The 1975Â’s Matty Healy in conversation with Stevie Nicks
 

A really wonderful long-form interview with Stevie Nicks by The 1975’s Matty Healy: https://theface.com/audio/matty-heal...-fleetwood-mac

The link includes both the transcript and a podcast/audio version.

Stevie talks about her early days in Fleetwood Mac, but she also tells some new stories as well. For example, she talks a little about the situation with Lindsay, starting and ending cocaine, the Tango in the Night album, her writing process, and her love for The 1975. I found the whole interview to be really interesting and enlightening. I love just hearing Stevie talk. I did wish at times that Matty Healy had circled back to certain questions after the interview became more conversational but I was surprised at how open and candid Stevie was.

I wish we could have gotten more out of her about what happened with her and Lindsey.

But overall, it's a pretty good interview.

So basically she says they separated paths. Like it was so amicable.

And that the music kept them together and now that they aren't recording anymore, there is no more magic? So no reason to stay together?

That's kind of what I got from her as her side of the split.

That was a fantastic interview!! Thank you so much for posting.

Because she refused to record with Fleetwood Mac anymore !..sheesh what a piece of work.

She said Lindsey's Tango songs were her favorites. Big Love was wonderful and that FM didn't get to do the album version on stage b/c Lindsey didn't want to.
Why didn't Neil Finn sing Big Love, Family Man, or Caroline instead of MM, SHN, or GYOW then?

Who cares?

Do you want to establish requirements for posts or replies to a thread?
People can post replies to a thread. This is the U.S.A., Big Shot.

Melody:
'There's Mozart. Then there's The Beatles. Then Stevie Nicks'
Whoaaa??? ......hold on there just a minute.
:shocked:

Nice interview. I've never been a fan of The 1975- he's always come across as being a bit up himself. However, he came across as a really nice bloke in that interview. Might need to revisit them.
Likes to talk a lot though...are you interviewing yourself or Stevie?
Harry Styles- you're out. She's got a new bestie.

That’s a pretty spectacular ass kiss. Ridiculous as the day is long, too.

I kind of vegged out listening to this interview. I enjoyed its length and serendipitous tripping around. It got me thinking about the personality and style differences between Stevie and Christine. Stevie has always been willing (and wanted) to divulge so much about herself, while Chris always maintains that reserve, that very British reticence. But these two styles complemented each other in Fleetwood Mac. It was always so enjoyable hearing Stevie and Chris talk to the rock press in their very different ways. It seems to me a prime example of how the differences in the band jelled. It’s the band’s classic variety and even the Green configurations had that.

Wolfgang was flattered by the comparison, tyvm.

I think my favorite part of that whole interview is Stevie talking at length about Tango in the Night. It helps that I agree with her opinions on that album 100 percent. Every song she lists as a Highlight I agree with, which is about 8 of the 12 songs on the album. Specifically like that she seems to genuinely really love Family Man and Caroline since she mentions them 2-3 times enthusiastically. And rightfully states that Lindsey has the best songs.

She also says without saying it, that she was completely useless to that album.
Or at least the closest to saying something overly critical about her own music as far as I can remember. She literally lists every song as being great except the 2 she wrote and mystified. And it’s possible she glossed over mystified, but Stevie never just glosses over a chance to talk about a song she wrote.

And Now that I’m thinking about it, I can’t recall one time Stevie’s ever even said the title of those 2 songs.

She often admits to not liking much of Street Angel, but has never really spoken to providing 2 of the worst songs to such a great album. And the kicker is she had so much better to offer.

I wish I could see Christine or Linsdey's face if and when they heard that statement. :laugh::laugh:

I enjoyed the interview. It was a bit much on the interviewer's end; however, I didn't mind it. In these times we get a little more lovey and emotional.

You had both parties stroking her ego for a good hour plus. That opened her up.

I agree with everything you’ve said. I’m a huge Stevie fan but Tango in the Night may be my favorite FM album. It takes you to a really specific point in time and I get why The 1975 person feels this way too!

I really love how Stevie takes opportunities to speak here. IIRC, he talks about loving this album and rather than moving off the topic she says something like, “well if you love that album, here’s a story about it and these are the songs I love the most” etc. Sometimes, especially on these boards, people get very wrapped up in Stevie’s personal life and personality, but I could listen to her talk about music all day!

She has admitted being useless to the album before, though.

Maybe something along the lines of her talking about being in rehab and not being present ever, but I can’t recall her ever once even saying either of those song titles or something along the lines of acknowledgement that those 2 songs are so much worse then the other 10. She didn’t do it now either technically. But sue implies it

Things that stood out to me:

Her explanation of why she was so angry about the Betty Ford thing.

Her essential admission that she wasn't really there for TANGO IN THE NIGHT. She references being on klonopin when she's talking about making the album, and then she cites Lindsey and Christine's songs as being the best.

I would have liked the interviewer to ask her directly about writing new songs now.

Midway through this and it's so great.

Love hearing Stevie talk, I could listen to her tales all day.

Especially the bit about Tango in the Night, it's so great to hear Stevie being a fan of Fleetwood Mac and specific album cuts which we don't hear about very often.

I'm gonna have to check out the 1975 now. As a fellow Brit I can vouch for the cultural impact of that album, Everywhere is such a massive hit here.

I'm still puzzled as to when the Kolonopin kicked in. Mick said in an interview that during Tango in the Night, he and Stevie were the big cocaine users and would use a trailer that Lindsey had parked outside his house to party in. She was gone most of the time because she was touring with Rock a Little and she was using during that tour. She went to Betty Ford after the tour and then went in to work on Tango. Wouldn't she have been alert and drug free? but she mentions working on Tango after being prescribed the Kolonopin. So I still am so confused as to when she started using it and when it kicked in making her a bit of a zombie. She seemed really good during the Tango press tour and videos. So she must have been working on Tango while touring and using. Then went to Betty Ford at the end of the year and was given Kolonopin when she got out?

I think it takes a while for Klonopin to start really kicking your ass. I know a couple of people prescribed it recently, and I always tell them about $tevie's problem with it.

Maybe she was taking double or triple what she was supposed to???

She was probably coked up early on, got clean from coke, but was still heavily using alcohol and probably pot.

The other thing is THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MIRROR came out 2 years after TANGO IN THE NIGHT and Nicks referred to that album as her "last good album" before Klonopin started turning her into a zombie. So yeah - it does seem that the Klonopin effect was largely after TANGO.

I think its likely she was off coke but still drinking quite a bit during TANGO. Whatever it was, Buckingham referenced how hard Nicks and Fleetwood were partying and how much that made it difficult to finish the album and impossible to tour behind it.

I have heard her talk about the songs, but no I never heard her say they were bad. And I’ve heard her say in the last 15 years that she wasn’t really there for Tango and I don’t just mean physically absent. She's talked about being physically absent before way back when, but I think it's only in the later years that she has said she wasn't mentally present either.

You're right, she doesn't talk about the songs much. I think we all remember her talking about putting Lindsey’s voice on WISYA and in that same Creem interview she said:

But no I've never heard her imply that they were mediocre songs before.