The original Street Angel mixes?

[Supernaut]

Originally Posted by mikebise

Ah, but Gordon said "Julia" was Stevie's favourite song on Bella Donna, and it killed her when Iovine dumped it at the very last minute. That's why she had Gordon re-record the song with her in Dallas in 1982, but, as exec producer, Iovine again cut it from the final album. Gordon said it was important to Stevie for "Julia" to be on The Wild Heart since it was partly about her and Robin. Stevie was Lily and Robin was Julia from the Jane Fonda/Vanessa Redgrave movie, Julia. (Which the song "Impossible Task" is also written with inspiration from).

Interesting.

I'm not surprised to hear that, either. "Julia" and those other songs are like the Stevie Nicks apocrypha. They've got all the big Stevie themes - the mystery, the mythos, the pathos, the drama - but somehow, in my opinion at least, she (or maybe THEY) never quite NAILED it, so they never made the final cut. For whatever reason.

Listening to the (crappy sounding) WH "Julia", it actually sounds like Iovine maybe didn't GET it. The production, to my ear, sounds all wrong for the song.

Again, apologies for going OT.