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The legendary Stevie Nicks is going to be on the show tomorrow night. As if that's not amazing enough, Stevie will be answering a few questions from viewers like you! All you need to do is head on over to our Ask Stevie page and follow the instructions to upload your video question - if we like your question, we'll show it on air and get Stevie to respond directly!

Here are some tips:

Show us your Stevie style! Do you have a Stevie Nicks outfit or decor that you save for special occasions? Now is the time to break it out (I'm not sure what other times you break it out. That's your business.)

Don't get too obscure! As much as you'd like to know the thread count on Stevie's purple scarf from the concert at Salt Palace Convention Center in October '79, keep it interesting for us average folk!

Ask her questions, ask her sweet little questions. (See what I did there?)

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STEVIE NICKS - VERY BUSY WEEK

This week is a big week for Stevie.... 

Tonight Barnes and Noble, Union Square, New York City - CD/DVD signing

April 1st, Late Nite with Jimmy Fallon

April 2nd The Today Show

April 2nd CD Listening Party at greenhouse in New York City. 

STEVIE NICKS: THIS IS WHAT 60 LOOKS LIKE NOW

Stevie Nicks: This Is What 60 Looks Like Now

No computer, no cell phone, no facelift. ‘I am old-school all the way. School of rock.’

By Deborah Barrow, Editor-in-Chief

WowOWow

Stevie Nicks is a very busy woman.

Some 40 years into one of the most remarkable careers in music, she is touring the country with her famous supergroup, Fleetwood Mac, which still fills large venues with rapturous baby-boomer fans; she is releasing a new solo CD, "The Soundstage Sessions," as well as a new solo concert DVD, "Live in Chicago."

And that’s just March and April. So what’s with this sudden flurry of activity?

"It wasn’t meant to all be together," Nicks told wowOwow in an interview squeezed in during a short break in the concert tour. "Live in Chicago" was supposed to release last October, but with the Election, it was moved to this two-week period while the tour is on vacation."

What’s it like to be a rock goddess at the tender age of 60? "I would be lying to you if I told you it was easy. Our show is very hard and very long: two hours and ten minutes. Spinning around in seven-inch heels, it’s long. You have to be in really good shape. You have to take care of yourself."

In her new DVD, Stevie Nicks takes to the stage like the gypsy that she was: blonde hair to the waist. Morgane Le Fay wedding dress under a black jacket. Top hat. Feather. Ubiquitous scarves. As The Washington Post said about the Fleetwood Mac concert, "Nicks showed she still knows how to really work a shawl."

"I’ve never had a facelift and I never will. I stopped laying in the sun at 28. I never go to bed with makeup on. I have creams and lotions and I take 20 minutes of rubbing it in my skin … like a little biochemist." Nicks tells her many female friends now in their 30s, "If you think you’re not going to care how you look when you’re 60, I’m here to tell you: You are going to care more. When you’re young and thin and cute, beauty, it’s your world. You will be sorry, later on, if you don’t take better care."

When asked about her online life, she skips barely a beat: "I don’t have a computer or a cell phone. I am old-school all the way. I am school of rock."

"In 1983 when I was going out with the love of my life, Joe Walsh (legendary rock god of James Gang and Eagles fame), he had built a room in a loft filled with pianos." According to Nicks, the first time she heard a tune she had just picked out on an electronic keyboard instantly played back by Walsh with full orchestration, she realized, "Everyone, even the violinists had been replaced."

Later that year, Walsh told Nicks he couldn’t be with her on her favorite holiday, Halloween, because he had to work on his computer.

"That means I have also been replaced. If computers are going to replace me in a man’s life and replace those violinists …"

That was the end of Nicks’s relationship with computers.

So no Facebook, no tweeting, no MySpacing for Nicks. She does have an official website, a good one — The Nicks Fix — which she infrequently posts to, but is kept up-to-date by her webmasters. (Great pictures, by the way.)

When asked who she wants to come back as in her next life, she says she wants to return as her Yorkie/Chinese Crested mix. "She only wears Ralph Lauren. She always wears Ralph Lauren. She travels like a rock star."

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STEVIE INTERVIEW.... "I NEED TO GO BACK IN THE STUDIO"

Ever the rock gypsy, Stevie Nicks preps a new live album and DVD while touring with Fleetwood Mac

By John Russell 

Photo by Neal Preston

HX.com

With over 30 years of touring under her leather and lace belt, Stevie Nicks is a bona fide rock ‘n’ roll road dog. But this month’s The Soundstage Sessions—released along with her new Live in Chicago DVD—is Nicks’ very first live album as a solo artist. Currently on tour with Fleetwood Mac, the luminous 60-year-old gypsy chatted with HX about life on the road with the boys in the band and why she’s never been to Night of a Thousand Stevies.

HX: For someone who tours as much as you do, it’s surprising that this is your first live solo album.

Stevie Nicks: I filmed my show in 1985 at Red Rocks in Boulder, Colarodo. And from then on, everything happened and happened and happened. Fleetwood Mac filmed in 1997 for The Dance and we filmed again in 2007 for Say You Will and somewhere in all of those years, even though I was touring in between all of those things, it just got lost, the idea to film my show. And when I finished touring in 2007, I just called my manager and said “Listen, I can’t move on until I film this show.” It started in Vegas with four shows at Celine Dion’s theater at the Colliseum at Caesar’s. It’s like, you just couldn’t take your little rock ’n’ roll band in there! I had to build that big world around that huge stage. So we went back to all our film and videos and we built a world. So PBS called and they said they would love to do it and we went to Chicago and filmed it at the Soundstage studios. It was just great, because, you know, you could take a little time between each song, so you could actually wear all the really great outfits that sometimes in a real show you just don’t have time to make those kind of changes. So I got to really do all the little images that I’ve created over the years. And it was really important to me to do that. First, because I think it’s such a spectacular show, and second, because the next time I go out on my own, I wanna do something really different. I wanna find some different songs in my repertoire and I wanna do maybe a little unplugged thing. Maybe I’ll play piano. But I couldn’t do that until this baby of mine was, you know, grown up, dressed and pushed out of the nest.

I heard that you were hesitant to play “Sara” for the taping because you consider it an exclusive Fleetwood Mac song. Are there others? What makes them sacred to Fleetwood Mac?

Well, had I known that Fleetwood Mac was going out on October 5, in 2007, I wouldn’t have filmed “Sara.” It’s fun to keep a few songs exclusive. Even though “Gold Dust Woman,” “Dreams,” “Rhiannon”—those are pretty darn exclusive Fleetwood Mac songs! But I’ve been doing them [solo] since 1982. So it’s kinda like, those songs just exist in all sets.

How do you decide which songs you put in a set list?

It really seems to have a lot to do with the time and what you’re doing and how everybody’s feeling. Some songs make great records and don’t transfer to stage very well. You know, you love one song one day and the next you want to put it away. When you have as many songs as we have between my solo work and Fleetwood Mac’s work you have a lot to choose from.

What do you think touring with Fleetwood Mac would be like if one of the guys was gay?

If one of us had been gay, I don’t think it would have mattered. I think it would have been fine. The love and respect that we have for each other would certainly have overridden any way that anyone would have felt about somebody being gay. I think we would have all been absolutely fine with that. It’s really about the music at that point.

What’s the worst practical joke they’ve ever played on you?

Well in the very beginning, I think it was the end of the Rumours tour, in Hawaii, somebody filled an entire hotel room with chickens and mud and chicken feed. And it was kind of a disaster. It was supposed to be really funny, but it really wasn’t very funny! [Laughs] That kind of stuff really doesn’t happen that much anymore. You have to remember everything else that was happening at that point. Everybody was drinking a lot, so when everybody’s goofed out and high you could say, “Let’s get a bunch of chickens and put them in the hotel room!” And not even think about the fact that you’re gonna spend $30,000 to clean up the room and get the chickens back to their home!

You’ve had some successful remixes of your early hits in the past few years. Did you ever think that 30 years later the gay boys would still be out at the clubs dancing to those songs?

You know, I always felt that “Stand Back” was such a great dance song that I was not surprised. It’s been dance-mixed a million times! It’s funny with my songs. Deep Dish, when they did “Dreams,” I think they never in a million years thought I would say, “Oh, I’m so down with doing a new vocal!” And they loved it so much that they just mixed it and mixed it and mixed it. And I did finally, laughingly say, “You guys have got to move on! I have many songs. If you want to do dance mixes I will just get the tapes out and you can just take them!”

So, Night of a Thousand Stevies is coming up in May, and there are die-hard fans who are convinced that you showed up one year in disguise.

I didn’t. I did not. But you know what? Sometimes I think I should just lie and say I did! The fact is that I’ve never been to a Night of a Thousand Stevies, not because I wouldn’t like to come. I would love to go. But I’m always working. And I’m usually working on something that I can’t get out of. And I live on the other side of the country. I would love to attend Night of a Thousand Stevies. And what I’d like to do is come in total Stevie disguise. Which of course nobody could do better than me! And one year, watch out all you people, I will be there! And you won’t know, so watch everything you say, because I could be lurking! [Laughs]

Does it ever hit you that you’re a cultural icon?

 

It probably doesn’t. Because, I play the gigs, I go back to the hotel. I don’t get to go out to clubs. I don’t even get to go out to dinner! So, when you ask me if I’m aware of my iconic status—it’s like hearing the PA in the venue. I’m aware because I can hear it, but I don’t get to be a part of it that often. And I’m sorry about that, because I would like to be more a part of it, and dig on it more. And I don’t really get to do that. But I will tell you I am very, very honored. I’m very honored about Night of a Thousand Stevies. I think it’s precious. And it goes straight to my heart. I wish I could come there every year. I know I’m a rock ’n’ roll star, but I work very hard. I’m the worker bee. I don’t really get to enjoy the honey comb very much.

So when can we expect some new material from you?

Well, when this whole Fleetwood Mac thing is done, I think I’m gonna do another record. I’ve been told by a lot of people that, “The music business is in such terrible shape, maybe you just shouldn’t do another record.” And I really took that to heart. Only in the last couple of months have I really started thinking, “Well you know what? I don’t even care if it doesn’t sell any records.” I need to go back into that creative world. I need to go back into the studio and sit at the piano and pull out all my thousands of pages of what I think is very good poetry, and write some new really beautiful songs and throw them out there. If people like them, great. If they don’t, that’s okay too. I need to do it for myself. So, are you going to hear something from me at some point? Yes you are.

The Soundstage Sessions and Live in Chicago will be released Mar. 31. Catch Stevie’s in-store appearance at Barnes and Noble Union Square, 33 E 17th St, also on Mar. 31 at 7pm.

Thanks to Jose for the heads-up on the article.

STEVIE NICKS CD/DVD GIVE AWAY

Two FREE Give Aways to tell you about:

STARPLUS.COM is giving away a copy of Stevies CD/DVD package "The Soundstage Sessions, Live in Chicago". All you need to do is send them an email. This contest mentions that it's open to anyone in the USA and Canada (except for Quebec). And although it doesn't say otherwise, it looks like it's open to anyone internationally as well.

Prize: One winner will receive Stevie Nicks' "Live In Chicago" DVD and "The Soundstage Sessions" CD!

Restrictions: None; see official rules

Number of winners allowed: 1

Contest Ends: Tuesday April 28th 2009

Also,

RYAN'S SMASHING LIFE is giving away the same package - with the same entry method - entering by sending an email. This contest is only open to US citizens.

Prize Pack:

I have a CD/DVD Package to Giveaway for one of you! Send an email with "Stevie Nicks" in the subjectline. Winner will be asked for their mailing address. (* US entries only, sorry.) Good luck!

Visit each site to enter.

Stevie Nicks Red Carpet Event (CD Listening Party)

STEVIE NICKS CD LISTENING PARTY

OvationTix.com. are selling tickets to a New York City CD Listening Party with Stevie Nicks on April 2nd at 9pm at the Greenhouse 150 Varick Street.  Tickets are onsale now and are a whooping $15.00 each with all proceeds going to LIFEbeat. 

That's a super great deal for anyone in New York City.... Ron Lasko - Spin Cycle PR confirmed that Stevie will be attending and said that THIS WILL SELL-OUT FAST!

At the event, enjoy complimentary premium vodka cocktails as Stevie joins us to raise funds to fight HIV/AIDS. This is a benefit for LIFEbeat - The Music Industry Fights AIDS. You must be 21+ with valid government-issued photo ID to attend.  Admission is a $15 donation to LIFEbeat.

Buy tix NOW at 212-352-3101 or online at Ovationtix.com

Stevie Nicks Red Carpet Event

a benefit for LIFEbeat

Thursday, April 02 at 9:00PM

at Greenhouse

150 Varick Street

New York, New York 10013

4 blocks below Houston

1,2,3 to Houston Street

Join Stevie Nicks at a listening party for her new CD The Soundstage Sessions and celebrate her new DVD Live in Chicago, as Stevie joins us to raise funds to fight HIV/AIDS. This event benefits LIFEbeat: The Music Industry Fights AIDS. You must be 21 or over to attend this event.

TODAY SHOW FOR STEVIE NICKS

Apparently Stevie is booked on The Today Show April 2nd.  There's no additional information on this appearance.  We do know that Stevie's going to be in New York City after the last show of this leg of the Unleashed Tour (which is Toronto on March 26th) to promote her Soundstage Sessions CD and Live in Chicago DVD.  She's appearing at Barnes and Noble, Union Square on March 31st for a CD/DVD signing at 7pm - then it's off to Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on April 1st.

As to whether these TV appearances are performance and interviews - we just don't know yet.

STEVIE SCHEDULED ON LATE NIGHT WITH JIMMY FALLON

STEVIE NICKS is scheduled to be on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday, April 1, 2009.

Not sure if this will be a performance with interview or just performance - but she'll be on promoting "The Soundstage Sessions" CD along with the "Live in Chicago" DVD.

Jimmy Fallon is on NBC weeknights at 12:35 / 11:35 central.

CRASH / LANDSLIDE AVAILABLE TODAY

Stevie's Single "Crash" which includes "Landslide" is available TODAY to purchase through Amazon.com

The "Soundstage Sessions" CD will be released March 31st along with the "Live in Chicago" DVD

"Crash" The Single Release

Stevie Nick's cover of Dave Mathews "Crash" taken from her "Soundstage Sessions" cd will be released as a single through Amazon.com on March 17th. Previews of the two track single are up on the Amazon site.

The two track disc including "Landslide" has been serviced to Triple A Radio stations in the US and is "Available For Airplay" 3.16-17. That basically means it's available for the Music Directors of the Triple A radio stations to consider adding to their rotation. So if you have a Triple A station in your city or town - Request it be played...

The track is making some impact at radio, but it's early days. This week (3/11) in order for a song to hit the top 50 of the Triple A Radio Play Chart - a track would need to have a minimum of 192 spins at radio. "Crash" currently has 12 spins this week at radio & building. Last week it was played three times on the Triple A stations that are tracked. So hopefully within the next couple of weeks it picks up the pace and cracks the top 50 if the Music Directors are successful in adding it to their rotation, and if the feedback from their audience is positive.

To check if you have a Triple A radio station in your city or town to request that "Crash" be played, check out the Radio and Records site, scroll down and hit the "Station Links".

101.9 RXP INTERVIEW WITH STEVIE NICKS

101.9 RXP THE NEW YORK

ROCK EXPERIENCE

Stevie Nicks joins Matt and Leslie today for part 1 of a 5 part interview. Stevie discussed getting the call to join Fleetwood Mac, working with Lindsay Buckingham before they joined Fleetwood Mac and how since Stevie was a young girl she knew she had a gift for poetry and songwriting.  Stevie also discussed her Soundstage DVD and CD release, the Rumours Boxset that's coming out and what's going to be on it.  This is a really good interview.

If you want to listen to the interview as a stream click here.  It's approximately 25 minutes long uninterupted by commercials.

STEVIE NICKS - SOUNDSTAGE PRESS RELEASE

LEGENDARY ROCK QUEEN STEVIE NICKS’ NEW “LIVE IN CHICAGO” DVD AND “THE SOUNDSTAGE SESSIONS” CD SCHEDULED FOR MARCH 31st RELEASE

New York, NY - Stevie Nicks, rock’s superstar chanteuse, the “Gold Dust Woman” herself, will be releasing the “Live In Chicago” DVD as well as “The Soundstage Sessions” CD - both in stores 

on March 31st, it was announced today by Reprise Records.

The “Live in Chicago” DVD includes all the timeless Nicks songs from her solo projects as well as songs written as a member of the legendary rockers Fleetwood Mac. Along with Stevie classics such as “Stand Back,” “Rhiannon,” “Dreams,” “Gold Dust Woman,” “Landslide” and “Edge of Seventeen,” the DVD also features stunning cover songs, including Dave Matthews’ “Crash Into Me” and a tear-down-the-house finale of Led Zeppelin’s “Rock and Roll.”

“This is the first time since 1985 that I have had one of my live shows filmed and recorded,” said Nicks. “We spent three years perfecting this show, which we began in Vegas in October of 2007. I could not move on until we filmed this show. Luckily “Soundstage” producer Joe Thomas, who saw the show many times, felt the same way. I am as proud of this as anything I’ve ever done in my entire career.”

Stevie Nicks “The Soundstage Sessions” CD includes 10 songs from the “Live in Chicago” DVD. Nicks brought the songs from the show to Nashville and worked once again with Joe Thomas in the studio where they added “Nashville strings” and additional vocals. The CD features a lush orchestral version of “Landslide” and other Nicks gems including “Stand Back,” “Crash Into Me,” “Sara,” “Fall From Grace” and “If Anyone Falls in Love.”

Digital downloads of “Crash Into Me” (”I’ve wanted to record this song for the last 10 years,” said Nicks) and “Landslide” (orchestral version) will be available on Amazonmp3.com on March 17th. “Enchanted,” an exclusive album track, is scheduled to be available on March 31st on Amazonmp3.com. “Gold Dust Woman” and “Edge of Seventeen” will be available exclusively on iTunes on March 31st.

“We wanted everything on the DVD and CD to look and sound perfect and I think we succeeded,” concluded Nicks.

Nicks is currently on the Fleetwood Mac “Unleashed” Tour, which began March 1st in Pittsburgh.

STEVIE'S STUNNING LEGENDARY CONCERT (Pre-Order)

Stevie's epic Soundstage Sessions concert in Chicago!

The DVD features over 2 hours of stunning footage from this legendary concert! The CD includes brand new studio versions of classics like "Stand Back", "Sara", "Landslide" and MANY, MANY MORE! 

Includes Limited Edition Lithograph.


BONUS DOWNLOADS INCLUDED WITH PRE-ORDER NOT FOUND ON THE CD
("Rhiannon" and "The One")

Visit The Nicks Fix To Order

BRAND NEW "STUDIO" VERSIONS OF CLASSICS

Here's an interesting bit of information on Stevie Nicks' "Soundstage Sessions" CD that is being released on March 31st. The 10 track CD being released in conjunction with the "Live in Chicago" DVD appears to be studio versions of Stevie's classics along with two new songs "Crash" by Dave Mathews and "Circle Dance" by Bonnie Raitt. Triple A Radio Stations have already been serviced with a two track promo CD containing "Crash" and "Landslide" (orchestra version). Both tracks on the promo CD were assumed to be the audio taken directly from Stevie's live Soundstage show in Chicago. And that very well still may be the case, where they used her live vocals from the show.

But a Stevie fan has heard the promo CD and confirmed that the vocals DO NOT appear to be live vocals and are not the same as what is on the DVD.

This adds a whole new twist to this release... So are all the tracks on the CD really NEW updated studio versions of old Stevie tracks? Are they the vocals from the live Soundstage show but without the audience? Many many questions!!! Might explain why Stevie's website The Nicksfix says "The CD includes brand new studio versions of classics like "Stand Back", "Sara", "Landslide" and MANY, MANY MORE!"

1. Stand Back
2. Crash (Dave Matthews Band cover)
3. Sara
4. If Anyone Falls in Love
5. Landslide (orchestra version)
6. How Still My Love
7. Circle Dance
8. Fall From Grace
9. Sorcerer
10. Beauty and the Beast

Update to Warner Bros. Store for Stevie's Soundstage

Warner Bros. updated the order page at the Warner Bros store for Stevie's Soundstage Sessions Live In Chicago DVD/CD.

Also, a larger view of

the new cover.

SOUNDSTAGE PRE-ORDER, NEW COVER, INCLUDES LITHOGRAPH

NEW COVER INCLUDES LITHOGRAPH

SIGNED BY STEVIE NICKS

A little something in the mailbox today from Warner Brothers.  Aside from being surprised that I received something from the record company, there are a couple of other perplexing things to note about this announcement:

• What is up with this new fantastic, different cover art, if in fact it is a change in cover art??  It's perfect!!  It's nothing like what Amazon is showing and has been showing for the last six months.
  
• The other thing is that this announcement suggests that there are new STUDIO versions of classics on the CD???  Isn't this supposed to be a live album?  In any case there's a link to order directly from Warner Bros.  You are ordering both the DVD and the CD.  The package (If you are part of the handful that order) will include the signed lithograph from Stevie.
  

Here's the announcement:

Tune in to PBS tonight and pre-order the new CD/DVD now!

This stunning HDTV, Dolby Stereo performance, captures a radiant Stevie Nicks in her first filmed solo performance since 1987, Airing tonight and throughout the weekend. Check your local PBS affiliate at the following for airdates and times.

Stevie's epic Soundstage Sessions concert in Chicago!

The DVD features over 2 hours of stunning footage from this legendary concert! The CD includes brand new studio versions of classics like "Stand Back", "Sara", "Landslide" and MANY, MANY MORE! The first handful to order this STEVIE NICKS LIMITED EDITION CD/DVD SET will receive a lithograph personally signed by Stevie Nicks! Click HERE to Pre-Order now!

And again... Here's the trailer:

STEVIE NICKS LIMITED EDITION CD/DVD SET

Stevie's epic Soundstage Sessions

concert in Chicago!

The DVD features over 2 hours of stunning footage from this legendary concert! 

The CD includes brand new versions of classics like "Stand Back", "Sara", "Landslide" and MANY, MANY MORE! The first handful to order this STEVIE NICKS LIMITED EDITION CD/DVD SET will receive a lithograph personally signed by Stevie Nicks! Click HERE to Pre-Order now!

Info courtesty of the nicksfix

Stevie Nicks Live in Chicago DVD

Stevie Nicks Live in Chicago DVD

Amazon.com now has a trailer up for Stevie's Soundstage DVD and CD Release on March 31st. 

Check it out... It's actually pretty awesome!!

Amazon Link

Watch SN Promo  |  View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com

Nicks confirms "Monday Morning"

"It still gives me goose bumps and it still makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up," says Stevie Nicks, who is eagerly anticipating the first Fleetwood Mac tour in five years, which kicks off March 1st in Pittsburgh. Nicks tell the Smoking Section that fans can count on renditions of "Gold Dust Woman", "Rhiannon", "Monday Morning" and "Dreams," but the rest of the set has yet to be hammered out.   "It's pretty easy to choose when there's such a great vault to pick from," she says. 

Nicks is also thrilled with her two solo releases, out in March. One is The Soundstage Sessions, a CD featuring live versions of some lesser-known jams, and an orchestral version of "Landslide." The other is a DVD called Live In Chicago, where she mixes Mac classics, solo hits and a few covers, including Dave Matthews Band's "Crash Into Me." "I think I did the song justice," she says. "I'd like to do a record where I take boys' songs and twist them into women's songs." Look out." 

Article by Austin Scaggs 

Rollingstone issue 1071 with Bruce Springsteen on the cover

Kindly Transcribed by: RockALittle250

"The SoundStage Sessions," Stevie Nicks (March 24)

According to HeraldTribune.com Stevie's The Soundstage Sessions will be released on Tuesday March 24th.  I'm assuming the DVD Live in Chicago will be released on the same date.