{"id":223,"date":"2011-06-05T17:07:16","date_gmt":"2011-06-05T17:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fleetwoodmac-uk.com\/wp\/?p=223"},"modified":"2022-10-02T13:44:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-02T12:44:00","slug":"retire-no-ill-still-be-rocking-when-im-70-stevie-nicks-on-why-fleetwood-mac-are-back-for-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fleetwoodmac-uk.com\/wp\/retire-no-ill-still-be-rocking-when-im-70-stevie-nicks-on-why-fleetwood-mac-are-back-for-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Retire? No, I\u2019ll still be rocking when I\u2019m 70: Stevie Nicks on why Fleetwood Mac are back for good"},"content":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0Adrian Thrills
\nDaily Mail
\n<\/a>16 June 2011<\/p>\n

Stevie Nicks is in a hurry.<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the world\u2019s great front-women \u2014 and the face of Fleetwood Mac since joining with then boyfriend Lindsey Buckingham back in 1975 \u2014 she is in London to promote a new solo album and appear with Rod Stewart in Hyde Park.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And, as she juggles her solo career with the ongoing resurrection of Fleetwood Mac, the Arizona-born singer, 63, knows time is of the essence.<\/p>\n

‘Once you turn 60, you can\u2019t hang around,’she says.<\/p>\n

\"\"Don’t stop: Stevie Nicks is still on a mission to make music 34 year after recording the landmark album Rumours with Fleetwood Mac and has a new solo CD out<\/div>\n

‘When we finished the Fleetwood Mac Unleashed Tour in 2009, I told the band I was going to make a solo record. I wanted to do it as quickly as I could \u2014 it took a year \u2014 and then go back to them<\/p>\n

‘I\u2019m not sure whether we\u2019ll tour or make a new album, but we’ll do something.<\/p>\n

‘In ten years, we\u2019ll all be over 70. We might not feel like an 83-date tour then, so we\u2019ve got to act quickly.’<\/p>\n

Bedecked in her trademark jewels and a flowing black dress, Nicks is on fine form. Talking about her new album, In Your Dreams, she regularly bursts into song.<\/p>\n

Her voice, instantly recognisable, is still striking. Here is one singer in no need of auto-tune.<\/p>\n

The record itself, her first solo effort in a decade, is well-crafted and melodic.<\/p>\n

\"\"Old friends: Nicks with Rod Stewart at the 2011 Glamour Women of the Year Awards<\/div>\n

Recorded in her Los Angeles home, it was produced by Dave Stewart, of Eurythmics, and Glen Ballard, who co-wrote Alanis Morissette\u2019s Jagged Little Pill.<\/p>\n

Veering between guitar-driven rock and beautiful, contemplative balladry, it features her most inspired songwriting since the golden years of Fleetwood Mac, when she penned hits such as Rhiannon, Landslide and Dreams.<\/p>\n

Already a top-ten album in her homeland, it is released here in ten days’time, and Stevie is keen to spread the word.<\/p>\n

Having flown into the UK for the Glamour Awards, she is staying in London until her Hard Rock Calling gig with Rod Stewart on June 26.<\/p>\n

‘After my last album, people told me I shouldn’t bother making another one,’ she says.<\/p>\n

‘They said internet pirates would steal it online and hurt my feelings. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try.<\/p>\n

‘I\u2019m not doing this because I need the money. But, if I can still do it, it makes it easier for the other little girls.’<\/p>\n

In Your Dreams features a cameo from Nicks’s former beau and life-long muse Buckingham (now married with three children), plus contributions from drummer Mick Fleetwood (with whom she had a two-year fling in the aftermath of 1977’s turbulent Rumours album).<\/p>\n

Despite the romantic upheaval that has dotted her career, she says Fleetwood Mac’s convoluted emotional history has never impaired their ability to make music.<\/p>\n

‘My relationship with Lindsey is pretty much the pivotal one in my life,’ she admits.<\/p>\n

‘If he and I had never met, we might
\nstill have been successful. But would we have been part of something as
\namazing as Fleetwood Mac? I doubt it. Meeting him was my destiny.<\/p>\n

‘It was interesting recording with Dave Stewart. I think he and Annie Lennox have a relationship like Lindsey and mine.<\/p>\n

‘When you’re part of a musical partnership with someone who has been your lover, that baggage is always there.<\/p>\n

\n

TOP TRACKS: IN YOUR DREAMS<\/h3>\n
\n

Secret Love: Unreleased rocker from the Rumours era. 8\/10<\/p>\n

For What It\u2019s Worth: Simple, acoustic song with heartfelt vocals. 9\/10<\/p>\n

In Your Dreams: Rollicking country\u00a0 ramble. 8\/10<\/p>\n

New Orleans: Soulful southern ballad. 8\/10<\/p>\n

Soldier\u2019s Angel: Powerful rock track inspired by war\u00a0 veterans. 10\/10<\/p>\n

Everybody Loves You: Electro ballad with the Dave Stewart stamp. 7\/10<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

‘It doesn\u2019t matter whether the other person has got married or had children. What matters are the things you experienced together.’<\/p>\n

Nicks and Buckingham had been a rock duo before joining Fleetwood Mac.
\nRumours sold 40million and topped the U.S. chart for seven months, but their stardom was ultimately blighted by cocaine-fuelled excess.<\/p>\n

‘We had to call a halt and get better before we could continue,’ Stevie says.<\/p>\n

‘A lot of our peers burnt out and never made it back. We took a break.’<\/p>\n

For Nicks, though, worse was to come.<\/p>\n

Having given up cocaine in 1986, she developed an eight-year addiction to the prescription tranquilliser Klonopin, recovering only after a harrowing spell in rehab.<\/p>\n

The stand-out moment on In Your Dreams \u2014 and the only track on which Buckingham appears \u2014 is the powerful Soldier\u2019s Angel, inspired partly by Nicks\u2019s work in the rehabilitation of U.S. servicemen and women injured in Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

Since 2004, she has been a regular visitor to the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, donating hundreds of iPods to wounded troops.<\/p>\n

‘It\u2019s my most sacred song,’ she says.<\/p>\n

‘I wrote it at the piano and tried to record it with Dave, but it lost all its brutality.<\/p>\n

‘I knew I had to get Lindsey in, so I sent him the demo and he told me he thought the song was wonderful. He came to my house and we cut it live in two days.’<\/p>\n

Nicks is looking forward to Hyde Park, where she will play an hour-long set before joining Stewart.<\/p>\n

‘I don\u2019t like opening for many acts, but I’m happy to open for Rod,’ she says.<\/p>\n

‘He\u2019s exactly the same as in the Seventies. He’s still a real dandy.’<\/p>\n

After that, it’s back to the Mac.<\/p>\n

‘We\u2019d only disband the group if we hated each other. We still have fights \u2014 that’s the way it is \u2014 but something always clicks when we get together.<\/p>\n

‘At the moment, I can\u2019t stop. If I ever feel I\u2019m doing things that are age-inappropriate, I might reconsider.<\/p>\n

‘But female opera singers work into their 70s. Why not a rock singer?’<\/p>\n

\u2022 In Your Dreams is out on June 27. Stevie Nicks plays Hard Rock Calling in London on June 26 (ticketmaster.co.uk).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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