Stevie Nicks Working on New Album Her First Since 2011

Stevie Nicks Reveals She’s Working On New Album, Includes Song About Prince

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The legendary Stevie Nicks, who tonight was inducted into the Pollstar Live Hall of Fame and graces the cover of this week’s Pollstar, broke news from the stage during her acceptance speech that she is currently working on a new album.

“I’m actually making a record right now,” Nicks said. “I call it the ghost record because it just kind of happened in the last couple of weeks.”  Nicks explained that she began work on the new record after being evacuated from her Los Angeles home due to the wildfires and after being evacuated for 91 days she needed  to “get back to work.”  That led to her writing new music.  

“I have seven songs and they are autobiographical,” Nicks continued. “real stories where I’m not pulling any punches for probably the first time in my life. They’re not airy-fairy songs that you’re wondering who they’re about, but you really don’t get it. They are real stories, memories of mine, of fantastic men.”

Nicks then pointed to one of those “fantastic men,” famed music mogul Jimmy Iovine and said, “You’re next.” Iovine, who inducted Nicks into the Pollstar Live Hall of Fame and also produced her records, once dated Nicks.

Another “fantastic man” is the music icon Prince, who initially inspired Nicks to work on her new record. “I’ve written a song about Prince because we were friends,” she explained before recounting a story of meeting up with the famed musician at the Hollywood premiere of “Purple Rain,” which she apparently couldn’t watch after the film’s love interest, Apollonia, is slapped.

“So I go across the street to the party. (Prince) Is upstairs in a little room and he’s basically waiting for me to ask me, ‘Well, did you love it?’ And I’m like, ‘I only saw the first half.’ And he’s like, ‘Why?’  “Because you slap that girl.’  And I said, ‘But I brought you a gift. It’s a really beautiful 24 carat necklace with little gold hearts on it.’ And he goes, “I don’t want your necklace and then he said, this is in the song and this is where this record began. ‘You always bring me a gift. You never bring me you.’

Nicks, whose extensive music career dates back to the 1960s, forming Buckingham Nicks, joingng Fleetwood Mac in 1974  and going solo in the early-’80s has had one of the most successful careers in the music business. She’s the only women to be elected to the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame—twice.