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A girl called Stevie – Oh my.

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Saw an article about the Mac in Mojo. With a picture of Stevie. I remember being in physical pain if I saw her on telly when I was a lad. Somewhere down the crazy river of teenage longing.

Probably explains my lifelong predilection for women of a boho bent. A slight hippy vibe. My ex-wife Anna had a touch of that. Foxy, feisty and a doctor too. Man, I was gone. Solid gone.

May explain too my fondness for girls with boy names. There’s been an Alex, a Robyn, a Billie, and, oh yes, a Stevie. A Californian called Stevie! Dark hair, mind.

Some things pass. And some things remain. The things you love. The names of girls.

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    • Love her as a singer, but agree on the other part.

      My loins were never stirred at the sight of Stevie, maybe because soon after Rumours became so big, Kate Bush filled the floaty hippie space in my heart, leaving no gaps.

  3. A little surprising, I think, that neither of the two most beautiful pop sex symbols from our teenage years (Stevie and Debbie Harry) had children/family lives. Both left that path to their ex-loves.

  6. Dare I ask about the job title of this interesting individual?

    I suspect that the Mac used wind machines to get a bit of atmosphere. Thus making the efforts of this powder person doubly difficult.

    I suspect that like Ozzie’s bat, it’s apocryphal.

  7. I’m partial to a bit of the Mac every now and then, but Stevie can’t sing.

    Or rather, I find the way she sings really annoying.

    Her diction is shocking but this may be a bit of a blessing, because her lyrics are rubbish.

    Other opinions are available (particularly from the 389 squillion-gazillion people who bought her albums).

  9. Crikey – a thread about Stevie Nicks with 15 comments on it, and no one has posted that classic video.
    You know the one, don’t you, Afterworders?
    It’s 1981. Stevie is backstage, having make-up applied to her before a photo session. In the background, “Wild Heart” starts playing, and she launches into an impassioned, impromptu vocal performance. Good stuff. I won’t post the YouTube video, because you all know it anyway.

  10. Now I’ve really got my Nicksers in a twist, DuCool. Never heard of that.

    Surprised to hear your a Mac Man. Then again I would not be at all surprised to hear you were into P Green’s FM.

  13. I’ll take you back to 1974. I was at an impressional age. I was in the transition between 15 and 16. My friends stencilled ‘Yes’ and ‘ELP’ on their school bags. Every house I went to was blighted by Pink Floyd. I was weird. I loved Steely Dan and Little Feat. I had been brought up on Soul, so Curtis Mayfield and Al Green filled my ears. But, my friends tolerated me. I was strange but not grossly abnormal. At least, not in 1974.

    Then, I heard Linda Ronstadt. She was a slight figure with a big voice. She was beautiful, floaty and hippy-chick. She sang songs of infidelity. Her album Heart Like A Wheel spoke to me. It told me this beautiful, rich woman from America with a string of lovers was available. She was Willin’ to meet me At The Dark End Of The Street and indulge in Faithless Love.

    The problem was she sang Country. If I admitted to liking Country Music in 1974, I’d be a pariah. So, she remained my dirty little secret until today.

    I feel better now.

    I don’t suppose someone with the necessary skills could post the album cover in which she wears a see-through top? Thank you.

          • Hey Tiggs, totally off piste here, but am I right in remembering that it was you who once mentioned that your iTunes annoyingly separates album tracks from the same album? Cos, if so, I think I’ve found a solution. It’s a bit of a palaver, mind.
            You have to go into info and click ‘Album is a compilation’ for each individual track. Then close info. Then open it again and go through each track and unclick the same ‘compilation’ box. seems to work.

            • Nope. That wasn’t me. I was once admonished for only listening to entire albums, which is still true 99% of the time.

              The only time that has happened to me is an album where the ‘artist’ changes. Commonly, in rap, most of the album will have the artist ‘Kanye West’ but some will add ‘Kanye West featuring Lil’ Kim’, for example. I solve that by making the album artist ‘Kanye West’!

              Thanks anyway.

                • You can usually change metadata like that by selecting all* of the offending items, then ‘get info’. It will ask whether you want to select multiple items. OK, then just change the field(s) you want, and OK again.

                  * If it imports as single tracks all over your library, you’ll need to click on the first one, holding down the key on your keyboard which allows you to select multiple items that aren’t next to each other – the command / apple key on macs.

    • Aw Tigs, before the coming of the Great Punk War, I would say the years 1972 to 1976 were definitive for me and informed my tastes in the years since.

      Some of my favourite albums of all time were recorded in that brief period. It was a time of discovery across genres and time periods, hearing new music and, freshly, the music that had come before.

      I had Yessongs and Selling England By The Pound but Zep aside most of that metally proggy stuff like Atomic Giant, Gentle Rooster, Wishbone Floyd, Pink Ash, Deep Sabbath and the like left me cold.

      Instead, it was Blood On The Tracks and Bobby Womack, The Last Record Album and Linda Ronstadt, Hejira and What’s Going On? Nils Lofgren and Get Up Stand Up.

      It’s Too Late To Stop Now was another one

      And it is. So it is.

      • Others in 1974 – The Average White Band, Kimono My House, Eno, Stevie Wonder and, extra special for me, Rock Bottom. I only started to appreciate Bob Marley and On The Beach, my favourite Neil Young album, the year later.

        Could never stand Sheer Heart Attack nor The Lamb Lies Down which seemed to follow me everywhere.

        As you say, those were the years my taste became hard-wired.

    • Amazing confession Tiggs.

      The sexy skeletons that come rolling out of the closet on the AW , eh?

      There’s a thread on illicit teenage passions just waiting to be started there.

  14. I saw Fleetwood Mac on their Rumours Tour. It was probably 1977 and I was an impressionable teenager. It was my first proper concert. I thought they were as Gods and both Christine and Stevie were somewhere beyond Alpha Centauri in their utter gorgeous unattainability.

  17. I never had much of an interest in the Buckingham / Nicks version of the Mac much preferring the Blooz of Peter Green.

    But I did always like the voice of Christine Perfect and Mrs Wells rather likes them.Anyway to cut a long story short I’ve ended up with tickets for their Oz tour in November and 8 rows from the front too.

    Will be interesting.

  18. Goodish article/interview in t’Sunday Times yesterday, painting Mr Buckingham as no small macchiavelli.
    And a hairline that defies belief, unless it’s been surgically pulled forward from the back of his bald patch, which is now his lineless forehead. He would bass my usual wind tunnel test*, unless, perhaps, made to go in backwards.
    And Christine MacVie: how many folk get dragged back to work at 71, 16 years after retiring, poor old soul…….

    *Wind tunnel test? As in rockstars I’d like to walk through a wind tunnel. And yes, it’s you, Ray Davies, I ‘m talking to you!

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