Relocated: London, Christine, Lindsey, FM

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by MikeInNV

I guess it's not totally clear, and any one of several scenarios may have played out, but I think what was written--"Lindsey seems almost cross about Christine’s return. He said she’d “burned her bridges”, and asked MOJO not to use a line-up shot including Christine on the cover of our issue about the making of Rumours"--will certainly imply a lot to many readers.

Yep, I just don't know if those implications are correct. Did Lindsey say, "don't use a line-up shot that includes Christine." Or did he say "don't use that line up shot" and the line up shot that they showed him included Christine. I know the question to Stevie implies that Lindsey said he didn't want Christine on the cover of the magazine, but I question the accuracy of that conclusion.

One reason I think Lindsey might not have said that is because when the Mojo issue in question came out, I think that juicy tidbit would certainly have been mentioned in the article itself, the Fleetwood Mac article with the inflammatory cover, not 9 months later in an SN interview. I think it would have been mentioned earlier because that original article does pointedly mention Lindsey's vehement (and dreaded) "burned her bridges" line and I think Mojo wanted to delve into the Christine question then, but didn't have a lot to go on other than the burned bridges.

What it looks like to me happened is that the writer asked Stevie how the reunion went. Stevie was all, gee it was great that Christine came and sang one song, but it could have been more than one song if Lindsey had let her. Learning from Stevie that Lindsey supposedly didn't want Christine to perform on more than one song, the writer sensed conflict between the band members and wanted to explore that for a scoop, so to get Stevie to elaborate on a fissure between Lindsey and Christine, the writer returns to the "burned her bridges" line and ADDS that Lindsey didn't want them to use a line up shot that included Christine, a piece of information that was missing from the original Mojo article. He doesn't say that Lindsey didn't want to use the photo because it included Christine.

Parsing words? I don't think so, not when you consider the context. This would have been an important point to make, if true.

Since the original Mojo article never suggested that Lindsey didn't want Christine on the cover and since Lindsey doesn't appear on the cover himself, I just don't conclude that Lindsey said not to use the line up photo, for the reason that it contained Christine. Who knows why he didn't want it to be used. If he wanted to exclude Christine, I think he would have pushed for a picture of just the four of them. If he did, Mojo might have refused his suggestion, but I 100% believe they would have said they refused such a request. They don't. So, I don't think any such request was made.

If there was any indication that Lindsey wanted to erase Christine from FM history, revealing that he said, "here I really want you to use this picture of the four of us, instead of the picture of five" would have been most relevant. The writer doesn't say Lindsey said such a thing and I find the omission instructive. It certainly informs my interpretation of events.

Yes, I know that other people don't read it that way. I'm sure that was the writer's intent.

Michele