Fleetwood Mac - Sara (1979-80)

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Well, I just discovered two copies of my video, this video, at two different social media sites. But at least they were kind enough to leave the "PRODUCED BY MUNROW'S RETRO" at the end of their uploads. This video was originally uploaded to YouTube in October 2014 and by 2016 had gotten over 750,000 views ... and then was blocked worldwide. It remained blocked for well over a year and I decided to delete it. Then I uploaded it here at Vimeo last year for several months, but felt it was not getting many views and deleted it. Apparently two people downloaded it from YouTube three years ago and one uploaded it to a Russian site and the other to Dailymotion. As I said they left my credit at the end, so no big problem with that. They are clearly acting as archivists. But clearly this is too good a video for its creator, that is ME, to leave it in limbo, and since YouTube blocks it still (last I checked), I am depositing it back here on Vimeo.

This was the first music video I made in which the model Raphaella McNamara played a major role. The scenes of her used are from "The Castle" directed by Heiner Haensel in April 2013. I found it in an Internet series The Dark Goddess at Internet Archives in November 2013.

Many people on YouTube commented that they thought Raphaella looked like a young Stevie Nicks which was what I also felt. Sara, to me, was Nicks' inner muse functioning in another realm or dimension, and possibly a friend. After upload in October 2014 it came out after a late September interview with Billboard magazine that she may also have been the daughter she never had. Thus, she is alive in a "might have been" alternative universe, one Nicks can magically visit and watch to see that she is safe. That is the meaning for me: Sara is either a muse or a spiritual daughter living in a castle in another existence, dimly aware of her 'other' or mother, Stevie Nicks.

The song reached #7 in the US at Billboard's Hot 100 on February 2, 1980 and peaked at #6 on Cash Box on February 9, 1980 for two weeks.