Prior to this, Fleetwood Mac had made the U.K. Mick Fleetwood was shopping around for a guitar player when his producer Keith Olsen played him Buckingham Nicks, an acoustic, singer-songwriter album that had just flopped. Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks - romantic and musical partners - joined the band in 1974. Among its many listeners, it was a common belief that Fleetwood Mac was the band’s first record. The album spent 37 weeks floating around the top ten, was the second biggest album of 1976 (behind Peter Frampton’s Frampton Comes Alive!), and the tenth biggest album of 1977. Its path to becoming a colossal record fixed within the pop-music canon took the better part of a year, when, propelled by hits like “Rhiannon,” it would reach number one on the Billboard charts. Nicks had the ability to make audiences feel like one with the song as if she was singing right to them.When Fleetwood Mac was released in 1975, its success was not immediate. When she performed, she sang from her soul and captivated her audiences. Nicks always had a steady and confident command of her voice. She was a lovely feminine voice in a very male dominated 70’s music scene. That signature voice had so many qualities that could lend itself to all types of songs and music. Stevie Nicks had a distinguishing voice which was raspy, sultry and a touch mysterious. The "gold dust" mentioned in the lyrics was cocaine, a drug that Nicks was starting to take, and would later become seriously addicted to. Mick Fleetwood said that he used a hammer to break the glass and had to wear goggles and coveralls to protect himself from the flying shards. This song has included an electric harpsichord and sound effects of broken glass to accentuate Nicks’ vocals. During the recording, Nicks had wrapped a black scarf around her head in an attempt to get into character with her real emotions. The take that made the album was reportedly recorded a 4:00 am after a grueling studio recording session trying to get it right. The way Nicks sang "Gold Dust Woman" on the 1977 Fleetwood Mac album Rumours was impressive. Stevie Nicks Is, And Always Was, A Rock And Roll Legend
In these rare pictures of the living legend, we see Stevie Nicks as the Gold Dust Woman who's always fascinated us. The '70s were a wild time, and Nicks had her share of strange days, but the persona she created never lost its allure. She was a hippie with style, and a style maven with bohemian blood. She one of the most popular and one of the hottest female vocalists of her time.ĭecked out in her capes, hats, scarves, shawls, skirts and other assorted drapey textiles, Nicks commanded the stage like a creature audiences hadn't seen before. With her appearance and her seductive vocals on tracks like "Dreams," "Rhiannon," and "Gold Dust Woman," Stevie Nicks seemed to embody the sexy feminine side of the '70s California music scene, a desert flower and urban enchantress to balance out the masculinity of the Eagles, Crosby Stills & Nash, and her own bandmate and (then) lover Lindsey Buckingham. Throughout her iconic career as an artist, she has enjoyed many successes. Nicks was mysterious, earthy, angelic, and - let's face it - hot.
Stevie Nicks soared to epic stardom in the 1970s as the stylish and beautiful gypsy songstress of Fleetwood Mac, enchanting audiences with her raspy voice and fashion sense.
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