Hynde was in great voice, singing old songs and new with a raucous enthusiasm that had the audience standing on their feet. The night’s special guest, Chrissie Hynde and the Pretenders were a force right from jump, kick starting into “Alone” from their latest album of the same name. Everywhere you looked, it was a sea of black clothing: chiffon, top hats, and boots all emulating the style of the night’s performer, the one and only Stevie Nicks. Walking into a sold out Madison Square Garden last night, you could feel the excitement in the air with what was about to come. When you believe in yourself that much, you can take as long as you want.Stevie Nicks and The Pretenders Make ‘Dreams Come True’ at Madison Square Garden If she needs to go away for three years, she doesn’t feel like somebody’s going to take her place. The big difference between her and me is that she has a child, and that will change things for her, but I think Adele knows what she wants and I don’t think she’s in a hurry. She’ll do what I did - she’ll figure out a way to stay in the business. When she wins by a landslide, I could gather together the Dixie Chicks, Billy Corgan and everybody who’s ever sung a version of “Landslide.” It’s not up-tempo, but it certainly would get the message across.Īre you a fan of Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga or any other major contemporary female artist? He picked it out when he was driving around in a cab somewhere years before. It’s hard to think of anything as amazing as that song was for Bill. “Don’t Stop” was the theme song of Bill Clinton’s campaign. My dad would go, “That’s a good song, honey.” And my mom would go, “That’s just beautiful, Stevie.” And they would be thinking, “We know for a fact that she’s only been on one date and she was back in two hours.” Some people have the ability to be extremely convincing, and other people can sing for 30 years and not convince you that they have lived a story. Do you find that inspiration comes from your everyday life now, or is your imagination triggered by re-examining the past? Your songs never lost the rawness associated with youthful emotion. “Why would I want to sit around and do nothing?”
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“I just woke up one morning and said I have two years off before Fleetwood Mac comes knocking on my door ,” she said. A 28-city tour with the Pretenders as special guests begins on Oct. Nicks, 68, is preparing to go on the road in support of her most recent releases, “In Your Dreams,” from 2011, and the 2014 album “24 Karat Gold: Songs From the Vault,” a collection of tracks written mainly between 19. We only need three or four from you.’ So what am I supposed to do?”Įight solo albums later, Ms. “I get frustrated because one of you walks by me every time I sit at the piano and says: ‘Oh my God, there she goes writing another song. “In the beginning, I actually sat down and said, listen, I am doing this because I have way too many songs,” Ms. Nicks, the rock ’n’ roll mystic who constitutes one-fifth of Fleetwood Mac’s classic lineup and wrote several of its most beloved hits (including “ Dreams” and “ Rhiannon”), is so prolific that six years after joining that multiplatinum California band in 1975, she embarked on a solo career with “ Bella Donna,” which featured the memorable centerpiece “Edge of Seventeen.” Stevie Nicks says that one of her favorite things to do is light a candle, sit at the desk in her Los Angeles home and write poetry.
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