Purported Mac/Stevie releases...

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Originally Posted by skuncles

There was also Stevie's live album. She had been saying in interviews that she was going to Australia to record a live album with the Melbourne Symphony. She was going on and on about how Waddy was working on the arrangements and that some songs like "Beauty & The Beast" were originally recorded with an orchestra so they were a natural. It kept being talking about because it was going to be her first live album. And then there were apparently problems with the recording (the cameras didn't get the first two songs) so she had to redo them. Finally the whole project was scrapped. A couple of the tracks surfaced on "Crystal Visions" but the rest have yet to see light of day (except of course in bootleg form).

The word here in Melbourne (press interview with a MSO manager) was that the concert didn't go all that well from the MSO's perspective - Waddy and the band drowned them out basically, so I think this one was abandoned becuase the MSO wouldn't approve it.