The Alternate Rock A Little...

[bluecrystal]

Originally Posted by Nikolaj

i could definitely be wrong here, but i believe the 3rd solo album always was to be called Rock A Little and never Mirror, Mirror...i'm going on memory here, but i was living in LA and lived and breathed all things Stevie, and, lol, spoke on a bi-weekly basis with the switchboard gal at Modern, who told me i wouldn't believe all the calls that came in daily regarding Stevie's next album (i asked if she minded me calling, and she said, 'no, check in every couple of weeks 'cause i know whatever i'll tell you, it will reach some of the other fans')-- well, in our conversations, she always called it 'Rock A Little' and i seem to recall an LA press interview in which Stevie said 'the new album is called Rock A Little and i haven't even written the title song, but it's going to have to be really good, since it's the name of the album"-
If anyone here knows for sure that 'Mirror Mirror' was indeed a planned release, i apologize, and 'give'--- it's just my memory (which could be wrong) saying it was always 'Rock A Little.' I do remember that Jimmy Iovine stepped down as producer during the recording sessions, which seemed very slow-going at the time. In retropsect, it didn't take all that long between 'Wild Heart' and 'RAL' compared to recent waiting....

i have interviews with stevie during the promotion of RAL and she says, that the title song was written before bella donna, and that it is was about when she bought her big house on the ocean (which was in 1980) and the waves of the ocean would crash on the cliff and rock her house and she was all alone and she would rock back and forth with the waves..."just like the sea...just like me...and still we rock a little..." and i have a interview with stevie during TOSOTM era, where the interviewer asks her about the title of that album and she says its an extension of rock a little, which was originally titled mirror mirror, is our refection what we want to see staring back at us, is the world on the other side of the mirror just as good and just as bad as the world we live in now