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Thank you Ken Caillat for this story.

[Stolen from the facebook page of his book The Making of Rumours, lovingly]

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Two Women On The Shore by Edvard Munch // “Friend” by Christine McVie

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Stevie with Robbie Patton on a boat in Hawaii in 1980. He was selected as the opening act for the Tusk tour at one point. Christine produced 2 of his albums and played keyboards on them, Lindsey played guitar on one of his hit songs and Stevie sang on his song "Smiling Islands". He returned the favor by co writing the song "Hold Me" on the Mirage album.

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"Hold Me" is a song by British-American rock group Fleetwood Mac, and was the first single released from their thirteenth album, Mirage, in 1982.

Christine McVie and Lindsey Buckingham were the lead vocalists on the song and it was written by McVie with assistance from Robbie Patton. The single became one of Fleetwood Mac's biggest hits in the US, peaking at #4 for a then-record seven consecutive weeks.

The music video features the band in a surreal scenario set in a desert, based on several René Magritte paintings. Unfortunately, due to the band members' strained relationships at the time, “the video shoot in the Mojave Desert was a nightmare," according to producer Simon Fields. "[They] were, um, not easy to work with," agrees Steve Barron, who directed the clip. Most scenes feature only one or two band members at a time. The entire band is never seen together. "It was so hot, and we weren't getting along," recalls Stevie Nicks. Buckingham was still not over the breakup with Nicks years earlier, nor her subsequent affair with Mick Fleetwood. Further, she elaborates, the rest of the band was angry with Fleetwood because he had begun an affair with Nicks's best friend, who left her husband as a result.

“They didn't want to be there," says Barron. "Christine was about ten hours out of the makeup trailer. By which time it was getting dark." According to Fields, "John McVie was drunk and tried to punch me. Stevie didn't want to walk on the sand with her platform shoes. Christine was fed up with all of them.”