Christine McVie and Stevie Nicks talk about addiction, sexism – and how they can't wait to play together again

Fleetwood Mac's Stevie and Christine: 'We were like rock'n'roll nuns'
by Tim Jonze
The Guardian

Photo By @lollydoeslondon 

Through all Fleetwood Mac's years of druggy excess and bitter breakups, the friendship between Christine McVie and Stevie Nicks never faltered. They talk about addiction, sexism – and how they can't wait to play together again.

September 2013, and Stevie Nicks is about to perform Landslide at the O2 in London, where Fleetwood Mac are playing three nights. Before she does, though, she has a dedication to make. "This is for my mentor. Big sister. Best friend," she says, and there are precious few people in the venue who don't know she's talking about Christine McVie, her fellow female bandmate and the Mac's keyboard player, as well as one of its singers and songwriters from 1970 until she quit in 1998.

It is not the first time Nicks has talked about McVie. In 2009, she told the audience at Wembley Arena that she thought about her "every day". Earlier this year she admitted to the Observer: "I'd beg, borrow and scrape together $5m and give it to her in cash if she would come back. That's how much I miss her!"

This time, though, was different. When it came to the end of the band's set, McVie stepped onstage with them for the first time in 15 years to run through Don't Stop, her enduring anthem about staying positive in the aftermath of a breakup.

"It was like falling off a bike," McVie says when I meet her in her south London apartment, a beautiful space situated so close to the banks of the Thames that it feels as if we're floating above it. "I climbed back on there again and there they all were, the same old faces!"

Was she nervous?

Full interview with Stevie and Christine at The Guardian

Look for this interview in print in Friday's The Guardian G2 Magazine

Real Housewive Meets Real Stevie Nicks

Carlton Gebbia normally seems to keep her cool amidst all the drama on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. Not so when she comes face-to-face with a rock and roll legend.

Earlier this week, the new 'Wife had a chance encounter with Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks at a charity affair in L.A, and she snapped a photo of her two girls, Mysteri and Destiny, hanging with the singer backstage (below).

"She is truly a legend and a class act," Carlton tells the Dish of meeting the icon. "She made our night--God, this woman commands!"

Carlton also says that Stevie was a delight to chat with and was flattered when her daughters complimented her talents. "Stevie was so sweet with our girls as they told her how they loved her voice," she says. "She was just so genuine and accessible."

Perhaps most star-struck by the encounter: her husband David. "He had the biggest, cutest smile on his face when we met Stevie," she says. "Talk about teen love!

Bravo

Queenie on Stevie...

Gabourey Sidibe Talks Queenie and meeting Stevie Nicks

Did you get to meet Stevie Nicks? Is she still there?

I did get to meet Stevie Nicks! She is not still here, but god, she was here for about two or three days. She was awesome. You can tell she really likes the show too. She was like, "Who's going to be the next Supreme!?" She was all in it and gets really, really excited. It was fun  having her.

Full interview at E-online

Plug Pulled on Dennis Wilson Biopic "The Drummer" Vera Farmiga was to play Christine McVie

Beach Boy's Estate Pulls Out of Planned Biopic 'The Drummer'
A long-delayed film about Dennis Wilson's final years may never happen, producers tell THR.
by Patrick Flanary
The Hollywood Reporter

Aaron Eckhart was too exhausted from shooting I, Frankenstein in Australia to portray Dennis Wilson -- the Beach Boys drummer who drowned 30 years ago this month -- in a film about the musician’s final years, and left the production just before shooting was to begin in June 2012.

His departure has indefinitely delayed The Drummer, and now, producers tell The Hollywood Reporter, the biopic's future is murkier. “It was a huge blow for us when Eckhart pulled out,” says Brad Rosenberger, the film’s music supervisor and a publisher of Wilson’s songs, adding that Eckhart had spent six months learning to sing and play the piano and drums. (Vera Farmiga also was cast as Fleetwood Mac’s Christine McVie.)

The latest setback, however, might be the most insurmountable. The trustee for Wilson’s estate, which represents his children, suggests that the project is now officially off. “The Dennis Wilson Trust can confirm that there is no plan for proceeding with the Drummer project,” Shelley Surpin said in an email, declining to elaborate.

Wilson’s son Carl and daughter Jennifer -- children from separate marriages -- had signed on to co-produce the film in October 2011. The deal represented the first time the family had sanctioned a movie, enabling director Randall Miller to secure the rights to use songs from Pacific Ocean Blue, Wilson’s solo album. But their unease about the screenplay, written by Jody Savin, has contributed to the project’s delay, Wilson’s producer and writing partner Gregg Jakobson reveals. “The kids, they get bad counseling,” he said in a recent interview. “It’s the estate -- they don’t know anything about the entertainment business. They hardly even really ever knew their dad.”

Rosenberger, who spent 20 years at Warner-Chappell, approached Wilson’s family with the film idea in 2008 and said that the children remain interested. “With everything in the right place, they would love to see a movie honoring their father,” he tells THR. “There are no plans to make this Dennis Wilson movie now, but I don’t think it would be accurate to say we don’t want a movie to be made.”

American Horror Story Coven returns Jan 8th with "The Magical Charms of Stevie Nicks" #AHS

Tonights episode #9 featured Stevie's Bella Donna track "Kind of Woman" in a scene between Misty and Cordelia.  Rollingstone Recapped the show here

Previous show recaps including details on other songs used.

Here's next weeks promo for "The Magical Charms of Stevie Nicks"

"Kokua for the Philippines" adds Mick Fleetwood

Mick Fleetwood and Jake Shimabukuro have been added to the entertainment roster for the Dec. 15 benefit

concert event "Kokua for the Philippines" the Great Lawn at Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki Beach Resort. Fleetwood will be performing with longtime friend Henry Kapono.

General admission tickets for Kokua for the Philippines are available for $20 through Honolulu Box Office at www.honoluluboxoffice.com or via phone at 808-550- 8457.

"Kokua for the Philippines," a Hawaii-based radio, television and Internet benefit concert for the victims of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, will be held on Sunday, Dec.15, 2013 from noon to 5 p.m. The event, staged by Clear Channel Media + Entertainment Hawaii and Oceanic Time Warner Cable, will take place at the Great Lawn at Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki Beach Resort and will be broadcast live on local radio and television stations and via the Internet. 

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