Neither one of us walked away from that relationship relieved. Most of all, I felt the song was flattering and heartbreaking – for both of us. But it’s not winning me back.’ I’ve always understood that people have to write about their lives. She then explained in 2017: “Afterwards, we both cried – and then I said: “‘Oh, Stephen, it’s such a beautiful song. So the legacy of our relationship is certainly in that song.” And so he wove that all together in this magnificent creation. And, of course, it has lines in it that referred to my therapy. In a 2000 interview, Collins recalled hearing the song for the first time: “ came to where I was singing one night on the West Coast and brought his guitar to the hotel, and he sang me ‘Suite: Judy Blue Eyes,’ the whole song. Destroyed by the thought of a breakup, Stills wrote the song in response to his feelings. However, in 1969 when she was appearing at the New York Shakespeare Festival’s production of Peer Gynt, she fell for co-star Stacy Keach, for whom she would eventually leave Stills. Collins and Stills first met in 1967 and were in a relationship for two years. Notably, the song’s title is a play on words for ‘Sweet Judy Blue Eyes’, with most of the lyrics detailing Stills’ thoughts on Collins and their looming breakup.
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