Every time a Fleetwood Mac tour ended, I hit the ground running. So I did the Gemini thing where you’re two different people - let’s give Stevie her solo career, without breaking up one of the world’s biggest bands. When she meets me, I hope she likes me.” She did really like me - we got Mexican food and we laughed and looked at each other and went, “This is going to be great.”īut up until 1980, I had five years’ worth of songs that I knew were just never going to have any place to go. At the beginning people said, “Does Christine want another girl in the band?” And I said, “I hope she does. So I’ve always had the girls, you know? If I had been the only girl in Fleetwood Mac, it would have been very different, so I’m really glad I joined a band that happened to have another woman in it. Then I went into my own band where I had Sharon Celani and Lori Nicks - she married my brother. I was a female rock star in a band with another female rock star, which was totally cool. You were always a pioneer - a female rock star at a time when that was virtually unknown. I have a poem that I’ve written about Game of Thrones, and I have a really beautiful poem that I’m writing about Anthony Bourdain. Writing another song, are we?” To this day, I write all the time. Prince's Estate Said Absolutely NotĬhristine would walk by me - my totally sarcastic best friend. TikTok's Favorite Energy Drink Wanted a 'Purple Rain' Trademark. And also why the story of her life would be titled, There’s Enough Shawls to Go Around. She’s the first woman inducted twice - as she puts it, “at the ripe and totally young age of 70.” She’s also hitting the road with Fleetwood Mac for the 2019 leg of their world tour, in their surprising new incarnation after a sudden split with Lindsey Buckingham.Īs eloquent and witty as ever, Stevie went deep with Rolling Stone for an epic late-night chat about her 50 years as a rock goddess, discussing love, loss, female music heroes, her poetry about Game of Thrones, how “Stand Back” makes her miss Prince, drag queens, sexist hecklers, loving Tom Petty, why she wears platform boots and the joys of having two female rock stars in the same band. The Fleetwood Mac gold dust woman is adding yet another sequin to her top hat by going into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist, years after she got enshrined with the Mac. “That’s how well I know him.” Sadly, with Petty’s death, Nicks would be left without her de facto mentor and was set to take his advice with her wherever she went.Stevie Nicks has the only kind of BDE that matters: Bella Donna Energy. ![]() “I changed it because I knew Tom would not want me to say his name,” Nicks said. She also revealed: “The chorus goes, ‘Sometimes he’s my best friend.’ It was really ‘Sometimes Tom’s my best friend‘. The advice that Nicks was given would result in her 2014 song ‘Hard Advice’ which is a thank-you note to Tom’s method of tough love which gave her the confidence boost she didn’t want to hear at the time but instead needed. You don’t need me to write a song for you.’ He said, ‘Just go to your piano and write a good song. You are one of the premier songwriters of all time. Nicks recalled: “I asked Tom if he would help me write a song. She had run into an old flame that had left her shaken to her core and asked Petty to help her create art out of this less than pleasant experience. The Fleetwood Mac member was going through a turbulent period both personally and professionally following a stint in rehab. ![]() The songwriter would often come around to listen to mixes of the record, Nicks, the Petty super-fan, described hiding in the basement trying to listen to Petty work undercover which she jokingly likened to being “a secret reporter at the White House!” Iovine didn’t think Bella Donna had a stand out single so recruited Petty to write and perform ‘Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around’ with Nicks, which would become one of her biggest solo hits and cement her long friendship with Tom.įollowing Petty’s tragic death aged just 66 in 2017, Nicks sat down with Rolling Stone and revealed the life-changing yet stern advice that he handed her back in 1994.
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