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24/11/2024

- MICK FLEETWOOD – Tracy Smith joins Fleetwood Mac's Mick Fleetwood in Hawaii, where he lost his restaurant in the Maui wildfire, to talk about his love for the region and what he'd like to see in the future.Tune in to CBS Sunday Morning November 24, 2024 9:00am-10:30am ET https://bit.ly/4g19uFx Check Out Fleetwood Mad - The UK's Premium Tribute Band To Fleetwood Mac https://www.fleetwoodmad.co.uk/

23/11/2024

- The Grand Piano Fleetwood Mac Used to Write ‘Sara,' ‘Songbird' Headed to AuctionThe instrument traveled all across the globe with Fleetwood Mac and was also used by Elton John and Freddie MercuryBy Andy GreeneRollingstoneA Grand Hamilton Piano once owned by Stevie Nicks, which was used to compose the Fleetwood Mac classics “Sara” and “Songbird” and was later played by Elton John and Freddie Mercury, is headed to the auction block via Gotta Have Rock and Roll. The minimum bid is $50,000, and the auction house estimates it will go for between $100,000 and $200,000. The auction ends on December 6.The piano first caught the eye of English singer/songwriter Robbie Patton when he visited Nicks at her house in 1975. “[She had] his black Grand Hamilton Piano where she wrote most of her songs on,” Patton says in a statement provided by the auction house. “She wrote everything on the piano, she really cherished it as her own.”Patton opened up for Fleetwood Mac when they went on the road in 1979 to promote Tusk. “Christine used it on tour,” Patton said. “She played it all over, she even composed ‘Songbird' from the album Rumours on this piano.”McVie used the piano on the road again in 1982 when Fleetwood Mac toured behind Mirage. Patton co-wrote the hit “Hold Me” on that album and requested the piano as payment. “I used to work for all the big musicians, Elton John, for four and a half years,” Patton said. “John Reid managed Elton John and then Queen. Freddie Mercury even came by for a recording session and used the piano. Elton John used the piano. The people who have touched this piano are crazy!”The piano comes with a letter of authenticity that was signed by Nicks, McVie, and Patton in 2015. “It has been refurbished and re-lacquered, at the request of Mr. Patton,” Nicks wrote. “And in time, he intends to pass on this interment, which this letter, so that its history can be fully appreciated.”Gotta Have Rock and Roll is also auctioning off a Custom Stratocaster signed and played by Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, David Gilmour, Bruce Springsteen, Pete Townshend, Slash, Brian May, Tony Iommi, Slash, Mike Rutherford, Joe Walsh, and many others. The estimate is between $80,000 and $100,000. https://bit.ly/3AW3C1y Check Out Fleetwood Mad - The UK's Premium Tribute Band To Fleetwood Mac https://www.fleetwoodmad.co.uk/

20/11/2024

- Fleetwood Mac is set to receive its first fully authorized documentary, directed by acclaimed filmmaker Frank Marshall for Apple Original Films.The untitled feature will include new interviews with surviving core members Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, and John McVie, along with never-before-seen footage and both new and archival interviews with the late Christine McVie, who passed away in 2022. A release date has yet to be announced.Directed by Frank Marshall, a five-time Oscar nominee and recipient of the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, the project marks the first fully authorized documentary with participation from all surviving band members. Fleetwood Mac—comprising Mick Fleetwood, Christine McVie, John McVie, Stevie Nicks, and Lindsey Buckingham—is celebrated for iconic albums like Rumours and Tusk, as well as hits like “Rhiannon” and “Landslide.” Their turbulent relationships, often reflected in their music, added to their legendary status.“I am fascinated by how this incredible story of enormous musical achievement came about. Fleetwood Mac somehow managed to merge their often chaotic and almost operatic personal lives into their own tale in real time, which then became legend. This will be a film about the music and the people who created it,” said director Marshall in an official statement.Added producer Nicholas Ferrall, “Fleetwood Mac are a musical phenomenon, their alchemy almost beyond comprehension. White Horse is grateful and humbled by the extraordinary opportunity to produce a documentary that dives deep into both the talents of each band member individually and the magic that is Fleetwood Mac as a whole.”Per today's announcement, the film will follow “their fortuitous meeting in 1974” and see Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Christine McVie, Lindsey Buckingham, and Stevie Nicks “reflect on their uncompromising fifty-plus-year history, from their record-breaking recordings and tours — including never-before-seen footage, exclusive new interviews, and archival interviews of the late Christine McVie — through to today. The film will explore how the band's trials and tribulations, personal resilience, and musical dexterity combined to create songs that have not only stood the test of time but are indeed timeless masterpieces.”Marshall's film promises to “take fans through the highs and lows of their brilliant career, illuminating the exceptional ingredients each member brought to the band's uncommon alchemy — a musical union that sold more than 220 million records around the world. The documentary will explore what allowed this combination of artists to create singular musical work again and again, and what drew them back together and held them there when every possible pressure, both outside and inside the band, threatened to blow them apart.”Director Frank Marshall produces through The Kennedy/Marshall Company with White Horse Pictures' Nicholas Ferrall (“The Beatles: Eight Days A Week,” “Stax: Soulsville, U.S.A.”) and Jeanne Elfant Festa (“The Apollo,” “Lucy and Desi”), and Kennedy/Marshall's Aly Parker (“The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend A Broken Heart,” “The Space Race”). White Horse's Cassidy Hartmann executive produces with Kennedy/Marshall's Tony Rosenthal. Diamond Doc's Mark Monroe serves as writer and executive producer. https://bit.ly/3OCspet Check Out Fleetwood Mad - The UK's Premium Tribute Band To Fleetwood Mac https://www.fleetwoodmad.co.uk/

19/11/2024

- Stevie Nicks Praises 'Lovely' Michael J. Fox amid His Parkinson's Journey: 'He Just Keeps Going'The music icon performed at the Michael J. Fox Foundation's yearly gala on Saturday, Nov. 16By Brenton Blanchet and Marisa SullivanPeopleStevie Nicks is supporting an important cause and giving props to the "lovely" Michael J. Fox.On Saturday, Nov. 16, the 76-year-old Fleetwood Mac musician stepped out in New York City for The Michael J. Fox Foundation's yearly A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Cure Parkinson's gala, where she performed a few songs and raved about Fox — all while helping to celebrate his foundation's ongoing dedication to Parkinson's aid with research."He is here tonight. And he just keeps going," Nicks told PEOPLE of Fox, 63, who was diagnosed with Parkinson's in 1991 and went public with his diagnosis in 1998. "He got this pretty early. A long time ago. He's had an amazing career, and he is the face of this. And when they asked me if I wanted to do this, I said of course I want to do it, you know?""He's such a lovely guy. He could have just given up on all this kind of thing a long time ago and he didn't," she added of his efforts, as Fox developed the MJFF in 2001. "And that's so magical."Nicks, who added that Fox is "an amazing guitar player," also posed for some photos on the Cipriani South Street carpet with Fox, his wife Tracy Pollan and fellow musician Maggie Rogers. During the event, the Back to the Future star wore a navy suit and brown paisley-print dress shirt, while Nicks opted for a stylish all-black look.The gala, which salutes the MJFF's efforts throughout the year alongside patients, families, scientists and donors, was hosted by Denis Leary and featured some music from Nicks and Fox himself, who shared the stage alongside Rogers, 30.Speaking with PEOPLE, Fox opened up at the event about maintaining his sense of humor, and how he works to ensure that it always shines through. As he explained, maintaining a darker sense of humor is actually “hard for me," adding, “I gotta keep it intact.” He also called his foundation's latest event “so exciting."“I can't believe — a lot of these people I've known for years and years — they're so kind to me,” he said. “I think because they see an opportunity for a win, for a big advancement, and that's what we're working toward.”The annual gala has raised $116 million toward Parkinson's disease research so far, with the foundation raising $2 billion total since its inception. Fox previously explained to CBS Mornings during a 2023 interview that his efforts seek to give a voice to the voiceless."They didn't have money, they didn't have a voice, and I thought, I could step in for these people and raise some hell," Fox said on the morning show. "It's not a cure. But it's a big spotlight on where we need to go, and what we need to focus on so we know we're on the right path, and we're very proud."The MJFF's latest gala in N.Y.C. comes just months after their Nashville-based A Country Thing Happened on the Way to Cure Parkinson's event in April, which featured appearances from Sheryl Crow, Little Big Town and Jason Isbell. https://bit.ly/4exQxtb Check Out Fleetwood Mad - The UK's Premium Tribute Band To Fleetwood Mac https://www.fleetwoodmad.co.uk/

15/11/2024

- Christine McVie: ‘The affairs dented my self-respect. There was something seedy about them'Extracted from Songbird: An Intimate Biography of Christine McVie by Lesley-Ann Jones, published by Bonnier Books - AMAZONLesley-Ann JonesOne of the great misconceptions about Fleetwood Mac is how Rumours came about. The band's 11th album was designed, you often hear, to chronicle the breakdowns between three couples: Mick Fleetwood and his wife Jenny Boyd, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham, and John and Christine McVie. As such, it's often referred to as a “journey album”, even a “concept album”. There was no pre-planned structure. Drugs, booze, illicit s*x and affairs simply took their toll, and as their relationships fell apart, Christine, Stevie and Lindsey all separately brought to the table cathartic pieces that laid bare their own pain, anger, despair – and a little hope.As they began recording Rumours at the Record Plant Studios in Sausalito, California in February 1976, the band's producer Ken Caillat soon got the measure of those five distinct personalities. Mick, for instance, was the leader, and a control freak: he would go all night if he could, and sod the home life. Stevie was “the new girl”, she and boyfriend Lindsey having joined the band only in January 1975, who was infuriatingly precious about “her words”. Woe betide anyone who suggested an alteration.But of all the dynamics within the band, the McVies' was the most fascinating. Singer and keyboard player Christine was the reluctant member, having quit her own fledgling music career to marry their bassist John, intending to become a housewife and, hopefully, a mother. Drifting into the line-up because she happened to be around when they needed backing vocals here, a bit of piano there, she quickly became an essential component, contributing not only cohesive keyboard-playing and blues-inspired songwriting but her aching and irresistible voice.It was obvious to anyone who was paying attention that John, Mick's trusty collaborator, “loved” her – but he also had the most dangerous mistress: the bottle. Christine knew that John was a drinker when she married him. ‘He drank to cope,' she said, ‘with who he was and who he wasn't.' Divorce in the late sixties was a dirty word, but they lasted only eight years. Having called time on their impossible marriage, Christine appeared resigned. She was, nonetheless, able to rise above her feelings: she was still willing to work with John, provided he controlled himself and behaved like a mature adult. He could do this when he was sober, but he lamented their distance when in his cups. He must have known as well as Christine did that they were beyond reconciliation.He may also have been wracked by jealousy. For Christine was now, in 1976, having an affair with a Fleetwood Mac hand: their suave lighting director, Curry Grant. Their relationship provided light, no-strings relief from the shame and heartache of her ruined marriage. Although the couple lived together for about a year at her West Hollywood home, she regarded their set-up as a convenience and reflected its status in her song You Make Loving Fun.Christine's affair with Curry was not her first. She had, three years previously “got tangled up… as my mother would say” with Martin Birch, the band's married sound engineer. At 25, he was five years her junior. John was aware, and played tit for tat, with a string of groupies. He drank even more. The atmosphere during recording sessions for their 1973 album Mystery to Me became unbearable.Although Birch, a loyal servant, had engineered five albums for the band, Mick and John fired him. (Grant was also fired, but only for a few months, to teach him a lesson – he was indispensable.).Christine could have walked away – she was only 30 years old, talented and in her prime. She might have divorced John, cut her losses and resumed her solo career. Chicken Shack, the second-division pre-Fleetwood Mac blues outfit with whom she famously scored a hit with the Etta James cover “I'd Rather Go Blind”, would have had her back in a beat. But Christine knew the magical harmonies that she, Stevie and Lindsey conjured together were too precious to throw away.Christine's hesitation to walk away from such a destructive situation, she explained to me in the 90s, had been to do with a fear of “losing everything”: “I wasn't brave enough, frankly. There was still the stigma of being divorced in those days. My pop [her father] would have been very, very disappointed in me. I didn't dare do that to him. In some ways, thank God my mother wasn't still alive to know about it.“Martin was never going to leave his wife. I loved him, but I didn't want to be a mistress – horrible word – forever. It wasn't as if I could leave John and go straight into a new set-up with Mart. That was never an option – he made that clear. Neither of us had money, it was still only wages. And I was, you know, John's missus, not a person i...

09/11/2024

- JASON KELCE + STEVIE NICKS “Maybe This Christmas”A Philly Special Christmas“Maybe forgiveness will ask us to call, someone we love, someone we've lost for reasons we can't quite recall, maybe this Christmas,”Listen on Apple, or wherever you stream music https://bit.ly/3UKxS62 Check Out Fleetwood Mad - The UK's Premium Tribute Band To Fleetwood Mac https://www.fleetwoodmad.co.uk/

01/11/2024

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30/10/2024

- Mika Brzezinski on Morning Joe (MSNBC) sat down with Stevie Nicks on Monday October 28th and interviewed her about her new song "The Lighthouse". Sheryl Crow joined as well. The interview airs Wednesday, October 30th. Morning Joe starts at 6am ET and it's a 3 hour morning show. Not sure what hour Stevie will be in. Tune in if you can. https://bit.ly/3C4UwzH Check Out Fleetwood Mad - The UK's Premium Tribute Band To Fleetwood Mac https://www.fleetwoodmad.co.uk/

28/10/2024

- Stevie Nicks on "The Lighthouse," her rallying cry for women's rightsCBS Sunday MorningOctober 27, 2024Watched the full segment at this linkOn a trip to New York City earlier this month to appear on "Saturday Night Live" for the first time since 1983, Stevie Nicks said she was scared to death. She said her first reaction when she got the call to appear on "SNL" was, "Absolutely not. Because I was terrified to do it, 'cause it goes out live!"But she did appear on "SNL," and her performance of "The Lighthouse" brought down the house.She says the inspiration for her latest song, a rallying cry for women's rights, struck a few months after Roe v. Wade was overturned, and it took her less than a day to write the song and record it.Smith asked, "It takes some courage to step into the waters of the abortion debate. Why take the risk?""Because everybody kept saying, 'Well, somebody has to do something. Somebody has to say something,'" replied Nicks. "And I'm like, 'Well, I have a platform. I tell a good story. So maybe I should try to do something.' I was also there. I was, been there, done that."In the late '70s, Nicks was on top of the world with the legendary band Fleetwood Mac. She'd broken up with her longtime partner and Fleetwood Mac bandmate Lindsey Buckingham, and she was romantically involved with Don Henley of The Eagles when she found out she was pregnant, and decided that, as a touring musician, being a mother was not in the cards. In 1979 she terminated the pregnancy. "In my younger life, I'd already decided I didn't want to have somebody have their feelings hurt all the time, and like, 'When are you comin' back?' 'Well, I don't know. I'll be back when I get back,' you know?" Nicks said. "And not even having any idea how big that Fleetwood Mac was going to get in the future, you know? And this is, like, super personal and weird, so you know ... you can edit this out if necessary.""I appreciate your sharing this story though," said Smith."Well, and it's a good story, too. I tell a good story!" Nicks said. "I got pregnant. And it was like, Why? I have an IUD. I am totally protected. I have a great gynecologist. How come this has happened? What the heck?""So you took all the precautions?""Yes. And I'm like, This can't be happening. Fleetwood Mac is three years in. And it's big. And we're going into our third album. It was like, Oh no, no, no, no, no, no."Nicks said it would have "destroyed" Fleetwood Mac if she had had the baby: "Absolutely, because many reasons. I would've, like, tried my best to get through, you know, being in the studio every single day expecting a child. But mostly, having a child with Don Henley would not have gone over big in Fleetwood Mac, with Lindsey and me – we had been broken up for two or three years. It would've been a nightmare scenario for me to live through."Fleetwood Mac was a collection of stars, but Stevie Nicks was front-and-center. She was the one who wrote the band's only #1 single in the U.S., "Dreams," a song that is still a hit today on streaming. But if "Dreams" is about heartache and vulnerability, Nicks' new song is just the opposite: it's about fighting for the same reproductive rights that she had.Smith asked, "There are people who criticize your choice, condemn your choice. Anything you want to say to them?""I'd like to know, so are you just the few guys who are making the decisions for us?" Nicks replied.She said the choice, ultimately, "was mine. And you know what? If people want to be mad at me, be mad at me. I don't care. Had I made the other choice, had I gone the other way, I'd have been a great mom. I went this way, and I've done great."Nicks would go on to new heights as a solo artist, becoming the first woman to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, twice. Of course Nicks has had her share of heartache as well. The woman she called her musical soulmate, Christine McVie, died in 2022, and Nicks was shattered."I wanted to go and step in, sit on her bed, and hold her hand, and sing 'Touched By An Angel' to her until I was sure she heard it," she said. "And I didn't get to. And I didn't get to say goodbye to her."Nicks now ends her shows with a moving tribute to her best friend. She sings, but can't bring herself to watch. "We have a really beautiful montage of her and me. I never turn around and look. I can't, 'cause I'll start to sob. And if I start to sob, then I won't be able to finish the song. So, I just don't look at it."Nicks says that, although McVie is gone, she feels her presence with her all the time. She wears a necklace containing some of McVie's ashes. "A little bit of her," Nicks said. "But as important as that is, she's in my heart," she said.Nicks says she really doesn't care whether her new song, "The Lighthouse," is a hit or not; she just wants people to listen. "Poets write what they write, and poets should not be censored. Writers should not be censored. This song should not be censored. It should...

25/10/2024

- The Rolling Stone InterviewStevie Nicks: ‘I Believe in the Church of Stevie'In a nearly four-hour interview, the legendary singer goes deep on longevity, Kamala Harris, why Fleetwood Mac are finished, and much moreBy Angie MartoccioRollingstoneEvery second feels like an ­eternity when you're hovering four inches from Stevie Nicks, noodling around with her blouse. This is Stevie Nicks, the first woman to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame twice — as a member of Fleetwood Mac and as a solo artist. Stevie Nicks, whose legendary shawl collection resides in its own temperature-controlled vault. Stevie Nicks, who, at 76, has become an obsession of younger generations, from her American Horror Story appearance to the original poem she wrote for Taylor Swift's Tortured Poets Department to a recent viral TikTok video, where she intensely stares down her ex-boyfriend and bandmate Lindsey Buckingham during a 1997 performance of “Silver Springs.” (Yes, Nicks has seen it.) This is also Stevie Nicks, who's somehow gotten a long, spiraled, gold ring she's wearing stuck in the mesh fabric of her blouse, requiring the up-close-and-personal assistance of an interviewer she met only minutes ago.She is surprisingly nonchalant as I lean over her, delicately unwinding the thread from each loop of the ring. “It happened [recently] onstage,” she says of the ring tangling. “It was stuck on my ‘Gold Dust Woman' cape, and the most handsome guy on our entire tour ran out and was down on one knee trying to undo it. I felt like a princess in a Cinderella movie.” She laughs. I loosen up. Miraculously, I free the material from the ring without a single tear. “Thank you, honey,” she says sweetly. Nicks has been in Philadelphia for the past three days, wrapping up a massive tour and recording a Christmas song with former NFL star Jason Kelce. Tonight, she's in her signature all-black attire, save for hot-pink hair ties that hold her blond, elegant French braid. Her tiny Chinese crested dog, Lily, saunters in and out of the room, occasionally sitting on her lap and staring at the massive charcuterie plate in front of us. The spread will go untouched over the next three and a half hours while Nicks takes me on a wild ride through her life — and, at one point, into the bedroom to meet her Stevie Nicks Barbies. There's the prototype, dressed in her beloved “Rhiannon” black dress, and the official Stevie Barbie, released last fall. Nicks didn't love Barbies as a child, but there's something special about this doll. “I never in a million years thought this little thing would have such an effect on me,” she says, holding the miniature Gold Dust Woman. Nicks is as prolific and driven as ever. She's also unmoored from her famous band. After a successful tour with the classic Fleetwood Mac lineup in 2014 and 2015, Buckingham ran into conflict with his bandmates — and with Nicks in particular — leading to him being fired from the group in 2018. The 2022 death of Christine McVie, whom Nicks calls “my musical soulmate,” truly seems to have ended the band; Nicks says she's done with Fleetwood Mac for good. Instead, she launched a two-year-long solo tour, which just wrapped a couple of evenings before we talk at the 30,000-seat Hersheypark Stadium.She'll perform to millions shortly after our conversation, when she appears as the musical guest on Saturday Night Live for the first time in more than 40 years. When she steps onto the stage at Studio 8H, she'll play her women's-rights anthem “The Lighthouse,” which Nicks wrote following the demise of Roe v. Wade. Featuring Sheryl Crow on guitar, it's a cathartic rocker in which Nicks compares herself to a lighthouse, guiding women and encouraging them to stand up for their power. “You know what I always think of when I say SNL?” she asks me. “Stevie Nicks Live.” Where do you prefer that I sit?You're good right there, as long as you don't think you have Covid. No, I don't. Well, thank goodness we're done [touring] for a while, so I can go home and not have a mask on all the time. As a singer with asthma, I fu***ng hate the masks, but I wear them. People give you dirty looks. I dare anybody to give me a dirty look. I would just say, “Hey, you know what? I'm Stevie Nicks. And if I get sick, my entire thing goes down. Forty families are out of work. So that's why I have a mask on, asshole.”I can't get [Covid] again. I mean, I'm old, so I'll only be around for another 15 years. But you guys have another 30 or 40 years, so you should think about it.Fifteen years sounds pretty exact. I'll probably live to be hatefully 95 years old. I have no want to be that old, honestly. I mean, I'll have an electric scooter, and I will be raging and I will keep dancing. But I'm not looking forward to that, really — I think that's too old. My mom died at 84, and my dad died at about 80, but I'm a younger person at 76 than they were at 76. So I figured 88, 89.Are you afraid of death?I'm not afraid ...

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