: timeline :

the following is from -

03.09.00 - Hardest-working gal in showbiz?

- which can be found in the archive

Here's a rundown of recent McLachlan trivia:  

January 2000: It's announced that McLachlan is to be appointed an officer of the Order Of Canada.  

November 1999: In a suit that began a year earlier, a B.C. court rejects producer Daryl Neudorf's claim that he wasn't properly compensated for his work on McLachlan's debut album, Touch. Neudorf has since appealed the decision.  

June 1999: McLachlan and Lilith Fair draw the ire of Christian fundamentalist Jerry Falwell, who says the tour is named for a "demon." Lilith is a character from ancient Hebrew mythology who is said to have been the first wife of Adam. She left Eden after refusing to pledge subservience to Man.  

June 1999: McLachlan releases live album Mirrorball.

February-March 1999: She's nominated for three Junos and a Grammy for best female pop vocal (for her song Adia).

 

September 1998: Lilith Fair makes its European debut at London's Royal Albert Hall.  

September 1998: The singer shows up in an unlikely publication -- Ken Starr's infamous report into the affair between Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky. In a letter to Clinton, Lewinsky reportedly wrote about how she and the U.S. president shared a liking for McLachlan's CD, Surfacing.

February-March 1998: McLachlan nets two Grammys: A best female pop vocal trophy for her song Building A Mystery, and one for best pop instrumental on Last Dance. Surfacing, nominated for best pop album, loses out to James Taylor's Hourglass. A few weeks later, the singer sweeps all four Juno categories she's nominated in, including single of the year and best album.

 

Feb. 1998: She's quoted as saying that awards are "not how I measure my success." She later claims her comments were taken out of context.  

July 1997: Sixth album Surfacing is released July 15. It goes on to diamond status -- over 1 million copies sold -- in Canada, and seven-times platinum (7 million) in the U.S.; Lilith Fair makes its debut in George, Wash. on July 7. Its first Toronto date is Aug. 15.  

Feb. 1997: McLachlan marries drummer Ashwin Sood in Jamaica.

July 1996: An embryonic version of Lilith plays four North American dates, including one in Vancouver. Other artists include Patti Smith, Emmylou Harris, Paula Cole, Aimee Mann, Lisa Loeb and Michelle McAdorey.

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: little facts :

	songs from the album fumbling towards ecstasy (ice & ice cream) appear in "Lost on Everest" a Nova documentary. "'Lost on Everest' chronicles a 1999 expedition tracing the mysterious 1924 attempt by Briton's George Mallory and Andrew Irvine to climb 'the thrid pole.'" 60 mins.
09.92 with World Vision and Terry David Mulligan of Much Music, Sarah traveled to Thailand and Cambodia to make a documentary focusing on poverty, hunger and child prostitution in that region. The documentary was broadcast in canada during a fund raising campaign.

: song meanings :

	angel "...but the inspiration did stem from reading a series of Rolling Stone articles over the past year and a half, typically about heroin in the music industry...."
full of grace "That's one of the most depressing songs I've written to date. I had just been through a really hard time with the person I was with... That song came out of a feeling of sinking. ...I don't know how to get out of this and neither does the other person... it's swallowing us both up whole."
	mary mother earth possession "The song is written from the point of someone who's so obsessed with another person that they might become violent in order to obtain that person. "
sweet surrender "Sweet Surrender took a very long time to write. The initial inspiration came actually after seeing Leaving Los Vegas, which I found to be this beautiful tragic love story. These two people who were rather pathetic in both their own rights, and yet they completely accepted each other for who they were...all the beautiful things and all the ugly things. ...there's some great comfort in that."
	wait "It's about how love is set up to be this high-falutin' unconditional love, and that just doesn't really exist," Sarah says. "But it's offered up as this ideal that you can have. There's no perfect love. You can get damn close, but there's going to be something..."

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