Stevie Nicks: the return of Fleetwood Mac
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Caspar Llewellyn Smith, The Observer (UK), Jan. 13, 2013
Before I meet Stevie Nicks, I hear her. She is downstairs somewhere in the house she's renting on the beach in Malibu – a short drive, traffic allowing, up the Californian coastline from the two homes she owns in LA – and looking for her dark glasses. It's early evening in December and has long since turned dark outside, but if you're the ultimate rock goddess – NME's recent description, testament to an ongoing revaluation of interest in Fleetwood Mac among the younger generation – wearing shades at night goes with the territory.
Scented candles are spaced throughout the room and there's a well-thumbed copy of the first book in The Twilight Saga on a side table – signs that suggest that the 64-year-old singer is comfortably in residence. Plus there's her Yorkshire terrier, getting stuck continuously under my feet. But, as Nicks says, when all five feet one-and-a-half inches of her does emerge at the top of the stairs, she can't seem to settle.
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It is now 40 years since her first album, Buckingham Nicks – the fruit of her relationship, both musical and romantic, with Lindsey Buckingham – and life is coming full circle. Later this month, the most classic of all Fleetwood Mac albums, Rumours, gets the full reissue treatment, and the band will hit the road again for a US tour that will also likely come to Europe. (Of the rumours that they'll headline Glastonbury, Nicks is noncommittal, though she does say she'd love to do it.)
There is also the likelihood of the first new Fleetwood Mac record in 10 years – and even the prospect of a second Buckingham-Nicks album. For fans, this news is as exciting as it might sound improbable. Nicks once said herself that "to be in Fleetwood Mac is to live in a soap opera. And it has been pretty scandalous and incestuous…" And of all relationships, it's been that between her and Buckingham that has provided the richest story lines of all.
full: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/jan/12/stevie-nicks-return-of-fleetwood-mac
FM was at its peak in the mid '70s but went downhill after 1979's Tusk. And hearing "Little Lies" from 1987's Tango in the Night, you wouldnt think you heard the same FM from '76. "Little Lies" is like Jefferson Airplane becoming Jefferson Starship and making "Sara" or "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" or "We Built This City" that tried to fit in with the new '80s sound so much the band simply became Starship. I wonder what FM/Nicks have in store now.
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Of course you get a K&R from me! 
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