"Don't come around here no more"

[vivfox]

Originally Posted by Nickingham

I was looking up this song on google which is one of my favorites and I came across some interesting things.
We know Stevie sings backup vocals on it, but there's more to it apparently.
http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=693

"Stewart tells the full glorious story in The Dave Stewart Songbook http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...ngfactscom1-20, but here are the highlights: Eurythmics had a huge hit with "Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)" and became a phenomenon in the United States. They played the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles, and Stewart met Stevie Nicks backstage after the show. She had broken up with Joe Walsh the day before, so she took Stewart home with her and they had a romantic encounter. The next morning, Stevie kicked him out, and Stewart flew to San Francisco for his next gig. After the show, he used a Portastudio to create a track using a drum machine, a synthesizer and a sitar. Reflecting on the last 24 hours, Stewart says: "I really liked Stevie and she seemed vulnerable and fragile when I was leaving that morning. I was thinking about that and the situation she was in and I started singing, 'Don't come around her no more.'"
A few days later Stewart was staying with producer Jimmy Iovine, who was working on Stevie's Bella Donna album. Stewart played him his demo, and they started writing the song for Stevie. Stewart didn't know that Nicks and Iovine were once a couple, and when she came over to record the song, tensions boiled over and she left in a huff. Iovine decided to give Tom Petty the song, and had him come by, where they finished it up. Petty and Nicks had worked with Iovine on the duet "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around," which went on Stevie's album, so it was only fair that Petty got this one."

Wow.I wonder if it's true.Stevie and Dave Stewart, who would've thought!
Has anyone read his book or heard other stories about it?

Somebody's brain is fried because Stevie was dating Iovine during the recording of Bella Donna. She started dating Walsh during The Wild Heart Tour and broke up with Walsh in approx. 1986.

[vivfox]

Originally Posted by CADreaming

This was on wikipedia:

"Don't Come Around Here No More" is the third track on Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' 1985 album Southern Accents and one of Tom Petty's biggest hits. It was a collaboration with David A. Stewart of Eurythmics. The original inspiration was a romantic encounter that Stewart had with Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac. [1] On The Howard Stern Show, Dave Stewart explained that the title's phrase was actually uttered by Stevie. She had broken up with Joe Walsh the night before, and invited Dave Stewart to her place for a party after an early Eurythmics show in L.A. Dave didn't know who she was at the time, but went anyway. When the party goers all disappeared to a bathroom for a couple of hours to snort cocaine, he decided to go upstairs to bed. He woke up at 5am to find Stevie Nicks in his room trying on Victorian clothing and described the entire scenario as very much reminiscent of Alice in Wonderland. Later that morning, she told Joe Walsh, "Don't come around here no more".

Wrong! She told Dave Stewart, "don't come around here no more" not Joe Walsh.

[vivfox]

Originally Posted by LikeAWillow

How could she possibly have gone to school for five years to be an English teacher and still say things like "don't come around here no more" and "I should have turned away and ran"

Stevie went to college and majored in Speech Communications. It was a two year course that took her five years to do and she didn't even graduate.

[CADreaming]

Originally Posted by trackaghost

So you think I'm lying for some reason? Okay.
I'm not, however. I've lived in the UK all my life and hardly anyone I know outside this community know who she is, especially in 84/85, as she hadn't had even one solo hit here at that time and even her famous Fleetwood Mac singles like Gypsy weren't that big.
So in my humble experience it's very plausible he was unaware who she was especially if he wasn't a fan of Fleetwood Mac and I've found that even casual fans are often unable to name the members of the band. I'm sure he knew of Fleetwood Mac, but I know of Foreigner, but if you said the name of any member of that band I'm certain to respond with "who?"
But if you know better please enlighten me.

It's not a personal attack. I just think someone in a successful music group, involved in the music business, on any continent during the mid '80's would know who Stevie Nicks was, regardless of personal like/dislike of Fleetwood Mac. If he saw her backstage and didn't REALIZE who she was, is entirely different than saying he didn't know who Stevie Nicks was... just sayin'...

[thatgirlwasme]

Originally Posted by vivfox

Somebody's brain is fried because Stevie was dating Iovine during the recording of Bella Donna. She started dating Walsh during The Wild Heart Tour and broke up with Walsh in approx. 1986.

I was thinking the same thing . . . the timeline is a little off. This seems to discredit this story a little for me, but I do love juicy gossip!

A

[LikeAWillow]

Originally Posted by David

What's even worse is that I went to see the Heartbreakers at the Forum in 1985 (with Lone Justice opening) specifically to see Stevie come out & sing this song -- but the bitch didn't!!

June 2007. Post-Gazette Pavillion. WDVE's announcement of Stevie's possible surprise performance lead only to extreme disappointment.

It's like we've lived the same life.

[StreetAngel86]

Originally Posted by Nickingham

I was looking up this song on google which is one of my favorites and I came across some interesting things.
We know Stevie sings backup vocals on it, but there's more to it apparently.
http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=693

"Stewart tells the full glorious story in The Dave Stewart Songbook http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...ngfactscom1-20, but here are the highlights: Eurythmics had a huge hit with "Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)" and became a phenomenon in the United States. They played the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles, and Stewart met Stevie Nicks backstage after the show. She had broken up with Joe Walsh the day before, so she took Stewart home with her and they had a romantic encounter. The next morning, Stevie kicked him out, and Stewart flew to San Francisco for his next gig. After the show, he used a Portastudio to create a track using a drum machine, a synthesizer and a sitar. Reflecting on the last 24 hours, Stewart says: "I really liked Stevie and she seemed vulnerable and fragile when I was leaving that morning. I was thinking about that and the situation she was in and I started singing, 'Don't come around her no more.'"
A few days later Stewart was staying with producer Jimmy Iovine, who was working on Stevie's Bella Donna album. Stewart played him his demo, and they started writing the song for Stevie. Stewart didn't know that Nicks and Iovine were once a couple, and when she came over to record the song, tensions boiled over and she left in a huff. Iovine decided to give Tom Petty the song, and had him come by, where they finished it up. Petty and Nicks had worked with Iovine on the duet "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around," which went on Stevie's album, so it was only fair that Petty got this one."

Wow.I wonder if it's true.Stevie and Dave Stewart, who would've thought!
Has anyone read his book or heard other stories about it?

is there anyone Mama hasn't had a romantic encounter with?
i do like that there are a billion songs i've grown up listening to
without even thinking about them
and a bunch have connections to/are about Stevie/FM etc
that is VERY cool

[StreetAngel86]

Originally Posted by vivfox

Stevie went to college and majored in Speech Communications. It was a two year course that took her five years to do and she didn't even graduate.

well. well. weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeell.

[PenguinHead]

Originally Posted by CADreaming

It's not a personal attack. I just think someone in a successful music group, involved in the music business, on any continent during the mid '80's would know who Stevie Nicks was, regardless of personal like/dislike of Fleetwood Mac. If he saw her backstage and didn't REALIZE who she was, is entirely different than saying he didn't know who Stevie Nicks was... just sayin'...

Also note that Stevie, in many aspects, was the face of Fleetwood Mac! She had the most physical appeal, and was an object of lust on an international level.

[CADreaming]

Originally Posted by PenguinHead

Also note that Stevie, in many aspects, was the face of Fleetwood Mac! She had the most physical appeal, and was an object of lust on an international level.

Excellent point! Dave Stewart must have been hiding under a rock from 1975-1985.

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by CADreaming

Excellent point! Dave Stewart must have been hiding under a rock from 1975-1985.

Maybe Annie Lennox carefully hid everything relating to Stevie from him, which would explain all the cut out photos in his vintage music magazines.

Michele

[mgikallaroundme]

Originally Posted by thatgirlwasme

I was thinking the same thing . . . the timeline is a little off. This seems to discredit this story a little for me, but I do love juicy gossip!

A

Everything about this story is a little off. Everyone loves juicy gossip, so who cares? Forget the timeline being totally ludicrous. All credibility is lost when Stewart claims he didn't know Stevie. Forget he banged her when he was still in a relationship with Annie Lennox. Stewart and Mr. Buckingham were thick as thieves in those day and remain so. He didn't know who she was?

[Nickingham]

Maybe someone's brain IS fried. lol.
Dont Come Around Here No More was released on the 1985 album Southern Accents but it was recorded in 1984. On http://www.whosdatedwho.com/celebrit...evie-nicks.htm, it says she had a "romantic encounter" noted by the "s" below his name in 1985. Then it also says she was with Iovine again in 1985.I'm curious to see if he has the whole story in his book.

[Nickingham]

"Don't Come Around Here No More" is the third track on Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' 1985 album Southern Accents and one of Tom Petty's biggest hits. It was a collaboration with David A. Stewart of Eurythmics. The original inspiration was a romantic encounter that Stewart had with Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac. [1] On The Howard Stern Show, Dave Stewart explained that the title's phrase was actually uttered by Stevie. She had broken up with Joe Walsh the night before, and invited Dave Stewart to her place for a party after an early Eurythmics show in L.A. Dave didn't know who she was at the time, but went anyway. When the party goers all disappeared to a bathroom for a couple of hours to snort cocaine, he decided to go upstairs to bed. He woke up at 5am to find Stevie Nicks in his room trying on Victorian clothing and described the entire scenario as very much reminiscent of Alice in Wonderland. Later that morning, she told Joe Walsh, "Don't come around here no more".

Originally Posted by vivfox

Wrong! She told Dave Stewart, "don't come around here no more" not Joe Walsh.

Stevie dated Joe Walsh from 1983-1985/86, the song was recorded in 1984 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t...d_Here_No_Morebut it was not released until 1985 and somewhere in there she had a "romantic encounter" with David Stewart? lol.
If Stevie did sing backup on this song, you can't even hear her.At least I can't.Maybe the song is just about her but doesn't have her back-up vocals on it.
Maybe Stevie got back together with Joe Walsh for a year before finally calling it quits with him after her brief romantic encounter with David Stewart?
Stevie and David would have had to hook up in 1984 for the song to be about her and the events that happened.

[Dodfather]

Originally Posted by David

What's even worse is that I went to see the Heartbreakers at the Forum in 1985 (with Lone Justice opening) specifically to see Stevie come out & sing this song -- but the bitch didn't!!

Whoa - that would have been a great gig! Lone Justice are/were awesome! Maria McKee's voice is just spectacular. Then the Heartbreakers...perfect.