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Monday, October 10, 2011
Stevie Nicks and Dave Stewart have penned a modern classic in “Everybody Loves You"
Stevie Nicks, “Everybody Loves You”
By Davis Inman
American Songwriter
By Davis Inman
American Songwriter
With a chorus hook that seems in equal parts inspired by the hit DNA of U2′s “One” and REM’s “Everybody Hurts,” Stevie Nicks and Dave Stewart have penned a modern classic in “Everybody Loves You.”
The song comes on Stevie Nicks’ new album, In Your Dreams, produced by Dave Stewart. It seems appropriate that for Nicks’ first album in a decade, she’s chosen to tackle aspects of Fleetwood Mac’s complicated past: the romantic entanglements and revolving personnel doors that would lead to the group’s most successful work.
Fleetwood Mac began life as a Peter Green-helmed British blues rock entity, along with the rhythm section of Mick Fleetwood and John McVie, for whom Green named the band and who would prove to be the only stable force through years of lineup changes.
By the early ‘70s, Green was out, and the band seemed to be switching guitar-playing singer-songwriters like relief pitchers in a baseball game. (1974’s Kiln House seems a clear high-water mark for the ’50s blues-meets-’70s soft rock transitional period caretaken by Danny Kirwan and Jeremy Spencer.)
By 1975, Mick Fleetwood had moved the band to Los Angeles and was looking for a new guitarist. In a feature story, Nicks tells American Songwriter’s Lynne Margolis that “destiny” brought she and Lindsay Buckingham together.
“[Mick Fleetwood] definitely heard strains of Peter Green [in Lindsay Buckingham] and all the other famous guitar players who had been in Fleetwood Mac for the five years before that. So the fact that this big tall guy would come in and Keith Olsen would play him a song off a Buckingham-Nicks record that never really went anywhere, that two years before had opened to critical acclaim and then was dropped like a rock by Polydor—what are the chances of that? One in 20 million?”
Buckingham and Nicks would join the group and Olsen would produce the new lineup’s first album, Fleetwood Mac (their second eponymous release). The Buckingham-Nicks dynamic would help move the band into Fleetwood Mac’s golden era of ‘70s California smooth rock, which in 1977 produced Rumours, created in the midst of the power couple’s disintegration.
Stewart also headed up a famous formerly-romantic musical duo with Annie Lennox in Eurythmics, and Nicks says there was an unspoken bond between the two when working together on “Everybody Loves You.”
Sunday, October 09, 2011
Candid Photos: Stevie Nicks Arriving at The Fillmore San Francisco...
Photos by: @JadeInTheMoon, @_SoSueMe_ & @Ashleyglynn
Review: Lindsey Buckingham Clearwater, FL
Lindsey Buckingham at the Capitol Theatre, Clearwater
The Fleetwood Mac singer-guitarist woos an appreciative crowd with tasteful ease.
by GABE ECHAZABAL and TRACY MAY
"It was the night's early, stripped-down readings that gave the clearest insight into the eerie genius that festers inside the brain of Buckingham"
Some believe the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. It's an adage that's proven time and again when a band member with an inflated ego decides to take center stage and fly solo into his or her own career path. More often than not, the results are disappointing and unspectacular. But Lindsey Buckingham obviously doesn't subscribe to that maxim. The guitar virtuoso who has served as an integral part of Fleetwood Mac, arguably one of the hugest and most successful bands of the rock era, has no qualms about breaking away from the enormous Mac machine and basking in the spotlight to show off his many solo talents. A small but passionate crowd of 437 tightly-packed bodies at Clearwater's cozy Capitol Theatre was treated to an intimate evening with Buckingham on Wednesday night and, it's safe to say, it was an evening anyone in attendance won't soon forget.
$20 to see Lindsey Buckingham at Celebrity Theatre on Oct. 12 Phoenix - $55 value for $20!
$20 per ticket to the Lindsey Buckingham concert at Celebrity Theatre
Phoenix , AZ - October, 12th
$55 value for $20!
The Deal
Promotion Expires: October 12, 2011
- May purchase multiples.
- Valid for concert on Wednesday, Oct. 12 at 8:00 PM.
- Tickets valid for rows 14-25.
- May redeem certificate beginning Monday, Oct. 10, 2011 at the Celebrity Theatre box office.
- Cannot be combined with any other discounts.
- Includes tax and fees.
WIN Stevie Nicks Tickets + Chance Meet & Greet with Dave Stewart in Australia
Week Two: Monday, 10th of October - Friday, 14th of October, 2011
Tune in to Kim & Dave at Heart 107.3 Hobart from 5.30am for your chance to WIN a Rock Experience too see Stevie Nicks LIVE on Saturday, 19th of November.
See Stevie Nicks LIVE in concert performing Fleetwood Mac's greatest plus her solo hits! You'll also be treated with performances by special guests, Dave Stewart of Eurythmics and Brian McFadden.
PLUS:
A meet and greet with Dave Stewart, accommodation at the fabulous Olsen Hotel, return airfares and limo transfers for you and a mate. You'll also receive a signed Stevie Nicks poster and album.
For more info about show tickets, check out mcmanusentertainment.com
Week Two – Major Prize 2 (STEVIE NICKS)
- 2 x VIP seats to see Stevie Nicks live in concert on Saturday 19 November, 2011. ($165 per ticket) (Venue: Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne) $330.00.
- 1 x nights accommodation for two people in a standard room at the Olsen (5 star rating) $239.00.
- Return economy flights for two people departing closest capital city $610.00.
- 1 x Meet and Greet with Dave Stewart - This is a money can't buy experience, which cannot have a value attributed.
- 1 x signed Stevie Nicks poster $200.00.
- 1 x Stevie Nicks album $30.00.
- Return limo transfers for two people to and from the airport $471.00.
- Total Prize Value (Prize 2): $1880.00.
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