Lindsey reacts to Tusk

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Originally Posted by Macfan4life

You have access to the book. For some reason I remember from one of his books that Stevie threw down the gauntlet about that verse. She protested so much to threaten to leave the band. I forget how Mick got her to calm down.
Please enlighten me

Yes, I remember what Mick wrote about that line, it was within the L&S breakup explanation.

Stevie and Lindsey broke up as well. To this day, I don't really know how it happened. I remember that Stevie went into the session" for the new album as a single lady, as did Chris. At the time, she said something in a joking way about Lindsey being more interested in his guitar than he was in her, and she got tired of it and left. There was some conflict, I recall, about the "crackin' up, shackin' up" line in "Go Your Own Way," which Stevie felt was unfair and Lindsey felt strongly about. Much later, Stevie made her perspective clear to me: ~

"Suppose Lindsey wasn't playing well on a particular song or something," she said. "As his girlfriend, I should be a comfort to him, right? You know: 'Who cares about it? You're great anyway!' I mean, that's what old ladies do for their men, right? But I couldn't, because I was also frustrated and saying, 'Look, if you could just get your guitar part tight, we could put the vocal on.' I'd be pissed off at him too. There was no way we could get any comfort from each other about what went on in the band. There was no love, because everybody was too nervous. And while we were traveling all the time, none of us had other friends to talk to...."

Stevie has also said that the relationship between her and Lindsey was already a bit rocky when they joined the band. As Stevie started to express herself more, as she became a star, things didn't get any better.

These were the less-than-ideal conditions under which Fleetwood Mac began to record our next album. People who knew us were agog. After all, it isn't so unusual for a couple in a band to break up. But both couples? And me? It was ironic. We were all in a state of total weirdness. We needed to be apart from each other in the worst way, but at the same time we had to work together. We were trying to let go personally and cling to each other professionally at the same time.

Breaking up the band was never even discussed. It was never an option. We just carried on. I can't remember one moment when it was suggested we not carry on.