After the massive success of Rumours in 1977, there was some pretty famously intense pressure on Fleetwood Mac to produce another iconic album. Whether or not that happened, however, is up for debate.
Their next offering, the sprawling 1976 double album Tusk, certainly had (and has) its fans, but it definitely wasn't Rumours: Part 2, which many were hoping it would be.
In his review of the album when it was released, Rolling Stone's Stephen Holden described Tusk as "less a collection of finished songs than a mosaic of pop-rock fragments by individual performers," which basically sums up the general consensus at the time.
But even if Tusk wasn't another Rumours, it did produce some amazing tunes, such as "Save Me a Place," "What Makes You Think You're the One," and a song Stevie Nicks wrote about a very brief (but meaningful) affair with a married man who was nearly 20 years her senior: "Beautiful Child."
As Nicks explained during a 2013 Q&A, "Beautiful Child" was inspired by her romance with Derek Taylor, who was the publicist for the Beatles.
“It didn’t last very long, because he was married,” Nicks said, "but it affected me very much, because he told me so many stories about the Beatles.”
“Everybody has your road manager,” the singer continued. “We had J.C., crazy J.C. [John Courage]. Led Zeppelin had Peter Grant. The road managers are the ones who know everything. And so I learned so much about him about the whole world of the Beatles that it was stunning.”
Derek TaylorPhoto by Sulfiati Magnuson on Getty Images
While Taylor wasn't actually the official road manager for the Beatles, as Nicks called him, he did travel regularly with the band and acted as a media liaison and advisor. In the 2015 liner notes to Tusk, Nicks revealed that Taylor, who married his wife Joan when Nicks herself was just 10 years old, would read her poetry "in his beautiful English voice" and call her a "beautiful child." (Nicks apparently didn't care for the nickname.) The lyrics tell the tale of a woman who's not a child anymore, and is ready to move on:
You say it will be harder in the morningI wait for you to say, just goYour hands, held mine so few hoursBut I'm not a child anymore
I'm not a child anymoreI'm tall enough to reach for the starsI'm old enough to love you from afarToo trusting yes, but then women usually are
In a 1979 interview with Circus, Nicks called "Beautiful Child" her "most special song," saying, "It was written two years ago on a Sunday night sometime after midnight, and finished before dawn."
All these years later, Nicks is still going strong: She was even ranked the "Greatest Frontwoman in Rock History" by BBC Music Magazine. As for Taylor, he remained married to Joan until his death in 1997 at the age of 65. They had six children.
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