![]() But Stevie Nicks provided the voice and electrifyingly weird energy they needed to become their best new selves.īig, dramatic TV appearances were one thing, but the band’s transition from British blues rockers to pop radio superstars wasn’t a total eclipse of their past. She keeps pushing the song harder, faster, as if she’s impatient to prove the new Mac is a real savage-like rock monster, now that she’s fully arrived.” Buckingham was the right guitarist at the right time in the band’s evolution, stepping into several huge pairs of shoes to help them recreate their sound. “She’s the new girl in a long-running band,” writes Sheffield, “but she’s here to blow all that history away. They have “heard ‘ Rhiannon’ on the radio,” have maybe bought the record, but “they’ve never seen her rock.” Then they did-explaining the origins of “Rhiannon” on The Old Grey Whistle Test (top) before launching into the “song about a Welsh witch,” and going full-on new-age diva with super-feathered hair on The Midnight Special (above). Her magnetism was undeniable, her songwriting bewitching, her stage presence transformative.įans seeing Nicks onstage with the band after the release of 1975’s Fleetwood Machave “no idea who Stevie Nicks is,” writes Rob Sheffield at Rolling Stone. ![]() Not only did the new five-piece put aside huge personal conflicts and an already legendary history to make some of the greatest pop music ever written, both collaborating and letting individual songwriters take the lead, but they had the smarts to recognize the enormous talent they had in Nicks, who first joined the band at Buckingham’s insistence then quickly became its star frontwoman.
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