very night before she a 70th birthday show in Texas for another mates Christine McVie (“Chris and goes onstage, good friend (and former flame), Don I have been the best of girlfriends since has a longstanding ritual. Henley of the Eagles, and now she’s in the day I joined ”), “I make my little mix tapes, New York where she’ll play another John McVie (“I adore him”) and Mick and I play them and I twirl stadium gig with Fleetwood Mac. Fleetwood (“I’m godmother to his Earound and dance my way through “Sometimes I would like a serious daughters”) will go beyond whenever three hours of make-up and getting vacation, you know, like two months in it is that Fleetwood Mac ends. ready,” the rock legend tells Stellar, Hawaii with my dog, because at times But her friendship with former adding that her current playlist you feel like you hit a wall,” she admits. love and musical collaborator Lindsey features Harry Styles, Justin Bieber, “But there is always going to be that Buckingham remains tricky. The pair Ariana Grande and Selena Gomez. knock on the door and I’m always going met while they were both at high school “I like to keep up with what’s current to be called back to one of the two big in California and formed musical duo and, honestly, if I wasn’t touring I would things in my life, which is basically in 1972, before still be listening to music and dancing either Fleetwood Mac or my solo career.” joining Fleetwood Mac three years around my house.” But even after her phenomenal later. Their combustible relationship, When Stellar speaks to the Fleetwood success (between them both she’s sold particularly leading up to the legendary Mac icon it’s close to midnight, but some 140 million records, making her 1977 album Rumours, spurned hits Nicks – a lifelong insomniac – is right one of the bestselling artists of all time), such as ‘Go Your Own Way’, ‘Dreams’ in the middle of her day. Nicks still has a compulsion to work as and ‘Landslide’. “It’s the best part and most zen part hard as ever. She’s also been open in the “Lindsey and I never see each other. of my whole day,” Nicks says, adding past about choosing her art over getting He has a family – a wife and children that she stays up “writing in my journal married and having a family. – and I do not have a husband or – poetry, songs, movie ideas, anything”. “I have a love of music “It’s peaceful because everybody is that goes far beyond what asleep except you. It’s when I feel the I do onstage,” she says. ``it´s always a most creative and also my most calm.” Like the title of one At 69 (she’ll turn 70 next May), Nicks’s of her most famous challenge with frantic itinerary is enough to make any songs, ‘Gypsy’, Nicks got average person want to lie down. a taste of the nomadic In the three weeks before meeting life early on when her feetwood mac´´ with Stellar, she’s pinballed between father would move the family around children. I mean, it’s just a diferent a solo gig in France, a massive Hyde with his work, and decades later the world,” she says. Park show in with her old lifestyle still suits her. “The thing is, I work with Lindsey musician mate Tom Petty, a Los Angeles “I could roll with that. I was able to when we have to work together, but stadium concert with Fleetwood Mac, go into new schools and make new his whole deal is very diferent than friends. My brother, on the other hand, mine. He has to leave at 7pm at night didn’t cope with it so well,” she recalls. to get home and have dinner with his “So the thing is, am I still that gypsy? children, and then he has to get up Well, I was always that gypsy.” early with them. In recent years, her life has been split “Like, are you kidding? I don’t even between her solo tours and Fleetwood get up until 3pm and he wants me at Mac’s massive touring commitments. rehearsal at 2pm? No, our lives are so But returning to Fleetwood Mac, one of diametrically opposed. So that’s kind music’s most dysfunctional families, of where our relationship is.” comes with its own issues. Recently, Nicks has been enjoying “ I w i l l always “Compromise with Fleetwood Mac touring with Chrissie Hynde and The has always been an ongoing challenge Pretenders, and will bring the tour because we seldom agree on anything,” to Australian shores in November. Nicks confirms. The two icons, surprisingly, had never “Everybody has a big, huge opinion even met before making the decision be that gypsy” and you make your choice – is it worth to tour together. fighting about? Is it worth throwing “The first time I met Chrissie, I was Between Fleetwood Mac and her solo career, Stevie Nicks is one of the the next two days of rehearsals away playing a show at this big arena, and because everybody is pissed of? Or is my hair was in rollers and I was bestselling artists of all time. And in the lead-up to a new Australian it worth fighting for something you wearing these big black glasses, being tour – and her 70th birthday – she is showing no signs of slowing down believe in? It’s like being a politician in driven around on a golf cart. And she a lot of ways; you have to choose your saw me and started laughing, and Words by TIFFANY BAKKER battles, and sometimes you have to let I said, ‘I know, I look ridiculous – I am things go even when you don’t want to.” ridiculous,’ and she said, ‘No, you These days, the singer says her look like Elizabeth Taylor. I’m touring relationships with her famous band with Elizabeth Taylor.’”

18 stellar 19 And Nicks, who has been a frequent “The fact that my friend, who was so and in their position. The only thing there’s a Fleetwood Mac and a Led visitor to , can’t wait to return. anti-drugs, is not here is so disturbing you can say is that Lindsey and I really Zeppelin out there somewhere. “I always have a really good time [in to me. I miss him.” believed that we were very good and Whether or not they’ll ever be able to Australia] because it’s a very special When it comes to herself, Nicks is that we were really, really special. rise to the top is the question, because place and I have really great friends not one for reflection and finds the idea We just believed in ourselves and we the industry slaps them down, but my there, and it’s very diferent from the of being referred to as an icon almost believed that what we had to ofer the advice would be to any musician is just ,” she says. absurd. “It’s really nice to know and world was really spectacular. It sounds don’t give up. Believe in yourself.” “It’s a friendlier place and it reminds people tell me that, and I feel a great conceited but it wasn’t. We just weren’t With that, she gets set to go back to me of how the US used to be. And with amount of pride, but at the same time going to give up.” her evening, but sleep is still a while of. everything that’s going on in the that person – basically the person I am She also has concerns with the lack “I have this thing, like between 3am and political landscape right now, it’ll be onstage except in much better clothes of control musicians today nice to go to Australia and get out of and much better hair and with heels on have over their own work. here for a while.” – is really the same person I am sitting “I love a lot of current ``I´m pretty much She has also been enjoying the tour here right now,” she says. music, but a lot of these because it’s given her the luxury of “I’m pretty much the same person artists are being told what the same person performing some rare solo songs and that I’ve always been. I’m nice part of to do by producers and some newer material she’s either the time and irritated part of the time; the record companies. You never or rarely performed. that’s really who I am, and I’ve never know, their songs are all I´ve always been´´ “I’ve had to wait until I’m in my changed since I joined Fleetwood Mac.” starting to sound very much the same 5am, when it starts to get light and it’s sixties to play some of these songs,” When Nicks surveys the music to me, and that bothers me because really beautiful, and I just sit there and she says with a laugh. industry landscape today, she reckons I think, ‘I really like that song, but I drink tea and I read Vogue and I just “And I’m so pleased because it’s that it’s become difcult for emerging artists. the production sounds just like the look out and think, ‘Why would I want to that makes me want to continue to “You have one big song and you production on the song before it and be asleep right now? Why would I want tour. If I have to go out there and do better follow it up, because they will that’s kind of a turn-of.’” to miss out on all of this beauty?’” the same songs every single time I go just find somebody who is younger She remains optimistic, though. Stevie Nicks’s 24 Karat Gold Tour with on the road, it gets boring and it’s not and cuter than you are.” “I love Harry Styles; he’s so cute special guests comes to very creative after a while.” “It’s a battle,” she continues. “And and charming and I think he can do Australia in November. Tickets go on sale

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