Since the days of Fleetwood Mac and beyond, Stevie Nicks has been making fans cry with songs like "Landslide," "Silver Springs," and so many others. But there are plenty of tunes that make Nicks get all choked up, too...like Dan Fogelberg's 1983 soft rock hit, "Same Old Lang Syne."
Released as a single in 1980 and included on Fogelberg's 1981 album The Innocent Age, “Same Old Lang Syne” has become a beloved classic over the years, particularly around the holidays, as it tells the tale of a pair of former high school sweethearts who happen to run into each other at the grocery store on Christmas Eve.
In the song, the reunited couple part ways after catching up over a six-pack of beer in the woman's car:
The beer was empty, and our tongues were tired / And running out of things to say / She gave a kiss to me as I got out / And I watched her drive away
Just for a moment, I was back at school / And felt that old familiar pain / And as I turned to make my way back home / The snow turned into rain
As someone whose breakups inspired some of the most moving songs of all time, Nicks once cited "Same Old Lang Syne" as a song with the ability to bring her to tears every time.
“To this day, when that song comes on, it makes me cry," Nicks said in an interview with the BBC's Tracks of My Years. "Because I think that we have all run into somebody that we absolutely loved a long time ago."
“And you meet them and you're older, but that's when you go ‘Real love never dies,'" Nicks continued. "Because it doesn't matter that they're older and it doesn't matter that they don't look exactly like they did when they were nineteen. They still have that light that attracted you in the beginning, and you feel that."
As the late Fogelberg explained in a Q&A on his website, “Same Old Lang Syne” was inspired by a real-life experience.
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“In 1975 or 76 I was home in Peoria, Illinois visiting my family for Christmas. I went to a convenience store to pick up some whipping cream to make Irish coffees with, and quite unexpectedly ran into an old high school girlfriend. The rest of the song tells the story,” Fogelberg said.
Though she waited until after Fogelberg's death from prostate cancer in 2007, the real woman in the song, Jill Anderson, confirmed the Christmas Eve encounter in an interview with the Peoria Journal Star.
“It’s a memory that I cherish,” she said.
Like Nicks said, real love never dies.
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