Storms
My Life with Lindsey Buckingham and Fleetwood Mac
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Publisher Description
As the girlfriend of Fleetwood Mac's singer and guitarist Lindsey Buckingham, Carol Ann Harris was the consummate insider. She was there when Rumours, the fastest-selling album in history, hurtled the band into superstardom, and kept an audio diary as they went on grueling tours around the world and indulged in incestuous affairs. In this memoir, she captures, in intimate detail, the behind-the-scenes parties, fights, drug use, shenanigans, and sex lives of one of the world's greatest bands.
Carol Ann was Lindsey's consort, muse, and guardian for eight years. She gave Lindsey unwavering support when he adopted a new direction for Tusk, and he could always turn to her when he felt overwhelmed by the animosity the band seemed to thrive on. But as events took a darker turn, and as their relationship spiraled into chaos, so did the band.
Storms recaptures Fleetwood Mac's heyday, presenting a no-holds-barred story told by an intimately connected eyewitness who saw it all. As other stars--Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton, Dennis Wilson--interacted with the band, Carol Ann watched and took notes, and now presents a dramatic story of passion and chaos, illustrated with never-before-seen photographs. It is the only book that will take you where you've always wanted to go--into the very heart of Fleetwood Mac's storms.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This is a fascinating if overlong look at the megasuccess of Fleetwood Mac in the mid-1970s, after the former British blues band recorded the laid-back rock songs of guitarist Lindsey Buckingham and singer Stevie Nicks that made the album Rumours one of the most popular of its era. While working at the band's recording studio, Harris, currently a music business costume designer, became Buckingham's girlfriend and constant companion from 1976 through 1984, and she gives a detailed look more so than drummer and original member Mick Fleetwood's biography at this already well-chronicled story of how the success of Rumours provided the income for extravagant cocaine-fueled excesses before, during and after performances. Harris too often uses clich s, such as her view of the band's "beautiful insanity." But she does candidly recount Buckingham's rage and his repeated physical assaults on her. Along the way, she offers great descriptions of the band's recording sessions, especially her account of Buckingham's desire to "create something new, something completely" different for Tusk, the more experimental (and less profitable) follow-up to Rumours.
