Saturday, July 16, 2011

Odds and Ends... Stevie in Glamour Mag "Now Let's Get Pissed!" + US Mag & Reverb

Glamour Magazine UK August, 2011
3 or 4 pages in the August issue of Glamour Magazine in the UK summing up the Glamour Awards event in London this past June... Stevie's pic on a couple of pages.  Did she really say "Now let's get pissed!" at the end of her acceptance speach?  That's hilarious!

US Magazine July 18, 2011
The voice finale featured in the current issue of US

Reverb Magazine Australia July, 2011 | Castleknock Gazette Australia July, 2011


Friday, July 15, 2011

STEVIE NICKS BIOGRAPHY Part of Bio Channel UK "Women Rock" Series


WOMEN ROCK
Please welcome on stage some of music's most quintessential female rockers who pack stadiums, shelves, and a whole lot of hard rockin' attitude. They're award winners, hell raisers and iconic rock divas, with more sex appeal than you can shake a finely tuned guitar at - what's not to like?

The Biography Channel UK

Up first on August 2nd...

STEVIE NICKS
Born in 1948, renowned singer/songwriter Stevie Nicks is best known for the time she spent in Fleetwood Mac. However, she has also enjoyed a successful solo career.

Nicks joined the band in 1974 and enjoyed huge success with the 1977 album 'Rumours', which topped the US album charts for 31 weeks.

Fleetwood Mac continued to make albums over the next few years, but Nicks felt herself increasingly drawn to solo work.

In 1981, she released the album 'Bella Donna', which shot to the top of the charts and featured the hits 'Edge of Seventeen' and 'Leather and Lace'.

The following year, she recorded another album with Fleetwood Mac, before putting out a second solo record the following year.

Despite her professional career being on a high, Nicks' health took a turn for the worst in the late 80s when she battled a cocaine addiction, which created a hole in her nasal passage. She later became addicted to the tranquilliser Klonopin.

Nicks beat her addictions in 1993 when she embarked on a detox programme.

She has continued to work throughout the last decade, reuniting once again with Fleetwood Mac in 2009 for a global hits tour.

In 2011, Nicks teamed up with fellow singer Rod Stewart to co-headline The Heart and Soul Tour.

Watch Stevie Nick's biography on Tuesday 2 August at 1pm

Other women in the 'Women Rock' series:  Tina Turner, Sheryl Crow, Debbie Harry & Pink, 

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Submit Your Questions for Lindsey Buckingham!

Dear Guitar Hero:

Got a question for your favorite guitarist? Let us be your go-between. The concept is easy — you submit your queries and we pass them on to some of the world's greatest guitarists. Only the sharpest and funniest questions will be used.

This month you get the chance to ask Lindsey Buckingham anything you want!

Just email your questions to dearguitarhero@guitarworld.com and put "Lindsey Buckingham" in the subject line. Remember to include your name in the e-mail body, so you can get credited in the magazine, and impress and annoy your jealous friends!

GuitarWorld.com

Stevie Nicks 'In Your Dreams' Week 10 Billboard Charts

In it's 10th week of release in North America, Stevie's new album 'In Your Dreams' remains on the Billboard Top 200 Albums Sales Chart holding down the # 167 spot for a second week.  On the Top 200 Current Albums Chart the album moves up one spot to # 141.  On the Top Rock Albums Chart the disc also moves up this week to # 41 from # 44 last week.  

Fleetwood Mac on the other hand have completely dropped off all the Billboard charts they were charting on last week including the Top 200 and Catalogue.

Charts are published in the July 23rd issue of Billboard Magazine. 

Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart
(Last weeks position in parenthesis)
# 167 (167) Stevie Nicks In Your Dreams

Billboard Top 200 Current Albums
# 141 (142) Stevie Nicks - In Your Dreams

Billboard Top Rock Albums Chart
# 41 ( 44) Stevie Nicks - In Your Dreams

In Your Dreams Sales Thus Far:
Wk 1 : #     6 - 5/21/11 - 52,418 Debut
Wk  2: #   16 - 5/28/11 - 20,400 Accumulated total = 72,818
Wk  3: #   24 - 6/04/11 - 15,500 Accumulated total = 88,318
Wk  4: #   47 - 6/11/11 - 9,933 Accumulated total = 98,251
Wk  5: #   59 - 6/18/11 - 7,470 Accumulated total = 105,721
Wk  6: #   87 - 6/25/11 - 5,547 Accumulated total = 111,268
Wk  7: # 108 - 7/02/11 - 5,585 Accumulated total = 116,853
Wk  8: # 155 - 7/09/11 - 3,813 Accumulated total = 120,666
Wk  9: # 167 - 7/16/11 -
Wk10: # 167 - 7/23/11 -

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

A couple of Stevie Nicks interviews from this past week...


Stevie Nicks interview with Steve Wright of BBC Radio 2 - July 11th

Stevie Nicks interview with Kathryn Thomas of RTE Radio One - July 8th

Stevie Nicks Live Tracks From Hard Rock Calling - Listen! Thanks @absoluteradio

Well this is completely awesome!!!
Hear live tracks from Stevie Nicks' set at Hard Rock Calling 2011. Includes the tracks 'Secret Love' and 'Gold Dust Woman.'
Listen at: Absolute Radio


Tuesday, July 12, 2011

LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM Live in NYC - Sept 27th - TICKET Pre-sale Begins Wednesday


Lindsey Buckingham Live at Town Hall 
New York, NY 

Onsale to General Public 
Start: Fri, 07/15/11 10:00 AM EDT 

American Express Presale
Start: Wed, 07/13/11 10:00 AM EDT | End: Thu, 07/14/11 10:00 PM EDT 

Internet Presale 
Start: Wed, 07/13/11 10:00 AM EDT | End: Thu, 07/14/11 05:00 PM EDT 

FOR BOX OFFICE ONSALE INFO CALL: 212-840-2824 

TICKET PRICES 
US $38.50 - US $99.50 

Vanessa Carlton's Special Guest last night at Bardot

Stevie Nicks made another surprise appearance with Vanessa Carlton last night in Hollywood at a small club called Bardot. This is her 2nd unannounced appearance with Vanessa during her show... The first was on July 8th at Largo. Good for Stevie... GREAT for anyone who caught the show!  She sang on two songs with Vanessa one of them being Carousel.
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Left Photo by: Paul Tao | Right Photo by:@365HorrorMovie 


Photo by: Eden Siesser

Born on this day...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY 
To Fleetwood Mac's FIRST First Lady 
 Christine McVie 
July 12th

Monday, July 11, 2011

Want to hear the radio edit of "For What It's Worth"? **New Stevie Nicks Single **

Go to allaccess.com scroll down to "S" section Future Releases July 11th and click on the blue arrow next to the song title and launch the Windows Media Player.  Pay attention to about 3:23 where the edit took place removing one of the choruses that repeat... plus the ending of the song has one line where she says "For What It's Worth" removed... Song still sounds good even though about 28 seconds of the song have been removed.

Allaccess

The track is going for adds the week of July 20th to the formats TRIPLE A | AC | ROCK according to Radio and Records.

KWAV 96.9FM out of Monterey, California has added the song to their playlist according to mediabase.

Stevie Nicks Dedicates Everything beyond 1985 to Betty Ford

After news broke last Friday that former First Lady Betty Ford had died, one of the first statements CNN received was from Stevie Nicks. The legendary Fleetwood Mac singer sent just one succinct sentence: "As far as I'm concerned, Betty Ford saved my life."

An hour or so later, she followed it up with a phone call - made as she was driving to a Vanessa Carlton concert from her home in Malibu. She was talking on a borrowed phone, since she doesn't own one herself.

Here are excerpts from that 10 minute phone conversation:

"As far as I'm concerned, Betty Ford DID save my life. I went to Betty Ford [The Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, California] at the end of 1985 for cocaine addiction. In those days, she would actually come to speak at Betty Ford two or three times a month, so I got to hear her tell the whole story on just the pressure of being in politics, being married to a famous politician and getting addicted to whatever it was she was addicted to.

I thought, 'God, if Betty Ford can come through this, I can come through it, too.' Talk about being famous and being in rehab! 'Oh no, I can't do that, I'm too famous' - well, come on! She was the First Lady of the United States. So that really, really made my need to fix myself even stronger."

"A couple of years ago, I went to Betty Ford to speak and she was there. And I actually got to kind of get down on one knee and talk to her for about five minutes, and she was very, very fragile. And I just looked up at her and I said, 'You've got all these children here for you, and had it not been for you, so many of us would not have gotten well.'

Anyway, she was so lovely, and I don't think she really realized the impact she had on so many lives. Sometimes I don't think truly great people people realize how great they are - and I told her that night. I said, 'If it were not for you, Betty Ford, I would be dead. Absolutely. So all the songs that I have written since I was here, I dedicate to you. All the songs, and all the poems, and the shows and all the amazing things I got to do between 1985 and now is because of you.'"

"Betty Ford was not easy. I call it Betty Ford Boot Camp. And it was not an easy four weeks to go through, and nobody gets any special treatment there. It's hard, but it's kind of brilliant in its hardness. It's kind of what I image it's like to be in the army. There's four dorms, and there's 20 people in each dorm, and everybody has their chores, and everybody keeps that building clean and beautiful, and does dishes, makes coffee, vacuums the carpet - and she just insisted on it. The outside, the grass, the duck pond - that's her facility, and you'd better take care of it.

And it was tough. But two weeks in, you start to think, 'Oh my God, I'm getting better' - because when you first get to Betty Ford, that's basically what they tell you, is that you're dying. And that's not an easy thing to hear."

"I think her family will carry it on, because it's their legacy now. And if I were her children, I would be so proud of her."

"So God bless her, and I hope she's up there with Gerald Ford, looking down on all of us. Her facility is good, and it's working, and it was time for her to go. She was fragile."

"I'll miss her. I didn't know her, but I did get to spend a few minutes with her, and I did get to watch her speak two or three times, so I'm glad that I was able to do that."

Stevie Nicks on The Rock Report - Radio Nova 100FM Tuesday!

Stevie Nicks will be chatting to The Rock Report on Radio Nova 100FM out of Dublin, Ireland tomorrow at 6pm (Ireland Time).

Listen Live HERE