It’s an “Oprah-palooza!” Some Details From The Musical Icons Appearing on Oprah

WEDNESDAY - 4/13/11 All New! Stevie Nicks, Joan Jett, Salt-N-Pepa, Pat Benatar: Rock Goddesses Of The 70s & 80s (PG) 

It’s an “Oprah-palooza!” Today’s once in a lifetime television event features some of the greatest rock goddesses, hip hop legends and disco divas ever, including Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Stevie Nicks, “Godmother of Punk” Joan Jett, hip hop legends Salt-N-Pepa, and rock icon Pat Benatar! These trailblazing music legends are here to rock our world as they sing some of their biggest hits with some of the music superstars they’ve inspired along the way. Plus, don’t miss the grand finale performance you’ll be talking about for days to come! Today’s “Oprah!”

Not mentioned in the above show description, but also appearing are Sister Sledge, who along with all the other ladies reportedly closed the show with "We Are Family".  The next younger generation of music superstars that have been inspired by the featured guests and who also appear on the show are: Sheryl Crow, Avril Lavigne and Miley Cyrus.  Miley and Joan Jett were spotted out to dinner the night before in Chicago at former Oprah Chef's restaurant Table 52, they possibly could be collaborating or performing together... 

For Stevie's part: According to various sources, Stevie sang two songs one with Sheryl Crow plus her new single "Secret Love"... Stevie was also interviewed by Oprah, and apparently the only one interviewed by Oprah during the taping...  Reports have Stevie closing the show or the taping with "Secret Love" but with "We Are Family" reportedly being sung by all the ladies, and by the description above, the "grand finale" Stevie's Secret Love performance will likely be sliced in during her segment.

So it looks like it's going to be a pretty exciting show next Wednesday...Hopefully, nothing is cut for time.

Can I get a show of hands on who's taking the day off work or rescheduling their day so not to miss the show?

WOW!... Next week is starting to look really full:

• April 11th (Monday) we are expecting some sort of announcement to come via Stevie's Facebook Page or her Twitter account regarding the special pre-sale ticket opportunity for a show she's putting on at Websters Hall in NYC May 4th the day after her reported Today Show appearance on May 3rd.
• April 12th (Tuesday) Dave Stewart let all his fans know on Twitter to expect something special from him and Stevie to appear on itunes.
• April 13th (Wednesday) Stevie on THE OPRAH SHOW!

[update]

Great News for UK Fans

Matt Denison who was one lucky fan flown in from Ottawa, Canada had a back stage meet and greet with Stevie {his story is here} just reported that Stevie confirmed she IS playing the Glastonbury Festival in the UK in June...No specific date given.  She also said she's looking to play places she hasn't been to in awhile... The bad news about Glasonbury is the festival usually sells out months and months in advance, so those that don't have tickets now may be left out.  Hopefully she will add more to her UK Itinerary!    Glastonbury info here

Also... The Secret Love performance was filmed but will be an Oprah.com exclusive... What does that mean?  Do you need to be a forum member?

Rod Stewart and Stevie Nicks -- a tale of the hair

How well do you know your '70s hell-raisers?
By Allison Stewart, Special to the Tribune
Chicago Tribune

Back in the day, Rod Stewart and Stevie Nicks were two of rock's biggest hell raisers — battle-scarred, road-tested, scandal-prone superstars who battled addictions to cocaine and prescription drugs (her) and leggy blondes (him).

With a combined 80-plus years of music-making between them, Stewart, 66, and Nicks, 62, have embarked on the Heart and Soul tour. Nicks, whose first disc in a decade, “In Your Dreams,” drops in May, will open, playing a set of Fleetwood Mac and solo songs, then will briefly join Stewart during his set.

It’s been a bumpy road so far: Before the tour began, Nicks complained to a reporter about Stewart's lack of interest in pre-tour preparation, saying in the Guardian newspaper, “He's not a rehearser. He. Is. Not. …. He doesn't care. He's just not like me.” The tour's opening date was later cancelled (according to organizers, Stewart had the flu); subsequent dates have gone off without a hitch.

In honor of the tour's Saturday night United Center stop, we've assembled a partial guide to Nicks’ and Stewart’s colorful pasts, provided in harder-than-you-think quiz form.

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(Review) Rod Stewart & Stevie Nicks - New York Times

Two Rockers, Old Hits And Reasons to Believe
By BEN RATLIFF
New York Times Review

Two Rockers, Old Hits And Reasons to Believe
By Ben Ratliff
The New York Times
April 8, 2011

The “Heart & Soul” tour, a pairing of Rod Stewart and Stevie Nicks, is pure nostalgia, a valentine for the middle-aged and what they listened to from 1976 to 1978. Not a judgment, just a fact. But the really outmoded part about the concert is that the link between them is the radio.

Remember the radio? We submitted to it completely. It made the connections for us. Besides Los Angeles, teased blond hair and a tremendous talent for the exaggerated courtly stage bow, what Mr. Stewart and Ms. Nicks really have in common is that they are singer-songwriters, articulating consciousness through words and melody, and they are fundamentally different at that job.

Ms. Nicks, 62, who performed first at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday night, is the goddess of indirection. “Do you know what this is?” she sang in “Love Is.” “No I don’t/but whatever it is/it’s very powerful.” This could be her organizing principle. The referents of her lyrics flicker in and out; she suddenly omits the subject of a sentence, asks a rhetorical question or moves from first to third person without warning. Most pop songwriters don’t do this anymore. But Ms. Nicks is a woman who can put on a black shawl, raise her arms and spin, and the audience roars. Whatever that is, it’s very powerful.

Wednesday’s set was a tight group of greatest hits, so there was “Edge of Seventeen”: “Just like the white winged dove/sings a song, sounds like she’s singing.” And “Sorcerer”: “All around black ink darkness/and who found the lady from the mountains?” Who or what is like the dove? Who did find the lady? Essentially it’s you: the listener and her own experiences fill the gap between what is to be understood and what is not.

Ms. Nicks’s voice narrowed a long time ago, forcing her to write melodic detours away from the upper register, but her sound and phrasing remain the same. She drones and under-enunciates, the better to be misunderstood, and with several band members who have been a constant for decades — the guitarist Waddy Wachtel and the percussionist Lenny Castro — she fitted the songs to the audience’s memory.

People forget that Mr. Stewart, now 66, is a songwriter: he’s been privileging people’s material for so long and so effectively — not just the last decade of his “Great American Songbook” albums, but also his previous covers of the Rolling Stones, Van Morrison, Tim Hardin, Tom Waits, Bob Dylan and others. Let’s treat it all as one project. He seems to.

As opposed to Ms. Nicks, there’s usually a straight-forward narrative in Mr. Stewart’s songs and the ones he chooses to cover; there’s also very little wondering or regret. As for love, he hungers, consumes, dispatches. Sometimes he fails: oh, well. (He’s good at cheery leave-takings: “Maggie Mae,” “Forever Young.”) He sees no crystal visions.

Mr. Stewart’s voice is pretty damaged, too, sometimes dropping beneath the line of audibility as his longer set wore on, swerving away from high notes and turning to a wheeze. But of course he’s had a rough voice forever, and the whole point of Rod Stewart is finessing a light engagement with one’s own material. In a succession of bright raw-silk jackets, he swiveled and high-stepped just enough to convey that he was having an all-right time, while his band and production provided the rest: a rugged rhythm section, tall female soloists in red dresses (on trumpet, tenor saxophone and fiddle), and a stage like an enormous mid-’60s television show set, clean and beautifully lit.

The stars performed two songs together, unexcitingly, during Mr. Stewart’s set — his “Young Turks,” her “Leather and Lace.” But whereas Ms. Nicks remained her own entity, Mr. Stewart traced his enthusiasms to and connections for what came before and around him. He sang songs by Sam Cooke and Chuck Berry and Hardin and Mr. Waits, and repped once again for the Celtic Football Club, as he’s been doing since the early ’70s. It’s unclear who’s heart and who’s soul. But it is clear who’s an idol and who’s a fan.

The “Heart & Soul” tour continues on Saturday at the United Center in Chicago and on Sunday at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit; rodstewart.com.

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Oprah Show with Stevie Nicks and Rock Godesses From The 70's & 80's

"Stevie Nicks, Joan Jett "All New!" Stevie Nicks, Joan Jett, Salt -n- Pepa, Pat Benetar: Rock Godesses of te 70's & 80's, Music Legends Stevie Nicks, Joan Jett, Salt-n-Pepa and Pat Benatar perform."

Picked up this description of the show from a Joan Jett Forum... It's apparently from a Comcast Guide description of the Oprah Show next week...

The Oprah Show is being filmed in Chicago today April 8th

A LOT of ladies are rumoured to be on the show next week:

Stevie Nicks | Pat Benatar | Joan Jett | Avril Lavigne | Salt N Pepa | Miley Cyrus | Sister Sledge

The Heart and Soul Tour So Far... Billboard Boxscore

Stevie Nicks and Rod Stewart 
Heart and Soul Tour 
Billboard Boxscore Totals 

3 dates have been made public so far for Rod and Stevie's tour... By the look of the numbers, they are pulling in healthy grosses... Toronto is particularly large.

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Stevie Nicks will perform a Special Show at Webster Hall in NYC May 4th

UPDATE 4/11/11:
Stevie Nicks fans – the time is now! Stevie will be playing a very intimate live show in New York City at Webster Hall on May 4th. Visit stevienicks.warnerreprise.com to receive your special pre-order code which you can use on Wednesday, April 13th to purchase advance tickets for this event (pre-order code to be posted sometime today). Stevie will be playing selections from “In Your Dreams” and beyond. You wont want to miss this!

Source: Rockalittle.com





Fans will be able to access an exclusive ticket pre-sale opportunity beginning Monday, April 11th. Stay tuned for more information coming Monday!


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