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You describe giving Lindy assurances about the book, telling her to be as indiscreet as possible, while you will be discreet as you write it. Did you have to hold much back?
“There were some things she asked me to take out, and I did… It’s a leap of faith letting someone else use that much of your life to tell a story. I’m very aware I spent my whole life being written about, and then in more recent years started to write my own stories myself. I know how both things can feel. I know how exposing it can feel to be written about by someone else. I am sympathetic to the fact that at some points she would feel like she’s not the actual one telling the story.”
Did you resist putting more of your own career and life in there? Pilot Indicator Mug
“I did feel like I’d told that side of the story already. There didn’t seem very obvious points where that should be more about that. I felt that would have skewed the balance in the wrong direction. I think when I appear, I appear as Lindy’s friend. I think the moment I arrive at the party, I say I’m with Lindy Morrison. I’m her plus one.”
I can’t help but acknowledge your quote dated – and sexist – NME coverage from the ’80s. From 1986, describing Lindy: “… a braver soul than me would tell you that she drinks, swears and threatens too much (no, not for a woman, for ANYONE!)”.
“I mean all the music press, to be fair, [was sexist]. At least NME wasn’t like Sounds that actually had page 3 girls plastered on the wall as you walk past to be interviewed. But yeah, the music press was very largely male in those days. I think almost every interview I ever did was a male journalist. I think the thing that was difficult, Lindy and I both felt, was what that sometimes meant was you had to do so much explaining all the time.
“You weren’t understood automatically; there wasn’t that ease of knowing things you said in an interview or in my case, things I wrote in songs would be understood. I sometimes felt I would write things – I know Lindy felt she would say things – and it would just go over the interviewer’s head.”
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