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Mick Fleetwood, UK Articles

Mick Fleetwood goes his own way: Dreams of vinyl | Sunday Express

Sunday Express (UK)
By: Mick Fleetwood
Published: Sun, February 23, 2014

CALL me retro but I still love records. I have great memories of shopping for vinyl, playing amazing albums, listening to records with friends, trading music and discovering new sounds.

The age of vinyl records is not quite over [GETTY/MODEL USED]
The age of vinyl records is not quite over [GETTY/MODEL USED]
Records have always been a huge source of inspiration. To me there is nothing better than looking at the cover artwork, reading the liner notes and taking in the album’s entire experience.

The way they master music today, much of the integrity of the sound – the emotion and subtlety – is lost. Fleetwood Mac records have an organic sound that is more comfortable to the human ear. At least to mine!

I love listening. I am a great listener, although perhaps a few of my exes might not agree! But I repeat, I am a great listener. Being a drummer, I am well trained to listen. I am not playing a melody but listening to see where the beats come in, that is my skill. My hearing is sharp, acute, first rate.

When we were in the last phases of making the Rumours album, it dawned on the band that all that listening, playing, singing and writing, all that heartache and pain, time and poetry, was just sitting there on two reels of tape, totally vulnerable.

We realised that anything could happen to it. Of course, we never had a hard drive to back it up like you do now. It could all have been lost in an instant. Continue reading Mick Fleetwood goes his own way: Dreams of vinyl | Sunday Express →

Stevie Nicks, UK Articles

Fleetwood Mac’s Stevie Nicks: “I would love to write some music for Game of Thrones"

Radio Times
Craig McLean

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

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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, UK Articles

Stevie Nicks still looking for love | Showbiz | News | Daily Express

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

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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.”

Christine McVie, Fleetwood Mac, UK Articles

With Christine McVie back, Fleetwood Mac will return to their magical best

The Guardian
Mon 13th Jan 2014

Don't stop … Christine McVie's songs often bristled with optimism, at least on the surface. Photograph: REX

Don’t stop … Christine McVie’s songs often bristled with optimism, at least on the surface. Photograph: REX

Fleetwood Mac’s original songbird is to rejoin the band, and will bring optimism, beauty and bittersweet melancholia

When Mick Fleetwood announced to a Hawaii audience that Christine McVie would be rejoining Fleetwood Mac on a permanent basis, you couldn’t really argue with his assertion that it was the “the worst kept secret there is”. During an interview in December 2013, McVie surprised me by saying she would be “very delighted” to reclaim her place in the group she left in 1998. Not long after, Steve Nicks responded by telling Billboard that McVie “didn’t need to ask”. You hardly needed Hercule Poirot’s mobile number to work out what “woman wanting to rejoin a band” plus “band happy to let woman rejoin band” might equal.

Still, the fact that McVie, who turned 70 last year, wants to renounce a hermetic life in a mansion in Kent, which seemed to consist largely of cooking, gardening and looking after dogs, in favour of stepping back on the road with one of the best and most dysfunctional bands of all time is cause for celebration. Continue reading With Christine McVie back, Fleetwood Mac will return to their magical best →

Christine McVie, Fleetwood Mac, Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks, UK Articles

Fleetwood Mac are back… and still settling old scores | Daily Mail (UK)

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Daily Mail
By Adrian Deevoy
17:00 EST, 28 December

Despite the acrimony and excesses, and after 45 years as soft rock’s favourite soap opera, the legendary band have reunited

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Fleetwood Mac: Mick Fleetwood, Christine McVie, John McVie, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham at the time of Rumours

Fleetwood Mac are fighting again. Rock-star fur is flying. But this is no ordinary argument. For one thing, the contretemps is being conducted in three different countries.

Stevie Nicks fights her corner from an elegant apartment in Paris, Lindsey Buckingham boxes clever in his Californian study and Christine McVie counterpunches from her riverside penthouse in London.

Founder band members Mick Fleetwood and John McVie are keeping out of it. Fleetwood is licking his wounds after his fourth divorce and McVie is in hospital engaged in a more serious battle, with cancer.

The disagreement, believe it or not, concerns one of Fleetwood Mac’s few physical altercations. After 45 years of soft rock’s favourite soap opera, it’s astonishing that the players haven’t come to blows more often.

‘I was dancing on stage,’ begins Nicks, now 65, in the salon of her rented Parisian pied-à-terre. ‘It was the Tusk tour, 1980, Auckland, New Zealand. I was doing my thing with my shawl and Lindsey pulled his jacket up over his head and started mimicking me, behind my back. ‘I thought, “Well, that’s not working for me.” But I didn’t do anything. This must have infuriated him, because he came over and kicked me.  ‘And I’d never had anyone be physical with me in my life. Then he picked up a black Les Paul guitar and he just frisbee’d it at me. He missed, I ducked – but he could have killed me.’

article-2529544-1A4C319600000578-753_634x330Is it true that during their private-jet-and-pink-hotel-suite years, Fleetwood Mac would take cocaine while they were performing on stage? ‘Absolutely,’ said Stevie Nicks (the band on tour in the 1970s). ‘I’m not sure that happened,’ Buckingham, 64, states flatly at his gated LA estate.

‘Oh, it happened, all right,’ asserts Christine McVie, 70, drinking in a glorious view of the Thames. ‘I threw a glass of wine in his face.’ Continue reading Fleetwood Mac are back… and still settling old scores | Daily Mail (UK) →

Christine McVie, Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Nicks, Tour Info, UK Articles

Fleetwood Mac’s Stevie and Christine: ‘We were like rock’n’roll nuns’

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The Guradian
Thursday 12 December 2013 19.26 GMT

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

Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie in 1975 Photograph: Fin Costello
Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie in 1975 Photograph: Fin Costello

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. Continue reading Fleetwood Mac’s Stevie and Christine: ‘We were like rock’n’roll nuns’ →

Christine McVie, Fleetwood Mac, UK Articles

Christine McVie: I want to rejoin Fleetwood Mac

, The Guardian,
Singer and songwriter says she would like to return to band she left 15 years ago – if they want her back

When Christine McVie joined her old band, Fleetwood Mac, onstage during their recent shows at the O2 in London, it was billed as little more than a special treat for fans.

Yet the group’s singer, keyboardist and songwriter seems to have caught the bug and has said she would like to rejoin permanently. “I like being with the band, the whole idea of playing music with them,” she said. “I miss them all. If they were to ask me I would probably be very delighted … but it hasn’t happened so we’ll have to wait and see.” Continue reading Christine McVie: I want to rejoin Fleetwood Mac →

Solo Activity, Stevie Nicks, UK Articles

‘The white witch lives!’ Stevie Nicks to guest star as sorceress on American Horror Story: Coven

Daily Mail
By CASSIE CARPENTER
13th November 2013

She crafted an ethereal, mystical persona as the shawl-twirling frontwoman of Fleetwood Mac.

And Stevie Nicks will make her acting debut as the ‘White Witch’ on an upcoming episode of American Horror Story: Coven.

Series creator Ryan Murphy made the announcement on his Twitter page Tuesday, writing: ‘Guess who’s visiting the Coven? The legendary Stevie Nicks!’

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Bewitching: Stevie Nicks will make her acting debut as the ‘White Witch’ on an upcoming episode of American Horror Story: Coven, pictured in concert in 1982

The 65-year-old rock goddess – born Stephanie – was already a major source of inspiration for the show’s necromancer witch, Misty Day.

Lily Rabe, who plays Misty, is just as obsessed with the eight-time Grammy nominee as her ethereal character.

‘If I meet her, I actually think I might die on the spot,’ the 31-year-old actress told Entertainment Weekly.

‘I don’t get that crazy about a lot of people. I’m usually pretty cool, calm, and collected. But I don’t know if could behave properly. I love her so much. She’s just a beautiful creature.’ Continue reading ‘The white witch lives!’ Stevie Nicks to guest star as sorceress on American Horror Story: Coven →

Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Nicks, UK Articles

The Mojo Interview: Stevie Nicks (Dec 2013)

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The Texas kid who became a “Fleetwood Mac rock star”, Stevie Nicks has survided romantic pain, chemical excess and a night in Prince’s purple kitchen. Her secret? “Being mysterious is very attractive.”

MOJO Magazine
Interview by JAMES McNAIR
Portrait by DANNY CLINE

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WITH ITS VIEWS OF THE: PALATIAL architecture along London’s Victoria Embankment, the Corinthia hotel is a very Stevie Nicks establishment. Formerly the Metropole, it was once home to saucy wartime liaisons and secret (service) assignations. However, there was a time when the penthouse suite’s current occupant could have trumped any of the Metropole’s former residents for illicit adventure…

“I was up at 6.30,” says Nicks, by way of introduction, cursing her jet lag in a low drawl. “I don’t do early” This is not as inauspicious a start as it might first seem. Even at 65, and after countless interrogations over the years, Fleetwood Mac ‘ s femme fatale still loves to unpack the details of her epic life. “That ‘s why I’m here,” she says, her soft brown eyes peering over dark tinted glasses. She pulls up a footstool and draws a cushion to her chest. “That’s why I got the fireplace so sweet for us.” Continue reading The Mojo Interview: Stevie Nicks (Dec 2013) →

Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Nicks, Tour Info, UK Articles

Fleetwood Mac: “If We Were 20 Years Old, We’d Wanna Join Our Band!” | NME

NME
28th Sept 2013
Jenny Stevens

As the legendary band hit the UK, Stevie Nicks and Mick Fleetwood tell Jenny Stevens how they got Christine McVie out of retirement — and why the Mac are still as relevant as ever

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It’s been 35 years since Fleetwood Mac ‘ s seminal album ‘Rumours’ was released, setting in amber the band’s place in rock’n’roll history. But as they prepare to play their first gigs in the UK in fouryears this week , Fleetwood Mac have never been more relevant. It’s impossible not to feel the impact their formula of heart-trodden lyrics swathed in glossy soft rock is still having on the music scene. Last year, Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo, Mascis, MGMT, Tame Impala and Lykke Li were all lining up to appear on a Mac tribute album. Haim frequently drop ‘Oh Well’ into their sets, and Mumford & Sons regularly close theirs with ‘The Chain’.

This week, for the first time since she left in 1998, the group’s former vocalist  Christine McVie —who penned Mac classics including ‘Don’t Stop’ and ‘Songbird’ —will come out of retirement to perform one songwith her former band at London’s 02 Arena. It’s the first time the full ‘Rumours’ line-up have performed together in 15 years, but not for lack of trying on the band’s part. Stevie Nicks and Mick Fleetwood tell NME they had been asking her to appear with them onstage for years, but had hit what felt like  a permanent brickwall. No she flnally feels it’s the right time to come back to the fold, albeit temporarily. Continue reading Fleetwood Mac: “If We Were 20 Years Old, We’d Wanna Join Our Band!” | NME →