The singer previously shared the lyrics in the form of a poem, ‘Get It Back’
ByTom Skinner
26th September 2024
NME
Stevie Nicks has announced a new single called ‘The Lighthouse’ – check out the teaser snippet below.
The soloist and Fleetwood Mac icon previewed the song on social media last night (September 25), confirming that it would be released tomorrow (27). You can pre-save/pre-add it here.
In a mysterious brief video clip, we see Nicks dancing in silhouette in a lighthouse as birds fly around outside. “I wanna teach you to fight,” she sings following some ethereal backing vocals.
Nicks teased the imminent track in 2022 when she shared a poem titled ‘Get It Back’, as she urged fans in the US to register to vote in the midterm elections that year. “Read the words to my song,” she said at the time. “I wrote it for you.”
The poem includes the lines:
“I want to be the lighthouse
Bring you all together
Bring you out in stormy weather
I wanna teach you to fight”
The singer-songwriter will likely perform ‘The Lighthouse’ when she appears as the musical guest on Saturday Night Live next month.
Nicks last released music in 2022 with her cover of Buffalo Springfield’s ‘For What It’s Worth’. In 2020, she shared the standalone single ‘Show Them The Way’ – recorded with Dave Grohl on drums and produced by Greg Kurstin. That same year, Nicks teamed up with Miley Cyrus for their ‘Edge Of Midnight’ mash-up.
Her eighth and latest solo album, ’24 Karat Gold: Songs From The Vault’, arrived in 2014.
Nicks played a headline show at BST Hyde Park 2024 in London this summer, where she was joined onstage by Harry Styles.
She also performed in Manchester, Dublin and Glasgow as part of her 2024 UK and Ireland tour. However, Nicks was forced to postpone her Glasgow and Manchester dates due to a health issue. The star later explained that she had “got this weird infection, and it just went crazy”.
In June, Nicks said that there was “no chance of putting Fleetwood Mac back together” without Christine McVie – who died in 2022 aged 79. “Without her, it just couldn’t work,” she reasoned.
Mick Fleetwood subsequently explained that he “would love to see a healing” between Nicks and former Fleetwood Mac singer/guitarist Lindsey Buckingham. However, the drummer added that it “doesn’t have to take the shape of a tour, necessarily”.
In other news, Nicks has urged her fans to “choose the candidate that speaks to you and your beliefs” when voting in the US presidential election.