Radio Times
Craig McLean
6:10 PM, 16 February 2014

“I’ve written a bunch of poetry about it… on Jon Snow, on Arya, on Cersei and Jaime, on Khaleesi,” reveals the singer

Game Of Thrones is the fantasy-world show that’s a real-life phenomenon.

Since premiering in 2011 this mammoth HBO production has won enough Emmys and Golden Globes to smelt its very own Iron — if particularly shiny — Throne. In the UK the series took home the Audience Award at the 2013 BAFTAs, as voted for by RT readers. It was a fitting “homeland” accolade given that the show is largely shot in Northern Ireland with a large, talented — and mainly British — cast.

Still, the world is tuning in to this critical and commercial smash. In the US last year, season three became HBO’s second most viewed series ever, after the fifth season of The Sopranos — although a fair few of those viewings were down to one particularly ardent fan sitting down to repeated sessions. Step forward, Ms Stevie Nicks. It’s a show Nicks turned to at a difficult period of her life.

“I didn’t leave the house for almost five months,” she says of the period after the late-December 2011 death of her mother. “And then I got pneumonia. With my pneumonia and my mother’s death I watched the entire first season of Game of Thrones. That certainly took my mind off everything,” she smiles.

What’s the appeal of this character-rich drama of warring kingdoms and dastardly plotting?

“The guy who wrote these stories [author George RR Martin] is my age now, and I think: how in the world does somebody come up with these 15 or so characters and then everything that’s wrapped around each one of the 15 characters? It blows my mind that he’s able to create this vast, interlinked world. As a songwriter I write little movies. But I can’t imagine sitting down and writing even one small book, a novel. We each have our thing that we’re really good at.” Continue reading Fleetwood Mac’s Stevie Nicks: “I would love to write some music for Game of Thrones" →

Stevie Nicks still looking for love

STEVIE NICKS is still single at 65 because she struggles to maintain a relationship while keeping up with her hectic work schedule.

Daily Express
Published: Thu, February 6, 2014

Nicks’ split from her Fleetwood Mac bandmate Lindsey Buckingham fuelled one of the group’s most successful albums, 1976’s Rumours, but the Go Your Own Way singer is still waiting to find true love.

While she is eager to find someone to share her life with, the 65-year-old singer is aware that the unpredictable nature of her job makes it difficult to keep a relationship alive.

She tells The New York Times, “It would be fun if I could find a boyfriend who understood my life and didn’t get his feelings hurt because I’m always a phone call away from having to leave in two hours for New York or a phone call from having to do interviews all day long. It’s not very fun to be Mr. Stevie Nicks.”