STEVIE NICKS IMPERSONATOR BREAKS RECORD

3News.co.nz

An Auckland woman has tonight set a new world record for the longest singing marathon by an individual.

The Stevie Nicks impersonator sang for more than two days straight, but it is not the first time she has had to complete the feat.

Last December Karen Davy sang for 47 hours to break the record, but the papers to prove it were lost in the mail en route to the Guinness World Record head quarters in London.

Ms Davy says she was heartbroken to hear the papers had been lost.

“When the records were lost, I actually couldn't believe it would be my luck that that would happen!”

Ms Davy says she moved on from the set back, attempting the record again this year -motivated by the charity she was fundraising for.

“I decided to take a different attitude because we were raising funds for Kidney Kids, I decided not to worry about the Guinness World Record and concentrate on something real,” she says.

More than 200 pages documenting Ms Davy’s attempt will be sent to the Guinness World Record offices this week.

She will have to wait three to six months before she receives confirmation that she is a world record holder.

Ms Davy says she is confident this time it will not be lost in the post.

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FLEETWOOD MAC IN OBERHAUSEN GERMANY OCTOBER 12TH

2nd Date in GERMANY added to Fleetwood Mac's Unleashed tour:

Mo, 12.10.2009, 20:00 Uhr
König-Pilsener-ARENA
Arenastrasse 1, 46047 OBERHAUSEN


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FLEETWOOD MAC IN BELGIUM OCTOBER 14TH

A Date at Antwerps Sportpaleis Lotto Arena in Belgium has been added to the European leg Fleetwood Mac's Unleashed Tour:

Ticket cost 44, 56, 69 and 76 euro, including service costs. Onsale Saturday 13 June at 9 o'clock

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Fleetwood Mac

UNLEASHED 2009 TOUR – THE HITS

Sportpaleis

wo 14/10/09 - 20:30

Start kaartverkoop op zaterdag 13 juni om 9 uur

online

via www.teleticketservice.com

of www.proximusgoformusic.be

telefonisch

via 0900-260.60 (alleen in België)

> vanaf maandag 15 juni om 9.00 uur ook via 070/345.345 (0900-45.000.45 vanuit NL)

via sms met code FLW (0,50 euro s/r sms)

Hiervoor schrijft u eenmalig en uiteraard best vooraf in op www.proximusgoformusic.be. Klik vervolgens op registreer en volg de instructies; vink de optie ‘SMS Ticketing’ aan en vergeet de bevestigings-sms op het einde van de procedure niet. Bent u al ingeschreven, voer dan uw login en paswoord in en vink de optie ‘SMS Ticketing’ aan. Stuur om te bestellen een sms naar 3060 met code FLW, gevolgd door een spatie en het aantal tickets dat u wilt bestellen. Een sms-bestelling kan alleen via kredietkaart betaald worden. Check voor alle zekerheid vooraf de geldigheid van uw kaart (vervaldatum,…).

Elke rechtgeaarde muziekliefhebber heeft ‘Rumours’ van Fleetwood Mac in huis. Het legendarische, met een Grammy Award onderscheiden album uit 1977 is dan ook één van de meest verkochte albums uit de geschiedenis van de popmuziek. Fleetwood Mac werd eind jaren 60 door Peter Green in Engeland opgericht. Mick Fleetwood en John McVie, die samen met Green deel uitmaakten van John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, sloten zich bij hem aan. De eerste twee albums waren dan ook zeer blues gericht. De eerste bandwissels werden doorgevoerd. Het geluid van de groep evolueerde mee met de komst van nieuwe leden. Eind 1974 verkasten de enige overgebleven originele bandleden Fleetwood en McVie naar de VS. Christine McVie vrouw van was intussen al tot Fleetwood Mac toegetreden. Met de komst van het duo Stevie Nicks en Lindsey Buckingham kreeg de groep een geheel nieuwe impuls. Tot mid jaren 80 regen ze de hits aan mekaar. Wereldhits zoals ‘Go Your Own Way’, ‘Don’t Stop’, ‘Dreams’, ‘Sara’ en ‘Little Lies’ weerklinken nog elke dag op de radio. De fameuze ‘Rumours’-bezetting kwam in 1993 opnieuw samen voor de inauguratie van Bill Clinton als president van de VS. Een tournee volgde. Nadat Fleetwood Mac was opgenomen in de Rock and Roll Hall of Fame hield Christine McVie het definitief voor bekeken.

Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Stevie Nicks en Lindsey Buckingham toeren dit jaar de wereld rond. Momenteel gooien ze zeer hoge ogen met hun ‘Unleashed’-tournee door de Verenigde Staten. In het najaar laten ze al hun grote hits los op de Europese fans! Het is dan ook zeer hard uitkijken naar hun komst naar het Sportpaleis op woensdag 14 oktober.

Kaarten kosten 44, 56, 69 en 76 euro, inclusief servicekosten.

organisator: Live Nation Belgium

Fleetwood was known for keeping the band together

Fleetwood has paired his wine with Fleming's
Desert News
by: Valerie Phillips

Mick Fleetwood fussed with a finicky sound system while addressing about 125 diners at Fleming's Steakhouse last week.

"If I were a lead singer, I'd be able to work the microphone," quipped the co-founder and drummer of the legendary band Fleetwood Mac.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer was in town to perform at Wednesday night's Fleetwood Mac concert at EnergySolutions Arena.

But on Tuesday, he was at the Gateway, graciously mingling with restaurant patrons who paid around $100 for a three-course steak dinner accompanied by Fleetwood's Private Cellar wines.

He also posed for photos with each diner and gave them an autographed copy of his latest CD, "Blue Again."

As part of an "association" between the steakhouse chain and Fleetwood's wine label, he'll host Fleming's dinners at other concert stops along the tour.

While it draws business for the restaurant and promotes Fleetwood's wine, it also gives fans a rare chance to rub shoulders with a rock icon.

"People who pay $5,000 to a scalper for concert tickets don't get this close to Mick," noted his manager, Jonathan Todd.

Boomers who came of age when the band's 1977 "Rumours" album ruled the airwaves might not have expected Fleetwood's gracious, gentlemanly demeanor.

In an interview prior to the dinner, Fleetwood said his lifestyle has changed a lot since the hard-partying tours of the '70s and '80s.

"In the early days, I was a wild, wild party animal. Life is making a bit more sense in terms of not hanging off the chandeliers in the evenings."

He added, "I'm 62, and quite honestly, you have to be reasonably healthy to do what I do. It is very physically demanding to deliver a 21/2 hour performance to the public."

In 1979, Fleetwood was diagnosed with hypoglycemia, or low blood sugar.

"At first, I didn't know what was happening to me. It taught me to eat in a fairly balanced way. The meter of my day is very similar in terms of what I eat, so my body knows what it's getting at certain times of the day."

The "aging rock-star diet" is apparently one of moderation. Breakfast is usually "Banana, oatmeal, maybe scrambled eggs, and then I stop. I have a lean steak, a little bit of pasta during the afternoon, and then I stop. It's all about not overdoing anything. I'm not into a crazy huge health thing, but I don't smoke, I drink wine and a lot of water. Drinking hard spirits is absolutely not on my agenda. It would horrify me."

He added, "I am truly blessed that as crazy as I was, which is as crazy as you can imagine, I stayed alive, and I am still here able to enjoy myself now."

Fleetwood was known for keeping the band together, despite members' emotional turmoil, romantic breakups and drug and alcohol consumption.

"We were a self-fulfilling prophecy. We enjoyed ourselves way too much, and that became way too stressful," he said. "Tours are a lot less stressful now."

He said when he started his wine business, "I reverted to what I believe in as a musician. You know what you know, so trust in what you know and keep it very simple. And stick to your guns."

Good advice for anyone.

NICKS FIX

Nicks fix
Winnipeg postie would walk through hail, sleet and snow to heed Stevie's siren song
By: David Sanderson

Winnipeg Free Press

Two hours before Fleetwood Mac was scheduled to play Calgary's Pengrowth Saddledome on May 12, the concert was cancelled due to an unspecified illness within the band. Among the thousands of disappointed ticket holders that evening was Tim Magas, a Winnipeg postal carrier who collects anything/everything associated with Fleetwood Mac's ethereal vocalist, Stevie Nicks.

Magas's goal is to see Nicks perform live -- either solo or with "the Mac" -- 20 times. The Calgary gig and a May 13 show in Edmonton that was also postponed would have been Nos. 19 and 20.

"I am heartbroken," Magas said after returning to Winnipeg later that week. "Despite the cost of three flights, two hotels, meals and using vacation time to go, I am saddest about missing out on the experience of seeing Stevie two more times. That for me is priceless."

What's also priceless is the vast array of memorabilia -- let's call them Nicks-knacks -- Magas has amassed during the last three decades. Magas, who toasts the singer's birthday every May 26 with cake, candles and a chorus or two of Rhiannon, traces his fixation to a junior high school party, circa 1979.

"The party sucked but they had Rumours on," he says, referring to the group's bazillion-selling release. "I'd heard the songs on the radio before but I'd never really paid attention."

Two years later, Magas picked up Bella Donna, Nicks' first solo project. "That was when I just became totally enchanted -- head over heels, really -- with the voice, the songs, the look, the whole package."

Magas now has a wing in his basement reserved for his ticket stubs, posters, bumper stickers (?), DVDs and records. "What I'm mostly looking for now is older T-shirts," he says, noting that the 30 or so already in his closet aren't nearly enough. "There's one from her (1983) Wild Heart tour that just sold for $250. That's a bit much but..."

Naturally, Magas (favourite song: Gypsy) will be in the crowd when Fleetwood Mac appears this evening at the MTS Centre. And although the odds are remote, Magas prays that tonight will be the night when he replaces the biggest missing piece of his collectibles puzzle.

Twelve years ago, Magas flew to Las Vegas to watch Nicks perform four nights in a row at Caesar's Palace. After the final show, Magas was preparing to leave the theatre when he spotted a group of fans clutching backstage passes. He offered to buy one but nobody was selling.

Crestfallen, Magas headed back to the souvenir stand ("to get one last thing, as if I needed it...") when a woman tapped him on the shoulder. She told Magas she'd overheard him a minute earlier and asked if he wanted an extra pass she wasn't using -- free of charge.

"I was like, 'OK!!'"

The group was herded to a reception area opposite Nicks' dressing room. After about an hour, the chanteuse entered and proceeded to pose for pictures with everyone present, one at a time. "I was the last person in line and I was just standing there frozen, drenched in sweat," Magas says. "Stevie literally had to say, 'Come over here,' to get me to move.

"Then I blurted out the most clichéd, goofy thing I've ever said to anyone, anywhere, anytime. I said, 'Thank you for being the soundtrack to my life.' (Insert groans here.)

A photographer snapped a shot of the pair arm-in-arm. An assistant then instructed Magas to return at 10 a.m. the next morning to retrieve his memento. One problem: Magas's flight home was at seven, so Magas asked the lady who'd given him the pass if she'd mind picking it up and mailing it to him.

"I never did get it," Magas says, drawing a deep breath. "All I can think is that she lost the piece of paper I'd written my phone number and address on.

"So if you're asking me if there's anything out there I still want, the answer is yes. I want to meet Miss Stevie again... and I want that picture."

USO First Come First Serve

USO has first come, first serve tickets for tomorrow night's 6/10, Fleetwood Mac concert in Baltimore. One ticket per person. Call 410-305-0660. (via @Meadetv)