Prince joined Petty as the night’s most discussed man. No, that’d be Christine McVie.įor the more casual fan Nicks still detoured through hits of her own ( Stand Back, Edge of Seventeen) and of her other band ( Gypsy, Dreams, Gold Dust Woman, Rhiannon and Landslide).
Side note -Ī 20-something next to this reviewer stated to her friend “Lindsey Buckingham is the other female singer in Fleetwood Mac” at one point when Nicks mentioned Buckingham. It’s a different setlist than usual, airing some of those unheard or lesser-known songs (one stretching back to her pre-Mac album with Lindsey Buckingham) which rewards diehard fans - and there’s lots of them.īut not one of the increasing number of young fans discovering Nicks these days. “You can have it all,” she says of her dual careers.Īrguably this kind of show (which pushed past two and a half hours) might be better in a theatre, but Nicks has the great problem of being way too popular for that.
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Nicks details how important her solo career outside Fleetwood Mac has been, but how she made a pact to return to the band whenever they needed her. Luckily Nicks is hilarious and engaging and her memory is super sharp and it’s nice hearing her talk about creating music and being a songwriter rather than being asked about drugs and ex boyfriends for the umpteenth time. Like, almost an hour if you added it all up. It was like hearing her reading from her mythical memoirs, breaking up the chapters with songs.īut there’s *a lot* of talking. Some of the stories stretch longer than the tune they’re about - brilliant, rambling, incisive anecdotes filled with humour, near-forensic details and the occasional A-list superstar. Credit: News Corp Australia, Mark Stewart Camera Icon Stevie Nicks is particularly chatty on her latest solo tour. The theme is that a very chatty Nicks shares the tales behind most of the songs aired, many from her “gothic trunk of lost songs” on the 24 Karat Gold compilation, featuring tunes that didn’t make it out of the studios for whatever reason, some made with Petty and his band The Heartbreakers. We already knew Stevie Nicks is a storyteller by her lyrics over the past 40 years, but on this new solo tour she becomes a literal story teller. Nicks admits she “grappled” with singing songs she made with Petty so soon after his recent death, but knew her friend wouldn’t want her to change the show. Petty looms large over Nicks’ entire set, including a string of photos of the pair on the big screens. It’s particularly poignant that they duet on Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around, which was originally a duet with Nicks and the late Tom Petty. Unlike most of these dual bills, where you’re hoping for a duet considering they’re in the same venue on the same night, Hynde and Nicks actually perform a song together. Camera Icon Stevie Nicks and Chrissie Hynde paid tribute to Tom Petty. The Pretenders balance classic hits - Brass in Pocket, Don’t Get Me Wrong, Message of Love, Back on the Chain Gang, I’ll Stand By You, Middle of the Road, Hymn To Her - with a handful of new tracks to bring the audience up to date with the fact that this isn’t just a nostalgia trip. Off paper and in real life it turns out the two artists complement each other brilliantly - both iconic rock musicians (and both effortlessly cool) who inject their personality into their songs.
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