Stevie nicks who is she

Her music speaks for itself and her fortune and legacy are secure. Plenty of women in the history of popular music have written ubiquitous hits and created memorable aesthetics and rituals around their performances.

But no one else has inspired an event like Night of a Thousand Stevies, an annual drag ball with dozens of tribute performances and hundreds of attendees. When people think of Fleetwood Mac, they think of Nicks, flaunting the incredible wingspan of her shawl in a spotlight as the rest of the band recedes into shadow.

The Mac had already been around for eight years in its Cream-esque British-blues incarnation when Fleetwood chanced on a Buckingham demo tape. Fleetwood wanted only Buckingham initially, but he and Nicks were a package deal.

As a duo, she and Buckingham had almost a decade of gigs and one failed album under their belts; they were ready to try anything.

She joined the band as decoration, twirling with a tambourine. For years now, she has been the most powerful member of Fleetwood Mac. Various reunion tours, which the rest of them needed much more than she did, could have gone forward without Buckingham, could and did go forward without Christine McVie, and would certainly not have missed John McVie; Nicks is the one absolutely nonnegotiable band member. Claiming this kind of power comes at a cost.

Nicks decided early on that she would not have children; she cultivated a coterie of singing girlfriends instead of a family. She spends time in hotel rooms and hotel-like homes. She takes care of herself and her voice, but no one and nothing else. By the time the two decided they were moving to L. But Buckingham got mononucleosis, which delayed their L. Fleetwood Mac fired Lindsey Buckingham. Intense, he in his curly locks and icy blue eyes and she in her long straight hair and her piercing gaze when you talked to her.

But the two were clashing. Nicks was exhausted from waitressing and cleaning houses to make ends meet. Buckingham had gone out on a tour with Don Everly that had ended badly. On the last day of , having recently moved to L. Fleetwood wanted his guitar skills in the group. Advised in advance that Buckingham and Nicks were a package deal, he asked them both to join.

The duo took a few days to decide. Buckingham was ambivalent, apparently, considering Fleetwood Mac to be a meat grinder that ran through band members. The moonlight confessions of Stevie Nicks. We have too much to lose here. We need to put our problems behind us. Band members John and Christine McVie, who had been married since , also broke up. Why leaving Fleetwood Mac may be a smart move for Lindsey Buckingham.

Nobody was seeing the guy before he was famous. We knew each other before. Nicks had a short-lived affair with Fleetwood in yes, during his second marriage. This is the man who made me go from pounds to almost pounds at five feet two. He stole eight years of my life. Maybe I would have gotten married, maybe I would have had a baby, maybe I would have made three or four more great albums with Fleetwood Mac.

That was the prime of my life, and he stole it. And you know why? Because I went along with what everybody else thought. I understood men pretty well in my twenties.

Lindsey [Buckingham] and I lived together like married people. I had one girlfriend in Los Angeles in those years, so I really had a lot of different types of men in my life that I really got to know and respect.

I made a choice to not get married. After eight years of Klonopin, I was just gonna follow my muse, and if somebody came into my life, they would always end up being second. But in my solo career, I get to be the boss. Having both, for a Gemini like myself, is perfect.

And I knew that in that me having a solo career would only make Fleetwood Mac better. Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie are about to release an album as a duo. It seems like it started as a Fleetwood Mac album, but you chose not to participate. She wanted to keep working. I will be back with them at the end of the year for, I think, another tour.