Poor Stevie... While in London all she's had to watch on TV was Whale Wars and Deadliest Catch..."I'm so into it" HA! She kills me... Adam Lavine interview right after Stevie - he pays her some genuine compliments... And Javier Colon after Adam speaks about Stevie... Lot's of love for Stevie!!
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Would Stevie Nicks have tried out for "The Voice"? WATCH VIDEO
Stevie Nicks performed onstage last night with Javier Colon before he was crowned the winner of “The Voice.”
The duo did a wonderful rendition of Stevie’s Fleetwood Mac hit “Landslide.” Check out the performance below. We caught up with Stevie after the show to find out if she would have tried out for a show like “The Voice” if it had existed when she was starting out.
“If I was by myself, or even if Lindsey (Buckingham) and I were by ourselves and we weren’t successful with getting a record deal and something like this came up…I would have had to drag him by the hair, but yes, absolutely, sure!”
Stevie also talked about if she thought Javier would win when they went on stage to perform and if she was a fan of the show.
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'The Voice' Stars Praise Javier Colon on Red Carpet - Including Stevie Nicks
Stevie also thanks Sheryl Crow for her high harmony part on Landslide. Likely speaking about the duet they recently did on Oprah.
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Week 8 for Stevie Nicks In Your Dreams Billboard Top 200 + Fleetwood Mac
In it's 8th week of release "In Your Dreams" drops to # 155 from # 108 on next week's Billboard Charts (issue date July 9th) with 3,813 in sales. This could be it's last week on the chart unless it receives a bump from Stevie's appearance on The Voice. Over on the Top 200 Current Albums Chart the disc is at # 131, down from # 96 last week.
In Your Dreams Sales Thus Far:
Wk 1: # 6 - 5/21/11 - 52,418 Debut
Wk 2: # 16 - 5/28/11 - 20,400 Accumulated total = 72,818
Wk 3: # 24 - 6/04/11 - 15,500 Accumulated total = 88,318
Wk 4: # 47 - 6/11/11 - 9,933 Accumulated total = 98,251
Wk 5: # 59 - 6/18/11 - 7,470 Accumulated total = 105,721
Wk 6: # 87 - 6/25/11 - 5,547 Accumulated total = 111,268
Wk 7: # 108 - 7/02/11 - 5,585 Accumulated total = 116,853
Wk 8: # 155 - 7/09/11 - 3,813 Accumulated total = 120,666 (Thanks to Maury for the numbers!)
In Your Dreams Sales Thus Far:
Wk 1: # 6 - 5/21/11 - 52,418 Debut
Wk 2: # 16 - 5/28/11 - 20,400 Accumulated total = 72,818
Wk 3: # 24 - 6/04/11 - 15,500 Accumulated total = 88,318
Wk 4: # 47 - 6/11/11 - 9,933 Accumulated total = 98,251
Wk 5: # 59 - 6/18/11 - 7,470 Accumulated total = 105,721
Wk 6: # 87 - 6/25/11 - 5,547 Accumulated total = 111,268
Wk 7: # 108 - 7/02/11 - 5,585 Accumulated total = 116,853
Wk 8: # 155 - 7/09/11 - 3,813 Accumulated total = 120,666 (Thanks to Maury for the numbers!)
Fleetwood Mac move up on the Top 200 Albums Chart with "The Very Best Of" up 8 spots to # 167. The 2/CD set re-entered the Top 200 last week at # 175. Rumours drops out of the Top 200 after re-entering last week at # 115.
Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart (Last week in parenthesis)
# 155 (108) Stevie Nicks - In Your Dreams
# 167 (175) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of
Billboard Top 200 Current Albums
# 131 (96) Stevie Nicks - In Your Dreams
Billboard Top Rock Albums Chart
# 47 (28) Stevie Nicks - In Your Dreams
Billboard Top Rock Albums Chart
# 47 (28) Stevie Nicks - In Your Dreams
Billboard Top Catalogue Albums Chart
# 29 (35) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of
# 49 (15) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
"Secret Love" Current Stevie Nicks Single in the UK Remains on BBC A-List
For the 4th week in a row, commencing July 2nd Stevie's current single in the UK "Secret Love" remains on the A-List on BBC Radio 2 guaranteeing up to 20 plays for the week across multiple BBC Radio 2 programmes. Great news for the track!
The song was initially added to the B-List commencing June 4th and jumped to the A-List the following week commencing June 11th where it has remained. The B-List guarantees approx. 10 plays per week, the A-List about 20 plays per week.
B-List - June 04-10
A-List - June 11-17
A-List - June 18-24
A-List - June 25-July 01
A-List - July 01-08
Stevie's album "In Your Dreams" was released in the UK on Monday June 27th, and in Ireland June 24th. On the Mid-week sales charts up to Wednesday in the UK, the album is currently in the Top 10. The official charts will be published on Sunday...
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Stevie Nicks on Melbourne, Australia Radio Station 3AW693 Afternoons with Denis Walter
Stevie Nicks is scheduled to be on Afternoons with Denis Walter on Melbourne, Australia radio station 3AW693 News Talk this Friday July 1st at about 12:45pm (Austrlian Time).
You'll have to figure out the time difference depending on where you are if you want to listen live. For instance if you are in North America and you are central, the show will air between 8pm - 12pm Thursday evening. It's about a 15 hour difference.
Link to the website to listen live.
(Photo) Stevie Nicks Red Carpet "The Voice"
- This little fella caught the attention of Stevie Nicks and @viccimartinez on the red carpet after The Voice #thevoicela
- Backstage with @ceelogreen and stevie nicks-- stevie busted in our interview to sing F-you. @nischelleturner
Photos by: Tara Wallis
Exclusive video of Stevie performing "For What It's Worth" at NBC.com
Stevie will be appearing on tonight's season finale episode of The Voice. She will be performing "Landslide" with contestant Javier Colon. The show airs on NBC at 8/7c. Also visit NBC.com for an exclusive video of Stevie performing "For What It's Worth" from her latest album In Your Dreams. Check your local listings for more information.
Source: Stevie Nicks on Facebook
Just checked NBC.com but didn't see anything... Maybe around the time The Voice airs...
[update] WB altered the text on her Facebook page and removed the blurb about the For What It's Worth Video... So it's a no go for now.
Q&A Stevie Nicks on Inspiration, Collaboration, and Her New Dreams
Wednesday, June 29th, 2011
Thirteen.org
Since Stephanie Nicks became “Stevie” in 1973, the ethereal songstress has recorded 18 albums, been nominated for 17 Grammys, and had one of the music industry’s most notorious love affairs — with fellow Fleetwood Mac member, Lindsey Buckingham. Yet Nicks’ latest album, In My Dreams, released in May, marks the first time the singer/songwriter has worked with a collaborator in the songwriting process (even in Fleetwood Mac, Nicks and Buckingham wrote separately). Working closely with Dave Stewart of The Eurhythmics, Nicks has produced some of her most compelling work since Bella Donna; she seldom sings as vulnerably, and her voice still has the haunting rasp that’s classic Stevie. So I was disappointed when her tour was cancelled, due to pneumonia, just several days before her live show in New York. Still, Nicks spoke to Riff City from her Los Angeles home, where she recorded In My Dreams. Her smoky contralto was instantly recognizable — and in no need of auto-tune — as she offered her thoughts on the creative process, the new LP, and why she doesn’t plan to retire anytime soon.
Riff City: Congratulations on your album. It’s beautiful.
Stevie Nicks : Thank you.
RC: I was disappointed that you cancelled your East Coast tour. Tell me, Do you still enjoy touring?
Read the full Q&A at Thirteen.org
SONG PREMIERE: Free Download New Single "Seeds We Sow" Lindsey Buckingham
Guitar legend and Fleetwood Mac member Lindsey Buckingham has worked with the best and brightest producers in the music industry, but for his upcoming sixth studio album 'Seeds We Sow,' he takes a more solitary approach, recording, writing and producing entirely on his own. And if the title track is any indication, Buckingham fans are in for a completely fresh sound.
Featuring only guitar and vocals, 'Seeds We Sow' employs a slight slapback echo on Buckingham's signature finger-picking style, making the guitar both percussive and melodic underneath his dark, whispering vocals.
Buckingham will be supporting his forthcoming album with a 31-city North American tour starting in September. 'Seeds We Sow' will be released Sept. 6 via Eagle Rock.
Check out the widget below to download the single for the cheap price of an e-mail.
"This might be the best work I've ever done," the guitarist said in a press release. "I think it's an excellent representation of what I do. It shows a certain maturity and musicianship and I just feel like I have a lot of tools in my musical vocabulary from which to draw that are again the product of the choices I've made. It's on my own terms. This is very much from the inside out and I hope I never stop doing that."
Featuring only guitar and vocals, 'Seeds We Sow' employs a slight slapback echo on Buckingham's signature finger-picking style, making the guitar both percussive and melodic underneath his dark, whispering vocals.
Buckingham will be supporting his forthcoming album with a 31-city North American tour starting in September. 'Seeds We Sow' will be released Sept. 6 via Eagle Rock.
Stevie Nicks Interview with Mark Collins - Wave_105 FM
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Review: Hard Rock Calling, Hyde Park, London Rated 3/5
Beguiling rock princess: Stevie Nicks Reviewed by Chris Mugan
Wednesday, 29 June 2011
The Independent
Wednesday, 29 June 2011
The Independent
Despite Glastonbury's moves ever further mainstream, London's mud-free alternative remains distinctive. Who could imagine Somerset hosting a tent-full of fans crooning "Lifted" by Nineties soul-poppers Lighthouse Family?
Otherwise, the three-day Hard Rock Calling relies on stellar headliners with little strength in depth. On Friday evening a sizeable main-stage crowd ignore impending drizzle and James's more quixotic material to bellow "Sit Down". Kaiser Chiefs unite students and office workers with epic takes on "Ruby" and "Oh My God", while showing a more contemplative bent on their current album The Future Is Medieval. It is best served peppered with metallic heft, as on "Little Shocks" and "Long Way From Celebrating".
Elsewhere, The Kills hone their tense garage grind, before The Killers close the night. The next afternoon, Ray Davies, fresh from Meltdown, fronts a rollicking bar-room band. In good spirits, he reminds us of The Kinks' gritty edge with a little too much of the irascible choir master – "If you don't know it, learn it."
Unsurprisingly, given they boast last year's highest grossing tour, Bon Jovi are the weekend's most well-oiled machine. They are especially formidable with guitarist Richie Sambora back from a spell in rehab, though a near three-hour set reveals limits to their common man shtick: more recent tunes resemble knock-offs of earlier efforts, with "We Weren't Born To Follow" rehashing "It's My Life". Even worse is the eponymous Jon's reinvention of "Hallelujah" as a cock-rock ballad, possibly the worst version yet.
On a blazing Sunday, Adam Ant avoids controversy on his first outdoor set since Live Aid, though weak vocals and a goth-metal backing band handicap the hits. Stevie Nicks, by contrast, is still the beguiling rock princess on her first solo UK date for 20 years. Bar one number, her comeback album In Your Dreams is ditched in favour of injecting hard-won wisdom into older solo rockers and Fleetwood Mac standards.
Later, she joins headliner Rod Stewart for a tepid run through "Young Turks", leaving Ronnie Wood to cut through the supper club schmaltz on "Maggie May" and "Stay With Me". Rod has one eye on an upcoming Las Vegas residency, though such reliability pleases Hyde Park just as well.
Rock n’ Roll Queen Stevie Nicks is coming back to Australia! Gain Access To Pre-Sale Tickets
Stevie Nicks, known for both her work with legendary super group Fleetwood Mac plus her own hugely successful solo career, will be touring this November and December.
Joining Stevie for these special shows will be celebrated musician and songwriter, Dave Stewart, from Eurythmics, who co-produced Stevie's new solo album, In Your Dreams.
Stevie Nicks’ incredible solo career has given her more than forty Top 50 hits, selling more than 140 million albums worldwide. Her top hits include ‘Leather and Lace’, ‘Edge of Seventeen’, ‘Stand Back’, ‘Bella Donna’, ‘Rooms On Fire’ and ‘Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around’.
Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 Grammy Award winning Album of the Year, Rumours, stands as one of the greatest albums ever made. It has sold more than one million copies in Australia. Thanks to a recent episode of glee dedicated to this classic album, Rumours returned to the Australian charts at number two. Fleetwood Mac’s extensive back catalogue includes ‘Rhiannon’, ‘Gypsy’, ‘Tusk’, ‘ ‘Dreams’, ‘Don’t Stop’, ‘Songbird’, ‘Go Your Own Way’ and so many more.
Dave Stewart's music career spans three decades and more than 100 million album sales. His biggest hits include ‘I Only Want To Be With You (The Tourists)’ to Eurythmics hits ‘Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)’, ‘Missionary Man’, ‘Sisters Are Doin’ It For Themselves’, ‘Would I Lie To You?’ and ‘Angel’.
Stevie Nicks and Dave Stewart will be performing their greatest hits from their respective bands and also highlights from their solo careers.
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Stevie Nicks on THE VOICE June 29th (Nicks will pair with contestant Javier Colon)
UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. – June 28, 2011 — NBC’s “The Voice” will add rock legend Stevie Nicks, Pat Monahan (lead singer of Train) and Ryan Tedder (lead singer of OneRepublic) to its star-studded live results show and season finale on Wednesday, June 29 (8-9 p.m. ET).
The recording stars will sing with the four remaining finalists for each team. Nicks will pair with contestant Javier Colon, while Monahan sings with Vicci Martinez and Tedder will form a duet with Beverly McClellan. They will join previously announced Grammy Award-winning star Miranda Lambert (who is married to Blake Shelton, one of the series’ musician coaches) who will sing with the fourth finalist, Dia Frampton.
The announcements were made by Paul Telegdy, Executive Vice President, Alternative Programming, NBC and Universal Media Studios.
Nicks is a multi-Grammy-winning member of the legendary Fleetwood Mac whose “Rumours” album (Grammy Album of the Year) was one of the biggest selling records in rock history. She is also a Grammy-winning solo artist whose “Bella Donna” debut CD sold well over five million copies. Her current solo CD, “In Your Dreams” — her first studio CD in over a decade — debuted last month at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart. Nicks is also a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Grammy Hall of Fame. She has written and performed such classic hits s “Landslide,” “Rhiannon,” “Edge of l7” and “Gold Dust Woman.” She is scheduled to begin a solo tour next month.
Monahan is the lead singer and songwriter for the Grammy-winning band Train. The multi-platinum group’s albums include “Train,” “Drops of Jupiter,” “My Private Nation,” “For Me, It’s You” — and “Save Me, San Francisco” (platinum worldwide and the biggest of their 16-year career) which produced their smash single “Hey Soul Sister,” which was the #1 iTunes track of 2010. Train’s many hit singles also include “If It’s Love,” “Marry Me,” the Grammy-winning “Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me),” and the chart-topping “Calling All Angels” and “Meet Virginia.”
The recording stars will sing with the four remaining finalists for each team. Nicks will pair with contestant Javier Colon, while Monahan sings with Vicci Martinez and Tedder will form a duet with Beverly McClellan. They will join previously announced Grammy Award-winning star Miranda Lambert (who is married to Blake Shelton, one of the series’ musician coaches) who will sing with the fourth finalist, Dia Frampton.
The announcements were made by Paul Telegdy, Executive Vice President, Alternative Programming, NBC and Universal Media Studios.
Nicks is a multi-Grammy-winning member of the legendary Fleetwood Mac whose “Rumours” album (Grammy Album of the Year) was one of the biggest selling records in rock history. She is also a Grammy-winning solo artist whose “Bella Donna” debut CD sold well over five million copies. Her current solo CD, “In Your Dreams” — her first studio CD in over a decade — debuted last month at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart. Nicks is also a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Grammy Hall of Fame. She has written and performed such classic hits s “Landslide,” “Rhiannon,” “Edge of l7” and “Gold Dust Woman.” She is scheduled to begin a solo tour next month.
Monahan is the lead singer and songwriter for the Grammy-winning band Train. The multi-platinum group’s albums include “Train,” “Drops of Jupiter,” “My Private Nation,” “For Me, It’s You” — and “Save Me, San Francisco” (platinum worldwide and the biggest of their 16-year career) which produced their smash single “Hey Soul Sister,” which was the #1 iTunes track of 2010. Train’s many hit singles also include “If It’s Love,” “Marry Me,” the Grammy-winning “Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me),” and the chart-topping “Calling All Angels” and “Meet Virginia.”
They Came... They Met... and She Signed...
HMV posted a photo gallery of shots of Stevie Nicks in London June 27th at HMV Oxford Street signing CD's for the masses... Stevie's new album In Your Dreams was released yesterday in the UK. Great kick off for a great album!!
"Dream Lover" Music Icon Stevie Nicks Looks To The Future with an Album Born in Brisbane
U on Sunday - June 26, 2011 Sunday Mail - Australia
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Australian Articles - Stevie Nicks
The Sunday Telegraph Australia June 26, 2011
STEVIE Nicks is in a good mood. The international star of folk rock is celebrating the success of her first album for a decade and has just heard a stadium full of fans sing Happy Birthday to her.
‘‘ It was pretty amazing,’’ she says. ‘‘ Not the best singers in the world, but they put their hearts into it.’’
It’s a testament to Nicks’ popularity and that of her former band, Fleetwood Mac — resurgent in recent months after the TV show Glee dedicated an entire episode to their 1977 album, Rumours.
Back on form after a hiatus, the singer says she began writing her new album, In Your Dreams, after a show with Fleetwood Mac in Melbourne while touring in Australia.
She’d just watched New Moon — the second film in the Twilight series — and was so moved by the love affair between Bella (Kristen Stewart) and Edward (Robert Pattinson), it inspired her.
Drawing parallels with her own doomed relationship with Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac, she wrote Moonlight, a track on the new album. She says: ‘‘ It really touched me, because that kind of thing happened to me once and it was just so devastating.’’
When the band arrived in Brisbane there was a piano in her suite and In Your Dreams was born. She explains: ‘‘ It’s just that forbidden love . . . love that cannot work — no matter what. Edward is beautiful and sensitive and sweet, but he’s still a monster. That’s the main underlying story in all fairy tales.
‘‘ But sometimes it happens to you in real life and when it does, it’s devastating.’’
Nicks met Buckingham in San Francisco when she was 17. The couple joined Fleetwood Mac, which ultimately sounded the death knell for their relationship.
They split while making Rumours, and Nicks says the turmoil she went through is what makes her identify with Bella and Edward.
Later she sang with his band, Fritz, before the pair moved to Los Angeles and performed as Buckingham-Nicks, living and recording together for five years.
‘‘ That’s when we realised we had a destiny, I think,’’ Nicks says. ‘‘ In the movie when she’s sitting in the bay window and it goes October, November, December and she’s still sitting there, I went through that at one part (of) my life and it just brought it flooding back.’’
Despite their messy parting, Nicks, now 63, says she and Buckingham remain friends. He also worked on In Your Dreams.
‘‘ He came and played on Soldiers Angel and he really saved the day on that one,’’ she says.
‘‘ I think that really is a super tie between us because I think that song’s going to last forever.’’
THE TWILIGHT FILM NEW MOON HAS HAD A PROFOUND EFFECT ON STEVIE NICKS, WRITES AMANDA HORSWILL
Sunday Magazine Australia June 26, 2011
IT WAS just after she had seen the Twilight film New Moon while on tour in Australia. Stevie Nicks was so taken by the fated love story that she stole upstairs to her Melbourne hotel room and wrote a fivepage essay about iconic love affairs.
She wrote about Bella and Edward, about Beauty and the Beast and about her own love story, between herself and her musical partner in life, Lindsey Buckingham, of Fleetwood Mac.
The similarities between their story and Bella and Edward’s in New Moon were uncanny. A forbidden love. A love that cannot work, she describes it.
Monday, June 27, 2011
Stevie Nicks UK TV Interview Loose Women June 27, 2011 UK
Stevie Nicks chat to the ladies about her career in fleetwood mac and as a solo artist.
3 Stevie Nicks Interviews Coming Up on Tuesday June 28th
STEVIE NICKS INTERVIEWS ON TUESDAY
Alan Simpson Show
15.00 - 17.00 Monday - Friday (3-5pm UK Time)
Superstar chanteuse Stevie Nicks is Alan's guest on tomorrow's programme. She'll be talking about her new album which features songs going as far back as the classic Rumours era of Fleetwood Mac.
Listen Live at BBC Radio Ulster, or wait a short while and catch it on the iPlayer here
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NATION RADIO
Mark Franklin interviewed Stevie last Friday and his interview airs on Tuesday about 12pm UK time on Nation Radio Wales. Listen Live HERE
Nation Radio 106.8 FM in Cardiff & SE Wales 107.3 FM in Swansea & SW Wales DAB Digital radio across South Wales & the West Online at www.nationradio.com
Mark Franklin interviewed Stevie last Friday and his interview airs on Tuesday about 12pm UK time on Nation Radio Wales. Listen Live HERE
Nation Radio 106.8 FM in Cardiff & SE Wales 107.3 FM in Swansea & SW Wales DAB Digital radio across South Wales & the West Online at www.nationradio.com
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SMOOTH RADIO
Mark Goodier of Smoothradio also interview Stevie - more of his conversation (part of which aired today, that I sadly missed) will be on tomorrow at 11:25am UK time. You can listen live HERE
Press Photos: Stevie Nicks HMV Oxford Street London "In Your Dreams" Cd Signing
It's 90°C outside and Stevie's dressed for Siberia! ROCKSTAR!!
Standing in a line... Standing in a line... I WOULD! HMV Oxford Street Lineup in London for Stevie Nicks
Photos by: @GarryWhitaker via Twitter & hmvtweets- Hope you guys have water... It's apparently HOT!
Review Stevie Nicks In Your Dreams 4 out of 5 by Indie London...
IndieLondon
Rating: 4 out of 5
STEVIE Nicks’ In Your Dreams is the singer’s first LP of new material for a decade and, for fans in particular, it’s well worth the wait.
Nicks’ distinct vocals retain the same power as her Fleetwood Mac days, while her song-writing demonstrates a wealth of ambition, taking in everything from New Orleans and Twilight tributes to tracks inspired by the Walter Reed Army Medical Center and Edgar Allan Poe.
In doing so, she’s also amassed a strong army of supporting talent, including Mac band-mate Lindsey Buckingham, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers’ Mike Campbell, long-term guitarist buddy Waddy Wachtel and Dave Stewart.
In truth, it’s debatable whether Nicks will win any new fans, such is the classic (and familiar) traits she brings to proceedings (there are moments this could pass for a Fleetwood Mac record). But given the length of time it has taken to emerge, In Your Dreams has to go down as a welcome comeback for the artist.
And there are plenty of highlights among the 14 tracks, starting with the opener, Secret Love, an oldie she wrote way back in ’76 and which could easily have ended up on a Fleetwood LP. It’s steeped in classic values… guitar backing, strong sense of melody, folk-rock tendencies and a notable chorus. And it gets things started in suitably assured fashion.
Nicks herself describes the LP as “a full blown rock ‘n’ roll album with some beautiful ballads’ but early on it’s more ballad driven. Secret Love isn’t really a rock song, while For What It’s Worth is a Dylan-esque folk ballad with country elements that showcases a tender side to the singer that’s welcome, but perhaps too early. It does, however, mark one of Campbell’s contributions.
Fortunately, that rock vibe drops with the rousing foot-stomper that is title track In Your Dreams, the sort of offering that wouldn’t sound out of place on a Petty record. It’s a real good time.
The ambition of her song-writing then becomes evident on Wild Sargasso Sea, a song that is based upon the novel of the same name that Jean Rhys wrote as a prequel to Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre. It’s a brooding slow-burner that contains plenty of atmosphere and some cracking lyrics. And yes, it has to rate as another highlight.
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Stevie Nicks: On the eve of her first solo album release in 10 years, the Fleetwood Mac songstress talks to Simon Price
Stevie Nicks: 'Love is fleeting for me...in my life as a travelling woman'
On the eve of her first solo album release in 10 years, the Fleetwood Mac songstress talks to Simon Price
It's a summer evening in a classy London hotel.
The first thing you notice entering the suite Stevie Nicks calls home ahead of her first British solo show in two decades is a scattering of large, lit, white candles. It's daytime, but in terms of ambience they speak volumes. Because if Stevie Nicks, poet-sorceress of the popular imagination, is ever off-duty, she won't let it show.
From a young age, Stephanie Lynn Nicks was a dreamer. Even when working as a waitress or a cleaner in Hollywood to fund the failed debut album she recorded with her lover Lindsey Buckingham in 1973, Nicks was already imagining herself a romantic gypsy princess. This persona took flight in 1975 when the Buckingham-Nicks duo were recruited into Fleetwood Mac, transforming the washed-up British blues band's fortunes. Despite legendary narcotic excesses and mind-boggling inter-band relationships, Fleetwood Mac reached unimaginable heights with the sensual, scarf-swirling singer Nicks as their talisman. Their 1977 record Rumours remains one of the top 10 biggest-selling albums of all time. And, as she launched a parallel solo career in the Eighties,
Today, all the accessories you'd expect are present: the crescent moon pendant, the lacy black blouse, the ankle-snapping stiletto boots (a habit adopted so she wouldn't look so tiny sharing a stage with the giant Mick Fleetwood), and, on the third finger of each hand, a ring encrusted with dazzling diamonds. At 63, she remains a rare beauty: that silky blonde hair, those sultry eyelids, and those flared nostrils into which she once joked that she'd shovelled "so much cocaine you could put a big gold ring through my septum". Sometimes she'll speak a syllable which flutters into the honeyed vibrato you've heard on "Sara", "Seven Wonders", "Rooms on Fire" or "Dreams". When you meet Stevie Nicks, she doesn't disappoint.
Curling into an armchair draped with a sheepskin rug, she begins to explain why her new album, In Your Dreams, comes 10 years after her last. In 2005, she spent a long, difficult day at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington DC, to which badly injured soldiers from the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan are invalided. Her eyes well up at the memory. "I can honestly say I walked in there, Stevie Nicks, a rock'n'roll star, without a care in the world. And I walked out of there a mother. With a whole lotta children."