We want to hear from you! “Now it’s all irony, you know, but there is no way you can’t get drawn into the end of that song.”.

“My beautiful song just disappeared [20 years ago].

I think she’s wisdom personified. Nicks, who joined Fleetwood Mac at age 26 and wrote some of the band’s biggest songs, including “Dreams” and “Landslide,” has been vocal about her wild rock star lifestyle. ET with the Classic Albums documentary about the making of Fleetwood Mac’s landmark 1977 album Rumours. ET on AXS. In our day, I think that the audiences revered their rock stars -- and I say that with all respect -- that our audiences cared about us, and took care of us and would never have put us under that kind of danger. Nicks’ own performance earned “Silver Springs” a belated Grammy nomination, in the category of Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals (it lost to Jamiroquai’s “Virtual Insanity”).

I have a lot of friends from high school and college who want to hang out when I play in their city. But in my solo career, I get to be the boss. Look at Stevie and myself. Nicks: We've been lucky. He stole eight years of my life. But all my business managers and everyone were urging me to go to this guy who was supposedly­ the darling of the psychiatrists. Or you just throw in the towel and let your hair turn white and look like a frumpy old woman. She never told us she used to get panic attacks, because she's so brave.

The producers tried to find a way to keep the song on the album, and offered to cut down its length or trim a different Nicks track, like the seven-minute “Gold Dust Woman.” As Fleetwood had relayed to Nicks during their fateful parking-lot argument, length was a major factor in the song’s displacement, given the limitations of vinyl pressings and her bandmates’ desire for equal representation on the LP. '$400 Million Is a Peanut': Trump Admits to, Downplays Massive Debt During Town Hall, NBC’s Trump Town Hall Was Pointless and Shameful, ‘$400 Million Is a Peanut’: Trump Admits to, Downplays Massive Debt During Town Hall, Preview ‘Austin City Limits’ Special Celebrating Stevie Ray Vaughan, This Supercut Shows Just How Bizarre a Single Trump Fox Interview Can Be, King Princess Meets Her Virtual Self for ‘Only Time Makes It Human’ Video, Lana Del Rey Returns With Tender New Song ‘Let Me Love You Like a Woman’, Yungblud Can’t Keep Hands to Himself in ‘Cotton Candy’ Video, in conversation with Tavi Gevinson for the, captured Buckingham welling up with emotion.

“To my mother, it had been a million dollar check.”, Nicks also finally had the opportunity to place the song on her own compilation, including it on 2007’s Crystal Visions – The Very Best of Stevie Nicks. I can fit it all in.

We never went away. Midway through a non-album rarity called “Silver Springs,” Nicks turned and faced her former flame as she sang the song’s rueful bridge: “Time cast a spell on you, but you won’t forget me/I know I could have loved you but you would not let me.” The pair locked eyes, and Nicks gradually built to a cathartic howl – “I’ll follow you down ’til the sound of my voice will haunt you/You’ll never get away from the sound of the woman that loves you” – indicating that, for her at least, resolution had never really come. Stevie Nicks on art, ageing and attraction: ‘Botox makes it look like you’re in a satanic cult!’ Jenny Stevens At 72, the singer is still looking for adventure. Nicks: Christine would rather be skinned alive and fed to the sharks. Fleetwood Mac is bigger than anything Lindsey and I solo-wise will ever do. As Fleetwood Mac's live classic 'The Dance' turns 20, we look back at Stevie Nicks' wrenching "Silver Springs" – and how it almost broke up the band. “So we gave her the option that we could cut one of the slow songs down so we could have room for the other ones or we could take one of the other songs off and she said, ‘Let’s do it.’ She wanted to keep all of the other songs more than ‘Silver Springs.'”. “My mom ended up getting a $50,000 check two months after The Dance went out,” the singer revealed.

After their breakup and massive success with Rumours, Buckingham and Nicks spent a decade continuing to sing to and about each other onstage, even as they appeared to move on with their respective personal lives. ‘Silver Springs’: Inside Fleetwood Mac’s Great Lost Breakup Anthem As classic live album ‘The Dance’ turns 20, we look back at Stevie Nicks’ tortured torch … Buckingham: That's a very interesting question. There’s something comforting about that. Generally speaking, rock-and-roll bands were conducting their personal lives in a such a way that was a reflection of what they thought they had to do in order to be creative.

There will also be a screening of Stevie’s 1987 concert film, Rock a Little, as well as an episode of Soundstage featuring Nicks, and a classic Stevie Nicks-Lindsay Buckingham concert performance.
I think we are better served to interpret them in new ways ourselves, and in a way that resonate[s] with our own history.

We could actually walk on stage and have our own little almost-love affair, and have the audience go, "Oh my God!

“I never thought that ‘Silver Springs’ would ever be performed onstage,” she reflected during a 1997 MTV interview. CNN: Why do you continue to do this? It's much too private. True to her word, Nicks left the band. My friend Doug Morris, who’s been president of, like, every record company, said to me once, “When you retire, you just get small.” Stand up straight, put on your heels, and get out there and do stuff.