VMagazine.com Interviews ~ "Totally Stevie" and "The Wild Heart"

[Haunted_Song]

Some interesting stuff here...make sure you click on both links to read both articles.

TOTALLY STEVIE:

http://www.vmagazine.com/blog.php?a=4

THE WILD HEART:

http://vmagazine.com/feature_article.php?n=13518

[vivfox]

Thank you Alicia for posting these articles. I enjoyed them very much!

3. Oh, the Rolling Stone cover. You’re gonna love this story. This was basically a nightmare picture for me. This was taken by Richard Avedon. You know, it’s not every day that you get work with Richard Avedon, so this was a very big deal. It just so happened that this was taken right after Mick and I had broken up. We’d just ended the year-long relationship thing we had going on and things were very tense. We get to the shoot and Richard Avedon has this ladder set up and he tells me that he basically wants me to be hanging around Mick’s neck in the photo and that the rest of the band will basically be sitting around Mick’s feet. He had this whole composition already worked out. I’m looking at him like, Are you out of your mind? First of all, I’m not even speaking to Mick Fleetwood and I’m certainly not climbing up on a ladder and then hanging around his neck. I’m not touching him! So, I pulled him aside and told him that I really didn’t want to do it. Avedon looks at me and basically just tells me that I needed to just suck it up and do the photo. He’s like, this is the cover of Rolling Stone magazine and in 10 years you’ll be glad that you did this. Now, do it. So, I reluctantly agreed. Up I go on the ladder. I was literally hanging around Mick’s neck like a mink stole. I kept feeling like I was going to fall and Mick was trying to hold me up…it was horrific.

This reminds me of the photo shoot for the Buckingham Nicks album cover when her father told her she could have just said "no."
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Another cool thing for me was when stevie says she's still the same basic person she was at age 15. For a few years now I've been telling my neices and nephews the same thing about me.

[CADreaming]

Originally Posted by vivfox

Thank you Alicia for posting these articles. I enjoyed them very much!

3. Oh, the Rolling Stone cover. You’re gonna love this story. This was basically a nightmare picture for me. This was taken by Richard Avedon. You know, it’s not every day that you get work with Richard Avedon, so this was a very big deal. It just so happened that this was taken right after Mick and I had broken up. We’d just ended the year-long relationship thing we had going on and things were very tense. We get to the shoot and Richard Avedon has this ladder set up and he tells me that he basically wants me to be hanging around Mick’s neck in the photo and that the rest of the band will basically be sitting around Mick’s feet. He had this whole composition already worked out. I’m looking at him like, Are you out of your mind? First of all, I’m not even speaking to Mick Fleetwood and I’m certainly not climbing up on a ladder and then hanging around his neck. I’m not touching him! So, I pulled him aside and told him that I really didn’t want to do it. Avedon looks at me and basically just tells me that I needed to just suck it up and do the photo. He’s like, this is the cover of Rolling Stone magazine and in 10 years you’ll be glad that you did this. Now, do it. So, I reluctantly agreed. Up I go on the ladder. I was literally hanging around Mick’s neck like a mink stole. I kept feeling like I was going to fall and Mick was trying to hold me up…it was horrific.

This reminds me of the photo shoot for the Buckingham Nicks album cover when her father told her she could have just said "no."

Me thinks she doth protest too much...

Oh, and when she said Lindsey didn't speak to "them" for weeks, she really meant he didn't speak to her for weeks...

[daniellaaarisen]

Every time someone posts a Stevie article I'm particularly interested in, Christmas comes early.

[Steviefan49]

Originally Posted by Haunted_Song

Some interesting stuff here...make sure you click on both links to read both articles.

TOTALLY STEVIE:

http://www.vmagazine.com/blog.php?a=4

THE WILD HEART:

http://vmagazine.com/feature_article.php?n=13518

Thanks SOOOO much Alicia! What wonderful articles! I SOOOOO love both of these!

Hugs,

Arlene

[louielouie2000]

Originally Posted by CADreaming

Me thinks she doth protest too much...

Oh, and when she said Lindsey didn't speak to "them" for weeks, she really meant he didn't speak to her for weeks...

Pretty much. It always amazes me reading these accounts of how rampant insecurity, jealousy, and resentment were in the band back in their heyday. You think the psychotic success would quell that some. But I suppose it can also have the opposite effect.

[Black_Moon]

She's such a drama queen, I love it.

Thanks so much for sharing these!

[GODDESS6]

alicia rocks as always, thanx for posting!!!~

[belladonnadream]

thanks for posting!
Loove the account of the RS covershoot! Drama!

[Erin]

Lindsey's daughters wanting to wear her platform boots and capes? Very funny. I'm sure Lindsey just loves that. Thanks for posting!

Is there a Stevie photo shoot that went smoothly?

[FMlex]

Awesome articles! Thanks so much for sharing

I read this quote and it slightly broke my heart:

I really think it has changed him though, and I think it’s made it easier for him to accept who I am and to deal with me. He’s less apt to argue with me these days and he’s more apt to understand what I say and not take it personally. I think he understands now that I really do always have his best interests at heart. He used to understand that, back in the beginning, but after we broke up he didn’t feel that way.

(Emphasis mine.)

*Sigh*

[michelej1]

Excellent articles because we got new info and not things we'd already heard a million times. Thank you!

Yeah, I'm glad that Lindsey finally understands that Stevie only has his best interest at heart!

Michele

[equeen102289]

Thank you so much for posting those! I love reading Stevie's reactions to old photos!

[gypsy4life]

Thanks...awesome!!

[vermicious knid]

Does anyone have the uncropped Richard Avedon photo? I have seen it before. He was right to insist on that great composition.