Stevie Nicks

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Stevie Nicks, 2009
Nicks with Lindsey Buckingham , 2003

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

Fleetwood Mac

Involved in these Fleetwood Mac albums:

Solo albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)
Remarks
DE DE CH CH UK UK US US
1981 Bella Donna - - UK11 (16 weeks)
UK
US1
Quadruple platinum
× 4
Quadruple platinum

(143 weeks)US
1983 The Wild Heart DE25 (19 weeks)
DE
- UK28
silver
silver

(19 weeks)UK
US17th
Double platinum
× 2
Double platinum

(34 weeks)US
1985 Rock a Little DE23 (11 weeks)
DE
- UK30th
gold
gold

(22 weeks)UK
US12
platinum
platinum

(35 weeks)US
1989 The Other Side of the Mirror DE14 (21 weeks)
DE
CH21 (2 weeks)
CH
UK3
gold
gold

(14 weeks)UK
US10
platinum
platinum

(21 weeks)US
1991 Timespace: The Best of Stevie Nicks DE29 (9 weeks)
DE
- UK15th
gold
gold

(6 weeks)UK
US30th
platinum
platinum

(24 weeks)US
1994 Street Angel DE67 (5 weeks)
DE
- UK16 (4 weeks)
UK
US45
gold
gold

(10 weeks)US
1998 The Enchanted Works of Stevie Nicks - - - US85
gold
gold

(2 weeks)US
1973–97, 3-CD set
2001 Trouble in Shangri-La DE44 (3 weeks)
DE
- UK43 (3 weeks)
UK
US5
gold
gold

(20 weeks)US
2007 Crystal Visions: Very Best of Stevie Nicks - - UK-
gold
gold
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 DE CH CH UK UK US US
1978 Whenever I Call You Friend
- - - US5 (20 weeks)
US
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-
gold
gold
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:goldgold)

Awards for music sales

Platinum record

  • CanadaCanada Canada
    • 1984: for the album The Wild Heart

2 × platinum record

  • CanadaCanada Canada
    • 1982: for the album Bella Donna

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region Silver record icon.svg silver Gold record icon.svg gold Platinum record icon.svg platinum Sales swell
Awards for music sales
(country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Canada (MC) Canada (MC) 0! S.- 0! G- Platinum record icon.svg 3 × platinum3 300,000 musiccanada.com
United States (RIAA) United States (RIAA) 0! S.- Gold record icon.svg 4 × gold4th Platinum record icon.svg 9 × platinum9 10,550,000 riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI) United Kingdom (BPI) Silver record icon.svg silver1 Gold record icon.svg 5 × gold5 0! P- 1,020,000 bpi.co.uk
All in all Silver record icon.svg silver1 Gold record icon.svg 9 × gold9 Platinum record icon.svg 12 × platinum12

Filmography

TV Shows

literature

Web links

Commons : Stevie Nicks  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. allmusic.com: Artist Biography by Jason Ankeny
  2. Abc News: Stevie Nicks in Her Own Words. In: abcnews.go.com. January 6, 2006, accessed February 4, 2018 .
  3. ^ Cassie Carpenter: Stevie Nicks talks cocaine and dating after 60 in Rolling Stone. In: dailymail.co.uk. January 16, 2015, accessed February 4, 2018 .
  4. Gavin Edwards: Stevie Nicks Spills 'American Horror Story' Secrets. In: Rolling Stone . December 3, 2013, accessed May 20, 2017 .
  5. The 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time. Rolling Stone , August 2015, accessed August 7, 2017 .
  6. a b chart sources:
  7. Whenever I Call You Friend with Kenny Loggins on the US Billboard Hot 100
  8. Stop Draggin 'My Heart Around with Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers on the US Billboard Hot 100
  9. Leather and Lace with Don Henley on the US Billboard Hot 100
  10. Needles and Pins with Tom Petty on the US Billboard Hot 100