Stevie Nicks is still dreaming

[LiberalArkie]

Stevie Nicks has had “a hell of a day”. Not only is it 3am at her home in Los Angeles when we first speak on the phone, the power has gone out in her house. “It was out all day until about nine o’clock (in the evening), but we’ve not been here,” she laments. “We got home and it was on. I came in, got ready to do this interview, and the power went out again.”

Nicks, the 72-year-old Fleetwood Mac singer and solo star, is almost entirely nocturnal these days. The coronavirus pandemic and subsequent quarantine has locked her into a diet of rolling news and perpetual worry, and being awake and active during the witching hour has become her normal. Her current lack of electricity, however, is somewhat less so. “We are prepared here, just in case there’s an earthquake,” she continues (the ‘we’ referring to her assistant and two goddaughters, who Nicks has been holed up with ever since the pandemic struck). “We have a lot of lanterns. I’m in a window seat in a swing. We’ve lit the area so at least I can see the papers in front of me.” Our conversation unfurls to breaking news that Donald Trump has tested positive for COVID-19. “When everyone wakes up in the morning and discovers that the whole government has possibly been exposed to the virus, they’re gonna go crazy,” she remarks, adding that Trump contracting the virus proves that wearing a mask is “not political... it’s contagious and it’s dangerous”.

To speak with Stevie Nicks is to spend time with one of music’s true greats. Not only is she responsible for writing some of the rock and pop canon’s greatest standards – “Dreams”, “Landslide”, “Edge of Seventeen” – her life has been so eventful that it can include opening up for Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix, to turning down Prince’s offer to record “Purple Rain” among its many, many tales. When we talk, she’s just arrived home from the edit suite, where she’s been busy applying the finishing touches to the video for “Show Them the Way”, her first solo single in six years.

The video, released earlier this month, deptics Nicks in silhouette pacing the corridors of a large house before a series of historical photographs flood the frame. John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King feature strongly, and the video culminates with a still of Stevie Nicks stood alone atop Capitol Hill, her image giving way to a single instruction: ‘Vote’. The video was helmed by Almost Famous director Cameron Crowe, whose history with Fleetwood Mac dates all the way back to the early 70s, when he first started chronicling the band as a writer for Rolling Stone. The song itself has an equally storied history, too. Nicks first wrote “Show Them the Way” back in 2008, but says she “knew it wasn’t the time for it then. It’s ‘right now’, with what’s going on in our country. This is the time for this song.”

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https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/50821/1/stevie-nicks-2020-interview

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1. Please. VOTE.