![]() ![]() So I went home…Jimmy would have to go this one alone. ![]() A terrible sadness set in over the house, there was simply nothing I could do to help and nothing I could say. Then one grey day, the fairy tale ended…Jimmy’s friend was dead. Anyway, it was a real life fairy tale, and I believed it. ![]() He was his teacher…and I was entranced because I could not imagine these two together. Jimmy had told me many times about his incredible friendship with John Lennon how John had taken Jimmy in and taught him how to record. I was ready to begin Bella Donna, and it seemed like it would just never happen. I was also starting to feel very unimportant and very sorry for myself. He was coming to the end of Tom Petty’s album…it seemed I had waited a long time, and so since no one really knew where I was, I was starting to get very edgy to do something. “I had lived up in the hills with Jimmy for almost six months. And so we had precious little time to waste. And a lot of the times they were doing other sessions in the daytime and they would come straight from there to me at 7 at night and we would get them for like three days from 7 until 2. And so what that did was turned it right around and they cared that much. And so they were impressed and pleased that we cared so much. They would note that we didn’t come down there looking like little grubettes off the street, you know. ![]() I mean, the girls got dressed up, we spent a lot of time getting ready every day, and we would go into the studio with them. So everything that we did had to be, you know, it was like we were doing a concert. So it was like whatever we did out there had to be pretty on because it was gonna show up somewhere, and we weren’t going to be able to get rid of it without taking off an initial instrument. The vocals too, the vocals bled right into the drums, you know, and the guitar amps, and everything. Most of this album was done completely recorded with everybody in the room, very few overdubs, very few toppings on the cake. We had the lady singers and myself and all 10 of the guys out in one room recording. “Recording it was the most exciting thing I’ve ever done because everybody felt that there was an electrical charge going through this white winged dove, all the way through that song, and for the three days we worked on recording the track of it. I spent a lot of time thinking about how I would write this song, and I spent a little bit of time with my uncle as he was dying and I knew a lot of people that knew John Lennon, and I felt their pain for him and my own pain as losing him too and the “Edge of Seventeen” just was born out of that.” Recording It was a period of time that I just didn’t know what to do, so I just sat down and wrote about it. The white winged dove is the spirit going, and the nightbird at the end is the one that is taking. And that’s what the white winged dove is. “The place where it came from when it was written was sad because it came out of my frustration in not knowing exactly how to accept the death of John Lennon or the death of an uncle that I had that died in the same time period of cancer. “Edge of Seventeen” was inspired by the sudden deaths of John Lennon and William “Bill” Jonathon Nicks (Stevie’s paternal uncle). ![]()
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