'Even children get older, And I'm getting older too...' Happy 75th birthday, Stevie Nicks!
Stevie Nicks is a global music icon due to her being a member of Fleetwood Mac.
Alongside on/off boyfriend Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie and Christine McVie they became the biggest band in the world following the release of 1977 album 'Rumours'.
Despite being a rock goddess, there is much more to Stevie Nicks, who turns 75 on May 26.
Like did you know that she counted Prince as a fan and loves Taylor Swift? Read on to find out more...
Happy birthday, Stevie!
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Stevie Nicks is a global music icon due to her being a member of Fleetwood Mac. Alongside on/off boyfriend Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie and Christine McVie they became the biggest band in the world following the release of 1977 album 'Rumours'. Despite being a rock goddess, there is much more to Stevie Nicks, who turns 75 on May 26. Like did you know that she counted Prince as a fan and loves Taylor Swift? Read on to find out more...
She is a Swifitie
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The ‘Edge of Seventeen’ singer recently thanked Taylor Swift for penning ‘You’re on Your Own, Kid’. The track features on Taylor's 10th studio LP 'Midnights, and Stevie admitted the song perfectly encapsulated her feelings since losing her bandmate Christine McVie, who died aged 79 in 2022. Steve - who performed with Taylor at the 2010 Grammys - told fans at a gig: "That is the sadness of how I feel. As long as Chris was even on the other side of the world ... we didn't have to talk on the phone. “We’d go back to Fleetwood Mac, we’d walk in and be like, ‘Hello sister, how are you.’ "There was no... never a minute had passed. Never an argument in our entire 47 years, never.”
She was thought to be a white witch
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Stevie was dogged by allegations that she was involved in the occult after penning the 1975 song ‘Rhiannon’, which was about a woman possessed by a spirit Stevie's penchant for floaty dresses on stage added to the rumours. Decades later, Stevie addressed it in 1997, saying: "I have no idea what precipitated those rumours… I am not a witch. Get a life!”
She regrets her marriage
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Stevie labelled her decision to wed Kim Anderson a “terrible, terrible mistake” Kim was the widower of her late friend Robin Anderson who died in 1983 after battling leukaemia. The songwriter says her decision to wed Kim was inspired by their loss and her desire to look after his baby son. In 2012, she said: "And so we got married three months after she died, and it was a terrible, terrible mistake. We didn't get married because we were in love, we got married because we were grieving and it was the only way that we could feel like we were doing anything."
She is an ordained minister
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Stevie earned the authority to officiate weddings via the Universal Life Church and used this power to marry Vanessa Carlton and John McCauley in 2013. Vanessa - who has since split from the Deer Tick frontman - wrote on her Instagram page at the time: “Thanks Stevie for marrying us!” The ‘A Thousand Miles’ hitmaker has spoken about how Stevie has helped her reframe performing her most-well known hit. The 42-year-old singer said in 2021: "Stevie Nicks, I have the great honor of calling her a very dear friend of mine - she's really my mentor - and she said to me, this was years ago, she said, 'Vanessa, do you think there is any show that I play that I'm not playing 'Landslide'?"
Why does she play the tambourine on stage?
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Stevie's on-stage tambourine is one of her trademarks. But the 'Go Your Own Way' singer only began playing the percussion instrument so she would have something to do on stage with Fleetwood Mac when she wasn't singing. Stevie even let former US President Bill Clinton play her tambourine when Fleetwood Mac played at his 1993 inauguration. Remembering the moment, she said: "I started to move toward him and he got this terrified look on his face. I just handed him my tambourine and said, ‘Go to it, Mr. President.’ And he did — he rocked out.”
She almost went blind
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The ‘Silver Springs’ songstress was a hedonistic party girl. But her penchant for partying almost cost Stevie her sight as she forget to take her contact lenses out for two days whilst having a good time. Recalling her hard partying days with the band, she said: “All of us were addicts, but there was a point where I was the worst addict. I was a girl, I was fragile, and I was doing a lot of coke. And I had that hole in my nose. So it was dangerous.”
Her songs inspired Prince
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Stevie inspired late pop icon Prince to write his 1984 hit ‘When Doves Cry’. Stevie had released her solo single 'Edge of Seventeen' in 1982 and when Prince heard it he wrote 'When Doves Cry' shortly afterwards. She said: “He was inspired by ‘Edge of Seventeen’ to write ‘When Doves Cry’. That’s really when he and I started to sort of be friends. From that moment onward at the very end of ‘Edge of Seventeen’ I go, ‘I know what it sounds like, I know what it sounds like, I know what it sounds like when doves cry. It sounds like you.’”
Will she ever write a book?
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Stevie would only write a tell-all autobiography if she could divulge “the truth” about her long and storied career and life, which has included romances with her Fleetwood Mac bandmates Lindsey Buckingham and Mick Fleetwood, and Eagles star Don Henley. Stevie said: "I wouldn't write a book unless I could really tell the truth, and say all the people are in it are represented right ... If I'm gonna talk about all the people in my life, I need to be old enough and so do they, that nobody's gonna care ... I would never write a book about the bad parts. I would mostly revel in the fantastic parts, of which there were so many."
She supports America's troops
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Stevie loves to visit the brave troops and she used to gift them what she called a "soldier's iPod”, an autographed MP3 player complete with music that she has loved for her entire life. Speaking in 2011, she said: "I call it a soldiers' iPod. It has all the crazy stuff that I listen to, and my collections I've been making since the 1970s for going on the road, when I'm sick ... or the couple of times in my life that I have really been down, music is what always dances me out of bed."
She's never wanted kids
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Stevie has been open about the fact that she has never wanted to become a mother. In 2001, she said: "My mission maybe wasn't to be a mom and a wife; maybe my particular mission was to write songs to make moms and wives feel better." In 2006, Stevie insisted it was way better to be “the crazy auntie” anyway. She said: "I have lots of kids. It's much more fun to be the crazy auntie than it is to be the mom, anyway.”
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