They opened for legends like Jimi Hendrix and eventually became a couple. She’s as likely to mention Rihanna (she’s a fan) as her own song “Rhiannon.” Fritz, circa 1970Īs the Fleetwood Mac story goes, Stephanie Lynn Nicks met Lindsey Buckingham at a high school party in 1966, joining him in a spontaneous duet of “California Dreamin’.” Two years later, Buckingham called her to see if she’d consider singing in his band, Fritz.
What is surprising, given Nicks’s deep and complicated history–an infamous struggle with drugs, several torrid affairs, and a unique style that’s inspired designers for almost 40 years now–is that she is so firmly rooted in the present. It was the best time of my life.” New friend Reese Witherspoon came over for a session and ended up naming a song, “Cheaper than Free.”
home, a 1930s mansion, which became a sort of rock sorority house. She worked on it with friend and producer Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics at her other L.A. Nicks was so moved that she wrote a song about it, “Moonlight (a Vampire’s Dream).” And when she got home, she recorded her first studio album in 10 years, In Your Dreams, out this month.
“Its happened to me twice, when there was no explanation. “When Bella just sat there in the window, crying for months because she thought she’d never see him again,” Nicks trails off, looking wistful about their vampire love. Only when she puts on her glasses, an ombre-tinted pair of aviators, does she look her age. Nicks is an ageless creature, wearing a handful of gold chains with charms dangling over a navy silk dolman-sleeved top and black pants. Through the floor-to-ceiling windows, the sun is setting over the Pacific, and with the room’s soft lighting–all chandeliers and crystals–and her elbow-length blonde hair cascading over her shoulders, it’s as if she’s been beamed down from classic-rock heaven. “I saw New Moon when I was on tour with Fleetwood Mac,” Nicks says, curled up under a white fur throw on an armchair in the Santa Monica condo she shares with her 12-year-old Yorkie, Sulamith. Honestly, is it any surprise that the now-62-year-old gypsy queen of ’70s rock, singer for the epic band Fleetwood Mac, arbiter of romantic, Gothic style, and writer of magical songs about devastating heartbreak is a Twilight fan? Stevie Nicks wild at heart: as the legendary singer-songwriter releases her first studio album in a decade, she opens up about her iconic fashion moments and rock-star life.
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