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Women Behind the Songs: 'Sara'

Sara Recor
From Fleetwood Mac's 'Sara' (1979)

Anyone who thinks Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon is a tough game should try a round of with Sara Recor -- the subject of this airily pretty radio staple. Sara, a good pal of Stevie Nicks, actually helped write her own serenade -- a pretty gutsy move since she was on the verge of stealing Nicks' boyfriend, Mick Fleetwood. Recor and the drummer later married and divorced, but her relationship with Nicks survived -- long enough, at least, for Stevie to "borrow" Recor's first name for this song about Nicks' stint in rehab. Listen to 'Sara'

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Royal

okay people are strange

February 17 2010 at 4:51 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Bruce Hunt

Then they must be the "Twat Sisters" not the "Twang"sisters

June 10 2009 at 12:02 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
sobrio101

kind of boring but the story I .like

June 10 2009 at 12:00 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
jmwxyz

I don't think this is true. Nicks once said that Sara was a name she was given by her friend Robin and that Nicks nicknamed this Robin, Rhiannon. There is a song "welcome to the rooms Sara" about Nicks stay at a rehab but the original song Sara is not about that at all.

June 10 2009 at 11:31 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
tbstables65

Fleetwood Mac are awesome! It's truly sad that today's generation of young people are stuck on listening to the God awful crap that is being produced and marketed today. They are missing out on real music from the 60s, 70s and 80s from truly talented artists and musicians. There will never be music like this again, ever.

June 10 2009 at 10:51 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ken

To Don at number 45 on this blog: Get your facts straight. The case was thrown out of court when it was proven that Nicks recorded the demo of Sara several months before the woman claimed to send the song to Warner Bros. Sara is a Nicks song if ever there was one.

May 30 2008 at 10:12 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ken

'Sara' has nothing to do with Stevie Nicks being in rehab. For one thing, it was written several years before she even went into rehab. Who does your research?

May 30 2008 at 9:59 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
gb

nicks had a relationship with buckingham but they were never married. christine mcvie was married to bassist, john mcvie, not mick fleetwood.

April 10 2008 at 2:48 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
brittany

thank you joe i do believe you are the only one that really knows the truth behind the song

January 07 2008 at 9:24 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
brittany

actually everyone is wrong...this song is not about that lady sara or did she ever write this song in rehab cause she wasnt there yet...people get your facts straight
don henley got stevie pregnant and didnt want to be with her anymoreor care for the unborn child so stevie went and got an abortion and if she would have had a girl she was have named it sara
stevie will always deny the story but it is true...and she rarely plays the song in concerts...maybe because it gives back too many memories
ps stevie and lindsey were never married

January 07 2008 at 9:21 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply