Isn't that just a weird story? Watch the video from 1981, even weirder. Keep in mind that this song was released one year after Lennon was killed. Stevie's producer Lovine also worked with Lennon. Good question, Stevie, why were just you and your cousin there? And the uncle's death inspired you to create one of the greatest rock songs ever... right there on the piano?Speaking about the song in commentary for her Live In Concert video recorded on her Bella Donna tour, she explained: "I was in Australia when John Lennon was shot. Everybody was devastated. I didn't know John Lennon, but I knew Jimmy Iovine, who worked with John quite a bit in the '70s, and heard all the loving stories that Jimmy told about him. When I came back to Phoenix I started to write this song.
Right when I got to Phoenix, my uncle Bill got cancer, got very sick very fast, and died in a couple of weeks. My cousin John Nicks and I were in the room when he died. There was just John and I there. That was part of the song when I went running down the hallways looking for somebody - I thought where's my mom? Where's his wife and the rest of the family? At that point I went back to the piano and finished the song."
https://www.songfacts.com/facts/stevie- ... -seventeen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSp4F7u ... thcLdHCiTA
Is that her uncle in the picture... Bill? Bill who? Some think Bill Graham.
Nah, somebody handed that song to Stevie... as probably all the other songs were. If I had to guess, maybe it was her Uncle who worked with her musically who wrote the song. Maybe it was cribbed from John Lennon. Who knows. The cabal didn't want him singing about One Wing Doves? Something is going on with this one.... very disappointing. Who doesn't love Fleetwood Mac?
"Only the good die young" probably refers to rock stars more than anyone.