Most Narnia-rific Album Cover Ever! Stevie Nicks 'In Your Dreams'. Stevie and a white stallion in a forest bathed in golden light.

A few magazine snippets... Click to enlarge

An Overview Of Stevie Nicks’ Seven Albums by Jeremy Gloff....

Check out Jeremy's stroll through Stevie's discography from Bella Donna to In Your Dreams. Really great read!  Thanks for the mention Jeremy!

Cynical And Southern: An Overview Of Stevie Nicks’ Seven Albums
by: Jeremy Gloff
TheNewGay.net

Forget the tales of cocaine binges and Klonopin addiction. Forget the stale tales of rock ‘n’ roll excess and debauchery. Hard as it might be, also forget the played-out stories of high profile love affairs and even higher profile break-ups. Beyond the myths and legends, Stevie Nicks’ songs are a modern-day portal into the aching and longing heart. Stevie wrings melodies out of emotions and memories that might otherwise be hard to explain.

After her 2001 album Trouble In Shangri-la, Stevie Nicks stated that she would not do another solo album. For fans like me the impact of this statement went far beyond a mere lack of new music. When Stevie Nicks released a new album it always miraculously defined my life at the time. A world without new Stevie Nicks’ music was my future without a constant and accurate voice. In the last ten years, I’ve continued to grow and relate to fewer and fewer of Stevie’s songs, as much as I loved them at the time they debuted.

When Stevie Nicks announced last year she was indeed working on a new solo album with Dave Stewart, I was immediately elated. There would be new music for new times in my life by one of the few people who always seemed to hit the nail on the head, even though she’s never met me.

Now to track some ghosts through the fog: CONTINUE

(Review) Stevie Nicks 'In Your Dreams'

"Stevie Nicks brings her A game to In Your Dreams, her first studio album in ten years and one that, depending on your point of view, either establishes her as one of rock and roll's elder statespeople or cements the fact once and for all."

by - Eric Diesel

Awesome review! 

Read the full review here!

[Chart Updates] Fleetwood Mac's Rumours Album Explodes on the Album Charts in the UK and Australia + Stevie Nicks

AUSTRALIA: Album Charts May 23, 2011 

Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" explodes in Australia re-entering the Top 50 Albums Chart at No. 2 right behind Adele - thanks to the Glee episode featuring songs from the album. The re-entry on the main Albums chart is a little odd given that it's a catalogue title.  Something changed somewhere to allow it to show up on the main Albums Chart.  Had it been able to chart in the last two weeks on this chart it would have been No. 58, then No. 65 last week.  The album also moves up from No.7 last week to No. 2 on the Top 50 catalogue chart and enters the Top 50 Digital Albums Chart at No.2. "The Very Best Of" drops one position this week to No. 5 from No. 4 last week.

On itunes "Rumours" is No. 1 on the Top Rock Albums Chart and No. 2 on the overall Albums Chart.

Also, Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" has been certified 13x platinum in Australia with shipments of 910,000 units.  Stevie Nicks' Live In Chicago DVD Released in 2009 has been certified Gold with shipments of 7,500.  

In it's second week on the chart, Stevie's "In Your Dreams" dips from No. 24 last week to No. 32 this week.

Glee's version of "Go Your Own Way" enters the Top 40 Digital Track Chart at No. 30 and on the Top 50 Singles Chart the song enters the chart at No. 32.

No. 32 Stevie Nicks "In Your Dreams" - Top 50 Albums Chart 05/23/2011 (wk 2)

No. 02 Fleetwood Mac "Rumours" - Top 50 Catalogue Album Chart

No. 02 Fleetwood Mac "Rumours" - Top 50 Albums Chart

No. 02 Fleetwood Mac "Rumours" - Top 50 Digital Albums Chart

No. 05 Fleetwood Mac "The Very Best Of" Top 50 Catalogue Album Chart

Glee Cast Singles:

Australia Top 40 Digital Track Chart

No. 30 Glee Cast - Go Your Own Way - 05/23/2011 - debut

Australia Top 50 Singles Chart

No. 32 Glee Cast - Go Your Own Way - 05/23/2011 - debut


Rumours fly for Fleetwood Mac, 34 years on.
TheAge.au

Legendary rockers Fleetwood Mac have made a shock return to the Australian music charts, with their highest-selling record Rumours re-emerging at number two on the albums chart, 34 years after its original release.

The surprise comeback follows the Australian premiere of a Fleetwood Mac-inspired episode of the musical drama Glee, which aired on Network Ten last Wednesday night.

The Grammy Award-winning album has sold more than 40 million albums worldwide since its release in 1977, and has been certified thirteen-times platinum in Australia.

It is the first time in more than a year the album has featured on the ARIA charts.

But the group's lead singer, Stevie Nicks, has not seen as much success with her solo album In Your Dreams, which hangs back at number 32, a week after its debut.

Either way, Fleetwood Mac's new-found popularity was not strong enough to push UK songstress Adele from the top spot.

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UK: Album Charts May 28, 2011

"Rumours" in the UK this week takes a giant leap from No. 122 last week to No. 16 on this week's Top 100 Albums Chart again thanks to the Glee episode - that's a 106 place jump!  On the Top 40 Digital Download Albums Chart "Rumours" moves up from No. 65 last week to No. 3 this week.  Two Fleetwood Mac singles are new on the singles chart with "Go Your Own Way" at No. 62 and "Dreams" at No. 86.  The Glee Cast versions of "Go Your Own Way" and "Songbird" enter the singles chart at No. 51 and No. 54.

Music Week

Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 chart-topper Rumours – the 13th biggest-selling album in UK history – is back in the Top 40 (number 16, 9,184 sales) for the first time since 2000, after several songs from the set featured in last week’s Glee. The fan’s favourite turned out to be Go Your Own Way, which was the highest charting Glee Cast cover (number 51, 6,325 sales), and also the highest charting Mac re-entry (number 62, 4,665 sales). Mac’s recording of the song was originally a number 38 hit in 1978.

On the Top 40 Catalogue Chart dated May 21st "Rumours" is charting at No. 12 down from No. 7 the previous week.  On itunes today "Rumours' is No. 1 on the Top Rock Albums Chart and No. 2 on the overall Albums Chart.

Fleetwood Mac's Rumours increases its position as the most charted album in the UK of all-time by re-entering this week at No 16; its 479th week in the top 75.

No. 16 Fleetwood Mac "Rumours" Top 100 Albums Chart

No. 03 Fleetwood Mac "Rumours" Top 40 Digital Albums Chart

No. 12 Fleetwood Mac "Rumours Top 40 Catalogue Chart (May 21, 2011)

NEW on the UK Singles Chart May 28, 2011

No. 51 Glee Cast "Go Your Own Way"

No. 54 Glee Cast "Songbird"

No. 62 Fleetwood Mac "Go Your Own Way"

No. 86 Fleetwood Mac "Dreams"

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NETHERLANDS: Album Charts May 21, 2011

Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" album moves up to No. 13 this week from No. 52 last week. Stevie's "In Your Dreams" in it's 3rd week on the Dutch Top 100 drops to No.82 from No. 57 last week.

No. 13 Fleetwood Mac "Rumours" Top 50 Back Cataglogue Chart

No. 82 Stevie Nicks "In Your Dreams" Top 100 Albums Chart (wk 3)

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IRELAND: Top 100 Album Charts May 19, 2011

"Rumours" in Ireland drops to No. 25 from No. 15 last week on Irelands Top 100. Fleetwood Mac's "The Very Best Of" re-enters the chart at No. 43. "The Greatest Hits" drops off the chart this week, it was No. 39 on last weeks chart.  In Ireland "Rumours" right now is No. 1 on the Top Rock Albums Sales Chart and No. 6 on the overall Albums Sales chart.

No. 25 Fleetwood Mac "Rumours" Top 100 Albums Chart

No. 43 Fleetwood Mac "The Very Best Of" Top 100 Albums Chart

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USA: ALBUM CHARTS MAY 28, 2011

USA: Billboard Top 200 Album Charts

No. 16 Stevie Nicks "In Your Dreams" (wk 2)

No. 38 Fleetwood Mac "Rumours"

No.187 Fleetwood Mac "Greatest Hits"

USA: Billboard Top 200 Current Album Charts

No. 15 Stevie Nicks "In Your Dreams" (wk 2)

USA: Billboard Top Catalogue Albums Chart 

No. 02 Fleetwood Mac "Rumours

No. 07 Fleetwood Mac "Greatest Hits"

USA: Billboard Top Top Digital Albums Chart

No. 08 Fleetwood Mac "Rumours"

USA: Billboard Top Rock Albums Chart 

No. 05 Stevie Nicks "In Your Dreams" (wk 2)

On itunes "Rumours is still racking up the numbers sitting currently at No. 5 on the Top Rock Albums Sales Chart.

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NEW ZEALAND: Top 40 Album Charts May 16, 2011

Stevie's "In Your Dreams" as reported earlier in the week moves up to No. 35 this week after debuting at No. 37 in New Zealand.

Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" is the No. 1 on itunes Top Rock Albums Sales Chart.  Stevie Nicks's "Crystal Visions The Very Best Of" is No. 6. 

No. 35 Stevie Nicks "In Your Dreams" (wk 2)

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SWEDEN: Top 60 Album Charts May 20, 2011

"In Your Dreams" moves up the Swedish Charts to No. 39 after debuting at No. 52 on the previous chart.

No. 39 Stevie Nicks "In Your Dreams" (wk 2)

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CANADA: Top 100 Album Charts May 19, 2011

Stevie's "In Your Dreams" drops to No. 41 after debuting at No. 24 in the previous week.

Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" album is hanging on at No. 64 with remnants of the Glee Effect after re-entering the Canadian charts at No. 16 on the previous chart.  On itunes currently the album is No. 3 on the Top Rock Albums Sales Chart 

No. 41 Stevie Nicks "In Your Dreams" (wk 2)

No. 64 Fleetwood Mac "Rumours"

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GERMANY: Top 100 Album Charts May 20, 2011

Stevie Nicks "In Your Dreams" enters the Top 100 Albums Chart at No. 37.  On the Top 100 Combined Albums Chart which is a combination of albums and various artists albums the album debuts at No. 35.

Top 100 Albums Chart:

No. 37 Stevie Nicks "In Your Dreams" - Debut

Top 100 Combined Albums Chart:

No. 35 Stevie Nicks "In Your Dreams" - Debut

Fleetwood Mac "Rumours" piece in today's LA Times

“Rumours”
Fleetwood Mac
(Warner Bros.)
Los Angeles Times May 22, 2011 (Pop Music Section E12)
— Randall Roberts

For anyone over 35, the hardest part of listening to Fleetwood Mac’s “Rumours” is actually hearing the music within, absorbing it without all the accumulated history: that it was the soundtrack to a generation that included backseat lovers, pot smokers, cocaine snorters and countless lost souls looking for broken-hearted comfort. That when that first generation of listeners kicked their habits, had children and became productive members of society, they shuttled their kids to the grocery store with “Dreams,” “Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow,” and “Go Your Own Way” playing in perpetual loop on the FM radio, thus inculcating the next generation into the cult of “Rumours.”

These followers are now having kids of their own, who are experiencing the music in new ways — such as watching its songs performed on “Glee,” which featured “Rumours” during a recent show, resulting in the album landing in the iTunes top five album chart — 35 years after its release.

Recorded mostly in Sausalito, Calif., the album was born as members Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks were breaking up while struggling with addictions, bassist John McVie and pianist-vocalist Christine McVie were divorcing, and drummer Mick Fleetwood and his wife were splitting up as well. How did they handle it? As Chris Stone, one of the recording studio’s owners, told Billboard in 1997: “The band would come in at 7 at night, have a big feast, party till 1 or 2 in the morning, and then when they were so whacked-out they couldn’t do anything, they’d start recording.”

Despite their mind frames, the songs the five created were about all those troubles. What the members couldn’t or wouldn’t say over dinner they tackled through song. “Loving you, isn’t the right thing to do,” sings Buckingham on “Go Your Own Way.” Two songs later Nicks responds in “The Chain.” “Damn your love, damn your lies.” On it goes throughout, with heavy Mick Fleetwood rhythms and propellent melodies flowing into Christine McVie’s piano weepers and Nicks’ perfectly sandy voice. No wonder “Rumours” endures.

(Review) Stevie Nicks 'In Your Dreams' ★★★ 1/2 (out of 5) proves the front woman of Fleetwood Mac still has plenty of notes in her singing

Stevie Nicks - In Your Dreams
Written in Music
by Robert Schuster on May 22, 2011
★★★ 1/2 Stars (out of 5)


Translated from Dutch

Ten years after her last solo album Trouble In Shangri-La is back with Stevie Nicks In Your Dreams . The album was produced by Dave Stewart (Eurythmics) and Glen Ballard (Alanis Morissette, among others, Michael Jackson and Annie Lennox), and proves that the nearly 63-year-old frontwoman of Fleetwood Mac is still plenty of notes on her singing to be able to convince.

In Your Dreams kicks off with the new single Secret Love , a new adaptation of a demo / outtake they already recorded in 1976. It's a nice opener that immediately shows us that her unique voice none of their power and finesse has lost and the ravages of time gloriously has endured. For What It ' s Worth has a simple, catchy melody and gives its beauty after a few spins price. The first three seconds of the title song In Your Dreams you think the intro of the hit TV series Friends to recognize but soon turns into a solid uptempo track that reminds of the latest albums by Fleetwood Mac.

The following five tracks is the musical heart of the album and know the level of the album to a higher level. Starting with the dark and menacing sounding Wide Sargasso Sea , by its tension remains intriguing. New Orleans is a beautiful tribute and back support to this by a natural disaster stricken city and its inhabitants and Moonlight (A Vampire ' s Dream) is a fine, well-constructed song with great eloquence. Annabel Lee , inspired by the same name and last poem by American author Edgar Allen Poe, even among the best songs from the solo repertoire of Stevie Nicks, it's perfectly together and convincing from the first second to the powerful final chord. Soldier ' s Angel finally did not initially rafts in the recordings with Dave Stewart. Because Stevie still love this song on the album, she wanted the assistance of none other than Lindsey Buckingham, who built it quite a minimalist number clearly a further move in the right direction gives.

After this beautiful song drops the plate unfortunately do something. Everybody Loves You and You May Be The One of a significantly lower level, Italian Summer gets from the beautiful string arrangement and the summer sensation that evokes the benefit of the doubt and the final track Cheaper Than Free , a duet with producer Dave Stewart (the number will also be on his new solo album, The Blackbird Diaries come to it), sounds even totally unnecessary. With lyrics like "What's Faster Than a fast car, a beating heart" and "what's cheaper Than free, you and me, I'm sure that Stevie and Dave together on creative and supportive level that have, unfortunately, this provides a completely stress-free number on. The solid rocker Ghosts Are Gone , with powerful guitar work and an early end, however, is again excellent.

In summary, In Your Dreams a fairly successful new album by Stevie Nicks, which is eagerly looking forward to a new Fleetwood Mac album, reportedly in 2012. First comes in September, the new solo album from Lindsey Buckingham. We wait with baited breath!

Stevie Nicks + Dave Stewart = Australian Tour November

In an article on the expected touring artists coming to Australia this fall, Australia's Herald Sun is reporting that Stevie's November run of shows down under will be a Stevie Nicks and Dave Stewart show...

"Fleetwood Mac icon Stevie Nicks will also perform that month. Nicks will be joined by Eurythmics star Dave Stewart."


Herald Sun

"Secret Love" at Radio...

The song hasn't climbed any higher than #20.  This week it drops 3 to #23 on the AC Charts.  This postion will be reflected in Billboard Magazine dated May 28th.

STEVIE NICKS: From The Beginning...

In My Dreams and In Your Dreams by Stevie Nicks 

For me the circus came to town in 2010. That's the year I wrote and recorded "In Your Dreams," my new CD. It was the year Dave Stewart returned to my life. He returned to my life after several years. He actually arrived at my front door, walked into my living room and we started writing songs for my new album.

It was glorious. We were two people extremely committed to having fun along the way. Every day was an adventure. Every day was a gala. The environment was magical. I've never worked harder in my life but it never seemed like I was working. It was a circus after all.

I've always tried to have fun making records with Fleetwood Mac and with my solo ones. I didn't succeed very often though certainly the music did. But this time, it was perfection. It was everything I always wished making a record would be. We laughed all the time. We were little kids in a sandbox. We were happy parents and the songs we created were our children. We were a big happy family – me and Dave, the engineers, Waddy, the girls, Glenn Ballard, my assistant Karen and my friend Kellianne who prepared elaborate dinners every night where we talked about music, art, politics and "the songs." Dave would have a martini. There was never a harsh word or raised voice. It felt pretty much like I imagine a Paris salon of artists who adored each other might gather in the twenties. If all that wasn't enough, I had the ride of a lifetime creating an album of songs that I am so proud to share with you. Did I mention that we dressed up in ridiculous outfits all the time?

Maybe it was destiny for Dave and I to come together and create "In Your Dreams." We'd met years ago – 1985 to be exact. We were going to work on the song "Don't Come Around Here No More" which he eventually completed with Tom Petty. Phenomenal song by the way. Wish I'd gotten to do it. Our paths didn't cross again until 2006 when Dave was working on a pilot for a TV show and I was a guest. We talked for two hours about everything. At the end, he suggested I play something at the piano…I did a 15 minute version of "Rhiannon." Dave joined in as if we'd been singing it together for years. I realized then that if I were ever to make a solo album again (believe me I had my doubts) - but if the day came, I knew I wanted Dave on board.

So beginning February into March and then April, three days a week, Dave would arrive with Ned Douglas the engineer. At the entrance to my house as soon as you walk in, you are greeted by two huge pianos, a black Bosendorfer and a white Steinway. Other special touches were added as we went along – a pair of black antique dancing shoes, a perfume bottle and of course a chandelier. Lots of atmosphere. We would work on the songs day after day. "Ned, how about some bass and add that drum part," I would say and he knew exactly what was needed. The living room of my home metamorphasized into our recording studio…We also set up a recording area in the curve of the big staircase where we did vocals and that's how we made "In Your Dreams."

On Tuesday and Thursday and weekends, I would work with the girls Lori Nicks and Sharon Celani, who are truly the backbone of the Stevie Nicks sound. We love to sing together. I have the utmost respect for their point of view on the music and they know when it sounds right. My good friend and sidekick Waddy Wachtel would be there as well. I've been with Lori, Sharon and Waddy since 1979. With me, they are the Stevie Nicks band. You can imagine the level of trust that we've developed after all this time.

Then Glen Ballard arrived at my door one day a couple of months later (he's Dave Stewart's partner). I call him "the beautiful quiet one." He is the voice of reason. The rest of us were all circus people who were running amok. Glen kept it all together. He could simply stroll over and start playing something on one of those pianos or pick up his guitar to explain something. He also arrived with Scott the engineer who took over from Ned. Scott was another magician in our midst. And now you have our merry cast of characters.

We all took time off in May when Dave went to London and I went to Hawaii where I wrote "For What It's Worth." By June 1st we had 13 songs completed – I co-wrote seven with Dave and five by myself. In the Fall, the circus moved to Village Recording for two weeks where we tracked and Mick Fleetwood and Steve Faroni came in to play.

I want "In Your Dreams" to have a big impact on people to give at least one moment of joy and hope to anyone listening. Well, even more than a moment. I wanted my music to make you feel like you wanted to dance around the house. That's what it does for me.

Let the show begin:

WOW! Stevie Nicks and Dave Stewart discuss the making of Stevie's latest album "In Your Dreams."

Stevie Nicks In Your Dreams EPK Exclusive

Stevie Nicks and Dave Stewart discuss the making of Stevie's latest album "In Your Dreams." Listen to Stevie and Dave discuss making each track on the album and the history behind the album!

"In Your Dreams" is now available on iTunes: http://wbr.fm/StevieIYD

Stevie Nicks the rock icon reflects on past loves, present challenges, and her growth beyond Fleetwood Mac

Stevie Nicks on Love, Loss and What She Wears
With her first solo album in a decade widely praised as her "best yet," the rock icon reflects on past loves, present challenges, and her growth beyond Fleetwood Mac

By Holly George-Warren
More.com

MORE: In an interview I did with you previously, you said that you saved all your old tapes from when you were writing or working on songs.

Stevie Nicks: I do. Two songs for this record were pulled right off of old cassettes. "Annabelle Lee" was pulled off of a demo I did in about 1995, and "Secret Love"--the single--was pulled from a demo from a cassette that I wrote in 1976.

More: You must be really organized to be able to find that.

Stevie Nicks: I'm not, but the people who have worked for me have been very organized. I bought a house in Phoenix in 1978 and from 1978 on, we have what we call "The Song Vault.” It’s a storage unit that's temperature controlled, and it's several big armoires that are shelf after shelf after shelf of everything from collections of tapes that I used to make-- that people make now for their iPods—to collections that I play when I'm on the road, starting when I first joined Fleetwood Mac. So I have all the old collections of whatever songs were hits at the time, and then there's just everything else I liked.

More: I love the new CD. Some of the songs are like short stories and some are like poems. There are certain themes that come across, like dreams, and ghosts and, it seems, memories of past relationships.

Stevie Nicks: Ghosts ... except the great thing is that they're not gone. Like in "The Ghosts Are Gone": the cassette ghosts remain forever.

More: What inspired that song in particular?

Stevie Nicks: I wrote that as a poem. I was on the road with Fleetwood Mac, I think it was the end of 2004. We were in London, and I met a singer-songwriter named Amanda Ghost. I just loved the fact that her last name was Ghost. So I just wrote that poem. It’s not about her because I didn't really know her, but the main inspiration was her last name.

Lots of time I'll get an inspiration, like "The Ghosts Are Gone"-- that's just a sentence. Then I have to write a story around it. And so "The Ghosts Are Gone" song actually was about the end of a relationship, in the way that you say, "I'm done forever. This can never be again.”

It's one of the most solid songs I've ever written. The ghosts are gone: all memories are gone, all feelings are gone, it's as if it never happened. And I don't write too many songs like that. I always have more or less a hopeful outlook, but in that situation it was like “you are gone to me.”

More: Saying that through the song, did that help you get your head out of the relationship?

Stevie Nicks: New 'Dreams' A pop rock muse returns with a bewitching new album

Inside Music: Interview
By Melinda Newman
Special to MSN Music 

Few women in rock inspire as hypnotically devoted a following as Stevie Nicks. For more than 35 years, through both her days with Fleetwood Mac and her solo career, she's mesmerized fans with her gravelly velvet voice and her bewitching songs and her ability to twirl.

Ten years after her last solo album, "Trouble in Shangri-La," she returns May 3 with "In Your Dreams," recorded largely in her Los Angeles living room and produced primarily by Dave Stewart and Glen Ballard. Both Fleetwood Mac's Mick Fleetwood and Lindsey Buckingham play on the compelling set. And as MSN Music found, once someone is in Nicks' life, he or she seldom leaves.

MSN Music: You just came off the road with Rod Stewart in the Heart & Soul tour. Do you have a ritual for celebrating the end of a tour?

Stevie Nicks: No, not really. Everybody was starting to get sick. It was a lot of shows. The last night of the tour, Rod just had a new baby, his eighth, a little boy, so I bought him a little blue diamond shoe, little baby shoe, and then engraved it with Aiden's initials and my initials and the date and gave it to him and told him how much I had enjoyed it. [The tour] ended up to be a really great thing. I wouldn't be surprised if it happened again, because it went very smoothly.

You told a Santa Barbara newspaper that you thought "In Your Dreams" would go down as your greatest work.