Stevie Nicks resumed touring in October after postponing several shows earlier this year to heal from a shoulder fracture
The rock icon names some of the artists she listened to while recovering and reveals how she discovers them in an exclusive interview with PEOPLE
Nicks also talks Buckingham Nicks, sharing what it was like to listen back decades after its initial release
What’s playing on Stevie Nicks’ speakers? Well, a lot of things are, especially when she is using “the power of music” to heal.
When the legendary singer-songwriter, 77, stepped away from the stage temporarily earlier this year to heal from a shoulder fracture, music filled her ears nonstop, she tells PEOPLE in an exclusive interview.
Giving a rare glimpse into her current music rotation while speaking about her new Bella Donna Barbie doll, the hitmaker includes an indie band that opened for her at a recent show and reveals the process she uses to discover new artists.
“I'm all over the internet. I listen to a lot of current bands,” Nicks says, listing The Midnight, The White Kites and Night Traveler as some of the groups she enjoys of late.
“And all through my recovery, I've listened,” the star continues. “That's the one thing that I have done physically through this recovery, is to really listen to all this younger music that I love. And when I wasn't feeling well at all, it just carried me on a cloud through this whole thing.”
So it was full circle when one of the bands that "carried" her, Night Traveler, opened for the Fleetwood Mac frontwoman at her Phoenix concert on Oct. 7 — one of her first shows back post-injury.
The Texas-based rock duo later shared an Instagram post reflecting on the monumental gig.
"We thought opening for [Stevie Nicks] would be the coolest musical moment of our lives,” the band wrote in the caption. “Turns out the kindness and sincerity of her spirit that she shared with us will be the thing we never forget.”
Regardless of what she’s listening to, Nicks tells PEOPLE, “All my tapes are really curated by me.” Still, she explains, “I'm not high-tech at all.”
In the past five or six years, the "Silver Springs" singer has started using radio functions on platforms like Pandora and Spotify.
“I push the thumbs-up. Love this. Don't love that. Love this,” she explains. Then, Nicks makes a list, which becomes a tape, which becomes a source of healing and inspiration during difficult times.
“Just to lay in bed and stare at the ceiling is not my idea of a good time,” the rock icon explains. “That kept me dancing to a point, just kind of Snoop Dogging around my place, because you can be pretty beat-up, and you can still dance if inspirational music comes on.”
“The power of music to heal you is amazing,” adds Nicks. “If I didn't have those tapes, I don't know what I would have done.”
Another piece of music Nicks has been listening to lately? Buckingham Nicks, the eponymous 1973 album she recorded with her ex and former bandmate Lindsey Buckingham, before they brought their talents to Fleetwood Mac.
The former rock duo re-released the project in September, prompting Nicks to listen for the first time in a long while, she tells PEOPLE.
"If you can ever just sit in a big room with somebody who has a great stereo or whatever you want to call it, great speakers, or lives next door to a studio, just go in and listen to it, because you'll hear stuff in Buckingham Nicks that none of us have heard since that record came out,” the star explains, “because it was only pressed at one time and went out that one time.”
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Nicks says she has even “had some people go, ‘I put it on in my house stereo that goes all over, and I walk all over the house and just listen to it, and it's like I'm in a huge studio listening to you guys make this record.’ ”
“I don't even have a copy, so it's like, when you listen to this, it's like you're in the studio with us,” she adds. “And there are parts, vocal parts, music parts that I haven't heard in so long that I'm, like, ‘Wow. I would join that band.’ ”
Stevie Nicks is never beating the witch allegations.
Despite decades-enduring rumors, rock’s most mystical singer-songwriter has long disavowed spell-casting and similar activities (her quote “I just wear black because it makes me look thinner, you idiots” comes to mind). But there’s a reason the word “witch” trails behind her as closely as one of her sequined shawls, and it was on full display Monday night at TD Garden during her latest solo tour.
These days, the live performance rubric for legacy rock acts measures just how much an artist can still rattle the rafters. But Fleetwood Mac favorites like “Rhiannon” and “Landslide” do not a rager make, and Nicks’s prowess at age 77 instead manifested in her ability to keep Boston fans still but thoroughly spellbound, hanging on her every twirl.
Even when Nicks added an aggressive edge to her delivery, silvery vocals turning stony on songs like “Stand Back” and “Edge of Seventeen,” the crowd remained eerily rapt in lieu of any standard “rocking out.” Her mic stand, garlanded with beads and ribbons, and a steady rotation of vintage shawls only amplified her reputation.
The Boston date of Nicks’s solo tour was originally scheduled for August, but a shoulder fracture forced her to postpone a slew of performances, a debacle she addressed early in the set.
“It isn’t like it doesn’t hurt, but at least I can do it,” Nicks said with a wink after miming a few physical therapy exercises.
Throughout the evening, the singer’s demeanor was one of gratitude and pure pep, eagerly conjuring career anecdotes like the origin story of her Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers collaboration, “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around.” Later, a cover of Petty’s tune “Free Fallin’” slated into the set with ease, a testament to Nicks’s cohesive selection of solo songs for the tour, all culled from her early albums “Bella Donna” and “The Wild Heart.” (The lone outlier was her politically charged tempest “The Lighthouse,” which she released as a standalone single last year).
But Nicks’s finest hat trick was proving her enduring appeal as Stevie Nicks, the all-around musician, versus Stevie Nicks, a singer from Fleetwood Mac. Unlike other solo tours of rock icons — say, John Fogerty’s recent date at MGM Music Hall at Fenway — Nicks’s own songs complemented the Fleetwood Mac material instead of competing with it. The instantly recognizable opening riffs of “Edge of Seventeen” and “Gold Dust Woman” were met with equal enthusiasm from the crowd, while her 1981 song “Outside the Rain” melted into the heartbeat-like bass of Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams” as if they were companion pieces.
There’s no finale like “Landslide” to knock loose a few tears, and during Nicks’s encore, her vocals twinkled like those fabled snow-covered hills while a slideshow displayed photos of her late Fleetwood Mac bandmate, Christine McVie.
The wistful ballad debuted on Fleetwood Mac’s self-titled album from 1975 ― the same album that helped weave Nicks into the fabric of the band and catapulted them to lasting stardom. Fifty years later, the song and Nicks seem somehow riper and more poignant than ever.
The work of a witch or not, that’s just magic.
Review & setlist: Stevie Nicks wraps TD Garden in friendship — and iconic capes
"I just want you to know that you live in a very, very, very attractive city. However, it is a very, very, very cold city."
Stevie Nicks, with Abby Anderson, at TD Garden, Boston, Nov. 24, 2025.
Stevie Nicks fans were jubilant when the icon finally took the stage at TD Garden on Monday night, after a fractured shoulder forced her to postpone her scheduled Aug. 12 show.
The multi-platinum, Grammy Award-winning singer, 77, kicked off Thanksgiving week in Boston with beloved hits and inside stories from her illustrious career. Nicks is a two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee who, as a solo artist and member of Fleetwood Mac, has collectively sold more than 220 million albums.
But even rock ‘n’ roll queens get injured. And she wasted no time addressing the reason for her postponement before the night’s festivities began.
“I’m very glad to be here. Me and my shoulder are here. Don’t ever ever trip and break your shoulder because it is not a good thing,” Nicks said.
Shoulder aside, Nicks’ signature raspy voice was on point. And so were her signature capes — velvety, sparkly, fringy — and all the originals from her albums and videos, she pointed out. Each time she emerged in a new one, the crowd went wild.
Despite the injury, Nicks determinedly moved about the stage throughout the night, even shimmying and twirling at points. Upon the conclusion of “Gold Dust Woman,” she turned her back to the audience while stretching her caped arms out and flapping the material slowly like a majestic bird.
It was moments like that when Nicks seemed ethereal. Yet, she was also down to earth through much of the evening, chatting about her awe when meeting Tom Petty, and even demonstrating the physical therapy exercises she’s been doing to rehab her shoulder (to a chuckling audience).
She also talked about Boston.
“I have to say, driving to the show tonight and driving through the streets of your city, the city is really a very beautiful city,” Nicks said after the opening song (a cover of “Not Fade Away” by Buddy Holly and the Crickets). “I’m sure you know that, but for me, I’m like, ‘It’s so beautiful, this whole city.’ So I just want you to know that you live in a very, very, very attractive city. However, it is a very, very, very cold city.”
The multi-generational packed house, with women dressed in Stevie-inspired attire — velvet, lace, full skirts, shawls, and fringe vests — laughed at the Boston weather reference. As for Nicks, she wore a black velvet and ruffly dress with high black boots (no heel anymore, she said, as she’s too old for that now).
Nicks hasn’t released a solo album of new material since 2011’s “In Your Dreams.” But the audience was more than ready for a trip down memory lane as Nicks sang songs like “Stand Back” and “Edge of Seventeen” from her ’80s albums “The Wild Heart” and “Bella Donna,” as well as Fleetwood Mac classics like “Dreams,” “Gypsy,” and “Rhiannon.” Her voice was strong through all of them.
The newest song she sang is “The Lighthouse,” released digitally to streaming services in September 2024, a powerful and rallying cry for women’s rights that she premiered on “Saturday Night Live” last year. As she sang, the large screen behind her portrayed a lighthouse shining in the dark while a turbulent storm raged.
Nicks shared that she went to England to mix the song at Abbey Road and simultaneously practiced with Harry Styles in the next recording studio. The two were singing together at the BST Hyde Park concert series in July 2024 to commemorate Nicks’s close friend and bandmate Christine McVie, who passed away in 2022.
Nicks is clearly all about honoring her friends, and friendship was a common theme throughout the night.
Nicks paid tribute to McVie in the night’s final song, “Landslide,” while photos of the longtime pals ran like a digital scrapbook behind her. Another decades-long friend, Tom Petty, who passed away in 2017, was honored in the same way. In fact, Petty’s song, “Runnin’ Down a Dream,” signaled her arrival to the stage for the evening.
Nicks told the story of how her hit song with Petty, “Stop Dragging My Heart Around,” off her 1981 debut solo album “Bella Donna,” came to be. She said her producer Jimmy Iovine told her she didn’t have a single when the “Bella Donna” album was finished.
“There is nothing that anybody can ever say at the beginning of your solo career that can be worse than that, because writing a single is just not that easy,” she said.
Iovine then hooked her up with Petty, who said he had a song and even offered to sing it with her. Nicks was thrilled, and said she remembers how she “dressed to the nines” when meeting Petty. Her fans, familiar with her fashion sense, got a big chuckle out of that.
“Thank you, Tom,” she said, before launching into an energetic “Stop Dragging my Heart Around” with Waddy Wachtel, her guitarist and music director of 40 years, singing Petty’s part.
Nicks closed out the show with more thoughts on friendship. She said she recently saw “Wicked: For Good” with Wachtel.
“I can honestly tell you that Waddy and I cried all the way through it,” she said. “We did, because it’s all about friendship and how friendships last. Waddy and I have known each other since 1971.”
A sentimental Nicks also let her fans know that, despite her age, she’s far from retiring.
“When you leave here I want you to remember that, you know, me and Waddy, we’re quite old,” Nicks said, to laughter. “We love you so much that we don’t care how old we are. We’re out here. And we’ll be out here next year, and the year after that. Because you give us back so much.”
Bubbly Dallas native and country artist Abby Anderson opened for Nicks, singing original and cover songs in a soulful voice and playing both piano and guitar. She sang an unreleased song, “Untamed Woman,” written about her mom who was in the audience, and teared up while talking about her. The artist said she grew up listening to Stevie Nicks and that touring with her is a thrill.
October 2, 2025: Rhino Records announced their annual Record Store Day Black Friday releases today... The event takes place worldwide on November 28th at independent record stores, and Rhino continues its effort to release the live portions of the deluxe editions of the Fleetwood Mac albums that were previously released on CD only.
This year, for Record Store Day Black Friday and appropriately for the 50th anniversary of the white Fleetwood Mac album, they are releasing the live recordings originally released on CD in the deluxe edition in 2018 in a limited edition 2LP Crystal Clear Vinyl set. The live album will also be released on CD and digitally.
Fleetwood Mac: Live 1975
Fleetwood Mac Live 1975 captures the incredible electricity of the band’s first tour with the legendary lineup of Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham joining Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, and Christine McVie.
Recorded 50 years ago at the Capitol Theatre (Passaic, NJ, 10/17/75) and Jorgensen Auditorium (University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 10/25/75), the album features the band’s at-the-time recent hits “Rhiannon” and “Landslide,” along with some early Fleetwood Mac favorites, including “Hypnotized” and “Oh Well.” Pressed on vinyl for the very first time!
If you happen to own the 1975 White Album Deluxe Edition (3CD/LP/DVD Deluxe Edition),which was released in January 2018, this live album was one of the three CDs in the package. That live CD also contained "Over My Head" live from 1976, which isn't included with this 1975 set. The real treat is having this released on vinyl for the very first time.
Mark your calendars and set your alarms for November 28th and hit up your local record store.
Full details on all titles are listed, and for a list of participating stores, visit:
Event: BLACK FRIDAY 2025 Release Date: 11/28/2025 Format: 2 x LP Label: Rhino Quantity: 5,000 Release type: RSD Exclusive Release
Tracklist
1. Get Like You Used To Be 2. Station Man 3. Spare Me A Little 4. Rhiannon 5. Why 6. Landslide 7. I'm So Afraid 8. Oh Well 9. The Green Manalishi (with the Two Pronged Crown) 10. World Turning 11. Blue Letter 12. Don't Let Me Down Again 13. Hypnotized
Lacquers Cut from the Original Analog Masters by Matthew Lutthans at The Mastering Lab! Pressed on 180g Premium-Quality Vinyl at Fidelity Record Pressing!
Future Games is the fifth studio album by British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac. It was recorded in the summer of 1971 at Advision Studios in London and was the band's first album to feature Christine McVie as a full member and Bob Welch on guitar and vocals. Future Games was Fleetwood Mac's bold leap into dreamy psychedelia and introspective rock....a turning point in sound, and a glimpse into the band's evolving magic.
This album has been cut from the original analog masters by Matthew Lutthans at The Mastering Lab and is pressed on 180-gram premium-quality vinyl at Fidelity Record Pressing as part of the Rhino Reserve line.
Features
Rhino Start Your Ear Off Right 2026 Indie Exclusive
Rhino Reserve Audiophile Series
180g Premium-Quality Vinyl
Vinyl LP
Lacquers Cut from Original Analog Masters by Matthew Lutthans at The Mastering Lab
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