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STEVIE NICKS
Stephanie Lynn "Stevie" Nicks (born on May 26, 1948, in Phoenix, Arizona) is an American singer-songwriter, best known for her work with the legendary and iconic band Fleetwood Mac and an extensive solo career, which collectively have produced over forty Top 50 hits and has sold nearly 120 million albums. She has been noted for her ethereal visual style and symbolic lyrics.
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In the early 1980s, and after a hugely successful first solo album, Rolling Stone deemed her "The Reigning Queen of Rock and Roll". Nicks was invited to join Fleetwood Mac in 1975 after Mick Fleetwood heard "Frozen Love", a song she had written and recorded with her boyfriend Lindsey Buckingham. Initially, Fleetwood only intended to hire Lindsey Buckingham, but Buckingham told him: "We're a package deal." Fleetwood Mac's first album after the incorporation of Nicks and Buckingham produced four Top 40 singles and it remained #1 on the American album charts for over 30 weeks.
With the commercial and critical success of Fleetwood Mac's Rumours album in 1977 (which sold over 33 million copies worldwide), Fleetwood Mac gained international fame. Nicks began her solo career in 1981 with Bella Donna, and she has produced five more solo studio albums to date. Overcoming cocaine addiction, dependency on tranquilizers, and chronic fatigue syndrome, Nicks remains a successful solo performer.
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Nicks has been nominated for seven Grammy Awards, and, with Fleetwood Mac, won the 1977/1978 Grammy for Album of the Year for Rumours. As a member of Fleetwood Mac, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. Nicks has a contralto vocal range. As a young child, Nicks had difficulty pronouncing her given name Stephanie, instead pronouncing it "tee-dee", which became the nickname "Stevie".
With the Goya guitar that she received for her sixteenth birthday, Nicks wrote her first song called "I've Loved and I've Lost, and I'm Sad But Not Blue". She joined her first band "The Changing Times" while attending Arcadia High School in Arcadia, CA, a suburb of Los Angeles.
Selected discography
With Lindsey Buckingham
Buckingham-Nicks, Polydor, 1972.
With Fleetwood Mac; on Warner Bros. Records
Fleetwood Mac (includes "Rhiannon" and "Landslide"), 1975.
Rumours (includes "Dreams" and "Gold Dust Woman"), 1977.
Tusk (includes "Sara"), 1979.
Mirage (includes "Gypsy"), 1982.
SOLO ALBUMS
Bella Donna (includes "Edge of Seventeen," "Stop Dragging My Heart Around," and "Leather and Lace"), 1981.
Wild Heart (includes "Stand Back" and "If Anyone Falls"), 1983.
Rock a Little (includes "Talk to Me" and "I Can't Wait"), 1985.
Wild Heart 1996
Trouble in Shanghi 2001
Crystal Visions 2007
The Other Side Of THe Mirror 2011
IN YOUR DREAMS 2011
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