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As the girlfriend of Lindsey Buckingham, Fleetwood Mac’s singer and guitarist,Carol Ann Harris was the consummate insider. Here she leads fans into the very heart of the band’s storms between 1976 and 1984. From interactions between the band and other stars—Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton, and Dennis Wilson—to the chaotic animosity between band members, this memoir combines the sensational account of some of the world’s most famous musicians with a thrilling love story. Illustrated with never-before-seen photographs, the parties, fights, drug use, shenanigans, and sex lives of Fleetwood Mac are presented in intimate detail.

Storms: My Life with Lindsey Buckingham and Fleetwood Mac Reviews:
IF YOU'RE REALLY BORED... THEN YOU'LL BE SURE TO LIKE THIS!!!
2008-10-10 - If you find yourself really bored then pick up this pubescent piece of work. The only good thing this book really delivers is all the name dropping this embarassing insecure author has to offer. It's evident from the get go Carol Harris is very jealous of Stevie Nicks because she can't help herself from trying to name all her short comings that you realize what a fool and sad person she really is. FAMOUS PEOPLE BEWARE: the person you think that loves you may be secretly taking in all the moments that should have been kept private, and taking notes no less, to display them to the world for their own monetary gain. She couldn't do it on her own so she decides to use "real" famous people to do her dirty work. That makes Carol one of the most hated i'm sure, and rightly so. But as long as the money comes in from this over-rated trash, who cares how you treat others, right!! You'll be sick to your stomach how insecure she is. Over and over she reminds us how her life revolved around Lindsey Buckingham. That she gave everything she had. That being there for him was the only thing that mattered. Ugh, this woman does not know how to get a life. I don't blame Lindsey one bit for his temper tantrums. Being around this woman would drive any man to it. I only got half way through this book because I couldn't stand the woman any longer, I can't imagine being in a relationship with her would do. (be sure to read my review on the album TUSK)

Totally self aborbed
2008-10-02 - C Harris has written a book that I found on the whole dubious. On one hand I do believe her in her accounts of the craziness of the period, the band and her intense relationship with Lindsey. However I just found it all too hard to believe her detailed conversations and depiction of events. But more than anything it's Harris depiction of herself in the book which is completely ridiculous. She tries to portray herself and this naive innocent girl who just loved her man and didn't understand the world she was in. In reality she comes across as just another coke fiend who loved the lifestyle and many times mentions how she dressed in the best fashion and was accustomed to living the high life.

Also the complete lack of self awareness and hindsight into Lindsey's relationship with her, specifically the abuse and moreover his relationship with Stevie is perplexing. Even after all these years she seems to not acknowledge the intense connection that SnL had during that period (in parts it even feels like a SnL affair is going on under her nose) or how destructive Lindsey was to her. Even her naming the book after a Stevie Nicks song comes off as lame and just cements my opinion that she's trying to weave herself into Fleetwood Mac history.

Sure in parts it entertaining and tittilating, I actually enjoyed many parts but once finished I felt that the book was poorly written, flaky and just lacking any honesty.

whoa....
2008-09-14 - i was rivited to this book from the time i got this book from the library until the time i put it down.. i read it in about three hours... i was simply fascinated and scared by the whole story ... and yet not terribly surprised at what was revealed... i have no reason to feel that she would lie about anything that would have happened during the time that she and lindsey were together... i kind of feel that at first it may have been a rebound romance for lindsey, but it grew quickly into a romance of dependence on both of their parts, full of romance, drugs, and violence, and issues with stevie, and the fact that she put up with it for five years was amazing in itself... she lived with him for five years, put up with his abuse, was at his beck and call, and put her own life in physical and emotional danger... she told this honestly and i am sure that she feels much better for having told the truth after so many years... hopefully she told the primary people involved that she was writing this before she wrote it....

CLASSIC ROCK MAGAZINE July, 2007
2008-08-20 - STORMY RELATIONSHIP
'Cocaine-fuelled bitch-slaps' a-go-go as Lindsey's bird spills the beans.
One day, in early 1977, a young woman named Carol Ann Harris drove down Hollywood Boulevard as Fleetwood Mac's "Go Your Own Way" blared from the radio. Having worked as a studio manager where the album Rumours was mixed, Harris had heard the song many times before. But this time it sounded different, Harris thought. It sounded like a smash. She couldn't wait to tell her new boyfriend, Lindsey Buckingham.
Harris's hunch couldn't have been more on the money. Rumours quickly became a worldwide smash, a phenomenon that would ultimately go on to sell over 30 million copies.
In "Storms" Harris recounts, in often astonishing detail (she kept exhaustive notes and taped diaries), her tumultuous, passionate and sometimes violent eight-year relationship with Mac's tortured guitarist, to whom she served as muse, nurse (early in their courtship, Buckingham was diagnosed with epilepsy), drug buddy and constant companion.
As an autobiographical account of a show business love affair spiralling out of control, "Storms" has the de rigeur script elements in place: the red carpets, limos, Lear jets, endless bottles of champagne, as well as break-ups, make-ups, and cocaine-fuelled bitch-slaps and chokeholds.
But "Storms" really gets going when Harris casts a gimlet eye on the secret society that was the Mac, a collection of characters caught up in the mindless consumption (narcotic and otherwise) their long-overdue success afforded them.
Band jealousies and resentments run rampant, but Harris doesn't take sides. In fact, she paints herself as an outsider longing to be accepted as a member of the group's inner circle. Even in the end, her dismissal of the abusive Buckingham is anything but loveless.
As everyone surely knows, you can never break the chain.
Joe Bosso for Classic Rock Magazine, Book Review

somewhat believable
2008-07-02 - As a very, very longtime fan of Fleetwood Mac, I got this book as soon as it came out. I felt sure it would be one sided, as is the nature of autobiographies, but thought any book about my favorite band would be a fun weekend read nonetheless. And it was. I don't doubt Stevie was hell on wheels or that Lindsey was abusive, I think drugs, godawful quantities of drugs at that, make you do horrible things you normally may not do. There were also some very funny stories recounted by Carol and I thought it was a very interesting look into "life on the road." But I thought the book was horribly written and she made herself out so be such an innocent little lamb, it's gag worthy. And there are so many innacuracies, it's hard to take anything she says as truth. I mean, c'mon, she says she wrote this book using her old journals and tapes she recorded, but if she did that, how the hell can she get dates wrong? Not just wrong by a few days but wrong by years! If she can't remember dates of events she says she wrote about in a journal, how did she remember all these conversations, word for word, that she wrote in such such detail in this book? And some of the things she says ar just rediculous if you know anything about this band. The first thing that caught my attention is she writes that when she met Lindsey, he was so over Stevie and could care less about losing her. But Lindsey himself has stated several times that he was devastated by the breakup, is was extremely hard for him to move on and took him a decade or more to do so. Another part I found somewhat laughable is when she writes about one time when Stevie was "mean to her" and of course, she ran straight to Lindsey to tattle. So Lindsey says he'll talk to Stevie and get her to apologize. He leaves Carol in their hotel room, goes to Stevie's room and doesn't come back for several hours. Uh, Carol dear, open your eyes! I doubt they were "talking" about you for that amount of time. From all accounts SnL were still screwing around all through the 80's, they themselves have practically admitted as much. I guess what bothers me is not so much that she didn't acknowledge in her book that Stevie and Lindsey still had strong feelings for each other for many years, I'm not sure I would if I were in her shoes either. What bothers me is that even though she didn't mention it in her book and she made it look like Lindsey was so gaga in love with her that he didn't give Stevie a second thought, BUT she had no problem laying it all out a few months after the books release. Yes, Carol gave an interview after the books release saying she knew both Stevie and Lindsey harbored feelings of pain and regret over their breakup for many years and never got over each other and she actually said she knew Lindsey was still in love with Stevie all the years he was with Carol. If it's good enought for an interview, why is it not good enough for your book? IMO, you don't write an autobiography, then contradict yourself later. That makes your entire saga much less believable.