Will Ferrell and Dave Grohl doing Leather & Lace

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[QUOTE=petep9000;743166] . . . But it wasn't a 'Mirage' -era performance by any means. Or a RAL-era performance, for that matter.

Originally Posted by petep9000

True. Even Paul Fishkin said that each subsequent release after a certain period sold less and less. If we graphed it, not sure when we'd see the downward turn, but I'd say probably all releases after TWH . . . .

Her solo stuff declined by half each time -but, TITN reinvigorated her career as it sold millions of records and had four or five hit singles here and abroad. So, I think she had no reason to think OOTM was not going to sell and sell well. Then, ROF was a hit pretty much overnight and the album went to #10 (RAL only hit 12). Then, she toured here and in Europe and the most was for the most part successful. Again, nothing like the early 80's, but successful nonetheless.

So, I think she knew she was less popular than before, but clearly she was justified in thinking she was still fairly popular, esp. when FMGH went on to sell so well. I think the slap of reality hit her when she went to record the songs for Timespace and her record company (in a very changed industry by then) tried to manhandle her.

No one likes to see their life's passion crumbling before them and into the hands of some suit who knows nothing about you.

This link is pretty cool on this subject:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevie_Nicks#Solo_career