But even as these parts converge and Nicks and Buckingham trade off fervent vocals, their lyrics paint an intimate image of a relationship gone cold. One night in December 1974, Fleetwood Mac drummer Mick Fleetwood visited Sound City Studios, where Buckingham and Nicks had recorded to demonstrate the studio’s power, producer Keith Olsen played him the Buckingham Nicks closer “Frozen Love.” The seven-minute folk-rock opus is indeed a flashy technical achievement, balancing strings, synth, and guitar across three separate musical movements. Nicks went back to waiting tables while Buckingham worked on music at home. He was singing the Mama and the Papas’ “California Dreamin’.” She harmonized with him and changed pop music forever.īuckingham Nicks was a critical and commercial failure, and Polydor Records dropped the duo shortly after its release.
The first song she wrote on guitar, at age 15, was called “I’ve Loved and I’ve Lost.” By high school, Nicks’ family had settled in Palo Alto, and there, at a session for young musicians, she encountered a boy named Lindsey Buckingham.
She sang duets like “Darling Clementine” with her grandfather, a struggling country singer, in local saloons before discovering the aching hooks of girl-group R&B and Goffin-King pop.
From her early days as half of the hippie-folk duo Buckingham Nicks, into the blockbuster soap opera of Fleetwood Mac, and through her dynamic solo career, there has always been something bewitching about Nicks’ vision of pop.īorn Stephanie Lynn Nicks in 1948 in Phoenix, Arizona, she moved often through her childhood, through the Southwest to Salt Lake City and finally on to California. Draped in black chiffon, a high priestess of Los Angeles bohemia with practically clairvoyant emotional insights, Nicks is a star unlike any other. Stevie Nicks is the ultimate rock’n’roll mystic.
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