Wednesday, June 30, 2010

THE DAUGHTER OF STING, COCO SUMNER COVERS FLEETWOOD MAC'S "THE CHAIN"

The teenage daughter of rock legend STING dropped by The Sun in the UK for a Biz Session, playing new single "Self Machine" and a cover of FLEETWOOD MAC's "The Chain"
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But the singer - who performs under the name I BLAME COCO - admits she might need to toughen up to compete in the strong female-heavy UK music market.

After showing off her stunning set of pipes in the three-song acoustic set, Coco, who wore a feather in her hair, told me: "The female music world is very strong at the moment.

Watch Coco perform "The Chain" by clicking the photo below, it will take you to The Sun website for the video player and you can watch the rest of her session...  She's got a bit of her Dad in her voice.



Dave Stewart working on Stevie Nicks album together with Mick Fleetwood

Dave Stewart working on Stevie Nicks album together with Mick Fleetwood | Eurythmics at ethrill.net :: Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart: "Dave Stewart told ethrill.net today that he is not only working in the studio together with Mike Campbell (Tom Petty’s Heartbreakers) on the next Stevie Nicks album, but also with the help of Mick Fleetwood!"

Sunday, June 27, 2010

FLEETWOOD MAC & STEVIE NICKS CHART UP-DATE: AUSTRALIA'S ALBUM & DVD CHARTS

AUSTRALIA'S TOP 50 CATALOGUE CHART: WEEK OF June 28, 2010
Week 8 on Australia's Top 50 Catalogue Chart for the week June 28, 2010 - puts Stevie's 2007 "Crystal Visions The Very Best Of Stevie Nicks" at #15.  And increase of 3 places from #18 last week.

 

AUSTRALIA'S TOP 40 DVD CHART: WEEK OF JUNE 28, 2010
Fleetwood Mac's 7x platinum "The Dance" DVD re-enters the Australian Top 40 DVD Chart at #34 this week.

Friday, June 25, 2010

Florence and the Machine Cover Fleetwood Mac at Glastonbury - Spinner


Florence Welch has an affinity with Glastonbury. Long before she was crowned the BBC's Sound of 2009, or the Brit Awards rising star, Welch was playing Glastonbury with Florence and the Machine – if any British festival suits her slightly otherworldly Renaissance aesthetic, it is Worthy Farm's.



For the last 18 months -- last year's Glasto included -- Florence and the Machine have been taking their debut album 'Lungs' around the world, with Welch earning a reputation as one of the UK's most transfixing frontwomen.

So how does she repay the crowd during her early evening Other Stage slot on Friday? Well, with a cover. One which she vowed would be just for Glastonbury.

"This is pretty much my favourite song of all time," she told the crowd. "All my heroes are in this band and I thought they were going to be here but they're not."

She added, "We're never going to play it again. We hope you enjoy it Glastonbury, this one's just for you." The band then broke into Fleetwood Mac's 'The Chain,' a track from their 1977 mega-seller 'Rumours.' The huge whoops that greeted the song's trademark bass-led instrumental break were no accident -- this part of the song has been used in BBC promos for their Formula One coverage. Any petrol heads enjoying Welch's impressive live performance will have been given an extra opportunity to cheer, just this once.

Thursday, June 24, 2010

STEVIE NICKS Concert Ticket Prices - Santa Barbara

Concert Ticket Prices - Santa Barbara Edhat: "By Edhat Subscriber

Stevie Nicks at the SB Bowl - concert is August 4 - tickets on sale this Sat at 11 am.

Thing is, 'sticker price' is $128 (for the best seats)! For a Wed nite too. Holy moly that's high. ALL other concerts announced so far are lower. Steve Miller with Los Lobos is a Sat night and they are $80. Willie Nelson on a Thurs nite is $83. (Comparable seats.)

I love Stevie, glad I saw her at the Bowl a few years ago, because I'm not sure I'm willing to spend $150 on one ticket this year (after taxes and fees).

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My advise to this poster would be not to buy the best seats! There are cheaper seats available.... Ticketmaster is offering a price range beginning at $39.00 (plus fees of course).

Stevie Nicks Headlines the Santa Barbara Bowl

The Santa Barbara Independent Summer Arts Preview: Pop, Rock, and Jazz: "The ladies continue to rule the scene come August, when singer, songwriter, and all-around icon Stevie Nicks headlines the Santa Barbara Bowl on Wednesday, August 4. It’s rumored the Fleetwood Mac frontwoman is currently working on new material, but we have no doubt she’ll deliver on the classics. (“Dreams,” anyone?)"

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MICK FLEETWOOD

HAPPY BIRTHDAY
MR. MICK FLEETWOOD
Born on this day in 1947

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

LISSIE MAURUS - THE "NEW" STEVIE NICKS...

Lissie Maurus featured here in Classic Rock Magazines Summer 2010 issue has the distinction of being referred to as the "NEW" Stevie Nicks. Not such a bad comparison if you ask me. Personally, I'm not really hearing it... What I do hear is an interesting and unique voice and singing style from which the comparisons to Stevie are surely drawn from.  I really like her music, she's got some killer live videos on youtube that you should check out... She's no doubt a talented girl that possesses a lovely rich soulful voice, but she's no Stevie Nicks - she's herself... Hit the image for the full article.

You can check out some of her tunes on Myspace, or Facebook, or Youtube.

HRH MAGAZINE - SUMMER, 2010 FEATURES STEVIE NICKS PHOTO BY NEAL PRESTON

Stevie Nicks Photo Featured in 12 page
Neal Preston Photo Spread
HRH Magazine Summer, 2010 edition
See page 64 for the full article and photo spread.
Lindsey mentioned in the last paragraph of the article.


Tuesday, June 22, 2010

WOLFGANGS VAULT.... VINTAGE FLEETWOOD MAC PHOTOS 75, 77 & 79

A really amazing collection of photos at Wolfgangs Vault in the photo section.  If you've never been to the site, it's a must!   Loads of really vintage photos (which are a little pricey) and live shows to stream from the concert vault - or buy (at a reasonable cost).  And not of only Fleetwood Mac, but pretty much every band to come along since the 60's & 70's. Just a great site all around. You'll learn a lot and hear alot!

I noticed they've added more photos to the site since the last time I visited, which was sometime ago... Fleetwood Mac in New Haven, CT - 1975 & 1979 at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum and Hartford, CT at the Civic Center - 1977.  Here are just a sample... There's more at the site.

Photographer, Joe Sia, captured moments by focusing on the faces of the performers, the crowd, and by giving the background, whether simple or wild, the importance it deserved in defining the artist and event.



ELLE MAGAZINE: STEVIE NICKS ROCK STAR UNIFORM FEATURE JULY, 2010 ISSUE

THE ROCK STAR UNIFORM
Stevie's style still influential

Elle Magazine
July, 2010 issue
Page 44

Monday, June 21, 2010

STEVIE NICKS CONFIRMED FOR SANTA BARBARA AUGUST 4TH


STEVIE NICKS
Santa Barbara Bowl
SANTA BARBARA, CA
Wed, Aug 4, 2010 07:00 PM

Ticket Price Range:
US $39.00 - US $109.00

Onsale to General Public
Start: Sat, 06/26/10 11:00 AM PDT

There are likely pre-sale tickets available this week leading up to Saturday's general public on-sale.

Sunday, June 20, 2010

STEVIE NICKS | FLEETWOOD MAC: UK & AUSTRALIA CHART UPDATE

 
AUSTRALIA TOP 50 CATALOGUE CHART: WEEK June 21, 2010
Week 7 on Australia's Top 50 Catalogue Chart for the week June 21, 2010 - puts Stevie's 2007 "Crystal Visions The Very Best Of Stevie Nicks" at #18 down from #16 last week.


UK TOP 100 ALBUMS CHART: June 26, 2010
FLEETWOOD MAC'S "THE VERY BEST OF" is inching it's way up moving from #87 to #84 marking it's 214 non-consectutive week on the chart.

Friday, June 18, 2010

FLEETWOOD MAC "DREAMS" No.1 JUNE 18, 1977 ISSUE - BILLBOARD MAGAZINE

On this date in 1977 in it's 10th week of release, "Dreams" officially hit's No.1.  Taken from Fleetwood Mac's Rumours album, it would be Fleetwood Mac's only No.1 single to reach the top of the Billboard's Hot 100.  This was the second single from Rumours which at the time was also sitting at No.1 on the Top 200 Albums Chart.


The members of Fleetwood Mac were experiencing emotional upheavals while recording Rumours. Drummer Mick Fleetwood was going through a divorce. Bass player John McVie was separating from his wife, keyboard player Christine McVie. Guitarist Lindsey Buckingham and Nicks were ending their eight-year relationship. "We had to go through this elaborate exercise of denial," explains Buckingham to Blender Magazine, "keeping our personal feelings in one corner of the room while trying to be professional in the other."

Nicks wrote the song at the Record Plant studio in Sausalito, California, in early 1976. "One day when I wasn't required in the main studio," remembers singer Stevie Nicks to Blender, "I took a Fender Rhodes piano and went into another studio that was said to belong to Sly, of Sly & the Family Stone. It was a black-and-red room, with a sunken pit in the middle where there was a piano, and a big black-velvet bed with Victorian drapes."

"I sat down on the bed with my keyboard in front of me," continues Nicks. "I found a drum pattern, switched my little cassette player on and wrote 'Dreams' in about 10 minutes. Right away I liked the fact that I was doing something with a dance beat, because that made it a little unusual for me."

When Nicks played the song to the rest of the group, they decided to record it the following day. Only a basic track was recorded at Sausalito. Recording assistant Cris Morris remembers that "all (they) kept was the drum track and live vocal from Stevie — the guitars and bass were added later in Los Angeles."

Christine McVie described the song as having "just three chords and one note in the left hand" and "boring" when Nicks played a rough version on the piano. McVie changed her mind, after Lindsey "fashioned three sections out of identical chords, making each section sound completely different. He created the impression that there’s a thread running through the whole thing."

"Dreams" was the second single from the Rumours album in the US, and it reached the number one spot on June 18, 1977, and held it for one week. It went to #24 in the United Kingdom as the third single, following "Go Your Own Way" (#38) and "Don't Stop" (#32). A performance of the song on stage was used as the promotional video. Fleetwood Mac would not begin to make concept music videos until 1979.

Wikipedia

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

HEY HAVE YOU HEARD THE NEWS.... STEVIE NICKS IS ON TOUR THIS AUGUST

WHO'S GOING??

04-Aug - Santa Barbara, CA (SB Bowl)
06-Aug - Lake Tahoe, NV (Harvey's Arena)
25-Aug - Verona, NY (Turning Stone Casino)
27-Aug - Atlantic City, NJ (Taj-Mahal)
28-Aug - Mashantucket, CT (Foxwoods)

GET YOUR TICKETS AT TICKETMASTER

Sunday, June 13, 2010

UK CHART UPDATE: FLEETWOOD MAC "THE VERY BEST OF" 2009 RE-ISSUE


Chart week: June 19, 2010
FLEETWOOD MAC'S "THE VERY BEST OF" continues to move up after Re-Entering The UK Top 100 Albums Chart last week - jumping to #87 from #98 last week. This marks the 213th week on the chart, which is an accumulative total of the 2002 single disc version along with this 2009 double disc re-issue.

STEVIE NICKS CHART UPDATE: ARIA TOP 50 CATALOGUE ALBUM CHART

Week 6 on Australia's Top 50 Catalogue Chart for the week June 14, 2010 - puts Stevie's 2007 "Crystal Visions The Very Best Of Stevie Nicks" at #16 down from #13 last week.

Today In Entertainment History June 13

Today In Entertainment History June 13
In 1970, Christine McVie released a solo album, then announced her retirement from music. She was back within a year, joining her husband, John McVie, in Fleetwood Mac.

Saturday, June 12, 2010

SALES UPDATE: FLEETWOOD MAC "GREATEST HITS"

US BILLBOARD TOP 200 CATALOGUE CHART
ISSUE DATE: JUNE 19, 2010
Fleetwood Mac's 1988 Greatest Hits for the week ending June 6, 2010 will chart at #62 on Billboards Top 200 Catalogue Charts. Sales for the week were: 2,055 units in the US.

The previous week it sold 1,941 units and charted at #58, prior to that it was #69.

Since Soundscan began keeping track of over the counter sales in 1991, and subsequently digital CD sales, Fleetwood Mac's Greatest Hits has sold 4,356,480 units in the US. It's moved 708,009 units since February, 2003 - basically 100,000 average per year.

History of Soundscan Sales:
4,356,480 - June, 2010
4,271,984 - September, 2009
4,229,451 - May, 2009
4,071,254 - October, 2007
3,768,006 - April, 2004
3,598,471 - February, 2003

Thursday, June 10, 2010

FLEETWOOD MAC PHOTOGRAPHER NEAL PRESTON PRESENTS EXHIBIT


NEAL PRESTON has been with Fleetwood Mac pretty much from the beginning, or at least since the beginning of the Buckingham Nicks era... photographing the band on tour, in the studio, at events, at home, pretty much everywhere.  He's presenting his next exhibit of his work in Las Vegas at Skybar beginning on June 18th:

This is an excerpt of a much larger article - the full article can be found here

I've included many iconic photos of Fleetwood Mac and it's members that Neal has taken over the years - courtesy of Corbis.





Paparazzi and publicists are not two of Neal Preston’s favorite things



Legendary rock music photographer Neal Preston is presenting an exhibit of his work that includes a never-before-seen oversized proof sheet of Led Zeppelin. The Hard Rock Hotel unveiling features some 40 prints from his extensive collection, and the Led Zeppelin is being releasing as a limited edition to be sold exclusively one week from today when the exhibit opens at Skybar. The photos will be displayed throughout the hotel and available for purchase in the Hard Rock Retail Store.

With a staggering 40-plus-year career in photography that started while still in high school, Preston has made significant contributions to pop culture history. His photos have appeared in every conceivable media outlet literally everywhere, and his client list is a who’s who of rock royalty. His body of work is regarded as one of music’s most extensive and significant photo collections, and it was the key source of photographs for VH1’s acclaimed documentary series Behind the Music, providing more than 1,000 images for 50 episodes.

Rock fans know Preston best as the photographer who has toured with Led Zeppelin, The Who, Queen, Fleetwood Mac, Bruce Springsteen and countless others, and his travels have included touring Europe (Bruce, Queen), Canada (Heart), Russia (Billy Joel), Japan (Bruce, Duran Duran), China (Wham!), South Africa (Whitney Houston) and South America (Queen).

Las Vegas Sun: Did you pick all the photos for the new exhibit at the Hard Rock? Was it tough to choose? You can’t have one favorite kid, so to speak.

Preston: It’s beyond tough. In fact, it’s the most stressful part of my day every day. I’m very fortunate I have a fairly deep catalog, and I have a lot of kids to choose from. When you do a gallery show or an exhibition, you try to gear yourself to the people you know who will be looking at the photography. ... But like any other photographer, you get a certain amount of your “greatest hits.” The final count is about 40 — black and white and color. There will be some of the obvious things I’m known for shooting, like Led Zeppelin, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Nicks, Queen. I try to put in a couple oddball things that people might not expect.