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Nicks says she is in top shape vocally
Wednesday Nov 2 18:12 AEST

Bewitching singer Stevie Nicks says her voice is better than it has ever been despite years of living the hard rock lifestyle.

And she has teased fans with the promise that Fleetwood Mac will tour Australia again in 2007 - which will be three years after the 2004 tour which ended a 20-year on-stage hiatus for the band.

Nicks, who is a reformed cocaine addict, was in Melbourne this week to promote a solo Australian tour for February.

She has spoken openly about her years of excess, drinking too much and taking too many drugs, as lead singer of Fleetwood Mac.

But with those days behind her, she says her stage performances are much better now.

"I think I am a way better singer than I was 15 or 20 years ago because I work with my voice every day and I take care of it," Nicks told AAP from Melbourne.

"I study voice so that I don't have any more bad vocal nights.

"When you study and you exercise your voice and you do 45 minutes before you go on stage, it is a pretty committed thing where you don't have any bad nights. You sing pretty darn good every single night.

"And that is such a worry lifted off your mind."

Nicks was flown out to Australia this week by tour promoter Andrew McManus to announce the 2006 "Gold Dust" shows.

Her focus this week has been to attend various Melbourne Cup functions and she even has a race named after her at Flemington this coming weekend.

"The race on Saturday is named after me and I get to present the cup which is like a big gold record thing," she said.

"When you come to the races, wherever they are, it is like an amazing sub-culture of people. That love of the horses really spurs it all on."

Nicks' upcoming solo tour will include performances with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and some dates will feature Australian singer John Farnham as a special guest.

The tour will begin at Melbourne's Rod Laver Arena on February 18 before the singer performs dates in Brisbane, Newcastle, Sydney, Perth and Christchurch in New Zealand.

Fleetwood Mac is best known for its multiple-platinum album Rumours, while the song Don't Stop became a Bill Clinton campaign anthem.

The band also had hits with songs like Dreams, Rhiannon and Gypsy - all written by Nicks - as well as Go Your Own Way, Little Lies and Seven Wonders.

Nicks will sing all those songs plus others on the tour.

"I am very proud of this," Nicks said.

"It is a really magnificent show and I am really just so delighted to bring it back to Australia because I love it here."

On Wednesday, Nicks revealed Fleetwood Mac would likely return to Australia for another tour, following from the reunion tour - which was minus Christine McVie - in 2004.

"Probably the Mac will go back on tour in 2007," she said.

"We have set it up so that when we are touring, we are coming here (to Australia). Every time we are here, it is easier to come back."