Interview: Stevie Nicks: 'The most fun I've ever had'... UK Telegraph

Stevie Nicks tells Helen Brown about her latest album – and the joys of being part of a double act.

By Helen Brown
The Telegraph

When Stevie Nicks asked her 15-year-old god-daughter to take part in her new music video – “playing me at 30, around the time I joined Fleetwood Mac” – the girl asked for a little direction. “So I told her to twirl, talk to yourself, make like you’re crazy, be me,” she says. “We put her in my vintage, evergreen tie-dye with my top hat. Oh, she looked so beautiful. My girlfriends laughed when we saw the dress. Were we ever that small? We must have been!”

She may lament outgrowing her youthful stage gear, but Nicks is still a rock star Rapunzel at 63, blonde locks cascading over billowing, black chiffon sleeves. Today, she’s filled her hotel suite with candles and draped a fake fur blanket over a chair that reclines so far back I briefly worry she’s expecting a therapy session, not an interview.

Video: BBC Breakfast Interview + Lauren Laverne BBC 6 Radio Interview with Stevie Nicks

BBC BREAKFAST

Finally Stevie Nicks was on the sofa to talk about her latest work. She's had an unparalleled career as a solo artist and as the front woman of Fleetwood Mac. It's been ten years since Stevie Nicks recorded any solo work but she's back with her latest album. In Your Dreams, and the single Secret Love are out on Monday. Stevie will be performing live with Rod Stewart on Sunday in Hyde Park.

Re-watch today's broadcast of her interview on BBC Breakfast HERE  Stevie's portion of the show is at the 24 minute mark.

Lauren Laverne BBC Radio 6
Legendary Fleetwood Mac singer Stevie Nicks joins Lauren to talk about her new solo album In Your Dreams.

Re-listen tot he broadcast if you missed it the show this morning HERE

Review: Stevie Nicks - In Your Dreams "Nicks opens with "Secret Love", a sturdily pulsing piece blitzed by growling powerchords singing of "a timeless search for a love that might work"

Dame Stevie taps into the 'Sleepy Hollow' vibe on her first album of new songs in a decade 

Reviewed by: Adam Sweeting
The Arts Desk 

In Your Dreams is also the "Disc of the Day" on the front page of the website 

It's been a decade since Stevie Nicks's last album of new songs, Trouble in Shangri-La, but In Your Dreams proves that there's creative life in the old girl yet. Fans of the wispy tunestrel will be pleased to hear that she hasn't strayed far from her familiar stomping grounds of melodious folk-rockism and tales of love and yearning, the focus (in fine Seventies style) fixing on the singer's emotional trials and torments. The voice that sang "Rhiannon" remains suitably ghostly, and even with an overlay of mild croakiness, it sounds pretty good for a 63-year-old.

The disc is crammed with a phone-book's worth of LA session veterans, from Steve Ferrone to Waddy Wachtel, and there are appearances by Lindsey Buckingham and Mick Fleetwood. The Heartbreakers' Mike Campbell plays an assortment of instruments and co-wrote a couple of tracks, though not as many as Dave Stewart, who also co-produced the disc with Glenn Ballard.

The best songs work very well indeed. Nicks opens with "Secret Love", a sturdily pulsing piece blitzed by growling powerchords as she sings of "a timeless search for a love that might work". Vocal harmonies and acoustic guitars underpin the affecting "For What It's Worth" (no relation to the Stephen Stills one), while the pick of the bunch may be the title track, a scintillating blast of jangle-rock which harks back to the days when Nicks used to hang around with Tom Petty and his crew.

That's not all. Nicks, still festooned in hats, feathers and bodice-ripper gowns after all these years, channels Edgar Allan Poe in "Annabel Lee", runs with the Undead in "Moonlight (A Vampire's Dream)", and evokes vampire chronicler Anne Rice in "New Orleans".

Her only problem was knowing when to stop. In Your Dreams lasts half an hour longer than Fleetwood Mac's Rumours, and the longer it goes on, the more you want to start pelting it with rotten fruit. "Everybody Loves You" is drab electro-pop, "Italian Summer" is cloying schmaltz, and "Ghosts Are Gone" should have been called "The Day the Music Died". It'll all boil down into a nice playlist though.

Press Release...

SOURCE: Reprise Records 

June 21, 2011 08:00 ET

Rock Legend Stevie Nicks "In Your Dreams Tour" Slated for August & September 

NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - Jun 21, 2011) - Stevie Nicks, whose new CD "In Your Dreams" debuted last month at No. 6 on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart, will begin a 15-city "In Your Dreams Tour" beginning in Denver on August 9th; it was announced today by her label, Reprise Records.

Nicks, a multi-Grammy Award winner as a solo artist and member of the legendary Fleetwood Mac and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, most recently toured with Rod Stewart as part of their "Heart & Soul Tour."

Her new "In Your Dreams" CD has received glowing reviews including US Magazine who declared it "the best album of Nicks' four decade career." Her new single, "For What It's Worth" has just been released.

The "In Your Dreams Tour" schedule is as follows:

Show date City, State Venue
Aug 9 Denver, CO - Red Rocks
Aug 12 Dallas, TX - Verizon Theatre
Aug 13 Houston, TX - Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
Aug 15 Atlanta, GA - Chastain Park Amph.
Aug 17 Indianapolis, IN - Verizon Amph.
Aug 19 Toledo, OH - Huntington Center
Aug 20 Cincinnati, OH - PNC
Aug 23 Chicago, IL - Rosemont Theatre
Aug 24 Prior, MN - Mystic Lake Casino
Aug 27 Bethel, NY - Bethel Woods
Aug 29 Boston, MA - Bank America Pav.
Aug 30 Saratoga Springs, NY - SPAC
Sept 1 Holmdel, NJ - PNC Bank Arts Center
Sept 3 Bristow, VA - Jiffy Lube
Sept 4 Wantagh, NY - Jones Beach

For more information, please contact:
Liz Rosenberg
Karen Moss
Liz Rosenberg Media
liz@lizrosenbergmedia.com
karenmoss@lizrosenbergmedia.com
(212) 991-4290

LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM LIVE Morristown, NJ - September 29th Tickets on sale June 24th

LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM LIVE

Mayo Performing Arts Center

MORRISTOWN, NJ

September 29, 2011

ON SALE:

MEMBERS: Thursday June 23rd

PUBLIC: Friday June 24th

Ticket Prices:

$77|$67|$57|$57|$47

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Stevie Nicks on BBC 6 Music with Lauren Laverne June 22nd 10am-1pm

Lauren Laverne BBC 6

The 10am - 1pm show on 6Music with Lauren Laverne.

Tomorrow, 10:00 on BBC 6 Music
Link

Stevie Nicks will be on BBC Breakfast

June 22, 2011 with Andy Serkis

BBC Breakfast

STEVIE NICKS LIVE Noblesville, IN (Indianapolis) - August 17th Tickets On Sale 6/24

STEVIE NICKS LIVE

Verizon Wireless Music Center

Noblesville, IN

Wed, Aug 17, 2011

Onsale to General Public

Friday, 06/24/11 10:00 AM EDT

Ticket Prices:

US $25.00 to US $201.00

LIVENATION

MEET STEVIE NICKS IN LONDON! HMV Oxford Circus June 27th - 6pm Signing NEW album In Your Dreams.

Stevie Nicks @ hmv Oxford Circus
In order for Stevie to meet as many fans as possible we ask that only the new album, In Your Dreams, is submitted for a signature. To avoid disappointment, please do not present any other albums or items of memorabilia for a signature. Copies of the new album will be available to buy from the store on the day of the event from 8.30am.

HMV-Facebook Event

WOW!  How exciting!!!

NEW Video: Lindsey Buckingham opens up about how he decided to self-release his forthcoming solo album Seeds We Sow

Lindsey Buckingham from BULLETT MAGAZINE on Vimeo.

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In this video filmed by Bullett Magazine, Fleetwood Mac singer and guitarist Lindsey Buckingham opens up about how he decided to self-release his forthcoming solo album Seeds We Sow, his ambivalence about the massive success of Fleetwood Mac's Rumours and how the band's experimental followup Tusk changed the course of his career.

The full synopsis at Rollingstone

(Review) In Your Dreams - Stevie Nicks ★★★★/5 by Allgigs

In Your Dreams - Stevie Nicks Album Review
allgigs.co.uk
Paul Pledger
★★★★/5

Upon studying the sleeve to Stevie Nicks' first album in a decade, you're almost transformed back to a time when album-art was determined by mystical imagery of white horses, moonlight and lace-adorned top-hatted blonde-haired singers - and then you realise that you're not in the '70s, you're in the 21st-century eyeing up Nicks', hamming it up in an extravagant white dress on the inlay for "In Your Dreams". How time's don't change - she's still keeping it 'chiffon'.

Fleetwood Mac certainly don't look like reforming again anytime soon (the last group release was the acclaimed "Say You Will" in 2003), but "In Your Dreams" does at least herd three of the favoured line-up together again - Nicks (obviously), Buckingham and Fleetwood contribute at various points. Main right-hand man to Nicks, however, turns out to be Dave Stewart, a huge name in his own right, both as a producer to the stars and erstwhile founder member of Eurythmics. King session-musician, Waddy Wachtel, also makes a few appearances, as does Heartbreakers member, Mike Campbell.

As Stevie Nicks albums go, this rates as one of her best, mainly due to its consistent delivery of pin-sharp rock-songs and beguiling choruses. From early track "Secret Love" (rumoured to have been mooted for the self-titled Mac album of 1977), kicks things off in typical fashion and has already done a turn on American radio - it's true grown-ups' pop-rock, but that doesn't make a dull prospect by any means. The album continues favourably with "For What It's Worth" and the first Stewart/Nicks co-composition, "In Your Dreams", giving the impression that her upcoming exclusive UK appearance at Hard Rock Calling may prove to be a special treat after all.

In truth, there aren't that many poor moments amongst the 14 songs, although mawkishness does sneak into "Soldier's Angel" - yet she can ramp up some classic hooks, particularly on "Moonlight" and the Edgar Allan Poe-influenced, "Annabel Lee". I suppose my only criticism of "In Your Dreams" is its length - we live in an age of drawn-out albums and, at 69 minutes, yes you get value for money, but you also get a couple of songs too many, methinks. Otherwise, Stevie Nicks still knows how to paint a picture and sing a song.

"Secret Love" Enters Top 100 UK Radio Airplay Chart...

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UK Radio Airplay Chart for the week Sun Jun 12 to Sat Jun 18 inclusive

Stevie Nicks - Secret Love enters the Top 100 UK Radio Airplay Chart at # 54 with 177 plays on UK monitored radio stations for the week ending June 18th. That's an increase of 59 plays over last week where it's position on the chart was # 113.

Impacts: 15.99 million (which means potential listeners)


The UK Airplay Chart is compiled by Radiomonitor from the music played on 316 UK radio stations or 99.7% of UK radio by audience (Rajar Q2 2010).

The weekly chart follows the Official Chart Company (OCC) chart week i.e. Sunday to Saturday inclusive.

This chart is compiled by http://www.radiomonitor.com/

Italian Summer - Stevie Nicks The Q 50 Essential Tracks to Download - Q Magazine

Q50 / June 2011 / TRACK 8

Italian Summer

STEVIE NICKS

Huge, surprisingly moving, string-laden paean to lost innocence and fractured relationships with kitchen-sink production from the Fleetwood Mac frontwoman's new hit'n'miss solo release.

Available On:  IN YOUR DREAMS, REPRISE LP

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