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Mirage
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Gypsy
- Jim Ladd Interview 1983 - For me to be a gypsy, for me to write about the gypsy and for me to live the life of a gypsy that I love, I sort of almost have to be almost cold and insensitive to be able to remain that gypsy. It's not easy to be a hippie-gypsy when you're rich and when you're a rock & roll star.
- The Record Interview 1982 - The clothes I wear, that doesn't change. I love long dresses, I love velvet, I love high boots, I never change. I love the same eye make-up. I'm not a fad person. I still have everything I had then. That's one part of me, that's where my songs come from. There's a song on the new FM album (Mirage) that says "Going back to the velvet underground/back to the floor that I love" because I always put my bed on the floor. "To a room with some lace and paper flowers/back to the gypsy that I was," and that's San Francisco ... that's the velvet underground. Those are the things that I can't give up.
- Fleetwood Mac's Greatest Hits video interview 1988 - The song Gypsy isn't a real happy story. Gypsy is a lot about returning to San Francisco and Gypsy was written when my best friend (Robin) died of Leukemia and uh about the fact that she wasn't going to see the rest of this. "I still see your bright eyes" it was like she wasn't going to make it. I was like the lone gypsy, this was my best friend from when I was 15 and so I was a solo gypsy all of a sudden and it was very sad for me and that's sometimes when I write my very best songs. Robin had been on the road with Fleetwood Mac for five years. As my speech therapist and also management ... an incredibly efficient helper. "I still miss your bright eyes" that's why we don't do it on stage it's because it's really too hard for me to sing. "Lightning strikes maybe once .. maybe twice" that means one time in your life you find a very good friend and maybe if you're incredibly lucky you might find a second. "It all comes down to you" means but yo u have to look very hard.
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