Stevie fell on stage?
 

Someone just told me that a while back, not on this tour, but maybe her solo tour, that she fell on stage? Is this true, guys? Did our lil Stevie girl fall??? What happened? Is there video, did she get hurt?

OH YES I REMEMBER THIS!! I believe it was during her solo tour...one of them I dont remember. There are sadly no videos. I dont have the details sorry.

Some say she fell on the 1983 tour, & others say it was the 1986 tour.

I don't think anyone has conclusively identified a venue or date.

I remember it as Houston, 1986. She actually fell off the stage.

I read it at Mick's book. Don't know if he mentions the city but yes, it was circa 1986

Didnt she fall or trip during her Crystal Visions shows?!

Yeah yeah, I heard she "fell" during the Crystal Visions show. Not OFF the stage, but that she fell onstage. I've been trying to find out, maybe it was in Casino Rama or something weird like that, where ever that is. Or...I don't know. Poor Stevie...I wonder why she fell?

I think she fell a few times..during those years( 83-86)...I heard something about Australia

Oh yeah she did...trip and sorta fall at Casino Rama cause that was right before my show at Verona NY at Turning Stone Casino and I remember thinking I hope she doesn't cancel the show I'm going to cause that would be my luck as it has been in the past.... I think she tripped on a cord and Sharon or Lori helped her up or something... I think she had a real sore knee but it didn't stop her from coming to Turning Stone and she seemed fine...did her kick and spins and wore the boots...:shrug:

I think it was in Orillia, Ont. at a 2007 show, and apparently she fell during a RAL show too.

Did anyone here actually see Stevie fall off the stage in 1983 or 1986? Or perhaps you could point us to the appropriate point on an audio tape, if that's in circulation (Houston '86 is in circulation). Thankee.

That's right. It was the Rock A Little tour.

POOR STEVIE!!!
those heels must be hell to move around in...all this falling LOL

I bought some 6" platforms not too long ago.
I haven't worn them out though, I'm afraid I'll break an ankle!

I'll post the article from the Toronto Sun, June 23, 2007, below. Then, at a later concert during the band introductions when she got to Jana Stevie mentioned how Jana ran to help get her up the night earlier, after the fall. However, Jana was so tiny she couldn't get Stevie up, although Stevie declared her to be an angel for trying.

Stevie Nicks still wonderful
By JANE STEVENSON

RAMA, Ont. -- Stevie Nicks was down, but not out, on Thursday night as she opened the first of two soldout solo shows at Casino Rama.

The 59-year-old songbird and sometime Fleetwood Mac member fell down on stage toward the end of her hour-and 45-minute performance during an extended and lively version of her signature solo track, Edge of Seventeen.

Nicks, who said backstage later that she had a bum knee that was now extremely swollen, was helped to her feet by one of her three female backup singers and none of her seven male band members, who seemed oblivious to her plight.

Ever the trouper, the singer -- who still favours platform suede boots -- shook it off, laughing, and strongly finished the tune, and even came back for a two-song encore including a cover of Led Zeppelin's Rock And Roll.

Touring in support of a greatest-hits album, Crystal Visions, Nicks claimed she loved to come to Canada because everyone was so nice.

"As much as I love my country, they aren't that nice," the Phoenix native said.

The theatrical singer, who loves flowing dresses, velvet coats and top hats, shawls, black leather clothes, and the aforementioned boots (and made about a half-dozen costume changes) had a mic stand dripping in necklaces and scarves, and never missed a moment to interpretive dance or twirl on the spot.

In response, the audience rushed the stage from the moment Nicks opened her show with crowd favourite Stand Back, followed later by some Fleetwood Mac gems as Rhiannon, Dreams and Gold Dust Woman, the latter one of the set highlights as she really let it rip vocally.

Unlike many of her contemporaries, Nicks astonishingly sounds exactly as she did almost 40 years ago when she was starting out.

But it was the poignant Landslide, the song from the 1973 landmark Buckingham Nicks album, that put a lump in everyone's throat -- as she sang in front of a backdrop of images of her family, most prominently her elderly and fragile father.

This is a performer who wears her heart on her sleeve, and we love her for it.

Nicks' last song was her own Beauty and the Beast, another tearjerker as a black-and-white film acting out the tragic fairytale played behind her on a large backdrop.

The singer, who also made a point of shaking the hands of most of the fans gathered at the front of the stage, wound down the evening with a last-minute plea for the music industry, which she pointed out was in "a sad state."

"Go to concerts, buy albums, listen to the radio," she pleaded as she took her final bows with her entire band.

SUN RATING: 4.5 out of 5

I don't have it on me right now, and I can't remember the part of the show. However there is some Stevie babbling about falling, on that bootleg, if I recall. I haven't listened to the show in a long time but it sounded like she fell into a hole that was in the stage...:shrug: