Walter Egan hit the big time in 1978, with his soft rock Top 10 hit Magnet and Steel, featuring as his back-up singers the album's (and his previous debut album) co-producers, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks (There's that common theme again.) Much later, Egan revealed the song was about his never-requited infatuation with Stevie. Can't blame a guy for wishing.
But Egan was far from being a one-trick pony, as today's forgotten rock gem (made the Hot 100, but didn't quite crack the Top 40) from 1983 shows, in this case, with a great music video (back when MTV played music videos), that was the lyrics' front-story/back-story, and fairly clever for the era, shot on a credit-card budget, along with a killer guitar intro the equal of anything Chuck Berry ever cranked out, this time in a rock and roll song once again totally appropriate for this time of year.
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Try this group, Milk N’ Blues.
https://youtu.be/uH5wC-wGTj8
Thanks once more, Brother! Always loved "magnet and steel" but didn't know this one.
Who wasn't in love ( or at least lust) with Stevie at some point? Wasn't till a close friend ( who had reason to know) told me she was profoundly stupid that the ardor faded.
BG
That woman has messed up the lives of a number of seemingly decent men.
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