How You Became A Fan..... Your Stevie Story

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I suppose I was 6 years old when it happened. It was 1976, and my oldest sister Linda (who was 22 at the time) had bought the FM 'White Album' on vinyl and also 8-track. Due to the big age difference, she assumed alot of responsibilty in our household and took good care of me. Anyway, she was always taking my sister Robin and I places in her blue '72 Pontiac Firebird. We'd be in the backseat, and she'd be driving and blasting her 8-tracks. It was always music, in her car. So we'd drive to Jones Beach in the summer, or even just to go to the store or one of her girlfriends houses or my aunts house- but the important thing to her was that there was always music playing. And it was alot of different music, there was FM, but there was also Donna Summer, Electric Light Orchestra, Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes, Gloria Gaynor, Barry White, Traffic, Charlie Rich, and so many others.

So that's really how I came into FM- it was through my sister and it just sort of soaked in. We'd sing 'Rhiannon', and 'Blue Letter'. The next year, she bought 'Rumours', and we'd sing 'Don't Stop', 'Dreams', 'Go Your Own Way' 'You Make Loving Fun' and 'The Chain'.