![]() ![]() We had the lady singers and myself and all 10 of the guys out in one room recording. ![]() “Recording it was the most exciting thing I’ve ever done because everybody felt that there was an electrical charge going through this white winged dove, all the way through that song, and for the three days we worked on recording the track of it. ![]() I spent a lot of time thinking about how I would write this song, and I spent a little bit of time with my uncle as he was dying and I knew a lot of people that knew John Lennon, and I felt their pain for him and my own pain as losing him too and the “Edge of Seventeen” just was born out of that.” Recording It was a period of time that I just didn’t know what to do, so I just sat down and wrote about it. The white winged dove is the spirit going, and the nightbird at the end is the one that is taking. And that’s what the white winged dove is. “The place where it came from when it was written was sad because it came out of my frustration in not knowing exactly how to accept the death of John Lennon or the death of an uncle that I had that died in the same time period of cancer. “Edge of Seventeen” was inspired by the sudden deaths of John Lennon and William “Bill” Jonathon Nicks (Stevie’s paternal uncle). ![]()
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