Stevie's Stage Fright

[michelej1]

This is an excerpt from a May 23, 1994 Newsweek article, but I just saw it today:

http://www.newsweek.com/id/133760/page/1


Many entertainers agree that a few butterflies can actually help a performance, Stage fright "isn't just feeling nerved out and freaked out," says Stevie Nicks, formerly the lead singer of Fleetwood Mac, who is preparing for a world tour in July. "It's also feeling really excited. It makes you feel you can do anything ... If I wasn't really nervous before I walk onstage, I'd be really worried. " Nicks, who first suffered performance anxiety at a seventh-grade baton-twirling contest, says the hour before a performance i is a nightmare for her. "My stomach gets upset. I break out in a sweat. I have asthma and it really kicks in. Everyone wonders, 'My God. Is she going to be able to pull this evening off?' And then when the announcer says, 'Please welcome Miss Stevie Nicks,' it just goes away."