The story of "Smile At You"

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Originally Posted by redbird

The reason Lindsey didn't want "Smile At You" on Mirage was because the arrangement at the time was done without him and Fleetwood Mac (by Iovine and the Bella Donna crew) and Stevie refused to let him change it. Yes?

Is this fact or assumption?

I don't know of any Bella Donna era arrangement of Smile at You. The demo of the Mirage versions sounds like a typical Fleetwood Mac arrangement.

In any case, Lindsey has the liberty to arrange a song however he wants. Many of the demos Stevie submits to Fleetwood Mac are initially arrangements made with outsiders.

In the process of making albums, it's par for course that some of the work doesn't advance, or make it on the albums. Smile at You is just one of those songs that got shelved, then unshelved decades later.