UK Classic Rock Article

[danax6]

Originally Posted by David

About Gold Dust Woman, Stevie says: "The song is definitely about cocaine. I couldn't believe what I had let myself become. I was the Gold Dust Woman." So was Stevie a heavy user already in 1976 before the summer tour?

No, besides, she wrote it before she even joined Fleetwood Mac.

[shackin'up]

weird, you know the story in details, and yet you suck this article up like the first time you hear it. It stays a sort of archetype story of an archteype record.

THANKS SHARON!!!!!

[Gailh]

Originally Posted by littlewolf

There´s also a Stevie Nicks article on september issue of Mojo magazine.
I had never seen a mention of Christine and Stevie having less than very good relationship,
until on this board.
I find it very sad to think that fans of Fleetwood mac would try to make it look like there was some kind of bad blood between them.
When they´ve said they were sanctuaries to each other during the hard times.

speaking as a Christine fan I don't think there's ever been bad blood between her and Stevie. Just recently Stevie has said how much she missed Christine on the last album and how she's not going to make another FM album "in this lifetime" without Christine.

What we do find irritating is the very small number of Stevie and sometimes Lindsey fans who have this Stevie and Lindsey are FM attitude. We then become very protective of her although lord knows no-one is less in need of protection than Christine.

I've read comments on the (I think) Stevie board to the effect that it's good that Christine has gone because we can get back to what we all want: Buckingham Nicks. also we had the episode with the so called Stevie fan who came onto Christine's own website and tried to disrupt it by posting the same thing about 30 times, all about Stevie. Incidently that idiot also posts on this site.

I would say though that the majority of Christine's fans don't have anything against Stevie personally.

Gail

[Kelly]

Thanks for posting, Sharon!

Pretty interesting article, esp the comments by CAH and Ken. Carol seems to tell a slightly different story about Buckingham's feelings for Stevie in this article, than she does in her 'book'.

BTW...can anyone confirm if any of the quotes from Ken are new? David mentioned alot of the article is pieced together from old interviews, etc. Several of Ken's comments are new to me and I am curious if they are to anyone else.

Lastly...Stevie has told so many differing stories about GDW, I can hardly keep track. She has also said she wrote GDW before she joined FM....long before the big, bad cocaine dealer walked into the Sausalito studio with his mountain of blow. Like many of her songs, the meaning has shifted over the years.

[trackaghost]

Originally Posted by danax6

I love you, Sharona. That first page looks awesome.

edit: Managed to get some reading done...

Carol Ann Harris: "The mood in the room would change from light to dark whenever they were together. They sheer tension betweem them was overwhelming; it literally stopped people in their tracks. They could say the most mean and hurtful things to each other. Not because they meant it, because I don’t think they really did, but just because they wanted to cut the other one down. The big thing, though, was that Lindsey still loved Stevie. I know he did. Through all the time he was with me, he never stopped loving her. No matter how insane she made him, I don’t think he was over the fact that they weren’t a couple anymore. He blamed himself for their break-up, and I think she blamed herself as well. They had that in common, although it was an unspoken bond between them.”

Didn't she just spend an entire book talking about how Lindsey didn't give a crap's ass about Stevie anymore after their break-up?

Yeah, what's up with that? I wonder why she didn't say any of that stuff in her book, if she's prepared to say it in a magazine interview. It's blatantly obvious in the book though, even if she never actually says it.

Originally Posted by David

Thanks for posting it, Sharon. You're the cool breezes that blow.

I like you too David, and I'm glad you're back!

[Sapphire Girl]

Originally Posted by Kelly

Pretty interesting article, esp the comments by CAH and Ken. Carol seems to tell a slightly different story about Buckingham's feelings for Stevie in this article, than she does in her 'book'.

The comments by Carol Ann Harris are especially interesting considering she said on pg xv of her book "I have never given any interviews or sought publicity: I prefer not being quoted to being quoted inaccurately."