FLEETWOOD MAC 1977 - 2009 ST. PAUL COLLAGE

When Fleetwood Mac played in St. Paul, MN last month on March 3rd - the band was presented with a framed collage of their concert ads for shows in St. Paul stretching back to 1977. Mick Fleetwood was on hand to accept.

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Stevie Nicks Disses Lindsay Lohan. It's amazing how many media outlets have picked up on this - a quote taken to the extreme:

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STEVIE - NOT A FAN OF COMPUTERS

'Fleetwood Mac' lead singer Stevie Nicks talks about her first solo concert recording since 1985, why cell phones and computers make her mad and her hopes for Britney Spears. (April 9)

Q&A WITH STEVIE NICKS (Canadian Press)

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Q&A: Rock legend Stevie Nicks explains why she's a technophobe

NEW YORK — Friends who want to get in touch with Stevie Nicks know not to send an email, call on a cellphone, or reach out by text message, because she won't respond.

It's not that she's being rude: Nicks doesn't own a computer or a cellphone. The 60-year-old rock legend, who is currently on tour with Fleetwood Mac, is a proud technophobe.

"I believe that computers have taken over the world. I believe that they have in many ways ruined our children. I believe that kids used to love to go out and play," Nicks says in her famously smoky voice.

"I believe that social graces are gone because manners are gone because all people do is sit around and text. I think it's obnoxious."

Nicks does own an iPod, but she prefers to listen to music - which includes her new CD, "The Soundstage Sessions" - on a boombox. (The CD also comes packaged with a DVD.)

Better yet, give her a cassette version and she'll be in musical heaven. "It sounds better and you'd be convinced," she says.

AP: This is your first live project in 22 years. What took so long?

Nicks: I don't really know exactly how that happened. Before I knew it, it was 2007 ... (my) tour was over, and I'm sitting in my house going, "I can't believe I'm sitting here again, and I didn't film this show." So I got on my phone and I called my managers, and I said, "Make some calls, because I need to film this show." I'm very, very proud of it. I'm almost glad that I waited this long to do it, because maybe that's what God wanted me to do.

AP: You say you hope this project is a blueprint for the next generation. Why do you think there's a lack of strong rock acts?

Nicks: Because the music business is in terrible trouble. People are stealing our music. That's all there is to it. In the old days ... they would help you to develop into the artist that they knew you were going to be. In the last 10 years, the record companies don't have the money to do that. I don't know what the answer is to it. The only thing I can say to people is, "Buy music, do not steal music." If you do, you won't have any new music later on.

AP: If you and I were having lunch, and I pulled out my cellphone ...

Nicks: I'm gonna put my hand on your hand and say, "Turn it off, for now. Just give me an hour, of you, I really want an hour of just you, and your heart. I don't want you talking to someone else while we're having lunch." It's love, you know, it's relationships. I don't want love and relationships to be lost, and I feel like that's happening.

AP: Have the nation's economic troubles inspired you musically?

Nicks: Absolutely, I want to go home and write Bob Dylan songs, I want to go write radical, rebellious "let's try to make it better" songs. I'm very affected by everything going on. When I do get finished with this Fleetwood Mac tour, I will absolutely write about the political situation, which I have never done before. I have never actually been very political before, and I'm starting to feel more political every day. So, pretty soon, governor (laughs).

NUMBER 1

Stevie's "Live in Chicago" is the new No.1 Music Video DVD on Billboards April 18, 2009 chart.

Congratulations Stevie!

Nicks also debuts on Billboards Comprehensive Albums Chart at #48 with "The Soundstage Sessions". and #5 on the Top Internet Albums Chart.

Summary

- Billboard 200 #47

- Billboard Comprehensive Albums #48

- Top Internet Albums #5

- Top Music DVD's #1

MICK SUES FORMER ATTORNEY

Fleetwood Mac Drummer Sues Attorney, Firm Over $4.5 Million in Fees

The drummer of Fleetwood Mac, Michael "Mick" Fleetwood, and several of his business partners, have sued their former attorney, Paul McDonald, and law firm, Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson, for putting them on the hook for $4.5 million in attorney fees.

The Fleetwood group had hired the firm, which is based in Portland, Maine, to bring suit against a division of the British Broadcasting Corp. over distribution rights to rare musical recordings worth about $100 million, according to an amended complaint in the lawsuit, which was filed on March 26 in federal court in Maine. McNulty v. McDonald, No. 2:09-cv-00111 (D. Maine).

Michael J. Waxman, a solo practitioner in Portland, who represents the Fleetwood group, did not return a call for comment.

FULL ARTICLE (Law.com)

STEVIE NICKS is the consumate tease (NY TIMES)

NEW YORK TIMES
By RUTH LA FERLA

STEVIE NICKS is the consummate tease. Fanning out her arms, which are veiled, as always, in chiffon, she seems about to fold her audience into an embrace. Yet when she turns away, raising those arms in a priestesslike gesture, that fabric acts as a curtain, shielding her from prying eyes.

Her audience last month at Madison Square Garden, where Ms. Nicks sang with Fleetwood Mac, was clearly seduced by her come-hither/keep-back performance. Aging hippies and youthful rockers swayed and twirled in the aisles, their faces upturned to watch her shake her tambourine.

Her stylistic persona is as rock steady as her sound. Part healer, part sorceress, at 60 she is still working the gossamer tunics and shawls that have influenced two generations of Stevie acolytes, and given her performances the feel of a Wiccan ritual. Now, as if timed to the vernal equinox, Ms. Nicks has resurfaced with two new DVDs and a three-month concert tour. As might be expected, troupes of leather-and-lace-clad Stevie clones are popping up like crocuses.

They love her music, of course. “But time makes you bolder/Children get older/I’m getting older, too,” lines from the ballad “Landslide,” which she wrote at 26, can bring tears to their eyes. But they are besotted with Ms. Nicks herself. Never mind that the rock star is no sylph. She is the anti-Madonna — fragile and ethereal — and as constant as the tides.

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“She does her own, thing, always has done,” said Lily Donaldson, the celebrity model who attended the concert last month. “I love her music and her look, that whole flowing thing.”

Anna Sui, who dedicated an entire collection to Ms. Nicks in the late ’90s and turns out Stevie-inspired handkerchief hems almost every season, admires her consistency. “She’s the iconic California woman,” Ms. Sui observed. “Everyone has their version of her.”

These days Ms. Nicks is the inspiration for Web sites like gypsymoon.com, which offers Nicks-style top hats and shawls; and enchantedmirror.com, which sells tambourines, fringed shawls and a musky fragrance in homage to the singer. In February, Jill Stuart paraded Nicksian feathers, leather and lace on her fashion runway.

Variations on her costumes were precursors, Ms. Nicks will tell you, of “that grungy girl who wears the little ballerina dresses and big buccaneer boots.”

She will also tell you that the West Coast Ophelia look, all ruffles and belled sleeves, is the product of canny self-packaging.

“I needed a uniform,” she recalled, one that would counteract the stage fright she encountered in the mid-’70s, when she first began touring with Fleetwood Mac. At the time, her brief to Margi Kent, who still designs much of her wardrobe, was to create “something urchinlike out of ‘Great Expectations’ or ‘A Tale of Two Cities,’ ” a chiffonlike, raggedy skirt that would still look beautiful with black velvet platform boots.

“We came up with the outfit: a Jantzen leotard, a little chiffon wrap blouse, a couple of little short jackets, two skirts and boots,” Ms. Nicks said as she reminisced in her suite at the Waldorf Towers last week. “That gave us our edge.”

And an effective disguise. “I’ll be very, very sexy under 18 pounds of chiffon and lace and velvet,” Ms. Nicks promised herself as a teenager. “And nobody will know who I really am.”

Today she remains a woman under wraps, her legend as carefully tended as her wardrobe, which she stores in her home in Los Angeles. That legend encompasses the shaky vicissitudes of her romantic life — fans still speculate about the nature of her relationship with Lindsey Buckingham, Fleetwood Mac’s guitarist and her long-ago lover — and her risen-from-the-ashes saga of drug abuse and rehabilitation.

She is slow to detail the ravages of cocaine, which caused her voice to falter and her weight to fluctuate wildly over the years. But she does vow heatedly, “I will never do another line.”

Wed briefly in 1983 to Kim Anderson, the widower of a close friend, she has never remarried. “I didn’t want to be held down by a relationship,” she said, elaborating only that she was simply not equipped for the responsibilities of family life.

Her assiduously cultivated mysteriousness helps to keep her alive in the minds of fans. Yet at times she can appear guileless. Leaning in confidentially, she bemoaned the state of her arms. “They’ll never be what they were.” To tone them, she flexed a few times too many on her Power Plate machine, tearing a ligament. “When I’m pulling up my tights, I’m like dying,” she said.

She was limber enough, though, to lay out on the carpet three variations of her favorite stage turnout: a cutaway jacket, a ruched and ruffled dress and chunky boots. Missing was the airy shawl that is part of her concert uniform.

“A shawl is a great prop,” said the star, who is 5-foot-1. “It makes for big gestures.” Spreading her arms and whirling like a gyroscope, she added, “If you want to be seen at the back of that arena, you have to have very big movements.”

Her reach extends to Hollywood as well. Lindsay Lohan hopes to buy the rights to her life story and to play her on film. Unmoved, Ms. Nicks responded: “Over my dead body. She needs to stop doing drugs and get a grip. Then maybe we’ll talk.”

That candor endears her to fans, who evidently equate it with authenticity. “She’s not a trend or a fad,” said Nicholas Kalinoski, 30, the creative director of a fashion house in New York. “She’s an original, and people follow an original.”

Standing in line behind him at Barnes & Noble in Union Square last week, Johanna Ramos, 21, waited stoically for Ms. Nicks to sign her DVDs, “Live in Chicago” and “The Soundstage Sessions.” “She looks like a sorceress,” Ms. Ramos said, “like someone powerful who owns the stage.”

Indeed, with her back to the audience, Ms. Nicks projects the fervor of a tent revivalist. “There are times when she stands completely still, and then she’ll just put one hand up,” said Chi Chi Valenti, the founder of Night of a Thousand Stevies, an annual Nicks-inspired costume bash. “Especially with the backlighting, she almost looks like a religious statue.”

Some 1,000 people lined up to greet Ms. Nicks in Union Square, bringing offerings of handmade greeting cards and amulets. There were boys in Nicksian top hats and urbane looking women in black chiffon and crescent moon pendants.

“You are my mentor and my inspiration, and I’ve loved you all my life,” one long-haired admirer in her 40s said. Ms. Nicks took her hand. Another, in her 20s, glided forward in a wheelchair, and Ms. Nicks squeezed hers as well, just as she did when a girl, 17, told her that she had given her the strength to stop using cocaine.

Looking on, Liz Rosenberg, Ms. Nicks’s longtime publicist, was having none of it. “Stevie is the new kabbalah,” she joked. Then she urged her to step up the pace.

A version of this article appeared in print on April 9, 2009, on page E1 of the New York edition.

MICK FLEETWOOD LIVE APPEARANCE 4/13/09

Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar Presents

The Mick Fleetwood Wine Dinner

Mick Fleetwood Live Appearance:

Rock Icon to Share Wines, Music, and Favorite Flemings Menu with Guests

April 13, 2009

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Woodland Hills, California, April 2009 Music legend and winemaker, Mick Fleetwood invites wine and music enthusiasts to join him at Flemings Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar in Woodland Hills to learn about Mick Fleetwood Private Cellar wines, each perfectly paired with his favorite Fleming’s menu, from the host himself. Guests will be treated to a cocktail reception and meet and greet, and will have the opportunity to pose for photos with Mr. Fleetwood. Each guest will take home a copy of the evenings soundtrack, Mick’s new album Blue Again.

The Rock and Roll Hall-of-Famer, is himself a Friend of Flemings, and proudly calls Fleming’s his favorite restaurant and local place when he is at his Southern California home. Fleetwood is proud to share his wines, music, and a memorable evening with Fleming’s guests.

The Mick Fleetwood Wine Dinner will take place on Monday, April 13. The meet and greet will begin at 7pm, and will feature Mick Fleetwood Private Cellar Riesling, which will be followed by a three-course seated dinner beginning at 7:30pm in the Fleming’s private dining room. Guests will enjoy the Mick Fleetwood Private Cellar Chardonnay and Cabernet with Mick’s favorite Fleming’s menu; the Shrimp Cocktail to start, followed by the Filet Mignon served with Sauteed Mushrooms, Mixed Vegetables, and French Fries, and finished with Mixed Berries and Vanilla Ice Cream.

This intimate dining experience is $95 per person, excluding tax and gratuity. Seating is limited. Reservations are recommended and can be made by calling (818) 346-1005. Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar, Woodland Hills, is located at 6373 Topanga Canyon Boulevard.

WIN "ALL ACCESS" FLEETWOOD MAC PACKAGE

SUNNY 105.9 will give one Fleetwood Mac fan unbelievable all access for the band’s performance April 20th at the Amway Arena in Orlando Florida. For your opportunity to win, find Mick Fleetwood somewhere on the Sunny web site and enter to win by telling us where you found him on the form below. 

Winner will receive the “All Access” package that includes:

• Pair of tickets in the first ten rows
  
• Meet'n Greet with legendary Mick Fleetwood
  
• Souvenir laminate
  
• Pre-show party
  
• Fleetwood Mac gift bag
  

SUNNY 105.9’s Downtown Billy Brown will announce the winner just before 8am on Monday, April 13th!

STEVIE NICKS ON "THE MORNING JOLT"

Larry Flick on The Morning Jolt Sirius OutQ Channel 109 Interviewed Stevie Nicks last week at the Waldorf in New York City for his show which he aired this morning.  Stevie's promoting the "Live in Chicago" DVD and "The Soundstage Sessions" CD which were released on March 31st.  This is a pretty extensive interview - spanning pretty much her whole career and running for approximately 42 minutes.   Stevie tells Larry about how the filming of the "Live in Chicago" DVD came about,  what it's like being on the road with Fleetwood Mac, the tension between her and Lindsey today and what motivates Stevie to continue on after this many years in the business - asking her if she can ever see a time when she won't be doing any touring.  It was a really interesting interview with your not so run of the mill questions... So thank you Larry!

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MORE FROM THE LIFEBEAT LISTENING PARTY

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Last week, Buzzworthy Bestie Justin Tranter of Semi Precious Weapons had pretty much the BEST week ever! After Kate Moss personally invited him to a Topshop VIP party, where he danced with Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony (I. SWEAR!), he got invited to a Stevie Nicks listening party, where he MET the legendary woman herself. And if you DON’T know who Stevie Nicks and Fleetwood Mac are, let’s both please take a moment to feel sorry for you. Go on… I’ll wait…

Okay. Read what Justin Tranter emailed me about meeting the unparalleled Stevie Nicks!

I get invited to a lot of cool things ‘cus I’ve been pounding the pavement of New York City in four-inch heels for a LONG time. But when I got invited to meet STEVIE NICKS at her Sound Stage Sessions listening party I almost died. She is truly one of my biggest inspirations ever. I have every Fleetwood Mac and Stevie Nicks record and DVD. It’s almost an issue! Haha.

I called my girl CariDee English from America’s Next Top Model, Marc Jacobs model and actor Jimmy Knehans, and my girls Krista and Jen and said ‘We HAVE to go!’ Me, Caridee and Jimmy schwerked the red carpet while waiting for the gold dust queen of rock ‘n’ roll to arrive. She made a grand but VERY loving entrance.

After she took photos and signed some things for charity I got to meet her. She was SO sweet and actually wanted to chat. She told me that I looked gorgeous, and that ‘the world is going to want to hear real rock ‘n’ roll soon, so keep on fighting the good fight. Take whatever comes your way in such a weird time in the industry, economy and world.’

Whoa! Stevie Nicks. F**ing Stevie Nicks! My mom is going to be so mad she wasn’t with me!

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Matt Harvey squares off with Stevie Nicks at Greenhouse

Stevie Nicks was running fashionably late for her CD listening party Thursday night. Each time a boldface name was marched down Greenhouse’s red carpet, there was polite applause—and the excitement for Nicks grew. The crowd was a mix of gay and straight, neatly dressed and not so much, middle-aged and youngish.The only thing they seemed to have in common was a desire to catch a glimpse of the queen of implacable West Coast cool. Legendary gossip Michael Musto, surveying the scene waspishly from behind his chunky glasses, explained why Nicks still packs them in after 35 years:“The people who love Stevie Nicks really love her, more than they love God.” His soft voice dropping to a near-whisper, he added, “Most of them don’t even believe in God.”

When the melodic guitar intro of “Landslide” echoed through the club, a hush fell over the fans. They parted for Nicks as she walked regally to the back of the club. Her long blond tresses falling over a black poncho and her eyes behind tinted aviator glasses, Nicks is still the hallmark of mellow ’70s California rock. Curled up on a couch, she spoke softly. Referring to her never-changing vibe she said, “When you’re me, you never change. I started off this way when I was 25 years old, and I’m not a chameleon.” Leaning into my ear she added, “I’m a definite hippie, but a stylish hippie.”

I gently asked her if it was still fun to sing “Edge of Seventeen.” She replied, “I get to ride around in limousines and stay in beautiful hotel rooms, it’s electrifyingly fun.” But the mellow polish came off, and she couldn’t resist giving me the score. “You want to do what I do, so I can’t see that it would ever get old.”

STEVIE NICKS SOUNDSTAGE BILLBOARD 200 CHART POSITION

Stevie Nicks "Soundstage Sessions" debuts on the Billboard 200 chart at #47 with 13,052 in sales.

"Live in Chicago" debut on the Top Music Video Charts at #1.