09-16-2019, 01:11 PM
Came across this in the library and thought I'd read it. It was enjoyable. The best part was him talking about recording the Eurythmics albums. After they ended, the book took a dip. Then he's a rich jet-setter and it's a lot of telling where he goes and who he records with. Some interesting, some not. Musically, it seems he's a great collaborator/facilitator who can get people to experiment using the tactic that they can just erase whatever doesn't work, and this frees them up and then they do work that surprises them.
Trivia: I found out that he co-wrote "Don't Come Around Here No More" with Tom Petty. He had the chorus done, and was going to work out the rest of it with Stevie Nicks, but she was heavy into coke at the time and bolted from the studio before they could get started, so Petty came in and wrote the verses. That sitar-ish sound on the song is Stewart playing the Coral Sitar.
Stranger trivia: Jose Menendez (who was murdered by his sons) became head of RCA records around 1984-1985 and scammed bands on the label by secretly pressing albums in South America and selling them to record stores, and then laundering the money. Apparently he was never prosecuted, maybe because he was dead, and no one knows how many of those bootleg albums were sold. Stewart also says he was scared by him.
Trivia: I found out that he co-wrote "Don't Come Around Here No More" with Tom Petty. He had the chorus done, and was going to work out the rest of it with Stevie Nicks, but she was heavy into coke at the time and bolted from the studio before they could get started, so Petty came in and wrote the verses. That sitar-ish sound on the song is Stewart playing the Coral Sitar.
Stranger trivia: Jose Menendez (who was murdered by his sons) became head of RCA records around 1984-1985 and scammed bands on the label by secretly pressing albums in South America and selling them to record stores, and then laundering the money. Apparently he was never prosecuted, maybe because he was dead, and no one knows how many of those bootleg albums were sold. Stewart also says he was scared by him.
the hands that guide me are invisible