If all Stevie Nicks ever did was be in Fleetwood Mac, that will have been loads to make her one of the crucial influential ladies in rock ‘n’ roll. However as we all know, she hardly stopped there.
Nicks has eight solo albums to her identify, together with her debut album, 1981’s Bella Donna, reaching No. 1 on the Billboard 200. In complete, six of these eight albums reached the Prime 10 within the U.S. and in 2019, she grew to become the very first girl to have been inducted into the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame twice, as soon as for her work with Fleetwood Mac and once more for her solo profession. Music, in different phrases, is the factor that retains Nicks going.
“We need to have our severe facet and all that, however you possibly can’t take your self too severely,” she informed The New Yorker in 2022. “While you maintain music in your life, I believe it simply adjustments you and pulls you out of a deep gap. Every time I am depressed, I simply put music on. The second I stroll into my dressing room, I plug my iPod into my old school stereo and I simply crank the music.”
In between Fleetwood Mac albums, solo releases and an entire lot of reside performing, Nicks has additionally lent her skills to albums by different individuals — Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, for instance. However typically it was not the kind you’d anticipate. Under, we have rounded up 5 such examples that you simply may not learn about…
1. Warren Zevon, Warren Zevon (1976)
Warren Zevon launched his second solo album in 1976, a self-titled launch produced by Jackson Browne. And should you pay shut consideration to the backing vocals on “Mohammed’s Radio” and “Be a part of Me in L.A.,” you will discover a well-known voice: Nicks’. Lindsey Buckingham additionally contributed to the album, however the craziest half is that, for some time, Nicks, Buckingham and Zevon all roomed collectively in Los Angeles. Discuss a home filled with expertise.
2. Nightwatch, Kenny Loggins (1978)
Within the late ’70s, Kenny Loggins did a duet with Nicks, titled “Every time I Name You ‘Pal.'”
“I did not understand on the time how tough it was to go from a profitable duo into being a profitable soloist, and I credit score Stevie Nicks lots with my breakthrough,” Loggins mentioned within the 2024 HBO movie Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary (through Folks), “as a result of it was the duet with Stevie that finally made an enormous distinction in launching my solo profession, ‘trigger she was so beloved on the time.”
He continued: “She mentioned to me someday, in all probability we had been drunk, she mentioned, ‘In the event you want a chick singer, give me a name.’ So I mentioned, ‘OK, I obtained that going for me.'”
The track appeared on Loggins’ 1978 album Nightwatch and went to No. 5 on the Billboard Sizzling 100.
3. King of the Blues, B.B. King (1988)
The one factor higher than having one member of Fleetwood Mac in your album is clearly having two. B.B. King did precisely that with a track referred to as “Cannot Get Sufficient,” which featured each Nicks and Mick Fleetwood. This appeared on a 1988 album referred to as King of the Blues:1989, which was Grammy-nominated for Finest Up to date Blues Recording.
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4. Robin Zander, Robin Zander (1993)
When Robin Zander of Low cost Trick launched his debut solo album in 1993, it got here with an unimaginable array of visitor musicians, together with however not restricted to Don Felder of the Eagles, Mike Campbell of Tom Petty’s Heartbreakers, Dave Stewart of Eurythmics and, sure, Nicks. She contributed backing vocals to a track referred to as “Secret.”
5. C’mon, C’mon, Sheryl Crow (2002)
“Since I used to be seven or eight — listening to my sister’s data, listening to my mother and father play music — I dreamt about being Stevie Nicks,” Sheryl Crow informed Rolling Stone in 2020. That was the yr after she and Nicks collaborated on what Crow was then calling her final album, Threads. (Crow has since made one other album, 2024’s Evolution.) Nearly 20 years previous to that although, Nicks appeared on Crow’s 2002 album C’mon, C’mon, singing backing vocals on the title observe and “Diamond Highway.”
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