![]() ![]() Paul McCartney, from the “Flaming Pie” EPK It’s just a stream-of-consciousness thing. I just had an idea for the opening verse, which just said “I saw you sitting at the center of the circle”. “The World Tonight” was one of those songs you just start with no particular inspiration. Paul McCartney, from the liner notes of “Flaming Pie” Like ‘I go back so far, I’m in front of me’- I don’t know where that came from, but if I’d been writing with John he would have gone ‘OK, leave that one in we don’t know what it means but we do know what it means’. ‘ The World Tonight’ was written while on vacation in America in 1995 – of the 14 songs on Flaming Pie only the title track, ‘ Somedays’ and ‘ Great Day’ were composed in England, for the muse tends to strike Paul most often while he’s on holiday. The second song from Paul’s initial session (there were four in all) with Jeff Lynne took what had been an acoustic, folk-tinged demo and imbued it with a progressively heavier treatment. Her 4-Word Response Floored Me.“ The World Tonight” is the second track of the 1997 album “ Flaming Pie“. On Monday, Nicks sent the same words out to Swift: “Thank you.” Related. “So I just got to my dressing room and found this actual olive branch. “Thank you Katy,” Swift reportedly posted on her Instagram story at the time. The power of Nicks is such that, a few years later, Perry sent Swift a literal olive branch. Nicks continued: “And I was, like, ‘That’s just bullshit. In an interview with The New Yorker last year, Nicks recalled a conversation from about 10 years ago in which Perry told her, “‘Well, there’s, like, the Taylor Swift army and there’s, like, the Katy army, and there’s like-.’” Ever the peace broker, Nicks even mediated Swift’s infamous beef with Katy Perry. While Nicks tweeted the lyrics to a Haim song at the time of McVie’s death, she and Swift have long been amicable - and performed “Rhiannon” together at the 2010 Grammys. You’ve got no reason to be afraid, you’re on your own, kid.” “So, make the friendship bracelets, take the moment and taste it. “’Cause there were pages turned with the bridges burned, everything you lose is a step you take,” Swift sings in the piece. The band posted a heartfelt tribute within hours that described McVie as “one-of-a-kind, special and talented beyond measure.” Nicks and McVie had been close friends for nearly half a century when McVie died at 79 years old from a stroke and metastasized cancer. “And now, I’m having to learn to be on my own, kid, by myself. “So, when it was the two of us, the two of us were on our own, kids, we always were,” Nicks continued. “Then we’d go back to Fleetwood Mac, and we’d walk in and it would just be like, ‘Little sister, how are you?’ It was like never a minute had passed, never an argument in our entire 47 years - never.” “We really weren’t phone buddies,” she continued. As long as Chris was, even on the other side of the world, we didn’t have to talk on the phone.” “Thank you to Taylor Swift for doing a favor for me, and that is writing a song called ‘You’re On Your Own, Kid,’” Nicks said. While the Fleetwood Mac singer has been paying tribute at her shows to late friend and bandmate Christine McVie, who died in November, she made special mention of Swift and one particular piece on the singer’s “ Midnights” album during Monday’s concert in Atlanta. Stevie Nicks is thanking Taylor Swift for helping her mourn her friend.
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