I’ll believe it when I see it.Photo: Katarina Palushaj / EyeEm/Getty Images/EyeEm So wouldn’t it be great? Yes, it would be. If she wants to come back, it’s her band. Nicks concluded, “When people say, ‘Did she ask if she could come back?’ It’s her band, for God’s sake. So I’ll be interested to see, along with the rest of you, what Christine will do,” Nicks said. But we finally decided that we also didn’t want to not play.
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We didn’t really want to have Fleetwood Mac without Chris. You finally let it go - and that’s when we really started on our quest to make Fleetwood Mac relevant without her. And she has literally, so many times, extensively told us why she would never come back and why it was not a part of her life anymore and why she wouldn’t know what to do in that situation anymore. She was really nervous, but she was well-rehearsed,” Nicks said fondly.Īnd in the future? “All I can say is, Chris has so nailed it into our head that she would never come back. Talk about starting at the top, to walk out in the O2 Arena I think it’s 19,000 people.
“She came in for the second of two nights at the O2 Arena in London and she had a great time. Nicks discussed the most recent news in the world of Fleetwood Mac: Christine McVie’s public declaration in late 2013 that she was interested in rejoining the band. “I did memorize a lot of it in high school and in the beginning of college, because if I couldn’t think of words, I would just go to the poetry book, and open it up and use their words.” That was the genesis of “Annabel Lee,” an In Your Dreams adaptation of the 1849 Poe poem.įrom the Archives: Read Cameron Crowe’s 1977 Profile of Fleetwood Mac In her youth, when she was learning to play guitar and writing her first songs, Nicks learned a lot of poetry by other people: Edgar Allan Poe, Lord Byron, Oscar Wilde.
Nicks explained that she writes journal entries on the right-hand page if she feels like turning the entry into a poem, she’ll write that on the accompanying left-hand page.
The film shows glimpses of some of Nicks’ books of poetry, which she entrusted to Stewart, who combed through them looking for potential lyrics. But in Alice in Wonderland‘s world, it would be a perfect sentence.” I’m whoever character I need to be.” She considered her grammar. But whoever he is, he’s the master of ceremonies.” And Nicks? “I’m Alice when he’s not being Alice. “Sometimes he’s the caterpillar in Alice in Wonderland. Nicks compared Stewart to an array of Lewis Carroll characters. See Where Lindsay Buckingham Ranks on Our 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time “They would talk and gossip about politics and the world and people, and talk about music and photography.” After dinner, Stewart would go home to his two young daughters, while Nicks and her singers would work late into the night on the next day’s vocal parts. “We would break for an hour, an hour and a half, and we would do what they used to in the Twenties, when they had Hemingway and Coco Chanel and Nureyev and Man Ray, and they would have dinner every Sunday night,” Nicks said. they would then work until dinner, which was cooked by Nicks’ goddaughter. To make the album, Stewart would come over around 2 p.m. “Even Lindsay felt like he had a big cashmere hug when he was here for a few days,” Nicks reported. “It was like amazing summer camp that lasted all year for adults - who got to be children for a year, with no adults around to tell us what to do.” Performers on the album included guitarists Waddy Wachtel, Mike Campbell, and Lindsey Buckingham (Nicks’ Fleetwood Mac bandmate and former paramour). “This was the house where we had more fun than we’ve ever had in our whole lives,” she said. Nicks, who is still just like the white-winged dove, was holding court in the front stairwell of her house, in the same location where she and backup singers Sharon Celani and Lori Nicks recorded all their vocals for In Your Dreams.