Stevie Nicks called Joe Walsh his great love, but he said he loved him "as a sister"
The two rockers had an intense romance in the 80s.
Singer-songwriter Stevie Nicks' The list of novels includes Fleetwood Mac group comrades Lindsey Buckingham And Mick Fleetwood , producer Jimmy Iovine , and the eagles Don Henley . But when asked who The love of his life was by The telegraph In 2007, she offered a different name. "My big, great love was Joe walsh "Said Nicks, referring to the relationship with which she started Eagles guitarist from 1983.
Although Nicks would say in Stephen Davis' Biography 2017 Golden dust woman That Walsh was the only one of the loves she "would have married" and (perhaps) abandoned her rocky and roll lifestyle, he shared quite different thoughts on their relationship - including that he loved it " Like a sister. "
Read the rest to find out more about the romance between the legendary rock stars and where they are decades later.
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It was love at first sight.
In his interview with The telegraph , Nicks described the meeting with Walsh in the early 1980s as an instant connection. "I fell in love with Joe at first glance on the other side of the room, in the bar of the Maison Mansions in Dallas," she recalls. "I watched it and crossed the room and I sat on the bar stool next to him, and two seconds later, I crawled on his lap, and that was everything."
They were gathered by the loss.
Telling this story in the Liner notes to his 1991 album Space-time , Nicks remembers having thought: "I can never be far from this person again ... He is my soul" and being attracted by what she perceived as a deep Walsh injury.
"He seemed to have a lot of pain, although he hid it well. But finally, a few days later (we were in Denver), he rented a Jeep and led me in the snowy hills of Colorado. . For about two hours, "she wrote. "He didn't tell me where we were going ... but he told me a story of a little girl he had lost. For Joe, she was much more than a child ... She was three and a half years old ... and she could tell him. "
Walsh then took Nicks to visit a fountain he had dedicated to his daughter Emma Who had died of the injuries she suffered in an drunkenness accident shortly before her fourth anniversary. Nicks also recently underwent a loss that involved a child - losing his best friend Robin Anderson Cancer a few days after the birth of her baby. The singer of Fleetwood Mac had married the husband of her late friend, Kim Anderson , with a plan for raise the child together . But they separated from months later and lost contact.
Learning on Emma inspired Nicks to write the song " Has anyone already written something for you? "For Walsh and to try to take care of him. Although he is often distracted, withdrawn and on the road, she herself occupied clothes and ensuring that he was taken care of on tour, according to Golden dust woman . "I really took care of him, and that's what probably scared Joe the most," she said. "I was too much in tune with him, and he was too used to being deactivated - with everything."
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They broke up because of the drug.
Behind the absence of Walsh, the drugs that had come to dominate the lives of the two musicians. "We were occupied superstars and we - everyone - we were doing far too much drugs," said Nicks, by Golden dust woman . "We were really seriously drug addicts. We were a couple on the way to hell." AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
Drugs would finally lead to Their break in 1986 , she said Q Magazine in 2008 (as mentioned in The Eagles FAQ by Andrew Vaughan ).
"Joe and I broke because of the coke," said Nicks. "He told my friend and [support] singer Sharon [ceani] , 'I leave Stevie, because I am afraid that one of us will die and the other will not be able to save the other person, because our habit of cocaine has become so exaggerated now that none of the two Can live through this, so the only way to save us both is to leave. '"
She is not sure that she has ever overcome him.
Walsh has finally left in a painful way, according to Golden dust woman . During a 1986 tour, Walsh stopped at the studio where Nicks recorded for a visit, only to become high and spend the day entertaining the crew. When she asked her for a while, he told her that he couldn't see her and would be back on the road the next day. Nicks left and Walsh flew to Australia the next day, sending a message through their management by telling him not to contact him.
In her biography, she said: "[T] here was not a closure. It took me a long time to get back to it - if I never overcome it." The 75 -year -old added: "Because there was no other man in the world for me. And it is the same thing today, even if Joe is married and has two sons. He has Met someone in a rehash of detoxification and married. And I think he is happy.
Walsh, also 75, welcomed her daughter Lucy with a third woman Juanita Boyer in 1982 and the sons Alden And Emerson with fourth wife Denise Driscle . Since 2008, he has been married to Marjorie Bach , sister of Bond Girl (and R Ingo Starr marry) Barbara Bach .
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Walsh said he loved him as "a sister".
Reading Nicks from Walsh's life has proven to be correct. In 2012 Interview Piece magazine, he called Bach " the one "Meanwhile, he described his ex as" a great songwriter, a great singer and a large person ".
Howard Stern has raised the affirmation of Nicks that Walsh was his "great love" In an interview in June. Questioned by the host if he was in love with the Frontwoman, Walsh replied: "As a sister." He added: "We were looking for refuge, in a way, in the presence of the other", and said that he had never considered marrying him. He explained that they were monogamous for a single summer, conclusive: "I do not think that none of us could have engaged in a lasting relationship in the state in which we were."
