Buckingham/McVie exclusive interview (summary)

[SteveMacD]

Originally Posted by bombaysaffires

If you noticed on SYW she didn't come in with really bare songwriting demos...i.e., just her and the piano and no idea how she wanted to make them into commercial records as in the past. She came in with full DEMOS with her idea for how she wanted them to sound.

But that leads to another issue.

The album initially started out as a Lindsey solo album, which meant he had the challenge of taking her songs and making them cohesive with his mostly finished songs. I mean, I feel bad for Stevie, but SYW would have sounded even more disjointed had Lindsey not made those changes.