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.

F1 BBC Sports Sneak Preview (includes "The Chain")

Sneak preview of the opening titles of BBC Sport' s Formula 1 TV coverage.

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The title sequence uses the iconic track "The Chain", a song recorded in 1976 and released on Fleetwood Mac's best-selling album Rumours.

As fans will know, it was used as the theme song for BBC Sport's Grand Prix programme from 1978 until the end of 1996, when ITV Sport took over the rights. And now it's back. Here are the first few seconds of our new titles - see what you think...

MICK FLEETWOOD DRAWS HUNDREDS

MICK FLEETWOOD drew hundreds of fans to Barnes and Noble on March 20th for a CD Signing of "Blue Again".  Here's a couple of shots from the event.  The line shot is courtesy of 429 Records.

"Blue Again" debuted at #4 on the Top Blues Album Chart with the digital release.

MICK FLEETWOOD ON WITF 89.5 WEEKEND EDITION

Past 60, Mick Fleetwood Plays On

Scott Simon talks with musician Mick Fleetwood...Saturday March 28, 2009 on Weekend Edition from 8am to 10am on WITF 89.5 and the new 93.3 in Chambersburg.

Weekend Edition Saturday, March 28, 2009 - It's been more than 40 years since guitarist Peter Green founded Fleetwood Mac, and although he no longer plays with the band, it remains active. The group still includes drummer Mick Fleetwood, who, at 61, is bringing his music back to its blues roots.

After a five-year hiatus, Fleetwood is playing again with longtime bandmates Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham and John McVie on the Unleashed tour, while at the same time touring with his own outfit, Mick Fleetwood's Blues Band.

As a tribute to his blues-based roots, Fleetwood created Mick Fleetwood's Blues Band with guitarist Rick Vito. Vito, a fan of Fleetwood Mac when the group formed in 1967, had a stint as its guitarist in the late 1980s. Fleetwood's experience playing the blues with acts such as John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers placed him in the history of blues alongside the likes of Eric Clapton and Mick Taylor from The Rolling Stones.

"There was a whole blues movement in Europe," he says.

It was a movement which helped send Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, the band's first album, to the top of the English charts. Back then, the average English listener thought he was playing a brand-new musical form.

Returning To Roots

Blue Again, Fleetwood's first album with his new band, strives to bring back the music that sparked the movement. It's a hybrid album, composed of old songs (written by Green from the first incarnation of Fleetwood Mac) and new material by Rick Vito. One of the album's "vintage" songs is Green's "Love That Burns." Fleetwood says he remembers playing that song long before it was recorded on an album.

"We played this in a pub called The Nag's Head in Brixton," Fleetwood says. "It could maybe get 60 people in it, and there used to be 250, 300 people in there. And those were the sorts of places this music came out of. That was our beginnings of Fleetwood Mac."

Fleetwood says he believes strongly that the blues might not be alive today if English rockers hadn't discovered it. Bands such as The Rolling Stones took it upon themselves to teach their American fans about their own heroes, including Muddy Waters, Walter "Shakey" Horton and Bo Diddley.

"That whole genre of music was all but dead," he says. "All of these guys used to come over to Europe and would be treated like royalty. That art form is part of a wonderful heritage of the United States of America. It's nice to know, in some way, that we were a part of that."

Fleetwood has recently taken to the world of Twitter, where he answers questions from fans. Addressing the ups and downs of his band, he admits that, although it's been somewhat dysfunctional at times, the current tour is evidence that Fleetwood Mac is here to stay.

"The lovely thing is, we're very aware that we love to make music together," Fleetwood says. "It hearkens to the Shakespearean phrase, 'If music be the food of love, play on.' And we are playing on."

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.

FLEETWOOD MAC - TORONTO CONCERTS PICS (3/26/09)

Checkout Concertaholics amazing photos of Fleetwood Mac last night in Toronto (3/26/09). Awesome close-up shots... Really impressive.

My Night with Fleetwood Mac

Fleetwood Mac 2009 Unleashed Tour
They may be getting older, but Fleetwood Mac put on a great show. If you can, catch the Fleetwood Mac Unleashed tour, it's amazing.
http://www.associatedcontent.comarticle/1583239/fleetwood_mac_2009_unleashed_tour.html

MICK FLEETWOOD Two New Behind The Scenes Videos

These are hysterical!

Episode #2 of MyMickTV.com This is a brilliant idea to film behind the scenes footage of Mick on the Fleetwood Mac tour!!

The first video is courtesy of 429Records channel on Youtube. The second video is from Micks MyMickTV channel on Youtube

FLEETWOOD MAC Un hommage au passé

FLEETWOOD MAC

au Centre Bell: Un hommage au passé

MARC-ANDRÉ LEMIEUX,

MÉTRO MONTREAL

Fleetwood Mac s’est rendu un magnifique hommage, hier soir, au Centre Bell. Sans nouvel album à promouvoir, le quatuor a revisité ses vieux classiques, au grand plaisir des 11 139 spectateurs, qui n’en demandaient pas tant.

Pendant un peu plus de deux heures, la formation a joué ses indémodables tubes, pour la plupart issus de la décennie 1970, plus particulièrement des opus Rumours et Tusk.

Stevie Nicks et Lindsey Buckingham sont montés sur scène main dans la main, histoire de faire taire les rumeurs de friction au sein de la formation. C’est avec Monday Morning qu’ils ont ouvert les célébrations.

Les membres du groupe ont peut-être vieilli, mais ils n’ont pas changé d’un poil. À l’aube de la soixantaine, Stevie Nicks porte encore la même crinière (une longue chevelure blonde) et chante de façon aussi charmante qu’à ses tout débuts : une désinvolture typiquement hippie qui se reflète non seulement dans sa voix, mais également dans sa gestuelle, qui consiste en de grands mouvements de bras dans les airs, comme on a pu l’observer pendant son interprétation de Gypsy.

Lindsey Buckingham fait quant à lui honneur à sa réputation de petit voyou. Vêtu d’un blouson de cuir noir et d’une paire de skinny jeans, le guitariste montre une fougue à faire rougir d’envie les musiciens qui n’ont pas la moitié de son âge. Sa prestation en solo de Big Love a sans contredit été l’un des meilleurs moments de la soirée. De leur côté, le batteur Mick Fleetwood et le bassiste John McVie demeurent beaucoup plus à l’aise en retrait.

Voilà sans doute pourquoi le concert d’hier présentait ce sympathique air familier, celui qu’on trouve dans les soupers avec de vieux amis.

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Loose Translation:

FLEETWOOD MAC at the Bell Centre: A homage to the past

Fleetwood Mac paid a splendid homage, yesterday evening, at the Centre Bell. Without new album to be promoted, the quartet revisited its traditional old men, with the great pleasure of the 11.139 spectators, who did not ask such an amount of of it.

During a little more than two hours, the formation played its indémodables tubes, for the majority resulting from the decade 1970, more particularly of the opus Rumours and Tusk. Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham are assembled on scene hand in the hand, history to make conceal the rumours of friction within the formation. It is with Monday Morning that they opened the celebrations.

The members of the group perhaps aged, but they did not change a hair. At the dawn of about sixty, Stevie Nicks still carries the same mane (a long blond hair) and sings in a way as charming as with its whole beginnings: an ease typically hippie which is reflected not only in its voice, but also in its gestural, which consists of great movements of arm in the airs, as one could observe it during its interpretation of Gypsy.

Lindsey Buckingham made as for him honor with its reputation of little scoundrel. Vêtu of a black leather jacket and a pair of skinny jean, the guitarist shows an ardour to be made redden of desire the musicians who do not have half of his age. Its service in solo of Big Love indisputably was one of the best moments of the evening. On their side, the beater Mick Fleetwood and the bass player John McVie remain much more at ease in withdrawal. Here undoubtedly why the concert of yesterday presented this sympathetic nerve familiar air, that which one finds in the suppers with old friends.

STEVIE NICKS - LANDSLIDE (orchestra version)

STEVIE NICKS - Landslide (Orchestra Version)

Rock superstar Stevie Nicks performing one of her signature songs "Landslide (Orchestra Version)" recorded at her October 2007 "Soundstage" performance. Available on itunes and amazon.

Both "The Soundstage Sessions" CD and the "Live in Chicago" DVD are available on March 31, 2009 (March 30, 2009 in the UK).

REVIEW: Fleetwood Mac - Montreal Nicks, Buckingham balance and complement each other

Fleetwood Mac's golden oldies are aging just fine

Bell Centre gig. Nicks, Buckingham balance and complement each other

Montreal Gazette
BY BERNARD PERUSSE

When Mick Fleetwood and John McVie formed Fleetwood Mac as a British blues band in 1967, they probably never envisioned that they'd be playing to adoring arena audiences, paying up to $150 per ticket, 42 years later.

And they certainly could not have foreseen, during that long-gone summer of love, that all the adulation would be directed at two Yanks they had yet to meet.

As any of the 11,000 fans at the group's Bell Centre concert last night will tell you, drummer Fleetwood is a muscular timekeeper and bassist McVie provides an unobtrusive, solid anchor of his own. But it's also clear that, at all times, virtually all the energy in the room emanates from - and comes back to - singer Stevie Nicks and guitarist Lindsey Buckingham, the group's songwriters and its heart and soul.

If there was a defining moment in last night's hit-heavy show, it was when Buckingham completely took over Oh Well, a snarling 1969 rocker by original guitarist Peter Green that predates his and Nicks's presence in the band by more than five years. While Buckingham, undeniably the group's frontman, soloed away furiously, Fleetwood played the crazy-old-grandpa part for the benefit of the giant video screens.

Buckingham's prowess on his instrument simply isn't talked about often enough. Whether he's playing tasteful, economical phrases, as he did during ex-member Christine McVie's Say You Love Me, hammering out manic rock-flamenco note clusters in Big Love or fingerpicking the tasty folk-blues licks of Never Going Back Again, he's one of rock's most interesting players.

During his five-minute solo in I'm So Afraid, he made the instrument rumble, shriek and gasp, sending out shards of high-pitched squeals and hammering out repeated patterns. Unlike your average guitar god, Buckingham made no attempt to show how many different notes he could squeeze in per minute.

What makes a Fleetwood Mac show so satisfying, however, is the way Buckingham and Nicks complement and balance each other, in both their vocal blend and their approach to songwriting. For every Buckingham power-pop stomper like I Know I'm Not Wrong or Second Hand News came one of Nicks's earthier, more linear crowd-pleasers, like Gypsy or the sweetly nostalgic Landslide, which she sang in her long-familiar husky, lower register. (And, incidentally, how fantastic did she look?)

Buckingham spoke on stage of the emotional challenges that have defined the group's internal relationships over the years. But during Sara, Nicks crossed over to his side of the stage and he put his head on her shoulder.

Staged? Probably - but really, who cares? That affectionate gesture spoke of a hard-won victory that pretty much ensures that - to paraphrase the group - the chain will never be broken.

PHOTOS: FLEETWOOD MAC LIVE IN MONTREAL

FLEETWOOD MAC BELL CENTRE
MONTREAL, QUEBEC CANADA
MARCH 25, 2009
Photos: John Kenney