapters 1-2: The Early Years (Pre-Buckingham).
--Basic family/childhood background
--Her side of this story: http://www.khaldea.com/freakstreet6.shtml

Chapters 3-4: Fritz- Buckingham/Nicks
--What it was like working in that band
--How she and Lindsey grew closer
--College-- was she paying attention at all, or just going through the motions to please her parents

Chapters 5-8: 70's Albums FM/Rumours/Tusk
--A chapter on each "era"
--What it was like to become a millionaire
--Coping with fame
--Drug scene-- did she ever have any reservations? Total party girl from day one?
--Breakup with Lindsey-- was he as volatile with her as he was with Carol Ann?
--I need some confirmation about the lyrics of "Sara"/ Don Henley
--Friendship with Christine vs her eventually having her own entourage

Chapters 9-15: 80's Albums Eras
--Band reactions to her going solo, and her success
--What was it like for Lindsey & Chris to go solo and not have the same success?
--Juggling all her men
--I need a chapter about Kim Anderson. Oprah only made me *more* curious about what that was like for those few months
--Non-stop touring-- sending her dad home from a tour- what happened there?
--When she knew it was time to kick cocaine
--What did her family think of her drug use? Did they try to intervene?
--The Tango fight with Lindsey

Chapters 15-20: 90's-Today
--Klonopin (although I do think we know a lot about this)
--Coping with lower sales, weight being talked about
--Never having children-- talked about adopting in the 90's. What was the holdup?
--The Dance-- Silver Springs-- Thrown Down-- Lindsey-- Lindsey becoming a father...
--Popularity rising with TISL
--Coping with changes in the music industry
--Why the hatred of technology- while at the same time technology (youtube) brought Secret Love and Without You back into her hands
--No public relationships during this time? What's up with that?
--Reflections/ lessons learned / looking ahead

Another section telling the stories / inspirations behind each song.

I'm thinking YOU should write this book!

Realistically, she'd probably completely gloss over everything from 1985-1996. We'd be lucky to get a few romanticized re-tellings of the stories we've already heard ad nauseum, with plenty of "....." thrown in for good measure.