Stevie Nicks didn’t originally write “Rhiannon” about a Welsh goddess. She didn’t even know the mythology. She found the name in a novel. Loved it. Wrote a song around a mysterious woman. Then discovered afterwards…
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“Landslide” is about change. But the change wasn’t abstract. Stevie Nicks wrote it while seriously considering whether to abandon her dream of becoming a professional musician. Her album with Lindsey Buckingham had failed commercially. Money…
“Dreams” is Stevie Nicks’ side of a breakup. Specifically: her breakup with Lindsey Buckingham. The extraordinary thing is that Buckingham was standing inside the same band while she sang it. Even more extraordinary: he was…
