Stevie Nicks- In Her Own Words

She did an interview with CBS the other day. She looks incredible for 72 years old! And she’s right, this pandemic is stealing time away from everyone. It’s annoying.

God what regurgitated crap those morning shows are.

Love her lowkey shade to Lindsey. Lmao.

One of her “Great Loves” was fugly Joe Walsh.

She’s awesome.

Lindsey is good for nothing

Stevie was the least talented member of Fleetwood Mac. Lindsey was about 75% of their albums. Stay salty Fraus and lesbos.

Stevie was a trashy little pop star whose biggest talent was lying on her back while powerful men fucked her. Her charisma is undeniable but she was useless in the studio. She needed reeeeeeal musicians to turn her crap poetry into hits. Kate Bush is 1000 times the artist Stevie could ever hope to be.

R5 that’s not true though. Lmao. You’re obsessed

She's clueless. People have lost their jobs, lost family members to coronavirus, and she's bitching about how she can't tour at 72 years old. She's had a full life, has multiple houses in which to hunker down. No empathy.

R8 she’s also worth millions.

R8 My coworker's father died from coronavirus. He was 66. My brother had a coworker who died at only 34. My company has laid off 30% of staff and I've taken a 20% cut in pay. Yet Stevie Nicks can't make millions from twirling on stage anymore. Boo hoo.

I don't know much about her, but how many houses do she have? And what kind of $$$ does she have in the bank?

R11 All members of Fleetwood Mac could dine on Rumours alone. Even Mick with all his money problems is supposedly worth 15 million. She and Lindsey are the wealthiest. Both of them are probably worth upwards of 70-80 million.

She's kinda pretty. I'm just starting to really pay attention to her.

You can be rich and retarded, like Der Fuhrer.

She’s worth much more than Lindsey. Lmaoooo. Much.

R16 She didn't produce. Lindsey got paid a shit load for Tango in the Night. Stevie got screwed by her record company. She also spends tons of money. Jimmy Iovine is probably worth more than the both of them combined. Producers and executives get paid first. Performers get paid later.

She did produce some songs.

I like her old work a lot and she looks good. But she's not bright, never matured much and she sold out long ago. She'll appear in a black dress anywhere with anyone who will bring some attention to her old songs. Her time has really passed. Another black dress - another performance of Landslide. Now with Sheryl Crow, The Chicks, Adam Levine, Harry Styles or Miley. Next will be Lizzo. Stevie is a vampire.

R18. Dreams would not exist without Lindsey's clever arrangement for such a simple song Also props to Ken Caillat for coming up with the 8 bar drum and bass loop. It's essentially the backbone of the song and it's what makes it so hypnotic. Stevie got a lot of help in the studio.: "Christine McVie described the song as having "just three chords and one note in the left hand" and "boring" when Nicks played a rough version on the piano. McVie changed her mind after Buckingham "fashioned three sections out of identical chords, making each section sound completely different. He created the impression that there's a thread running through the whole thing.""

Here Stevie wishes y'all a happy Halloween. Don't forget to book her on Cameo! She's witchy and spooky. Ooooh.

She said she is happy because she has everything she wanted in her big beautiful house but doesn't want to stay there because she feels old..

She wants to perform. The answer seems so simple. Turn on your webcam, and point it at your piano, Stevie. I'll watch.

She seems really full of herself

R26 has the IQ of a an ant, same as Stevie.

R13 - both she and Lindsey come from Atherton, CA. It was and still is one of the most expensive areas to live in the nation. They met at Menlo-Atherton high school.

They have more money now obviously, but they didn't come from nothing - or even middle-class homes.

R28 yeah, Atherton CA was one of the ritziest areas of the country even in the 50s.

R30 Christine went to school with Eric Clapton. Mick Fleetwood attended posh boarding schools and his sister was a stage actress. Fleetwood Mac = middle class band.

I want to hear more from Christine McVie. She's so poised and interesting, unlike this airhead.

She probably should have had children. She wouldn’t be so lonely in old age.

R33 The world doesn't need any more fucked up celebrity kids. Imagine how awful and screwed up any progeny of Stevie Nicks would be. No thank you. I hear Robert Plant's son is a heroin addict who fucks trannies in Thailand. So many rock stars have useless layabout kids.

Why does she always wear black?

Still has the same hairdon't she had when Carter was President.

R35. It's part of the "brand" she has crafted over the lass 45 years. She's more brand than talent nowadays.

[quote] Why does she always wear black?

Does she? She used to wear lighter colors. I'm guessing she wears black because it's slimming.

I love her music but she is so self centered.

She stays up all night and wakes up at 3 in the afternoon.

She did too much cocaine years ago and fried her brain.

Loved her songs when I was in my twenties. So I forgive her for being lousy at being old.

It would suck if Stevie sat around all day watching game shows and soap operas. Instead, she keeps doing what she does best: create and play music and, when she can, perform music. Being a musician isn't like working in an office or a retail store; when you're an artist, you never really retire.

She's not lonely; she has a brother, sister-in-law, and niece, and she's extremely close to them all.

She'll be fine.

Not to mention the coven. She has the coven. Dumbasses. And all those cats and night birds.

So how many people are in Stevie's girl posse? Harry Styles said that they would not leave his house until the wee hours of the morning.

I think she regrets it sometimes ...here she wanted 15 children and grandchildren..

"What's it like to be a rock-'n'-roll sex symbol? I don't know. Ask Stevie Nicks." -Christine McVie. I love Christine's English snark.

I love Christine. I agree that she's underrated. Before Fleetwood Mac, she was in another coed band called Chicken Shack. She was respected by the bluesmen she played alongside. She can write and play blues, pop, and slow jams.

They all know who the superstar of the group was, and all accepted it, all but one that is.

He was and is still envious of her solo success.

She was the entire foundation for AHS Coven.

That is still the shows highest rated season as a whole, too.

R49 Maybe envious of the success because he felt she didn't deserve it. Her solo output was easily digestible pop. Christine throws BIG shade in Stevie in interviews from the 80s. She said Stevie was obnoxious to be around and believed her own hype. Being a superstar doesn't mean you have talent. Just look at Miley Cyrus.

Stevie was the least talented member of Fleetwood Mac. What instrument does she play? She bangs on a tambourine. Similarly, Anthony Kiedis is the most famous member of Red Hot Chili Peppers, but he still stinks.

She was brilliant. And marketable. And a STAR.

Here she is performing with [her crush] Harry Styles

I am reading old interviews with Christine McVie and she is just so subtly vicious towards everyone. The shade. THE SHADE: "“I think the three of us have always sung well together,” insists McVie. “But Lindsey and I have a particular synergy, in the fact that we were the only actual people that were playing more than single notes in the band." LMAO. MY QUEEN.

R54 A STAR? Kim Kardashian is a star too.

Christine always looked trans to me.

She probably can be a bitch on wheels, but what a voice.

Christine sounds envious of Stevie too.

R58 Fleetwood Mac had to cut their 1982 tour down to 2 months to fit around Stevie's solo schedule. Her solo career pretty much killed Fleetwood Mac. She should have just left and let them get on. Christine wrote most of the hits anyway and Tango in The Night is basically a Lindsey/Christine project.

R59 yup but Stevie was in rehab throughout the entire recording. She was fucked up during that time. Who knows how they were able to get Seven Wonders out of her. She sounds decent on that song during a time she was battling serious addiction and her vocals were shot

R57. Christine always looked long in the tooth, but her voice is like honey. She never gets mentioned as one of the greatest female rock stars because she lacked sex appeal and charisma. She plays killer blues piano though. Elton John adores her.

[quote]Stevie was the least talented member of Fleetwood Mac. What instrument does she play?

Well, John McVie and Mick Fleetwood play instruments, but they can't write (or sing) songs. If you want to win people's hearts, you have to write and sing a song that connects to them.

In her own words:

“SNIFFFFFFFF!!!!!”

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Everybody's envious of Stevie--I wish I was a short, fat woman whose finest days were 50 years ago and who is mainly known for drugs and adultery. So much to wish for!

Old beat-up whore whose time is over. The pandemic is a litmus test for narcissists. Ellen: I'm so sick of being at home. Stevie: I feel time is being stolen from me because I can't tour. How about thanking essential workers and the medical profession and expressing concern for someone other than yourself.

Stevie seems to have developed a lisp. Hmmm - I wonder what that's all about. The interview is boring, her performance in the video is stale, she sounds tired and old, and why does she need to be so ungracious/ungrateful when it comes to Lindsey? It makes her seem small and petty (not as in Tom). I used to adore her but I've soured on her since the firing of Lindsey - her behavior was atrocious. The bit about Lindsey being "in another category" is something she just invented. She'd be absolutely nothing without him and she knows it. She's a big, self-serving liar and always has been. She also invented that nonsense about making a "pact" with Christine, who'd never stoop to retrofitting her image to try and appear more "feminist" - she doesn't need to do that.

Stevie has 3 places near the beach - a condo, a house and a little trailer near Point Dume (where Tom Petty also had one). She might get up off her ass and take a walk on the beach if she's feeling stir crazy. But then again she'd need to act the part of "Stevie Nicks - Rock Star" and draw attention to herself. She's exhausting. I'm glad that she has nothing to do but stew at home with her regrets - she must have lots of them.

Jesus, some of you bitches act like you’re the little girl she kicked in the cuntbone

[R62] John actually can sing (he sang on the B-side of Gypsy on a song called Cool Water and he sang on The Dance version of Say You Love Me). John has no desire to be a star so he never pursued that role.

There was a radio interview were Christine confessed “You make Loving fun “was about a sex dream she has with Lindsey.

R67 it’s mostly one user using more than one account

Her new song really isn’t that bad. It just came on a playlist and it builds nicely.

She and Linda Blair could be sisters.

R70 take your medications

I prefer Stevie's voice to Christine McVie's. Stevie, even in her prime, never had octave range, but her voice was powerful, like in this live version of Gold Dust Woman.

Talking through her nose.....all that money get surgery.

R67, finally a laugh on this ponderous thread!

I wonder why she developed a lisp?

Dementia?

R77 dental work, probably

What straight man at any point in their lives owned a silk floral robe like this?

Fleetwood Mac was a very good pop band. Stevie Nicks was fine, certainly the most "starry" of the bunch. It helped their videos along with boosting record and tour sales. Nicks' solo albums were more of the same but simpler, acceptable mainstream pop music.

Stevie Nicks isn't a major artist in a serious way but that's no crime. She was successful as a female singer/songwriter and that's rare enough.

None of them could ever be Joni or even Carole, try as they might.

Is her pussy still open 24/7 like it was in her coke days?

Gotta hand it to her, she was able to write some good songs when she wasn't getting fucked by all those men and snorting up mounds of cocaine. Talent!

I officially despise Stevie at this point, HOWEVER, her new live show that she is pushing? I listened to the songs themselves on Amazon Music, and while her voice is largely SHOT TO HELL, her band was on FIRE during this performance (I am assuming they augmented the band with extra players for this film). And Stevie does a decent job on all of the hidden rarity songs even without having more than a one note vocal range (Gold and Braid, Starshine, Bella Donna) as well as giving a pretty rocking Gold Dust Woman perofrmance. I am particularly impressed with the band's playing and the sound quality. It's weird, she sounds like complete shit on her hits, like Stand Back- it sucked. And that song never sucks. But she was solid on the vault songs.

R84 I thought it sounded great

[quote]She probably should have had children. She wouldn’t be so lonely in old age.

She would've been a nightmare as a mother. She was an active addict until she was in her mid-40s. And of course extremely narcissistic and self-involved.

She's also a great artist. Some artistic people are only good at their art and not good at much of anything else.

[quote]Her solo output was easily digestible pop.

Her solo output was fabulous. Stand Back, Leather and Lace, Rooms On Fire. Great pop music.

R87, I agree completely.

But don't ever tell queen Stevie that- Remember now- she is a ROCK AND ROLL STAR. And she mentions it 60-90 times per interview. She even mentioned it when RBG died.

She's a ROCK AND ROLL STAR.

God the hate for Stevie from some posters, you'd think they knew her personally. Yes, she's self involved, did a lot of drugs and fucked around. Everybody from her era did the same damn thing. So what?

R89- She is a ROCK AND ROLL STAR. Of course she did drugs and fucked around! That's what Rock and Roll stars DO!!!

But on DL she's not a ROCK AND ROLL STAR.

She's COKED-OUT SLUT WHORE WHO KICKED MY DAUGHTER IN THE CUNT BONE!!!

R87. I hate Leather and Lace. The lyrics are out of a Jackie Collins novel and I hate Don Henley, especially when he sings "And sometimes I cry". That part always makes me want to vom. The Eagles are just terrible generally, but Don Henley should be hanged for crimes against music.

The Eagles are classic. Best Of My Love, Life In the Fast Lane etc. Great songs.

"What instrument does she play?"

I don't think she plays one, at least not very well. Which is why needs REAL musicians to help with her songs.

What a cunt she is: " my big gorgeous bedroom...you (meaning her) wrote really great songs about....and that's why you're living in this absolutely spectacular house....with everything that you want...and anything that you could possibly want to buy." Brag, brag, brag. But I don't get the impression that she's a every happy person. Quite the opposite in fact.

CBS Sunday Morning used to feature good segments on creative, legendary, or interesting people. But all it's done for years now is do ass-kissing puff pieces like this on Stevie Nicks. It totally glosses over her "brief ( a few months) marriage, which was truly bizarre and dysfunctional. Marrying her best friend's widower so she could "have" her friend's baby? How truly nuts.

R93 Don Henley is such a loathsome figure in American music. The Eagles' lyrics were all about how hard it is to be rich, famous cock rock stars and was exclusively liked by racists in leisure suits and high waited jeans who liked to beat up punks. It was totally 70s macho pop rock garbage although I'll admit to finding Joe Walsh tolerable. His solo album is the only Eagles-related album that isn't totally self involved Southern California cowboy/troubadour crap. The Eagles were just a step above Jimmy Buffet in the cheesy white guy department. At least Fleetwood Mac attempted to incorporate new styles of music into their follow up Rumours. Tango in the Night is the gayest album ever made by straight people(ok, maybe if you exclude Depeche Mode).

R95- I have to agree about Henley. He is insufferable, and the things I have read make him sound like a near monster. Glenn Frey was HOT AS BALLS, but also an insufferable cunt.

And when you say FM at least attempted to incorporate new styles of music. Dead wrong. That was ALL Lindsey Buckingham. 100%. That's why I have to give the guy is due.

[quote] I listened to the songs themselves on Amazon Music, and while her voice is largely SHOT TO HELL ...

Her voice has been shot to hell for at least ten years now. She never had a wide range, but she could (in the past) harmonize and wrap her voice around someone else's voice (e.g., Tom Petty).

Yeah I listened to a sample from the new live album and her croaking just turned me off.

R96 You have to give Mick Fleetwood some credit for that too. 'Tusk' started off as him wanting to do an Ghanaian rhythm inspired album and Buckingham went along with it. My problem with Stevie as an artist is that she's kind of the female version of Don Henley. She fits into a very white, very American country inspired rock tradition that eschewed black and gay music. Belladonna was a hit in the early 80s but she got crushed by the likes of Madonna and Blondie with good reason.

She did a duet (Landslide?) with Sheryl Crow (who I like) and both had the same type of voice - no harmonizing. Disappointing.

R96 it was far from all Lindsay. Why do you keep lying?

R101, I'm not R96 but it was mainly and Lindsey and then Mick who kept pushing the band in different directions. Stevie is fine making the same crooning country songs and generic belting rock songs over and over. She's a two trick pony.

Lies lies lies. Lindsay nothing.

R103, are you genuinely retarded?

Good point. I will give that credit to Mick.

R98- There were a few good songs on that live show, again - the band was AWESOME. And whoever did the mixing did a great job.

[quote]I don't think she plays one, at least not very well. Which is why needs REAL musicians to help with her songs.

Lots of singers haven't played instruments.

[quote]Don Henley is such a loathsome figure in American music. The Eagles' lyrics were all about how hard it is to be rich, famous cock rock stars and was exclusively liked by racists in leisure suits and high waited jeans who liked to beat up punks. It was totally 70s macho pop rock garbage

Yes Don Henley is an asshole but he's still a great songwriter and musician. And the Eagles songs were about a certain socioeconomic class of Californians, so what? They were still good songs.

Punk music was shit, btw. Tuneless non-melodious garbage.

"Lots of singers haven't played instruments."

But she's supposed to be this "great songwriter", too. A great songwriter who has little ability to play an instrument? No, she needs people who really can play instruments to help her with her songs.

She plays a little bit of piano and guitar, enough to help her build her songs. But she needs professional performers to record the music. And that's OK. At least she writes her own music.

I don't like the arrangements of Fleetwood Mac songs she plays with her band. John McVie especially has a way of wrapping his bass lines around her voice. Waddy is ok but it's clear that a lot of Lindsey's guitar accents are filled in on keyboard which makes her songs sound flat.

[quote]A great songwriter who has little ability to play an instrument?

So what? You don't have to know how to play an instrument to be a songwriter.

" You don't have to know how to play an instrument to be a songwriter."

Yes, SO many of the world's greatest songwriters have no musical ability to play an instrument. What horseshit.

Stevie's a pretty great songwriter. And playing a musical instrument is not a prerequisite to being a good songwriter.

I don't know why this poster has such a hate-on for Stevie Nicks, but it's ridiculous.

Lindsey and Stevie had a symbiotic relationship. Neither one was gong to make it without the other. Stevie was a great singer and songwriter and Lindsey was a great guitarist and arranger.

Lindsey's solo work is pretty shitty, with only a few exceptions.

R114 Gift of Screws is a great album, but I'm not a big fan of Lindsey's voice. Some of the instrumental songs he has written are simply amazing. Stevie is a pretty boring melody writer but people would buy her albums if she sang the phone book. I really don't like her solo work, but I'm not the one with the hate hard on for her. Her very simple songs are great as a bed for Lindsey's meticulous sonic layers. She also brought much needed glamor and an iconic voice to the band. In Ken Caillat's book he said that Stevie could write a thousand songs with the same three chords.

The problem with the label of "great songwriter" for Stevie is that many of her songs are just the same few chords repeated with no structure. Angel is a good example of Stevie getting quite a lot of help not just from Lindsey, but from John. The burbling timbre he achieves with his bass tone makes that song seem more interesting than it actually is. Stevie's Fleetwood Mac songs are almost like illusions that perfectly mirror her personal. Fleetwood Mac might well have invented dream pop. Great lyricist? Yes. Great voice? Yes. Solid melody writer? Not really, but that didn't matter.

R116 here. Just wanted to add that Stevie has such a dynamic voice that she can sing in a two octave range and sound more interesting and express more emotion than someone who can sing in the range of 4 octaves. It's a real gift to be able to do that.

Great lyricist? Yes."

Her lyrics are inane.There are many examples but here's a good one:

Just like the white winged dove

Sings a song

Sounds like she's singing

Ooh ooh ooh

Just like the white winged dove Sings a song

Sounds like she's singing

Ooh baby, ooh, said ooh

"Stevie's a pretty great songwriter. And playing a musical instrument is not a prerequisite to being a good songwriter."

She's a SUCCESSFUL songwriter. Not a great one, not by a long shot. And just how does a "good songwriter" write songs without being able to play an instrument? You sound like you're ignorant about music.

Which one of you fucking Marys keeps posting crap about this dried up old oyster?? How much more can she tell us about her illness from her fake tits, or all of the abortions she is proud of having?!! Give it a rest already.

r118 that song is a classic and has been played for close to forty years.

[quote]And just how does a "good songwriter" write songs without being able to play an instrument? You sound like you're ignorant about music.

Do you know how many songwriters haven't played an instrument? Or how many singers neither played and instrument or didn't write songs? Your hate-on for Stevie Nicks is just bizarre. She's written and recorded classic songs that are in the rock/pop canon and have never stopped being played for decades. That's pretty damn impressive.

Jesus. I LOVED Stevie Nick's voice in the 70's and early 80's (Stevie's voice from 1981-1983 was the meaning of SULTRY- her voice was almost otherworldly) I even dig her songwriting. Love Edge of Seventeen. However, this bitch has truly revealed herself to be an egomaniac of the highest order. Every interview she gives is LAUGHABLE. She is a mockery of HERSELF. Sorry DL, your fawning love for this woman is a little much. She is truly obnoxious now. But again, in her prime, she truly was something else. Now she is a novelty. Albeit a very compelling one. Delusional, egomaniacal, and embarrassing.

All the big divas seem to go a bit screwy in their later years. Davis, Crawford, Dietrich, Mae West etc. all got pretty weird.

"Your hate-on for Stevie Nicks is just bizarre."

Your love-on for Stevie Nicks is what's bizarre, hon. And success does not equal talent. Ever heard of Madonna? I'd say Stevie Nicks has been more lucky than talented. Her shit has its audience. But she would be nothing and nowhere without all the men whose cocks she's sucked: Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, Jimmy Iovine, Paul Fishkin, Tom Petty, Don Henley. The list I'm sure goes on.

Everybody fucked everybody in the 70s, it was a different time. She obviously did something right because her songs are classics and still get a lot of play decades later, while some of her contemporaries like Linda Ronstadt are half-forgotten.

Madonna was also a solid artist who made a lot of great pop songs. You don't stay on top for so long with just luck and no talent. You have to deliver, and she also delivered some outstanding music.

Oh, please. Madonna is not known for her exceptional "talent." She's known for being very driven, very ambitious, very self absorbed, very career-savvy. She's also known for being a super slut. She and Stevie Nicks obviously have a lot in common.

You don't last nearly forty years in the business, and reach the heights Madonna reached, without some talent.

R126 the difference is that all of Stevie's classic tunes are with the Mac, where she got quite a lot of help to grand effect. The song Gold Dust Woman had a swell of layered guitar parts and different accents that make it sound unique and unlike anything that had been heard before. Jimmy Iovine could never really do that. He was a straight rock and roll producer. Tom Petty had no idea what to do with the song Gypsy because it lacked a definite chorus. Lindsey very cleverly snuck in an arpeggio guitar part to "fake" a chorus and it tricks you into thinking you're hearing a standard radio friendly verse-chorus song. I say that Stevie's "weakness" as a songwriter and Lindsey/The Mac's incredible musicianship is a compromise that made an entirety new genre of music. Without a clever producer, many of her song sound samey. Stevie was very lucky to have Lindsey/Fleetwood Mac and Lindsey/Fleetwood Mac were very lucky to have a charismatic front woman with an unforgettable voice.

Stevie has a lot of exceptional solo tunes too. It's not just her FM stuff. And most artists don't produce their own music, I don't know why that's an issue with some of you.

R130 None of her solo songs really ping me as enduring from a melody or arrangement perspective. They have a very established rock feel and often just sound like Tom Petty B-sides. That said, I think Lindsey has lost his ability to produce Stevie's songs. I don't like how he produced her songs on Say You Will, but her songwriting wasn't particularly strong either.

"You don't last nearly forty years in the business, and reach the heights Madonna reached, without some talent."

Yes, she has talent A talent for self-promotion. A talent for re-inventing herself, although she seems to have run out of ideas for that in her old age. But musical talent? Acting talent? Dancing talent? Not much.

[quote] None of her solo songs really ping me as enduring from a melody or arrangement perspective.

That's your opinion. Not necessarily correct.

Madonna has been given high marks for her dancing by professional dancers. Madonna herself had said she doesn't have the greatest voice, but she's hardly a bad singer. And her earlier hits were way before Autotune.

R133 Her solo songs share much in common with Heartbreakers material and Edge of 17 was ripped off from a Police song. Those are facts. She didn't create anything new with her solo material. Her Fleetwood Mac songs are groundbreaking, however. Listen to Sara and then listen to Stand Back. If you don't rate the former above the latter then my dear, you might have a taste deficiency.

Stand Back is one of the best songs of the 80s, it has a real drive to it. Other songs of hers that were deep cuts like After the Glitter Fades and Outside the Rain are also outstanding. Her solo work is solid and has stood the test of time. Of course it's different than the Mac stuff, she had different producers and wanted to do a slightly different sound on her solo work. All singers who go solo do this. And who cares where she got Edge of Seventeen, it's a fabulous song and another one that holds up after forty years.

Being overly analytical about music just sucks all the life and joy out of it.

R134 Madonna relentlessly changes her image and musical style. It's odd and slightly frightening now but her ambition was not to be rivaled. Madonna and Stevie Nicks are totally different artists. Madonna exemplifies east coast urban grit and Stevie west coast laid back yuppie-hippy chic.

R95 - That is a brilliant assessment. I think I love you!

Of course Madonna and Stevie are different artists, nobody was saying they weren't.

"Stand Back is one of the best songs of the 80s, it has a real drive to it. Other songs of hers that were deep cuts like After the Glitter Fades and Outside the Rain are also outstanding. Her solo work is solid and has stood the test of time. Of course it's different than the Mac stuff, she had different producers and wanted to do a slightly different sound on her solo work. All singers who go solo do this. And who cares where she got Edge of Seventeen, it's a fabulous song and another one that holds up after forty years."

You sound totally nuts, a real "chiffonhead", as batty Stevie Nicks fans are sometimes called.

I’ve always enjoyed seeing Stevie in concert. She seems down to earth, sincere and connects with the audience, unlike many performers. I also enjoy her voice. It’s unique and raw but in a good way. Tango in the Night is one of my all time favorite albums.

r140 you're the obsessive troll. I'm hardly nuts, just someone who understands pop music and the music business a lot more than you do.

Jesus, her teeth in that interview are literally BROWN! Christ, why doesn't she get them fixed? All I could do was stare at her mouth, and it's obvious she knows they're jacked because she seems self-conscious. Every time she would laugh the camera would cut away to avoid showing them.

Didn’t Stevie have a kid at some point? I thought Landslide was about her child that died? Maybe I’m misremembering. You queens seem to know a lot about her so I will await your wisdom.

She looks the same as she did in the 90’s.

Also do you think she wears a rug?

Who is this nut who keeps insisting Stevie Nicks doesn't have much talent and her solo work is shit and the men in her life did everything for her? Is he fucking for real?

Every single person who has ever left a band to do solo work has wanted their solo work to sound different.

R141 Tango is a feat of studio wizardry. Lindsey recorded all the instruments at half and quarter speed to give the album a tinkly high end. The opening motif on the song Everywhere is actually acoustic guitar played slowly and then sped up on tape. It sounds synthesized but the only synth parts are the vocal parts sampled on a fairlight. This recording technique became fabled and influenced the likes of The Pet Shop Boys and Vampire Weekend.

R143 She's either smoking or drinking copious amounts of coffee.

R142, your incessant gushing about the incomparable singing and songwriting brilliance (snort) of Stevie Nicks indicates that you're just a nutty fan of hers, definitely not someone who "understands pop music and the music business ." You seem very silly, much like your idol, the coke-snorting, bed hopping Stevie Nicks.

Who the fuck wasn't snorting coke and bed-hopping back then? Freak. And her songwriting has been lauded by both critics and her contemporaries, Christ you're making it out like she's Taylor Dayne or someone.

Stevie Nicks never had a baby. She's probably had quite a few abortions, though. "Sara" was about her aborted baby with Don Henley. She supposedly has a lot of "godchildren", including one who lives with her. I don't seen her as a mother type at all. She seems more like a ditsy, indulgent aunt kind of person. When Fleetwood Mac were on the cover of the Rolling Stone for the first time the accompanying article quoted her as saying "for sure, I want one or two children" and a houseful of dogs and cats. Maybe she has the dogs and cats. But kids? She was always too involved with herself to be a mother.

The brown teeth are probably from smoking. Celebrities never quit smoking, they just pretend that they do.

She looks good but probably not so much in real life. Her cheeks are filled with rubber goo, like silicone breast implants for the face.

Madonna and Stevie also have this in common: they kept abortion clinics in business.

R150 Stevie solo was never critically praised until recently because Azoff is shilling her hard.

I completely agree with R136 about Stand Back- Awesome melody, drums, synths, great guitar- Just a perfect song.

I have always enjoyed Stevie's solo work.

I just cannot stand her as a person now. Truly represents what an ego out of control can do to a person. Then factor in aging and a pandemic. Forget it. She's on a Crazy Train to Loonyland!

She is incredibly out of touch. However- the public ADORES her. She is the perfect blend of has been, novelty act, but also that everything old becomes new again. She is basically really hip. She is the Urban Outfitters/Anthropologie of music. She is hot right now. Yet very, very, very old... A star for sure. But the shit she says is just foul.

And if this bitch uses her lyrics one more time in an interview, I may break a window.

I want to DANCE ACROSS THE STAGES OF THE WORLD AGAIN!!!!!!

Bitch, your stumpy body can barely twirl once without you getting out of breath and tripping and falling into the front row on top of those hags dressed like you!

You haven't danced in 15 years, at least.

Looking at these rock and roll geezers huffing and puffing on stage and singing songs about drugs and fucking when they should be in a nursing home makes me realize why some bands like ABBA decided to leave the party early, and Grace Slick's famous quote "old people don't belong on a rock and roll stage. You look stupid and should retire."

I love FM and Stevie, but like many artists they just can't accept that they're all just too old for this shit.

Her 'original rendition' of Gypsy will never not be funny. She's almost as delusional as Rod Stewart.

[R158] That was pretty awful. There's "stripped down" and then there's "almost not there." Link below to what is arguably the true "original version" in the form of a demo with Tom Petty and it's bad. Very bad. If you listen to this and can't tell that the classic song is 90% Lindsey's production then I can't help you. He worked miracles with a half-formed song that was originally framed in the wrong tempo and tone, turning it from a would-be barn burner into a magical work of art with a movingly wistful aura.

Wow somebody on DL really hates Stevie Nicks!

[quote]I hear Robert Plant's son is a heroin addict who fucks trannies in Thailand. So many rock stars have useless layabout kids.

Whoa! bad sources. Plant's son is the largest independent craft brewer in London, with his own line of craft ales and beers. Heineken just partnered with him to the tune of $10-20 million, he's gaining partnerships with clubs like Tottenham with more to come. Well on his way to $100-millionaire status on his own - one of the most successful rock star kids in a non-artistic field.

R161 Robert Plant has many kids - legitimate and illegitimate

R161 Robert Plant has many kids - legitimate and illegitimate

r158, the majority of the comments seem to love it and favor the original than the finished product.

R1164 Obsessive fandom clouds peoples' judgment. It's the same thing with Paul McCartney. He sounds like absolute shit now, but his fans will still pretend that he's still 'got it'. Boggles the mind.

That video at R158 proves Lindsey Buckingham worked sheer magic on that song to make it sound good. It also proves that her voice is shot. And that she can't play the piano worth shit.

No r162, he does not. He has three children. Four, if you count his deceased child.

Plant is not Rod Stewart or Mick Jagger, fathering kids with multiple women and dating dozens of models and socialites. He had families with just two women - sisters in fact. That's how tight and local he kept his family shit.

How would you know about a secret 'son' and what they're doing in Thailand, that the rest of us don't know. Unless you're a family member posting here (doubtful).

" He had families with just two women - sisters in fact. That's how tight and local he kept his family shit."

He had a family with a woman...and then created another one with her SISTER? Wow, that's strange. Veyr incestuous.

Having kids with sisters is fucking weird.

Stevie is old ugly and alone. You just know she sees Lindsey and his attractive children and it just kills her inside.

Lindsey's gorgeous lookalike son - they have to keep him out of sight of Stevie so she doesn't lapse into a Miss Havisham dream sequence (Stevie to Will: "Lindsey - is that you? Oh, Lindsey - come to me!").

Stevie should just hook back up with Mick. From his book it's clear that he's always been obsessed with her - and with Lindsey out of the picture, they wouldn't have to put up with his judgment.

[R172] Some have speculated that that's exactly what's happened. I sense that Mick is somewhat terrified of Stevie because she alone controls his ability to make big money. He talks so reverently about her it's almost embarrassing.

R173 Mick probably doesn't want to fuck her anymore. She looks like a cross between Miss Piggy and ET in a wig. Her petite size does not befit weight gain. He's famous enough that he can screw some dumb young model.

[R174] True - but why not just fuck the piggy bank?

R171, he is more gorgeous now and looks exactly like him.

[R176] Miss Havisham must be going bananas. Stevie is completely shut out. I’m sure Lindsey’s family thinks of her as the cunt who screwed over dad. Stevie has her paid staff and dependent relatives to tell her she’s always in the right.

I just read another one Stevie's recent interviews on Bustle or some shit.

This woman is as deep as a plate.

2/3 of the interview was once again about money, becoming rich, walking down the street and buying a red jaguar, limousines, being rich, being rich, and being rich.

Shockingly, she did not say "Rock and Roll star".. It must have been edited out.

And she tells the SAME stories over, and over, and over. She is the new Bootsie Gumdrop.

"Stand Back" was inspired by "Little Red Corvette." Sounds like Prince's synthesizer ended up on "Stand Back," uncredited.

[quote] As the couple [Nicks & ex-husband Kim Anderson] drove out to Santa Barbara for their honeymoon, Nicks heard Prince's "Little Red Corvette," his big hit at the time off of 1999, on the radio. She spent the rest of the night writing the song it inspired: "Stand Back," which she recorded for 1983's The Wild Heart.

[quote] And while the Fleetwood Mac singer-songwriter technically wrote it, she's long admitted the song "belongs" to Prince, whose synthesizer work is even on the recording, but never received a credit on the album. Once it was written borrowing the "Little Red Corvette" melody, she called Prince, told him of her inspiration, and asked him if he would meet her at Sunset Sound in Los Angeles. Twenty minutes later, he was there.

One question:

How many wigs, exactly, was Nickserdoodle wearing in the OP's pic?

Stevie just can't stop making covid about herself. More than 300k Americans have died, but the biggest tragedy is her being deprived of the spotlight on stage. Right.

Her yammering about her wealth indicates deep mental disturbance. It's like she's trying to tell herself over and over: "My life is great, right? I'm rich, I live in a fabulous home, I can buy anything I want...isn't that great? Isn't my life wonderful?" I think she tries to make herself believe that. I get the feeling she's very unhappy and probably has been for many years. I think her drug addiction was also an indication of that. What a train wreck she is.

I believe she has dementia.

R184 Probably borderline personality disorder mixed with a coke rotted brain. Lindsey has Asperger's with echolalia and palilalia which is why he likes to repeat in his lyrics almost like chants in certain songs. The McVies seem the most normal but are apparently super racist and anti-Semitic. Mick is just a piece of shit. He allowed Trump to use a Fleetwood Mac song at one of his rallies.

You're all a bunch of jealous cunts!

Wow! it does make sense if Lindsey has Aspergers!!

Why doesn’t Lindsay and rest of band speak anymore?

R188. He has been talking with Mick and Christine. Stevie hasn't spoken to anyone in months.

[R189] The word is that Lindsey's wife - Kristen - who tore Mick a new a-hole multiple times on Twitter after the firing - is adamantly opposed to Lindsey ever rejoining the band. You can just image what she thinks of Stevie.

"Re-joining the band." God, they all have one foot in the grave at this point.

Love everything about Stevie, the good and the bad.

I wouldn't pay a dime to see any member of Fleetwood Mac perform. They are old, old, old. Their songs have been played a million times on the radio, and are still played to this day. They all need to just fucking retire, especially Stevie Nicks. But since she still thinks she's "youthful" I guess she will still be singing "Edge of Seventeen" when she's ninety.

She doesn’t want to remind herself she is alone that is why she refused to retire and would rather perform around the around were her audience, band and road crew are like her family.

R193 I would only pay to see Lindsey play acoustic guitar at this point - but not sing. Someone should tell him that it sounds like he's been gargling razorblades for the past 20 years. Stevie sounds very nasal and tired. Time to hang it up.

If we're lucky this pandemic will finally derail her annoying career. She can't fucking sing anymore, her last relevant/listenable album was 20 years ago (Trouble in Shangri-la), and at this point in her life she's just bored and lonely. Lindsay is totally nuts but at least he managed to have a wife and kids to temper his weirdness. Stevie's her own worst enemy: if she doesn't somehow push the reset button on her life and retire, her 70's are going to be miserable. And just write that fucking MEMOIR already! We all want to know about Don Henley's dong.

R196. Her memoir will be vanilla as fuck. She'll portray all of her drug fuel affairs with ghoulish looking record executives and piss soaked rock stars as epic romantic liaisons. If Lindsey ever writes a memoir it will be similarly sanitized. "I didn't do a lot of cocaine". Whatever you say Lindsey.

R196. Her memoir will be vanilla as fuck. She'll portray all of her drug fuel affairs with ghoulish looking record executives and piss soaked rock stars as epic romantic liaisons. If Lindsey ever writes a memoir it will be similarly sanitized. "I didn't do a lot of cocaine". Whatever you say Lindsey.

R196- I tried listening to Trouble In Shangri-la a few weeks ago. It has not aged well at all.

They cut off Planets of The Universe right where its supposed to get good. The title song was not nearly as good as I remember it either.

1/2 of the songs outright suck BALLS. Bombay Sapphire? Oh man. This bitch calls herself a rock and roll star yet only one song on the album is a rock and roll song.

Meh.

Gypsy is a racist hate song!

Cancel her, cancel!

She used to collect creepy dolls and carry them around in airports like a baby and she used to talked about adoption now she claimed she has no regrets about having no family of her own.

By now Stevie probably realizes that she overplayed her hand in orchestrating the firing of Lindsey. She enjoyed a free pass until now - that’s over. The withering comments here and elsewhere must give her pause - but it’s too late to take it back. She’s pissed off and alienated enough people who were solidly in the FM fan base to make her miserable for the rest of her life. She made a huge, senseless mistake and will never hear the end of it.

It was such a short-sighted decision. The tour was only supposed to be for about four months, which isn't a huge time commitment. Just put up with Lindsey and his weirdness for four months and give the fans what they want one last time, then cash all the checks. They're all so fucking old, it's pathetic they're still fighting like it's the 70s.

"My tears have not stopped since a friend tip toed into my room and said ‘Stevie, Ruth died.’ (No need for the last name…)”"

Stevie wanted to replaced retired Christine with Sheryl Crow and some other musician when John had his cancer scare and Lindsey both nixed the idea.

R202, Stevie’s long time assistant Karen shield her from negativity ans she has no idea fans are upset with her.

Sheryl Crow wanted to hitch her wagon to the Fleetwood Mac train (her career was in decline by then) and the other members basically said "fuck no!" They knew an opportunist when they saw one.

Didn't she take Mars Bars up the cooze?

R205 Stevie has always had truly shitty taste. She listens to top 20 hits only. Sheryl Crowe could never replace Christine. Stevie just wants to be surrounded by her celebrity friends. Once in a while she'll give props to Kate Bush, but I doubt she has listened to anything other than Hounds of Love. As much as I love the rest of the band, ever since Stevie was on AHS, she's become something if an icon for young girls. The whole bohemian/Gypsy/crystal collecting witch thing is huge with 20 something so called 'alt-girls'.

Christine has always been a class act.

R209- I said a very similar thing earlier in post. Stevie is so hip with a certain demo. She is the Anthropologie/Urban Outfitters of old rock chicks.

Christine a class act? Frankly I thought she was a piece of shit for not standing up for her "friend" Lindsey. And she has a face that could stop a clock.

But she is definitely more down to earth and has less of an ego than Stevie.

R207: Don’t get me started on that talentless twat Crow. Not an original thought or any art in that Frau head of hers. I want her to quit the music business and go sell real estate in Las Vegas.

R211, yea Lindsey was loyal to Christine and put his foot down when Stevie wanted to replaced her with Sheryl. Stevie was super angry about it.

Sheryl Crow's shit music plagued the airwaves in the 90s. Those songs were played every three minutes. She was almost as annoying as Hootie and the Blowfish, who were in the same time period.

i hooked up with a hot guy in San Francisco c.1990 who told me he'd hung with Stevie Nicks. He was very much into 12-Step level sobriety, and I don't recall if he and Stevie partied together or not, but I do remember what she told him. This is not word-for-word, but she said she wasn't into the hard-line kind of sobriety that 12-Step preaches because it was everyone's right as a spiritual being to explore and experience the various levels of consciousness that party drugs offer from time to time.

R215 in 1990 she was still high as a kite on Klonopin, so that's not surprising. To this day she complains about people forcing her into rehab. "No one tells me what to do". Her various involuntary stints in rehab are probably why she's still alive.

Apparently in the first band Stevie was in (Fritz w/Lindsey Buckingham) she fucked the guitarist first before getting it on with Lindsey who played bass. She had a habit of fucking every dude in bands. She did it with Fleetwood Mac, she did it with The Eagles too. I bet prudie Stevie wouldn't put that in her memoirs.

She attened Menlo-Atherton High School in her senior year and started dating their popular star quarterback which made her the queen bee as well. Smart!

R218. Source? I bet she wanted to fuck Lindsey's brother too. That Olympic silver medal must have looked really shiny. Stevie likes her status objects.

She talked about in her interviews..here are the happy couple on prom night!

[R220] If he’s married Stevie will still be interested.

Stevie-

Ruth died.

(Stevie collapses onto floor and writes insane Instagram post dedicated to herself, sorry, I mean Ruth)

R222 The implication being that she knew RBG on a first name basis is the best part of that story. Stevie isn't famous enough to be scrutinized by the press. She's at this weird middling level of fame where she can be considered a minor icon but no one except for specifically fans of hers really pays attention to what she says. If Miley or Paul McCartney had made that crazy song about MLK introducing her to the Kennedys their heads would be on chopping blocks. It's good because so find her very amusing and want to witness her public decent into batty irrelevance.

It's hilarious when celebrities pretend that they know other celebrities/public figures well, when chances are they never even met. This happens all the time. It's all about boosting the profile/ego of the celeb.

Exactly, she doesn't know that Harry was a member of One direction and not Nsync and she claimed they are long time pals.

Wow really does lack self-awareness! In this interview she talks about keeping the band together and put their hand on the Bible and swore to not let personal squable get in the way with the band.

People who have zero regrets are always huge cunts.

R150 Stevie solo was more like Bonnie Tyler.

[quote] People who have zero regrets are always huge cunts.

Just a little songlette that dear Edie wrote for me, oh a while back now, bless her:

Non, rien de rien Non, je ne regrette rien Ni le bien qu'on m'a fait Ni le mal; tout ça m'est bien égal !

Non, rien de rien Non, je ne regrette rien C'est payé, balayé, oublié Je me fous du passé !

"RBG - She was my hero. She fought for me and all women. I feel today very much like I felt on the night my own mother died. I feel like someone punched me in the stomach. My tears have not stopped since a friend tip toed into my room and said 'Stevie, Ruth died'. (No need for a last name...) It is my great regret that I did not make the effort to go and try to meet her."

All about ME, ME, ME again.

How much did she donate to the 'Rona vaccine?

[R230] For longtime fans this sudden, urgent support for abortion rights and racial justice is especially galling. I think it all has to do with her being holed up for months watching cable news (she's said that's what she's been doing). Stevie is far too into herself, her fame and her wealth to seriously consider political matters or the state of society. She's a dope.

I have told this story before but I worked in the late 80s with a woman from Arizona who used to install and repair cable tv there. One time she was called out to an “emergency” at a ranch house in the desert. She gets there and it’s Stevie Nicks’ house.

Stevie has a belly like a five months pregnant woman and everywhere you look there’s white dust. My ex-colleague is a party girl herself and she knows exactly what that white dust is.

Stevie is very demanding that the cable be fixed pronto because there’s some show she wants to watch. My ex-colleague comes through, but sadly is not offered any cocaine as a thank you.

I'm sure Ruth Bader Ginsburg was only vaguely aware of who Stevie Nicks is.

[R223] I wonder what year that would have been. She supposedly got off cocaine in 1985 or 1986, depending on the interview. Why has her belly distended? I remember another thread in which someone described Stevie devouring a whole pie by herself in one sitting.

[quote] I remember another thread in which someone described Stevie devouring a whole pie by herself in one sitting.

Some pies are quite small but full of vengeance, like the ones my clerks would bring me for lunch in my SCOTUS chambers along with the diet Code Red. No wonder I got ill.

God help you all.

Can’t this demented bitch just DIE already?!

[quoted] Can’t this demented bitch just DIE already?!

I have alerted my tiptoeing friend: "SN - She was my hero. She fought for me and all. I feel today very much like I felt on the night RBG died. I feel like someone punched me in the stomach. My tears have not stopped since a friend tiptoed into my room and said 'Honey, Stevie died'. (No need for a last name...)."

My aborted fetuses were saddened to get word of Ruth’s passing. They are with Martin Luther King , Jr and John F. Kennedy and will welcome Ruth with a chorus from Edge of 17.

R237 I don't wish her ill will. She and other '70s rock star need to go away though. I'm tired of seeing old ass Rod Stewart and Mick Jagger sauntering around onstage like they're still in their 20s. They are too narcissistic to retire. They need applause like fish need water.

Old people don't belong on a rock and roll stage! They look stupid and should retire.

Yes, at some point retirement is definitely in order. Aren't all the members of Fleetwood Mac in their seventies? Retire already, you old farts!

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