Stevie Nicks
Stephanie Lynn "Stevie" Nicks (born May 26, 1948 in Phoenix , Arizona ) is an American singer and composer . She had success as a soloist and in various line-ups and became world-famous as a composer, singer and front woman of the band Fleetwood Mac .
Life
Nicks is the daughter of Jess Nicks (1925-2005), president of the meat packaging company Armor-Dial (part of Greyhound Lines since 1971 ), and the housewife Barbara Nicks (1927-2011). Nick's grandfather Aaron Jess Nicks (1892–1974) was a country singer and sang duets with Nick when she was four years old.
In 1968 Stevie Nicks founded the band Fritz together with Lindsey Buckingham and two other friends in California . The group became relatively well known in the West Coast music scene, playing as the opening act for Jimi Hendrix , Janis Joplin and Creedence Clearwater Revival , among others . In 1972 the band broke up again. Stevie Nicks recorded a joint album in 1973 with her then partner Lindsey Buckingham under the name Buckingham Nicks , but it was not a success.
Together with Buckingham, Nicks joined the previously purely English blues band Fleetwood Mac , founded by Peter Green and Mick Fleetwood in 1975 . After Green, Danny Kirwan and Jeremy Spencer left, as well as other musicians who were briefly “guest” musicians, the band then became an English-American rock group through the two (Nicks and Buckingham). With her compositions and her smoky voice, she shaped some of the group's greatest hits on the successful albums Fleetwood Mac (1975), Rumors (1977) and Tusk (1979), for example her composition Dreams from 1977.
In the early 1980s she started a solo career with great success. She continued to participate in Fleetwood Mac projects until 1990. However, drug problems and coping with them later made her leave the music scene for a few years. In 1986, Nicks went to the Betty Ford Center for treatment for her cocaine addiction . After that, she was dependent on the tranquilizer Klonopin , who had been prescribed for her by a psychiatrist , for eight years . This dependency was cured in 1994 through a 47-day stay in hospital. Nicks actually never wanted to appear in public again, but in 1997 the band successfully reunited. In addition, Nicks performed regularly with the Dixie Chicks and Sheryl Crow , who also produced and wrote songs for Nicks' album Trouble in Shangri-La . She also worked with Don Henley of the Eagles , Tom Petty and John Stewart , among others . In the third and eighth seasons of American Horror Story , she made several guest appearances as herself in the form of a singing witch.
In 2015, Rolling Stone listed Nicks as one of the few women on rank 53 of the 100 best songwriters of all time .
In 2016 and 2017, Nicks was on tour with the Pretenders .
Discography
Albums
Buckingham Nicks
- Buckingham Nicks (1973)
Fleetwood Mac
Involved in these Fleetwood Mac albums:
- Fleetwood Mac (1975)
- Rumors (1977)
- Tusk (1979)
- Mirage (1982)
- Tango in the Night (1987)
- Behind the Mask (1990)
- Say You Will (2003)
Solo albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 DE
|
 CH
|
 UK
|
 US
|
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| 1981 | Bella Donna | - | - |
UK11 (16 weeks) UK |
US1  × 4
(143 weeks)US |
|
| 1983 | The Wild Heart |
DE25 (19 weeks) DE |
- |
UK28  (19 weeks)UK |
US17th × 2
(34 weeks)US |
|
| 1985 | Rock a Little |
DE23 (11 weeks) DE |
- |
UK30th  (22 weeks)UK |
US12 (35 weeks)US |
|
| 1989 | The Other Side of the Mirror |
DE14 (21 weeks) DE |
CH21 (2 weeks) CH |
UK3 (14 weeks)UK |
US10 (21 weeks)US |
|
| 1991 | Timespace: The Best of Stevie Nicks |
DE29 (9 weeks) DE |
- |
UK15th (6 weeks)UK |
US30th (24 weeks)US |
|
| 1994 | Street Angel |
DE67 (5 weeks) DE |
- |
UK16 (4 weeks) UK |
US45 (10 weeks)US |
|
| 1998 | The Enchanted Works of Stevie Nicks | - | - | - |
US85 (2 weeks)US |
1973–97, 3-CD set
|
| 2001 | Trouble in Shangri-La |
DE44 (3 weeks) DE |
- |
UK43 (3 weeks) UK |
US5 (20 weeks)US |
|
| 2007 | Crystal Visions: Very Best of Stevie Nicks | - | - |
UK- |
US21 (12 weeks) US |
|
| 2009 | Soundstage sessions | - | - | - |
US47 (2 weeks) US |
|
| 2011 | In your dreams |
DE37 (2 weeks) DE |
- |
UK14 (6 weeks) UK |
US6 (16 weeks) US |
|
| 2014 | 24 carat gold: Songs from the Vault |
DE69 (1 week) DE |
- |
UK14 (3 weeks) UK |
US7 (6 weeks) US |
|
| 2014 | Bella Donna (Deluxe Edition) | - | - | - |
US128 (1 week) US |
|
| 2019 | Status Back: 1981-2017 | - | - | - | - |
First published March 29, 2019
|
gray hatching : no chart data available for this year
Singles
| year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
DE
|
CH
|
UK
|
US
|
|||
| 1978 | Whenever I Call You Friend |
- | - | - |
US5 (20 weeks) US |
with Kenny loggins
|
| 1981 |
Stop Draggin 'My Heart Around Bella Donna |
- | - |
UK50 (4 weeks) UK |
US3 (21 weeks) US |
|
| Leather and Lace Bella Donna |
- | - | - |
US6 (19 weeks) US |
with Don Henley
|
|
| 1982 | Edge of Seventeen (Just Like The White Winged Dove) Bella Donna |
- | - |
UK- |
US11 (14 weeks) US |
|
| After the glitter fades Bella Donna |
- | - | - |
US32 (11 weeks) US |
||
| 1983 | Stand Back The Wild Heart |
DE32 (13 weeks) DE |
- | - |
US5 (19 weeks) US |
Written
together with Prince
|
| If Anyone Falls The Wild Heart |
- | - | - |
US14 (14 weeks) US |
||
| 1984 | Nightbird The Wild Heart |
- | - | - |
US33 (12 weeks) US |
|
| 1985 |
Talk to Me Rock a Little |
DE28 (11 weeks) DE |
- |
UK68 (3 weeks) UK |
US4 (18 weeks) US |
|
| 1986 | I can't wait rock a little |
DE58 (6 weeks) DE |
- |
UK54 (4 weeks) UK |
US16 (13 weeks) US |
|
| Has Anyone Ever Written Anything for You? Rock a Little |
- | - |
UK84 (2 weeks) UK |
US60 (6 weeks) US |
||
| Needles and Pins |
- | - | - |
US37 (9 weeks) US |
with Tom Petty
|
|
| 1989 | Rooms on Fire The Other Side of the Mirror |
DE46 (12 weeks) DE |
- |
UK16 (7 weeks) UK |
US16 (14 weeks) US |
|
| Long Way to Go The Other Side of the Mirror |
DE60 (7 weeks) DE |
- |
UK60 (2 weeks) UK |
- | ||
| Whole Lotta Trouble The Other Side of the Mirror |
- | - |
UK62 (2 weeks) UK |
- | ||
| 1991 | Sometimes (It's a Bitch) Timespace: The Best of Stevie Nicks |
DE55 (7 weeks) DE |
- |
UK40 (4 weeks) UK |
US56 (8 weeks) US |
|
| I Can't Wait (1991) |
- | - |
UK47 (2 weeks) UK |
- | ||
| 1994 | Maybe Love Will Change Your Mind Street Angel |
- | - |
UK42 (4 weeks) UK |
US57 (10 weeks) US |
|
| 2005 | Dreams |
- | - |
UK14 (6 weeks) UK |
- |
with deep dish
|
More singles
- 1987: Silent Night
- 1989: Two Kinds of Love , album The Other Side of the Mirror , duet with Bruce Hornsby
- 1994: Blue Denim , Street Angel album
- 2001: Planets of the Universe , album Trouble in Shangri-La
- 2007: Stand Back (The Remixes) , album Crystal Visions - The Very Best of Stevie Nicks
- 2011: Secret Love , album In Your Dreams
- 2011: For What It's Worth , album In Your Dreams
- 2017: Beautiful People Beautiful Problems , duet with Lana Del Rey
Video albums
- 1987: Stevie Nicks Live at Red Rocks (US:gold)
Awards for music sales
|
|
Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.
| Country / Region |
silver |
gold |
platinum
|
Sales | swell |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources) |
|||||
 Canada (MC)
|
- | - |
3 × platinum3
|
300,000 | musiccanada.com |
|
United States (RIAA)
|
- |
4 × gold4th
|
9 × platinum9
|
10,550,000 | riaa.com |
|
United Kingdom (BPI)
|
silver1
|
5 × gold5
|
- | 1,020,000 | bpi.co.uk |
| All in all |
silver1
|
9 × gold9
|
12 × platinum12
|
||
Filmography
TV Shows
- 2013, 2018: American Horror Story (episodes 3x09, 3x10, 3x13 and 8x05)
literature
- Jada Yuan: Stevie Nicks, the Fairy Godmother of Rock , New York Magazine, June 17, 2013.
Web links
- Stevie Nicks in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Stevie Nicks at Discogs (English)
- Biography on fleetwoodmac.net, Fleetwood-Mac-Fanpage
- The Nicks Fix , official website
- In Her Own Words
Individual evidence
- ↑ allmusic.com: Artist Biography by Jason Ankeny
- ↑ Abc News: Stevie Nicks in Her Own Words. In: abcnews.go.com. January 6, 2006, accessed February 4, 2018 .
- ^ Cassie Carpenter: Stevie Nicks talks cocaine and dating after 60 in Rolling Stone. In: dailymail.co.uk. January 16, 2015, accessed February 4, 2018 .
- ↑ Gavin Edwards: Stevie Nicks Spills 'American Horror Story' Secrets. In: Rolling Stone . December 3, 2013, accessed May 20, 2017 .
- ↑ The 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time. Rolling Stone , August 2015, accessed August 7, 2017 .
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↑ a b chart sources:
- Stevie Nicks in the German charts on OfficialCharts.de
- Stevie Nicks on hitparade.ch
- Stevie Nicks in the Official UK Charts (English)
- Stevie Nicks on the US Billboard charts
- ↑ Whenever I Call You Friend with Kenny Loggins on the US Billboard Hot 100
- ↑ Stop Draggin 'My Heart Around with Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers on the US Billboard Hot 100
- ↑ Leather and Lace with Don Henley on the US Billboard Hot 100
- ↑ Needles and Pins with Tom Petty on the US Billboard Hot 100
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nicks, Stevie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nicks, Stephanie Lynn (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 26, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Phoenix , Arizona , United States |