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Stevie Nicks (b. May 26, 1948 in Phoenix, Arizona) has been the lead singer off-and-on for [[Fleetwood Mac]] for over three and a half decades (since New Year's Day, 1975). She has worked intermittently as a solo artist since 1981, having by far the most commercially successful solo career of any current or former [[Fleetwood Mac]] member, and also the most prolific, with seven albums (so far) of new material, two greatest-hits compilations, one box set (a mixture of greatest hits, B-sides, previously unreleased songs and demos) and one live album, as well as numerous videos. ▼
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▲[[Stevie Nicks]] (b. May 26, 1948 in Phoenix, Arizona) has been the lead singer off-and-on for [[Fleetwood Mac]] for over three and a half decades (since New Year's Day, 1975). She has worked intermittently as a solo artist since 1981, having by far the most commercially successful solo career of any current or former [[Fleetwood Mac]] member, and also the most prolific, with seven albums (so far) of new material, two greatest-hits compilations, one box set (a mixture of greatest hits, B-sides, previously unreleased songs and demos) and one live album, as well as numerous videos.
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* ''Bella Donna'' (1981)
* ''The Wild Heart'' (1983)
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* ''In Your Dreams'' (2011)
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* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: In the early years of her career (both solo and with the Mac), she often came across as this. She's still very mystical but has become much more grounded in recent years.
* [[Eighties Hair]]: Most noticeable in the videos of "Talk To Me" and "I Can't Wait" (from ''Rock A Little'') and the album cover of ''The Other Side of the Mirror''.
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* [[Ludd Was Right]]: Stevie doesn't own a computer or cell phone.
* [[Mondegreen]]: The title of the song "Edge of Seventeen" came from a conversation with [[Tom Petty]]'s wife Jane, who was telling Stevie about how she had first met her future husband at 17. Stevie liked the way that "age of seventeen" came out in Jane's Southern accent so much that she grabbed the phrase for her own.
* [[Moral Guardians]]: Stevie ran into trouble from some fundamentalist Christians in the 1970's and 1980's who believed she was promoting witchcraft or was in fact a practicing witch (due in part to incautious on-stage statements in which she introduced the song "Rhiannon" as being "about a Welsh witch", which [[Did Not Do the Research|is inaccurate; Rhiannon was in fact a goddess in Welsh/Celtic mythology]]) and due partly to [[Woman in Black
* [[New Media Are Evil]]: She was highly suspicious at first of the Internet when it became popular, and doesn't like social networks such as Facebook or Twitter, and does ''not'' have an account on either, despite several identites purporting to be her.
* [[Nice Hat]]: It's not just Stevie's boots that are famous - her top hats, usually accessorized with long flowing veils dropping down her back, are also a core part of her image.
* [[Nice Shoes]]: Her platform-soled boots are iconic. (Being over 60, and having suffered several falls of varying severity off stages in the past, she doesn't actually wear high-heeled platform boots that much anymore.)
* [[Opera Gloves]]: She often wears gloves of varying lengths on- and offstage (her 2011 "look", for instance, includes a pair of elbow-length black leather gloves with cut-off fingertips).
* [[Shout-Out]]: Stevie often gives [[Shout-Out
** She gave a rather obvious [[Shout-Out]] to Mick Fleetwood in "Juliet" ("Dancing to the rhythm of some man's ancient drum").
** Her song "Jane", from ''Street Angel'', is a tribute to renowned primate researcher [[Jane Goodall]].
** "Soldier's Angel", off ''In Your Dreams'', is a [[Shout-Out]] to the wounded soldiers that she repeatedly visited at the now-closed Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, D.C. over the past few years. In a similar vein, "Desert Angel", from ''Timespace'', is a [[Shout-Out]] to both the servicepeople who served in [[Gulf War|Desert Shield and Desert Storm]] and their loved ones. (The sleeve photo of the "Sometimes It's A Bitch" single is a photograph of an inscribed U.S. flag that a fan of her flew from his vehicle during the February 1991 ground campaign.)
** [[Captain Obvious|"Garbo" - the B-side of "Stand Back" - is a tribute to the famous star, and several other old-time Hollywood stars are referenced by name in the song as well.]]
** "Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You" is a rather cryptic [[Shout-Out]] to old friend and sometime romantic interest [[Eagles
** The very title of the album ''The Wild Heart'' is probably a reference to the old romance movie of the same name starring Jennifer Jones (who played a gypsy, incidentally - a character type that Stevie has often referred to, occasionally characterizing herself as a "rock 'n' roll gypsy"),
** In her 1982 [[Fleetwood Mac]] song "Gypsy", Stevie [[Shout-Out|Shout Outs]] the [[Velvet Underground]] by name.
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