ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "Per Michael Schulman of The New Yorker, STEREOPHONIC has been hit with a lawsuit by Ken Caillat& Steven Stiefel, who wrote the book MAKING RUMOURS, about the recording sessions for Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours." Caillat was the engineer of that recording and the book is told from his perspective. Some aspects of STEREOPHONIC beara striking resemblance to what's chronicled in the book, despite being about a fictional band.
Caillat & Stiefelare suing David Adjmi and the producers"for their flagrant and willful infringement of Plaintiffs' copyrighted work," saying that the play"uncannily duplicates"sequences of events depicted in the book. David Adjmi has downplayed the similarities:“When writing Stereophonic I drew from multiple sources—including autobiographical details from my own life—to create a deeply personal work of fiction. Any similarities to Ken Caillat’s excellent book are unintentional.”
The Schulman articlenotes a few glaring similarities, andsince Adjmi acknowledges having read the book, there may be a case here. Perhaps there'll be some kind of quiet financial settlement/profit-sharing agreement to make this go away.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/09/30/the-roots-of-the-tony-winning-stereophonic"
After trying to watch this and leaving at intermission, my immediate response is this was the worst version of "Fleetwood Mac: Behind The Music" ever. The egos, the drugs, people sleeping with each other, but with worse writing and forgettable music. I thought maybe the members of Fleetwood Mac would sue the writers for not obtaining the life rights. For the author saying this isn't based on Fleetwood Mac is laughable.
