(Photos) Sheryl Crow and Stevie Nicks - Chicago April 9th

A terrific assortment of photos by Erin Brown of Stevie Nicks with Sheryl Crow and Rod Stewart in Chicago at the United Center April 9th.

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Stevie Nicks & Rod Stewart - Joe Louis Arena - Detroit 4/10/11

Photo Gallery by: 104.3 WOMC Detroit's Greatest Hits 

Stevie Nicks Gallery | Rod Stewart Gallery 

Photos by Steve Wiseman/104.3 WOMC & Monica Morgan

Changes again in Stevie's setlist... 

Wow, she's doing something really unconventional by switching songs in and out during the tour...I like that actually, it's keeping it interesting for sure! "Outside The Rain" was performed as well as Tom Petty's "You Wreck Me". Gone from set for Detroit were "If Anyone Falls", "Fall From Grace" and "Rock N Roll".

(Review) Rod Stewart and Stevie Nicks - Chicago Sun Times

REASON TO BE PEEVED
By DAVE HOEKSTRA
Chicago Sun Times
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The Rod Stewart and Stevie Nicks “Heart & Soul” tour landed Saturday night at a nearly sold-out United Center with the Las Vegas glitz of Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme.

Fancy clothes? Check. Stewart changed from gold to powder blue to purple suits. Wild light shows? Check. Wacky jokes? Check. When Nicks and Stewart dueted on the 1981 Nicks/Don Henley hit “Leather and Lace,” Stewart stood in the background pretending he was removing a lace undergarment. It took some luster off the cowboy ballad that Nicks wrote for Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter. Stewart also looked as if he was pulling a latter-day Frank Sinatra and singing from a TelePrompTer.

But if you looked hard enough there were poignant moments beyond the ’70s excess that found Stewart and Nicks, with Fleetwood Mac, at their peaks.

Sheryl Crow joined Nicks for “Sorcerer” and locked into the harmony of the Mac hit “Landslide.” Singing spot-on as the song was recorded (which legacy music fans love), Nicks was in comfortable vocal range while a screen featured a photo montage of her growing up. Crow was in town to tape an Oprah Winfrey episode that includes Nicks, Joan Jett, Miley Cyrus and others. The show airs Wednesday. Nicks took time to thank Winfrey for “being so fantastic.”

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(Review) Rod Stewart and Stevie Nicks - Chicago 4/9/11

With a wink and a smile, Rod Stewart delivers polished soul at United Center
By Bob Gendron
Chicago Tribune
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It takes certain moxie for a 66-year-old man to strut around in an electric purple suit, surround himself with pretty young women and sing "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy." Rod Stewart had nerve to spare Saturday co-headlining with Stevie Nicks at a packed United Center, where he didn't miss any chance to add pomp to campy circumstance. Ignoring his recent Great American Songbook guise for a turn as a dapper nightclub crooner, the British vocalist filled out a 100-minute set with polished renditions of soul standards served up with a wink and a smile.

Stewart made a name for himself decades ago with gritty interpretations of folk and blues. So it's natural that he performed tunes by the likes of Sam Cooke ("Having a Party"), Persuaders ("Some Guys Have All the Luck") and the O'Jays ("Love Train"). Yet along with the sandpaper rasp in his voice, all traces of rawness and poignancy are gone. In their place resides a smooth, soft timbre and humorous flair that suit his showman glitz. Heavily stylized and glossed, it's difficult to tell whether or not Stewart takes himself—or even any of his adult-contemporary ballads—seriously.

With his diamond bracelets, loud sport coats, exaggerated dance moves and visual shtick, he came across as a combination of Las Vegas-era Elvis, Liberace and "Married…With Children" character Al Bundy. A trio if female background singers and three other female instrumentalists, all wearing short dresses, looked loosely modeled after the women in Robert Palmer's "Addicted to Love" video. About the only old-school entertainer cliché Stewart lacked was calling out an assistant to wipe his brow with a handkerchief; he did that himself, and with elaborate effect.

Musical merit aside—Stewart's tame readings of classics such as Chuck Berry's "Sweet Little Rock & Roller" sounded like the sanitized covers of R&B singles that dominated mainstream radio in the late 1950s—at least he had fun. Ironically, the only times Stewart appeared stiff occurred during two duets with opener Nicks. Strictly a crowd-pleasing endeavor, the pair's brief collaboration revealed little chemistry. On Nicks' "Leather and Lace," Rod the Mod seemed to be reading lyrics off a screen.

Nicks' uneven 70-minute set got off to a sleepy start before surprise guest Sheryl Crow joined her for "Sorcerer" and gave the vocalist reason to invest more toughness in the songs. Too bad her mellow nine-piece band never received the message.

Resembling a mystical gypsy, Nicks demonstrated hallmark traits—dramatic arm motions, ice-princess stares, cautionary nasal tones—while using scarves and shawls as props. But given she's preparing to release her first new record in 10 years, Nicks' decision to focus on Fleetwood Mac gems (including "Landslide," harmonized with Crow) and old solo hits reeked of the nostalgic shelter sought by artists with nothing left to prove.

(Video) Sheryl Crow Joins Stevie Nicks in Chicago For Landslide Duet

Sheryl Crow joined Stevie during her set tonight (4/9/11) in Chicago at the United Center duetting with Stevie on "Landslide", which I think is the first time anyone has ever sang the song with her as a duet. Sheryl also sang with her on "Sorcerer" and came back out during the encore for "Rock & Roll".

They sound beautiful together!

(Review) Rod Stewart & Stevie Nicks - New York Times

Two Rockers, Old Hits And Reasons to Believe
By BEN RATLIFF
New York Times Review

Two Rockers, Old Hits And Reasons to Believe
By Ben Ratliff
The New York Times
April 8, 2011

The “Heart & Soul” tour, a pairing of Rod Stewart and Stevie Nicks, is pure nostalgia, a valentine for the middle-aged and what they listened to from 1976 to 1978. Not a judgment, just a fact. But the really outmoded part about the concert is that the link between them is the radio.

Remember the radio? We submitted to it completely. It made the connections for us. Besides Los Angeles, teased blond hair and a tremendous talent for the exaggerated courtly stage bow, what Mr. Stewart and Ms. Nicks really have in common is that they are singer-songwriters, articulating consciousness through words and melody, and they are fundamentally different at that job.

Ms. Nicks, 62, who performed first at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday night, is the goddess of indirection. “Do you know what this is?” she sang in “Love Is.” “No I don’t/but whatever it is/it’s very powerful.” This could be her organizing principle. The referents of her lyrics flicker in and out; she suddenly omits the subject of a sentence, asks a rhetorical question or moves from first to third person without warning. Most pop songwriters don’t do this anymore. But Ms. Nicks is a woman who can put on a black shawl, raise her arms and spin, and the audience roars. Whatever that is, it’s very powerful.

Wednesday’s set was a tight group of greatest hits, so there was “Edge of Seventeen”: “Just like the white winged dove/sings a song, sounds like she’s singing.” And “Sorcerer”: “All around black ink darkness/and who found the lady from the mountains?” Who or what is like the dove? Who did find the lady? Essentially it’s you: the listener and her own experiences fill the gap between what is to be understood and what is not.

Ms. Nicks’s voice narrowed a long time ago, forcing her to write melodic detours away from the upper register, but her sound and phrasing remain the same. She drones and under-enunciates, the better to be misunderstood, and with several band members who have been a constant for decades — the guitarist Waddy Wachtel and the percussionist Lenny Castro — she fitted the songs to the audience’s memory.

People forget that Mr. Stewart, now 66, is a songwriter: he’s been privileging people’s material for so long and so effectively — not just the last decade of his “Great American Songbook” albums, but also his previous covers of the Rolling Stones, Van Morrison, Tim Hardin, Tom Waits, Bob Dylan and others. Let’s treat it all as one project. He seems to.

As opposed to Ms. Nicks, there’s usually a straight-forward narrative in Mr. Stewart’s songs and the ones he chooses to cover; there’s also very little wondering or regret. As for love, he hungers, consumes, dispatches. Sometimes he fails: oh, well. (He’s good at cheery leave-takings: “Maggie Mae,” “Forever Young.”) He sees no crystal visions.

Mr. Stewart’s voice is pretty damaged, too, sometimes dropping beneath the line of audibility as his longer set wore on, swerving away from high notes and turning to a wheeze. But of course he’s had a rough voice forever, and the whole point of Rod Stewart is finessing a light engagement with one’s own material. In a succession of bright raw-silk jackets, he swiveled and high-stepped just enough to convey that he was having an all-right time, while his band and production provided the rest: a rugged rhythm section, tall female soloists in red dresses (on trumpet, tenor saxophone and fiddle), and a stage like an enormous mid-’60s television show set, clean and beautifully lit.

The stars performed two songs together, unexcitingly, during Mr. Stewart’s set — his “Young Turks,” her “Leather and Lace.” But whereas Ms. Nicks remained her own entity, Mr. Stewart traced his enthusiasms to and connections for what came before and around him. He sang songs by Sam Cooke and Chuck Berry and Hardin and Mr. Waits, and repped once again for the Celtic Football Club, as he’s been doing since the early ’70s. It’s unclear who’s heart and who’s soul. But it is clear who’s an idol and who’s a fan.

The “Heart & Soul” tour continues on Saturday at the United Center in Chicago and on Sunday at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit; rodstewart.com.

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The Heart and Soul Tour So Far... Billboard Boxscore

Stevie Nicks and Rod Stewart 
Heart and Soul Tour 
Billboard Boxscore Totals 

3 dates have been made public so far for Rod and Stevie's tour... By the look of the numbers, they are pulling in healthy grosses... Toronto is particularly large.

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(Photos) Stevie Nicks & Rod Stewart - NYC April 6th - Madison Square Garden

A few changes in New York City last night... First Stevie wore something a little different for a skirt then she's been wearing lately... Second it doesn't look like she wore the boots all night except for during Rod's set.  Third, she added Rock N Roll back into her set - ending the night rockin' and dropped Fall From Grace.  AND they stuck with Leather and Lace and performed it as a duet during Rod's set.

East coast is done!  Heading west... Next stop Chicago... Oprah taping on Friday... Concert on Saturday.

Here's a photo gallery from last nights show with photos by Laura Cavanaugh

About 60 or 70 shots in all

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Stevie's set list...

01. Stand Back

02. Secret Love

03. If Anyone Falls

04. Dreams

05. Sorcerer

06. Gold Dust Woman

07. Rhiannon

08. Landslide

09. Edge of Seventeen

Encores:

01. Love Is

02. Rock & Roll

Fan Review - Centerfield Maz

Philly Photos - Stevie Nicks & Rod Stewart - Wells Fargo 4/5/11

Photos by Cherui

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(Review) Stevie Nicks | Rod Stewart - Philadelpha, PA 4/5/11

Photo by: Gilbert Carrasquillo

Rod Stewart, Stevie Nicks take on age differently at Philadelphia show

by John J. Moser

If there’s one thing Tuesday’s concert by Rod Stewart and Stevie Nicks at Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Center proved, it’s that time, indeed, marches on.

But the way each marched made all the difference.

With Stewart now 66 and Nicks turning 63 next month, the two raspy voices that produced an astounding 65 Top 40 hits from 1971-91 are now both significantly diminished – constricted in range and depth.

But while Nicks’ marched has turned into a slower, lighter and – dare I say it, matronly -- step to adjust for the limitations of voice and age, Stewart barreled forward with a damn-the-torpedoes attitude that made his set far more enjoyable, faults and all.

Read the full review at Lehigh Valley Music

Also a mention of the concert on The Feast

Appearing in a double-bill last night as part of their Heart & Soul Tour, aging rockers Rod Stewart and Stevie Nicks thrilled the capacity Wells Fargo crowd with a series of hits from their heyday.

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Leather and Lace - Rod Stewart and Stevie Nicks - Philadelphia 4/5/11

The big news out of Philadelphia last night was the change to the setlist where "Passion" was dropped and replaced with "Leather and Lace". Here's one video of the duet.

Not bad.... Love the way Stevie harmonizes on this actually... They need a little practice you can tell, but pretty good for a first run.

(Review) Toronto Sun Full Page Scan + Globe & Mail and Montreal La Presse Stevie Nicks & Rod Stewart

The Globe and Mail Review
"A Nostalgic Ride Aboard The Love Train"

April 4, 2011 by Brad Wheller

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Rod Stewart et Stevie Nicks au Centre Bell

Péter le feu, la voix éteinte

by Alain De Repentigny

Montreal La Presse April 2, 2011

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Sur une scène, Rod Stewart n’a pas son pareil. Il peut minauder, nous refaire le coup des ballons de soccer qu’il botte à des distances impressionnantes, exhiber ses complets aux couleurs voyantes et entraîner ses 13 musiciens et choristes dans son festival de changements de costumes, on en redemande. Les 10 668 spectateurs qui étaient au Centre Bell vendredi vous le confirmeront, le Britannique de 66 ans donne encore un spectacle très efficace.

Autre bonne nouvel le, Stewart a mis un terme à son flirt avec le répertoire du Great American Songbook, dont il n’était pas l’interprète le plus convaincant. Il y avait donc dans ce spectacle d’une heure et demie des chansons bien à lui qui en ont fait la vedette que l’on sait, et d’autres de Tom Waits, Cat Stevens, Van Morrison, Chuck Berry et Sam Cooke qu’il s’est approprié au fil des ans.

Ajoutez à cela une belle scène aérée d’un blanc immaculé, des projections souvent amusantes sur grand écran et des accompagnateurs compétents et enthousiastes et vous comprendrez pourquoi le public du Centre Bell ne lui a offert aucune résistance.

L’ennui , c ’ est que Rod Stewart n’est plus le chanteur qu’il était. Malgré tout le plaisir qu’il peut encore procurer à son public, ce n’est pas un détail. Sa voix si particulière, qui a été sa marque de commerce avant qu’on ne découvre son personnage de scène, n’a plus la puissance d’antan. En vieux pro qu’il est, Stewart tente tant bien que mal de nous le cacher, mais c’est peine perdue. Au début, on se dit que c’est peut-être la musique qui la noie, cette voix, mais, quand l’accompagnement est discret, comme pendant Have I Told You Lately, il faut se rendre à l’évidence : la voix est faiblarde, éteinte.

Heureusement pour lui, le public vient souvent à sa rescousse, reprenant en choeur les refrains de ses chansons. Et voix diminuée ou pas, Forever Young, qu’il a chantée pour son fils Aiden, né à la mi-février, demeure une superbe chanson.

Stevie Nicks : sympathique

Les deux duos avec la covedette de la soirée, Stevie Nicks, n’ont rien arrangé. L’exchanteuse de Fleetwood Mac, que Stewart a présentée comme « l’une des grandes voix du XXe siècle » , n’avait ni le coffre ni le souffle pour aider son copain Rod. Passion n’était pas très réussie, mais quand même pas aussi mauvaise que Young Turks, dans laquelle la voix de Nicks s’enlisait pendant que Stewart s’épongeait le visage.

La performance de 75 minutes de Stevie Nicks en début de programme a été au mieux sympathique. La chanteuse triche un peu elle aussi. Moins souple, sa voix est encore plus monocorde et elle a déjà mieux rendu ses propres succès ( Edge of Seventeen, Stand Back) et ceux qu’elle a chantés avec Fleetwood Mac ( Gold Dust Woman, Dreams, Rhiannon). Elle n’a pas la présence d’un Rod Stewart et son personnage de fée commence à être usé, tout autant que les princesses, les sorcières et les chevaux blancs qui paradent sur l’écran derrière.

N’empêche, le public était content de réentendre ces chansons que tout le monde connaît, servies par un groupe compétent sous la direction du vétéran Waddy Wachtel.

La chanteuse est nettement plus à son avantage dans des chansons dépouillées comme la touchante Landslide, indissociable de son papa qu’on voyait à l’écran. Malheureusement, au rappel, un bruit assourdissant vraisemblablement causé par son micro a complètement saboté une autre chanson intimiste, Love Is. Qu’à cela ne tienne, le problème a été réglé in extremis et Stevie Nicks a quitté la scène visiblement ravie de l’accueil du public montréalais.

(Review) Heart and Soul Tour - Toronto with Rod Stewart and Stevie Nicks

Rod Stewart and Stevie Nicks give heart, soul to Toronto 
Posted by Bill Bedford
blogTO.com

"The crowd were still warming up for much of her set, but the closing double-whammy of "Landslide" and "Edge of Seventeen" got people in the mood. "Landslide"- set against a montage of family photos marking the bittersweet passage of time- had even the middle aged ball cap wearing dudes in the crowd sniffling. It was refreshing in the age of American Idol showboating to hear Nicks' plain, husky tones deliver her songs simply and effectively."

Full Review at blogTO.com with a few eye catching photos by Jordan Keen.

Photo by Jordan Keen

Photos by Tom Pandi: Stevie Nicks and Rod Stewart - Toronto

Heart and Soul Tour Toronto - Air Canada Centre 
Rod Stewart and Stevie Nicks - April 2nd
Photos by: Tom Pandi

Gallery of Photos by Tom Pandi - View HERE

(Photos) Rod Stewart and Stevie Nicks - Toronto

Photos by: AnneLR

Heart and Soul Tour  

Air Canada Centre 

Toronto, Canada - April 2, 2011

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Rod Stewart and Stevie Nicks Captured Live in Toronto Photos by: Igor Vidyashev

Stevie Nicks and Rod Stewart Live in Toronto at Air Canada Centre - April 2, 2011

All Photos by Toronto Photographer: Igor Vidyashev @IV_Photography
IV Photography Studio

A Gallery of his shots can be seen here at: Liveinlimbo

(Review) Stevie Nicks with Rod Stewart at Toronto's Air Canada Centre

RATING: **** (4 outta five)
Rod Stewart/Stevie Nicks - Air Canada Centre, April 2, 2011
The Toronto Sun
By JANE STEVENSON, QMI AGENCY

Two raspy-voiced, blond-haired rock legends for the price of one

Not bad for an evening of music at the Air Canada Centre on Saturday night as Fleetwood Mac vixen Stevie Nicks - still looking and sounding great at 62-years-old - co-headlined with rockin’ Rod Stewart, now 66, who was also in good voice and great flaxen hair.

Stewart, ever the British gentlemen, popped out on stage early to introduce Nicks, who he called “one of the greatest rock voices of the era and the 21st century.”

Nicks’ 80-minute set was composed of solo, Fleetwood Mac and Buckingham-Nicks hits plus Secret Love, the first single from her new solo album, In Your Dreams, due May 3.

“Welcome Toronto - I’m so glad you’re here,” said Nicks, backed by a nine-piece band. “We don’t get to come up to Canada that often. It’s so exciting to be up here in this beautiful city.”

Nicks, in a sequined, corsetted and ruffled black dress, and wedge-heeled black boots - a downgrade from her signature black suede platforms of the ‘70s - could also still move, if more gingerly, as she performed a signature twirl just minutes into her set opener, Stand Back.

And with her interpretive dance moves, long hair, and numerous accessory changes in a little black tent at the back of the stage that saw her work her way through two gold shawls - including one for set highlight, Gold Dust Woman - she conjured up her image from Fleedwood Mac’s heyday, especially when she hovered around guitarist Waddy Wachtel with her arms outstretched.

Other set standouts included Fleetwood Mac’s classics Dreams and Rhiannon - which included a video of unicorns and produced the first crowd clap along of the night - the poignant Landslide, which featured pictures of Nicks family including her late father, and Edge of Seventeen with a loving, long walk around the stage by Stevie, waving to her fans and paying tribute to her musicians.

(6 Videos) A Good Taste of Stevie Nicks Performing in Montreal at Centre Bell April 1st

Almost a costume malfunction with her sleeve... Taken from Stevie's left, she sounds really good from this angle.

"Rhiannon" 

Sorcerer | Gold Dust Woman | Fall From Grace | Landslide | Edge of Seventeen 
Passion | Young Turks 

(Review) Stevie Nicks remains a delicate and 

ethereal presence on stage

by: Patrick

[link] Patwhite.com

(Review) Rod Stewart and Stevie Nicks at the Bell Centre; April 1, 2011

Rod Stewart and Stevie Nicks
Photograph by Allen McInnis

By BERNARD PERUSSE
Full Review at: Montreal Gazette

In the dying moments of the Rod Stewart and Stevie Nicks show at the Bell Centre Friday night, 11,000 people used the last shreds of their vocal cords to howl out the distinctive keyboard line from Do Ya Think I’m Sexy over and over again, wordlessly begging Stewart and his 13 musicians to come back.

But the outburst was in vain. Stewart had delivered that song as his sole encore.

Montreal Gazette 4/2/11

There were a few missteps, notably when Stewart ruined Rhythm of My Heart by handing a few bars of the chorus to his back-up singers and letting them ham it up and go all diva in succession.


Another ill-advised move was bringing Nicks out for duets on the wrong songs: Passion, one of Stewart’s weakest, and the undistinguished Young Turks. In the latter song, Nicks mostly danced and handled the mic while he sang, ultimately joining the backup singers.


Unlike Stewart, Nicks is not a visual performer --- although she still looks wonderful. Apart from the requisite spacey witch moves and shawl-wielding twirls, she just sings her songs. And as her opening set revealed, a few of them -- like the tuneless Stand Back and the rambling piano ballad Love Is, which bookended her performance --- can be tedious. Others definitely still have legs.


A stripped-down version of the Fleetwood Mac evergreen Landslide, with photos from Nicks’s past providing a touching backdrop, was a highlight, as were the consecutively played rockers Sorcerer and Gold Dust Woman. Edge of Seventeen was extended beyond its proper life span by some serious wailing by Nicks’s longtime default guitarist Waddy Wachtel, but no one was complaining.

Full Review

10,668 Spectators Came to Applaud the "Serial Dad" and Stevie Nicks in Montreal

MONTRÉAL - Vieux crooner, peut-être. Mais une chose est certaine, Rod Stewart ne fait pas du tout ses 66 printemps.

De passage au Centre Bell vendredi soir en compagnie de Stevie Nicks dans le cadre de leur tournée The Heart & Soul, le légendaire artiste britannique a ravivé sa verve rock, loin de s’être éteinte avec son virage jazzy au tournant du siècle.

Review in French at Canoe.ca

Translated:

MONTREAL - Old crooner, perhaps. But one thing is certain, Rod Stewart is not at all its 66 spring.

Crossing at the Bell Centre Friday night with Stevie Nicks as part of their tour The Heart & Soul , the legendary British artist has rekindled his verve rock, far from being extinguished with her ​​jazzy turn at the turn of the century.

10, 668 spectators came to applaud the "serial dad, whose third wife, Penny Lancaster, recently gave birth to her eighth child. Perhaps her brood she acts as a fountain of youth ... Wherever Stewart draws its power: it has definitely sell! The incredible showman made ​​its debut on the huge stage of pristine white to the sound of Love Train , cover of The O'Jays. Only elements of color: his golden coat and her ladies, singers and musicians, in red robes.

The hair still tousled and voice still abraded, the singer was chained while languishing Tonight's The Night (Gonne Be Alright before pacing back atmosphere with Havin 'A Party .

Stevie Nicks joined Stewart for the interpretation of Passion and Young Turks , which at times pales next to the dynamic singer, who has multiplied the dance steps. The crooner hanging microphone The First Cut Is The Deepest quickly gave way to the rocker with Forever Young . Was it better to describe the chorus youthful energy and rock from the veteran as he passionately pigeait much in his repertoire than in other major artists? Probably not.

In more than five decades career, Stewart was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, has won 16 Grammy nominations and has sold over 250 million albums and parts worldwide. His latest album, Fly Me To The Moon ... The Great American Songbook, Volume V , published last year, was himself listened to more than one million copies.

The success he always sticks to the skin, and the singer has proved that he had lost none of his artistic charm in the year ending 2010 to top the charts.

There was a queen of rock ...

Stevie Nicks is not quite the queen of rock and roll it once was. The famous singer of Fleetwood Mac has delivered a performance static part of the concert, yet still captivate the crowd through his greatest hits, including Dreams , Gold Dust Women and Landslide .

Even the robust "Edge of Seventeen" was unable to fully resuscitate the rocker. Her voice is undeniably still biting, but the energy unfortunately not climbed as high levels.

The artist of 62 years, also inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, will launch In Your Dreams May 3 next first album of new material in ten years, co-produced by Dave Stewart (ex-member of Eurythmics) and Glen Ballard .

Source: Canoe.ca