Album Review: Steve Nicks - In Your dreams ★★★ "Her voice remains a thing of beauty -- fragile and tough"

By John Meagher
Friday June 24 2011
Irish Independent

Okay, it's not Rumours -- Fleetwood Mac's breakup masterpiece from 1977 -- but Stevie Nicks' seventh album, and first in a decade, suggests her mojo is still very much intact.

Her voice remains a thing of beauty -- fragile and tough, often in the course of the same song. And it's this quality that makes Secret Love shine. The lead single was reportedly demoed for the aforementioned Rumours, before being discarded.

Several of the songs have been co-written with Eurythmics' Dave Stewart and a handful are really quite something, including the rousing, emotive For What It's Worth.

Burn it: Secret Love; For What It's Worth

Available in Ireland Today!  itunes

Stevie Nicks initially asked Dave Stewart to produce a Fleetwood Mac Album Prior to cutting "In Your Dreams"

Dave Stewart talks new album, The Blackbird Diaries, Stevie Nicks, Joss Stone, more...

Musicradar.com

Let's talk a bit about Stevie Nicks' album, In Your Dreams. I understand she sent you a collection of poems and you turned up at her door with a guitar intent on making a record with her.

"Well, kind of, but not exactly. Actually, she asked me if I'd be interested in producing a Fleetwood Mac album, and I said, 'I don't know.' Anyway, we started talking and I sent her the chords to a song called Everybody Loves You. I said, 'What do you think about this for you, and not Fleetwood Mac?' And she sent it back to me with her singing on it, and it was great. From there, yeah, she sent me a collection of her poems and lyrics. It was this huge, thick book. At that point, I knew we had something going.

"She's a totally focused person, very devoted to her music and the song she writes. She's made this her life, and because of that she's eliminated a lot of other elements from her existence, which she acknowledges. At one point, this doctor prescribed her these drugs, and when they didn't work, he kept upping the dose and upping the dose. Basically, Stevie feels as though she lost 10 years of her life. But she's very set on reclaiming that time and making it count. She's an incredible person."

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Stevie Nicks on "Loose Women" UK Chat Show Monday June 27th

Loose Women 
Monday, June 27th 12:30-1:30pm 

Actor and director David Schwimmer and singer Stevie Nicks join Kate Thornton, Lisa Maxwell, Denise Welch and Sherrie Hewson for topical debate and chat.

ITV1 (London) (Check your local listings: Show)

Review: Steve Nicks: In Your Dreams ★★★/5 "Sounds exactly like the Nicks of myth: spooky, otherworldly, emotional and sassy...

With the title subtly doffing a cap to Fleetwood Mac's Dreams, Nicks's first solo studio album in a decade echoes the ethereal soft rock sound with which she helped redefine the band circa 1977's classic, Rumours. Producer Dave Stewart has helped create an album that sounds exactly like the Nicks of myth: spooky, otherworldly, emotional and sassy, yet stalked by some undefinable melancholy. Mac bandmates and old flames Mick Fleetwood and Lindsay Buckingham guest, and while the latter doesn't lift Soldiers Tale above Nicks-by-numbers, the frisson of the Mac's complex romantic entanglements stalks Secret Love, written during the Rumours era. The superb For What It's Worth similarly describes an affair where "only a few around us knew". While the 14 tunes don't all linger, her raspy-voiced spray of emotions is hard to shake off, not least on Everybody Loves You ("but you're so alone"), which combines trademark candour and a killer chorus.

by: Dave Simpson

Guardian.co.uk

In Your Dreams is in stores today in Ireland and in stores Monday in the UK...

Happy Birthday Mick!

On This day in 1947 Mick Fleetwood was born...

Happy 64th Mick...

I would like to wish you a "Happy Birthday" on this special day. And may you have many many many more filled with health, happiness and success. 

More UK Radio Interviews with Stevie Nicks Coming Up!...

Nation Radio South Wales tweeted today they've got an interview with Stevie Nicks coming up in the next week... Hopefully we get a heads up on the date and time.  Nation Radio is a sister station to Bridge FM so it could be the same interview that Mark Franklin tweeted about yesterday HERE.  Listen live to the station HERE 

Caroline The DJ of Q Radio Tweeted earlier today that her interview with Stevie was amazing!!... The interview will be broadcast on Q Radio which is a division of Q Magazine... They have a facebook presents HERE, but couldn't find a website.  To listen live in the UK use this LINK... Seems you can only listen live if you live in the UK.

A later tweet indicates that Stevie's interview will be broadcast soon with previews on "New to Q" this Saturday 6-9pm UK time... I'm sure the full interview will air next week...

Alan Simpson of BBC Radio Ulster broadcasts from Belfast Northern Ireland.  He tweeted today he would be chatting with Stevie Nicks... No set time on the interview but Alan said probably Tuesday next week... His show broadcasts from 3-5pm on BBC Radio Ulster UK TIME.  If you can't listen live, don't worry, the BBC site offers a podcast that's available for 7 days after the initial broadcast... I LOVE THE BBC for that!!

Stevie Nicks Week 7 on Billboards Top 200 + Two Fleetwood Mac Albums Re-enter

Stevie Nicks In Your Dreams - Week 7 
Billboard Magazine for the week ending 6/19/2011 Billboard issue: 7/02/2011

Heading into it's 3rd month of release and it's 7th week on Billboards Top 200 Albums Chart, Stevie's In Your Dreams is down to # 108 from # 87 last week. On the Top 200 Current Albums Chart the disc is down to # 96 from # 85 last week. Over on the Rock Albums Chart the disc moves up a few places to # 28 from # 32 last week. No sales data available at the moment.

# 108 - USA Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart
#   96 - USA Billboard Top 200 Current Albums Chart
#   28 - USA Billboard Top Rock Albums Chart

Fleetwood Mac Re-enters The Top 200 & 
Catalogue Charts with Two Albums

RUMOURS re-enters the Top 200 Albums Chart logging it's 140 non-consecutive week on the chart at # 115. The album had dropped off last weeks chart. It's last position was # 178 for the week ending 6/5/2011 - Billboard issue 6/18/2011. The album also re-enters the Top Catalogue Albums Chart at # 15 after dropping off last week. It's previous position was # 31 for Billboard issue 6/18/2011. It's spent a total of 59 weeks on the catalogue chart.

#   15 - USA Billboard Top Catalogue Albums Chart RE-ENTRY
# 115 - USA Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart

THE VERY BEST OF re-enters the Top 200 Albums Chart logging it's 43 non-consecutive week on the chart. Haven't seen this double album on the Top 200 in a really long time! It re-enters at # 175.

# 175 - USA - Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart
#   35 - USA - Billboard Top Catalogue Albums Chart

Stevie Nicks' In Your Dreams and Beyonce 4 top this week's retailer pre-order charts

Musicweek 

Beyonce's 4, out next week, is number one in HMV's pre-order chart, the second highest new release in the Amazon charts and number two with Play.Com. Nicks' In Your Dreams is also looking strong, number one in the Amazon pre-orders, and at four in HMV charts.

As Stevie Nicks releases the solo album "In Your Dreams", the Fleetwood Mac front-woman reflects

Gulf News June 23, 2011

on the band, baggage and growing older 
(The first article to the right was previously posted with the title "Retire? No, I'll still be rocking when I'm 70" HERE which was originally published in The Daily Mail in the UK. This is from Gulf News, a UAE (United Arab Emirates) publication for June 23, 2011

The second, below, is a half page spread in the July, 2011 edition of O Magazine. Stevie talks about music and O Magazine has 5 copies of In Your Dreams to give away to readers.

O Magazine July, 2011