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Suzzy Roche Shares 'Stayin' Home' From Sister Maggie's Posthumous Solo Release
by Gary Graff
photo by Irene Young
Suzzy Roche's goal for the posthumous Maggie Roche compilation Where Do I Come From was "for her voice to be heard as much as possible." But the video for the unreleased 1972 demo "Stayin' Home," premiering exclusively below, provides a visual souvenir of the late singer-songwriter, too.
The clip, which features Roche dancing along to the song, was the idea of StorySound Records chief Dick Connette, who's releasing the compilation. "Right after she died I discovered a video of her dancing," Suzzy tells Billboard. "Maggie was very quiet and shy on stage, but then all of a sudden she would go and do this dance during the middle of one of the songs, which was so great. Dick took this dance and reconfigured it a bit and said, 'Why not let it be raw Maggie?'
"It really is her, and a different side of her. That's the thing I wanted, to put out the most possible information about her."
Suzzy acknowledges that the Where Do I Come From project has been "quite an emotional roller coaster" for her. It came from a direct charge from Maggie, who passed away during January 2017 from cancer at the age of 65. "In the last week of her life she asked me to please do something with her music," Suzzy recalls. "I was completely devastated by her death, and it really took me a year to even lift my head because my mother died four months later. It was a terrible year."
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