Ringo Starr recalls a story according to which Keith Moon gave gifts to your children, only that he didn’t buy them …
He came to our house with a jukebox. We thanked him and some time later the invoice arrived. I remember a Christmas when he and his girlfriend arrived with gifts, he dressed as Santa and she as a snow queen. And even that time I got the bill. At the end I said: listen Keith, don’t buy me any more gifts, I can’t afford them!
Prawns!
Dinner at Tramp was Pacific prawns washed down by Dom Perignon – the usual luxurious Keith Moon supper. But when the bill came, even Keith looked unusually aghast. For a rare few
moments, there was complete silence. Eventually Karl asked if his friend was all right.“How many prawns did we have?” asked Keith by way of reply.“About 24, I think,” replied Karl.“They’ve gone up. The bill’s £14,000! That’s nearly £600, a prawn! I mean, I don’t mind, but it’s a bit much.” He called over the manager.“These prawns. They’ve gone up, haven’t they?” “No, Mr Moon. That’s your bill – for the last year.”
Stevie Nicks Emulated Keith Moon:" You nerver see this cara again"
Before she skyrocketed to fame, however, Nicks and her then-boyfriend Lindsay Buckingham moved to Los Angeles following the breakup of their band.
Nicks and Buckingham were living in Olsen's home when Nicks' car had broken down. Olsen, who was preparing to travel and work with the James Gang, agreed to let them drive his Corvette while he was away. "Stevie in a long, heavy cotton robe, trying to drive a stick-shift car, which she'd never done before, where the end of the robe got caught up in the pedals," Olsen recalled in Stephen Davis' "Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks."
"As she rode away after dropping me off, the lead singer of the James Gang said, 'Keith, you'll never see that car again'" (as quoted by CheatSheet). Once Olsen arrived in New York, Buckingham called him, saying Nicks had parked the car on a hill, pulled on the brake and went back to bed. Less than an hour later, the car rolled down the hill, went over a cliff, and flew into a bedroom of a house.
Luckily, Olsen was forgiving. He even played Buckingham Nicks music for Mick Fleetwood, who eventually called the pair and invited them to join Fleetwood Mac, according to NPR. The band has tour dates lined up in the U.S. and Canada for later in 2022, per Rumours of Fleetwood Mac.
After decades of performing with the band, one of Fleetwood Mac’s two female members, Christine McVie, decided to retire. Though she eventually returned after a 16-year hiatus, her exit initially seemed permanent. Her bandmate and close friend Stevie Nicks explained that she was completely supportive of McVie’s decision, even though she was relieved when the lengthy hiatus ended.(Cheatsheet)
“Christine [McVie] and I were a force of nature,” Nicks told NME. “In the first two months I was in the band, Chris and I made a pact that we would never be in a room full of famous English or American guitar players and be treated like second class citizens.”
According to Harper’s Bazaar, Nicks is grateful for McVie, referring to her as a “mentor, sister, and best friend.”
in 1998.McVie had been dealing with anxiety related to flying, something that made international tours nearly impossible. Because of this, she chose to retire and move home to England. Nicks was supportive of this decision.
