Mick Fleetwood Spotted in Bakersfield... and Celebrites Gallery Presentation

SPOTTED: Mick Fleetwood, founder and co-namesake of the legendary rock band Fleetwood Mac, was spotted at the downtown Padre Hotel this weekend. The British-born Fleetwood was seen talking to friends and fans on the Prairie Fire lounge, but it was not immediately known why he was in town.

Bakersfield.com

[edit May 26th]
Bakersfield.com

MICK'S VISIT: It turns out legendary rocker Mick Fleetwood was in Bakersfield this past weekend because he's a big Formula 1 race face. Fleetwood, co-founder of Fleetwood Mac, stayed at the downtown Padre Hotel for three days to attend a Formula 1 gathering out at the Buttonwillow Raceway Park.

The Shops at Wailea

Célébrités Gallery of Celebrity Fine Art presents a reception for rocker/artist Mick Fleetwood on May 25 on Maui.

The gallery will unveil a selection of Fleetwood's latest photographic artwork from 6 to 9 p.m.

For more information call (808) 875-6565.

Not clear if Mick will be in attendance.  With him being in California and spotted in Bakersfield - could he be heading to The Wiltern on Thursday night for Stevie's Birthday??

[edit May 26th]

Turns out the event at the Shops at Wailea didn't go ahead as planned as Mick was still in southern California... The Wiltern here you come!!

Stars talk about Oprah Winfrey [Stevie Nicks]

"I think that Oprah's legacy is that she has made a difference and that's what we as women want to do. We want to make a difference in this world and she's made a difference in a lot of ways. She's made a difference in really fun things and she's made a difference in really serious things and she's told us stories that ... I'd never heard -- the word abuse. ... I wouldn't even know what that was. She's made a difference so for me that's why I respect her. ... She will be remembered long after she's gone." -- Stevie Nicks,

who made her first appearance on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" in April 2011.

Boston.com

Week 3 USA - Stevie Nicks 'In Your Dreams' + Week 2 Germany & Week 3 New Zealand

The album is holding nicely in it's 3rd week on the charts - dropping 22% over last week and moving down the chart from # 17 to # 23 with approx. 15,673 units sold - according to unofficial (but close) sales tallies from Hits Daily Double.

In total the album in the USA alone has sold about 89,000 copies - probably 100,000 - 110,000 in total when you factor in countries outside the US that the album is available in.

On Germany's top 100 albums chart the album drops from it's debut position of # 37 to # 86 this week.  In New Zealand after spending 2 weeks in the top 40 peaking at # 35 the album drops out of the top 40 this week.

"Rockers return to top of charts" "Fleetwood Mac gleefully push straight to the top"

Articles and headlines hitting various papers in Australia today - May 24th

Rockers return to top of charts
Shepparton News - May 24th

Rumours fly for Fleetwood Mac, 34 years on.
TheAge.au - May 24th

This is not a rumour: Fleetwood Mac is back
The Australian - May 24th

SYDNEY: Legendary rockers Fleetwood Mac have made a shock return to the Australian music charts, with their highest-selling record Rumours re-emerging at number two on the albums chart, 34 years after its original release.

The surprise comeback follows the Australian premiere of a Fleetwood Macinspired episode of the musical drama Glee, which aired on Network Ten last Wednesday night.

The Grammy Awardwinning album has sold more than 40 million albums worldwide since its release in 1977, and has been certified thirteen-times platinum in Australia.

It is the first time in more than a year the album has featured on the ARIA charts.

But one of the group’s singers Stevie Nicks has not seen as much success with her solo album In Your Dreams, which hangs back at number 32, a week after its debut.

Fleetwood Mac gleefully push straight to the top

The Daily Telegraph (Sydney) - May 24th

FLEETWOOD Mac’s Rumours album was propelled back into the Australian top 10 this week some 34 years after its release, thanks to the Glee effect.

Thousands of digital copies of the record were downloaded as an episode which featured songs from the 1977 record aired on Wednesday.

"People were buying it even before the episode aired thanks to the promos which featured one of the lead characters singing Go Your Own Way," a chart analyst said. The cover of that song entered the ARIA singles chart at No. 32. But the original Rumours album, featuring Stevie Nicks, came in at No. 2, almost knocking Adele’s 21 off the top spot.

Most Narnia-rific Album Cover Ever! Stevie Nicks 'In Your Dreams'. Stevie and a white stallion in a forest bathed in golden light.

A few magazine snippets... Click to enlarge

An Overview Of Stevie Nicks’ Seven Albums by Jeremy Gloff....

Check out Jeremy's stroll through Stevie's discography from Bella Donna to In Your Dreams. Really great read!  Thanks for the mention Jeremy!

Cynical And Southern: An Overview Of Stevie Nicks’ Seven Albums
by: Jeremy Gloff
TheNewGay.net

Forget the tales of cocaine binges and Klonopin addiction. Forget the stale tales of rock ‘n’ roll excess and debauchery. Hard as it might be, also forget the played-out stories of high profile love affairs and even higher profile break-ups. Beyond the myths and legends, Stevie Nicks’ songs are a modern-day portal into the aching and longing heart. Stevie wrings melodies out of emotions and memories that might otherwise be hard to explain.

After her 2001 album Trouble In Shangri-la, Stevie Nicks stated that she would not do another solo album. For fans like me the impact of this statement went far beyond a mere lack of new music. When Stevie Nicks released a new album it always miraculously defined my life at the time. A world without new Stevie Nicks’ music was my future without a constant and accurate voice. In the last ten years, I’ve continued to grow and relate to fewer and fewer of Stevie’s songs, as much as I loved them at the time they debuted.

When Stevie Nicks announced last year she was indeed working on a new solo album with Dave Stewart, I was immediately elated. There would be new music for new times in my life by one of the few people who always seemed to hit the nail on the head, even though she’s never met me.

Now to track some ghosts through the fog: CONTINUE

(Review) Stevie Nicks 'In Your Dreams'

"Stevie Nicks brings her A game to In Your Dreams, her first studio album in ten years and one that, depending on your point of view, either establishes her as one of rock and roll's elder statespeople or cements the fact once and for all."

by - Eric Diesel

Awesome review! 

Read the full review here!

[Chart Updates] Fleetwood Mac's Rumours Album Explodes on the Album Charts in the UK and Australia + Stevie Nicks

AUSTRALIA: Album Charts May 23, 2011 

Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" explodes in Australia re-entering the Top 50 Albums Chart at No. 2 right behind Adele - thanks to the Glee episode featuring songs from the album. The re-entry on the main Albums chart is a little odd given that it's a catalogue title.  Something changed somewhere to allow it to show up on the main Albums Chart.  Had it been able to chart in the last two weeks on this chart it would have been No. 58, then No. 65 last week.  The album also moves up from No.7 last week to No. 2 on the Top 50 catalogue chart and enters the Top 50 Digital Albums Chart at No.2. "The Very Best Of" drops one position this week to No. 5 from No. 4 last week.

On itunes "Rumours" is No. 1 on the Top Rock Albums Chart and No. 2 on the overall Albums Chart.

Also, Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" has been certified 13x platinum in Australia with shipments of 910,000 units.  Stevie Nicks' Live In Chicago DVD Released in 2009 has been certified Gold with shipments of 7,500.  

In it's second week on the chart, Stevie's "In Your Dreams" dips from No. 24 last week to No. 32 this week.

Glee's version of "Go Your Own Way" enters the Top 40 Digital Track Chart at No. 30 and on the Top 50 Singles Chart the song enters the chart at No. 32.

No. 32 Stevie Nicks "In Your Dreams" - Top 50 Albums Chart 05/23/2011 (wk 2)

No. 02 Fleetwood Mac "Rumours" - Top 50 Catalogue Album Chart

No. 02 Fleetwood Mac "Rumours" - Top 50 Albums Chart

No. 02 Fleetwood Mac "Rumours" - Top 50 Digital Albums Chart

No. 05 Fleetwood Mac "The Very Best Of" Top 50 Catalogue Album Chart

Glee Cast Singles:

Australia Top 40 Digital Track Chart

No. 30 Glee Cast - Go Your Own Way - 05/23/2011 - debut

Australia Top 50 Singles Chart

No. 32 Glee Cast - Go Your Own Way - 05/23/2011 - debut


Rumours fly for Fleetwood Mac, 34 years on.
TheAge.au

Legendary rockers Fleetwood Mac have made a shock return to the Australian music charts, with their highest-selling record Rumours re-emerging at number two on the albums chart, 34 years after its original release.

The surprise comeback follows the Australian premiere of a Fleetwood Mac-inspired episode of the musical drama Glee, which aired on Network Ten last Wednesday night.

The Grammy Award-winning album has sold more than 40 million albums worldwide since its release in 1977, and has been certified thirteen-times platinum in Australia.

It is the first time in more than a year the album has featured on the ARIA charts.

But the group's lead singer, Stevie Nicks, has not seen as much success with her solo album In Your Dreams, which hangs back at number 32, a week after its debut.

Either way, Fleetwood Mac's new-found popularity was not strong enough to push UK songstress Adele from the top spot.

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UK: Album Charts May 28, 2011

"Rumours" in the UK this week takes a giant leap from No. 122 last week to No. 16 on this week's Top 100 Albums Chart again thanks to the Glee episode - that's a 106 place jump!  On the Top 40 Digital Download Albums Chart "Rumours" moves up from No. 65 last week to No. 3 this week.  Two Fleetwood Mac singles are new on the singles chart with "Go Your Own Way" at No. 62 and "Dreams" at No. 86.  The Glee Cast versions of "Go Your Own Way" and "Songbird" enter the singles chart at No. 51 and No. 54.

Music Week

Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 chart-topper Rumours – the 13th biggest-selling album in UK history – is back in the Top 40 (number 16, 9,184 sales) for the first time since 2000, after several songs from the set featured in last week’s Glee. The fan’s favourite turned out to be Go Your Own Way, which was the highest charting Glee Cast cover (number 51, 6,325 sales), and also the highest charting Mac re-entry (number 62, 4,665 sales). Mac’s recording of the song was originally a number 38 hit in 1978.

On the Top 40 Catalogue Chart dated May 21st "Rumours" is charting at No. 12 down from No. 7 the previous week.  On itunes today "Rumours' is No. 1 on the Top Rock Albums Chart and No. 2 on the overall Albums Chart.

Fleetwood Mac's Rumours increases its position as the most charted album in the UK of all-time by re-entering this week at No 16; its 479th week in the top 75.

No. 16 Fleetwood Mac "Rumours" Top 100 Albums Chart

No. 03 Fleetwood Mac "Rumours" Top 40 Digital Albums Chart

No. 12 Fleetwood Mac "Rumours Top 40 Catalogue Chart (May 21, 2011)

NEW on the UK Singles Chart May 28, 2011

No. 51 Glee Cast "Go Your Own Way"

No. 54 Glee Cast "Songbird"

No. 62 Fleetwood Mac "Go Your Own Way"

No. 86 Fleetwood Mac "Dreams"

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NETHERLANDS: Album Charts May 21, 2011

Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" album moves up to No. 13 this week from No. 52 last week. Stevie's "In Your Dreams" in it's 3rd week on the Dutch Top 100 drops to No.82 from No. 57 last week.

No. 13 Fleetwood Mac "Rumours" Top 50 Back Cataglogue Chart

No. 82 Stevie Nicks "In Your Dreams" Top 100 Albums Chart (wk 3)

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IRELAND: Top 100 Album Charts May 19, 2011

"Rumours" in Ireland drops to No. 25 from No. 15 last week on Irelands Top 100. Fleetwood Mac's "The Very Best Of" re-enters the chart at No. 43. "The Greatest Hits" drops off the chart this week, it was No. 39 on last weeks chart.  In Ireland "Rumours" right now is No. 1 on the Top Rock Albums Sales Chart and No. 6 on the overall Albums Sales chart.

No. 25 Fleetwood Mac "Rumours" Top 100 Albums Chart

No. 43 Fleetwood Mac "The Very Best Of" Top 100 Albums Chart

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USA: ALBUM CHARTS MAY 28, 2011

USA: Billboard Top 200 Album Charts

No. 16 Stevie Nicks "In Your Dreams" (wk 2)

No. 38 Fleetwood Mac "Rumours"

No.187 Fleetwood Mac "Greatest Hits"

USA: Billboard Top 200 Current Album Charts

No. 15 Stevie Nicks "In Your Dreams" (wk 2)

USA: Billboard Top Catalogue Albums Chart 

No. 02 Fleetwood Mac "Rumours

No. 07 Fleetwood Mac "Greatest Hits"

USA: Billboard Top Top Digital Albums Chart

No. 08 Fleetwood Mac "Rumours"

USA: Billboard Top Rock Albums Chart 

No. 05 Stevie Nicks "In Your Dreams" (wk 2)

On itunes "Rumours is still racking up the numbers sitting currently at No. 5 on the Top Rock Albums Sales Chart.

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NEW ZEALAND: Top 40 Album Charts May 16, 2011

Stevie's "In Your Dreams" as reported earlier in the week moves up to No. 35 this week after debuting at No. 37 in New Zealand.

Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" is the No. 1 on itunes Top Rock Albums Sales Chart.  Stevie Nicks's "Crystal Visions The Very Best Of" is No. 6. 

No. 35 Stevie Nicks "In Your Dreams" (wk 2)

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SWEDEN: Top 60 Album Charts May 20, 2011

"In Your Dreams" moves up the Swedish Charts to No. 39 after debuting at No. 52 on the previous chart.

No. 39 Stevie Nicks "In Your Dreams" (wk 2)

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CANADA: Top 100 Album Charts May 19, 2011

Stevie's "In Your Dreams" drops to No. 41 after debuting at No. 24 in the previous week.

Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" album is hanging on at No. 64 with remnants of the Glee Effect after re-entering the Canadian charts at No. 16 on the previous chart.  On itunes currently the album is No. 3 on the Top Rock Albums Sales Chart 

No. 41 Stevie Nicks "In Your Dreams" (wk 2)

No. 64 Fleetwood Mac "Rumours"

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GERMANY: Top 100 Album Charts May 20, 2011

Stevie Nicks "In Your Dreams" enters the Top 100 Albums Chart at No. 37.  On the Top 100 Combined Albums Chart which is a combination of albums and various artists albums the album debuts at No. 35.

Top 100 Albums Chart:

No. 37 Stevie Nicks "In Your Dreams" - Debut

Top 100 Combined Albums Chart:

No. 35 Stevie Nicks "In Your Dreams" - Debut

Fleetwood Mac "Rumours" piece in today's LA Times

“Rumours”
Fleetwood Mac
(Warner Bros.)
Los Angeles Times May 22, 2011 (Pop Music Section E12)
— Randall Roberts

For anyone over 35, the hardest part of listening to Fleetwood Mac’s “Rumours” is actually hearing the music within, absorbing it without all the accumulated history: that it was the soundtrack to a generation that included backseat lovers, pot smokers, cocaine snorters and countless lost souls looking for broken-hearted comfort. That when that first generation of listeners kicked their habits, had children and became productive members of society, they shuttled their kids to the grocery store with “Dreams,” “Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow,” and “Go Your Own Way” playing in perpetual loop on the FM radio, thus inculcating the next generation into the cult of “Rumours.”

These followers are now having kids of their own, who are experiencing the music in new ways — such as watching its songs performed on “Glee,” which featured “Rumours” during a recent show, resulting in the album landing in the iTunes top five album chart — 35 years after its release.

Recorded mostly in Sausalito, Calif., the album was born as members Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks were breaking up while struggling with addictions, bassist John McVie and pianist-vocalist Christine McVie were divorcing, and drummer Mick Fleetwood and his wife were splitting up as well. How did they handle it? As Chris Stone, one of the recording studio’s owners, told Billboard in 1997: “The band would come in at 7 at night, have a big feast, party till 1 or 2 in the morning, and then when they were so whacked-out they couldn’t do anything, they’d start recording.”

Despite their mind frames, the songs the five created were about all those troubles. What the members couldn’t or wouldn’t say over dinner they tackled through song. “Loving you, isn’t the right thing to do,” sings Buckingham on “Go Your Own Way.” Two songs later Nicks responds in “The Chain.” “Damn your love, damn your lies.” On it goes throughout, with heavy Mick Fleetwood rhythms and propellent melodies flowing into Christine McVie’s piano weepers and Nicks’ perfectly sandy voice. No wonder “Rumours” endures.

(Review) Stevie Nicks 'In Your Dreams' ★★★ 1/2 (out of 5) proves the front woman of Fleetwood Mac still has plenty of notes in her singing

Stevie Nicks - In Your Dreams
Written in Music
by Robert Schuster on May 22, 2011
★★★ 1/2 Stars (out of 5)


Translated from Dutch

Ten years after her last solo album Trouble In Shangri-La is back with Stevie Nicks In Your Dreams . The album was produced by Dave Stewart (Eurythmics) and Glen Ballard (Alanis Morissette, among others, Michael Jackson and Annie Lennox), and proves that the nearly 63-year-old frontwoman of Fleetwood Mac is still plenty of notes on her singing to be able to convince.

In Your Dreams kicks off with the new single Secret Love , a new adaptation of a demo / outtake they already recorded in 1976. It's a nice opener that immediately shows us that her unique voice none of their power and finesse has lost and the ravages of time gloriously has endured. For What It ' s Worth has a simple, catchy melody and gives its beauty after a few spins price. The first three seconds of the title song In Your Dreams you think the intro of the hit TV series Friends to recognize but soon turns into a solid uptempo track that reminds of the latest albums by Fleetwood Mac.

The following five tracks is the musical heart of the album and know the level of the album to a higher level. Starting with the dark and menacing sounding Wide Sargasso Sea , by its tension remains intriguing. New Orleans is a beautiful tribute and back support to this by a natural disaster stricken city and its inhabitants and Moonlight (A Vampire ' s Dream) is a fine, well-constructed song with great eloquence. Annabel Lee , inspired by the same name and last poem by American author Edgar Allen Poe, even among the best songs from the solo repertoire of Stevie Nicks, it's perfectly together and convincing from the first second to the powerful final chord. Soldier ' s Angel finally did not initially rafts in the recordings with Dave Stewart. Because Stevie still love this song on the album, she wanted the assistance of none other than Lindsey Buckingham, who built it quite a minimalist number clearly a further move in the right direction gives.

After this beautiful song drops the plate unfortunately do something. Everybody Loves You and You May Be The One of a significantly lower level, Italian Summer gets from the beautiful string arrangement and the summer sensation that evokes the benefit of the doubt and the final track Cheaper Than Free , a duet with producer Dave Stewart (the number will also be on his new solo album, The Blackbird Diaries come to it), sounds even totally unnecessary. With lyrics like "What's Faster Than a fast car, a beating heart" and "what's cheaper Than free, you and me, I'm sure that Stevie and Dave together on creative and supportive level that have, unfortunately, this provides a completely stress-free number on. The solid rocker Ghosts Are Gone , with powerful guitar work and an early end, however, is again excellent.

In summary, In Your Dreams a fairly successful new album by Stevie Nicks, which is eagerly looking forward to a new Fleetwood Mac album, reportedly in 2012. First comes in September, the new solo album from Lindsey Buckingham. We wait with baited breath!

Stevie Nicks + Dave Stewart = Australian Tour November

In an article on the expected touring artists coming to Australia this fall, Australia's Herald Sun is reporting that Stevie's November run of shows down under will be a Stevie Nicks and Dave Stewart show...

"Fleetwood Mac icon Stevie Nicks will also perform that month. Nicks will be joined by Eurythmics star Dave Stewart."


Herald Sun

"Secret Love" at Radio...

The song hasn't climbed any higher than #20.  This week it drops 3 to #23 on the AC Charts.  This postion will be reflected in Billboard Magazine dated May 28th.