Stevie Nicks first solo album Bella Donna was released in King, and Taylor Swift. Stevie Nicks is one of those rare artists that has celebrated chart success while maintaining and incredible display of integrity and originality.
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Read our list of Fleetwood Mac's 50 greatest songs, stretching from their Sixties origins up through their reunion. Huge amounts of illicit materials, yards and yards of this wretched stuff. Days and nights would just go on and on. They began as a vehicle for the blues visions of tragic genius Peter Green, continued through fascinating, often overlooked, transitional records during the early Seventies with Jeremy Spencer, Danny Kirwan and Bob Welch, and hit an astonishing peak when songbird Christine McVie, mad drummer Mick Fleetwood and ultra-reliable bassman John McVie hooked up with the Southern California songwriting team of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks. Nicks later speculated that it was chosen to assuage her because it was one of her own compositions, written before she joined the group.
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Stephanie Lynn Nicks born May 26, [1] is an American singer and songwriter. Nicks is a songwriter and vocalist with Fleetwood Mac , and also performs solo. She is known for her distinctive voice, mystical stage persona and poetic, symbolic lyrics. Nicks joined Fleetwood Mac in along with her then-boyfriend, Lindsey Buckingham. Rumours , Fleetwood Mac's second album after the incorporation of Nicks and Buckingham, was the best-selling album of the year of its release and to date has sold over 40 million copies worldwide, making it the fifth biggest-selling studio album of all time. The album remained at number one on the American albums chart for 31 weeks and reached number one in other countries. The album won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in In , while remaining a member of Fleetwood Mac, Nicks began her solo career, releasing the studio album Bella Donna , which topped the Billboard and has reached multiplatinum status. Nicks is of German, English, and Irish ancestry. Nicks's grandfather, Aaron Jess "A.
There are few superlatives to sum up the mercurial talent of Stevie Nicks. As one of the most prominent songwriters of her generation, she remains the only female double Rock and Roll Hall of Famer in history. The list of amazing Stevie Nicks-helmed songs could go on for a very long time. Nicks has always possesed the unique ability to not only write and record songs that are smart, impassioned and honest but also entirely ubiquitous and attainable. Nicks has perfected the ability to share herself and connect with her fans.
