Fleetwood Mac - happy at the top (Rolling Stone 1982)

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Originally Posted by Macfan4life

Amazing perspective as usual David. Right on the money. There is huge irony because in 1981 Stevie sort of disproved her doubters musically. She released a more rock album and had huge success. Her mini solo tour showed she could hold the stage as a solo act. Her voice was as strong as it ever was and she also was at peak beauty. But that did not last long. The Wild Heart was trashed by Rolling Stone and Stevie's drug use was so out of control that her stage presence was airy fairy and a disaster at times. As the Pittsburgh Press reviewed her 1983 show that bashed her for relying on her sex appeal too much and her band seemed as confused as she was almost questioning they had no idea what song to play next. By the time RAL came around, she was completely in her own orbit and in another world. She could not tell her singing sucked and her songs were no longer magical and the studio was just meant as a big party. In 1984 Christine McVie did an interview with Musician magazine or Rolling Stone where she actually says how isolated Stevie had become. She says something like they used to be very close and good friends but today Stevie lives in her own world and I don't see her anymore. Creating your own world props up your egomania.

I remember Christine said something about Stevie no longer having a sense of humor. And, she didn't get her a wedding gift.