Unpublished RS interview from 2014

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Originally Posted by Macfan4life

Anyone remember this from 1984?

“Stevie used to call me Mother Earth because I was always pretty grounded.”

According to McVie, though, Nicks was less grounded. Some of her behavior, including an ill-fated wedding in 1983, was “very, very bizarre” to McVie. It appeared that fame had changed Nicks.

“Ten years ago, she really had her feet on the ground, along with a tremendous sense of humor, which she still has,” McVie told Rolling Stone in 1984. “But she seems to have developed her own fantasy world, somehow, which I’m not part of. We don’t socialize much.”

Yes, I remember this from the article RS did in Christine’s ‘84 solo album. At that time, most of the members of the band were pretty splintered. Lindsey and Mick worked on Christine’s record, and then all four of the instrumentalists worked on Christine’s Elvis cover. But in ‘84 the prospect of a FM reunion seemed pretty remote. Much of that had to do with how far afield Stevie’s solo career had become. But Mick’s descent from “Big Daddy” to “Little Daddy” was also a big reason…