Women’s rights have been on Nicks’ mind since the death of her “hero”, the US supreme court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, last month. She drummed that into me, and I’m so glad she did.” And you will never depend upon a man to support you.
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“She said to me: you will never stand in a room full of men and feel like you can’t keep up with them. Nicks was close to her mother, Barbara, who pushed to get her career back after she had children. Photograph: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images John McVie, Christine McVie, Stevie Nicks, Mick Fleetwood and Lindsey Buckingham. It’s your real mother, walking into your kitchen and saying” – she puts on a rasp – “‘Don’t drink any more of that shit.’” She pauses, waiting for me to laugh, then cackles.įleetwood Mac in 1975 (from left).
Now, that’s not some romantic, gothic story of your mother coming back to you. “I’d been sick and chugging down the Hawaiian Punch. “And I felt something almost tap my shoulder and this voice go: ‘It’s that Gatorade you’re drinking,’” she says. I absolutely know that my mom is around all the time.” Just after her mother died, in 2012, Nicks was standing in her kitchen with “really bad acid reflux”. I’ve always believed in spiritual forces. She says that, for all her fears about her career, “some people are really afraid of dying, but I’m not. I ask about her approach to spirituality. Nicks is unabashedly funny, dry as a bone, often sidling into sarcasm. The night she fell ill last year, she had just become the first woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice – an honour that reflects her wild success as one of the lead singers of Fleetwood Mac and as a solo artist, as a writer and singer of raw, magical songs about love and freedom, including Dreams, Rhiannon, Gold Dust Woman, Landslide and Edge of Seventeen. It is nearly midnight in LA when we speak on the phone not a problem for Nicks, who is “totally nocturnal”.