Toronto Q & A for IYD, April 15, 2013

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by WildHearted

Right, I know she looks young.

I don't understand why the media is getting her age wrong when it's a very easy thing to fact check - first Oprah, and now this.

Most of them just copy and paste stories anyway. They are hardly interested in fact checking. So, if an error appears one place, it will be repeated 20 more times without them checking anything.

Bob Welch told me that one time he just made up a birth date for this interview. I don't know why he did it, although he explained. I just forgot. And from that time since, for DECADES, his birthday is listed all over as being on 2 different dates, only one of them the correct one. But based on one interview the date has been printed as wrong a hundred times.

Michele

[michelej1]

Winnepeg Free Press, April 16, 2013

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/art...203343761.html

TORONTO -- Fleetwood Mac singer Stevie Nicks is tantalizing fans with a bold idea: a one-woman show.

Could something along the lines of My Name is Stevie (in the vein of Barbra Streisand's My Name is Barbra) or Stevie With an I-E (in the spirit of Liza Minnelli's Liza With a Z) be in the tarot cards?

The raspy-voiced veteran says it's an idea her pal Dave Stewart has been trying to get her to embrace.

Nicks was appearing at the Canadian première of her documentary In Your Dreams, which follows her and the Eurythmics hitmaker as they write and record her 2011 album of the same name.

She says Stewart's plan would involve massive video screens revealing images from Nicks' storied life. But the Landslide crooner is laughing off the idea.

Nicks' creative bond with Stewart is traced in an affectionate documentary that reveals the veteran rockers nit-picking over melodies and brainstorming lyrics at her home recording studio in California. The film plays in Toronto through Thursday before heading to other cities.

After the film, Nicks told a movie theatre full of fans that Stewart sees a new chapter in her career.

"He wants me to have video screens, like a big room of video screens where it's all my whole life (up there). And I (said): 'Dave, I'm not Barbra Streisand,'" Nicks says, smiling. "But maybe. Maybe someday."

She notes that her solo shows already feature a lot of talking, as opposed to the hit-laden concerts with her band Fleetwood Mac.

"It's very different. Fleetwood Mac's much more sophisticated and grown-up and my show is just like a big slumber party in an auditorium. And I tell everybody the meanings of all these new songs. Because that's how I draw people in," says Nicks, who turns 65 on May 26.

After the movie, Nicks took questions from audience members, recounting the origins of her steadfast determination to be a star and dark days surrounding the recording of Rumours.

"It wasn't really a pleasant experience," she says.

"Lindsey (Buckingham) and I had pretty much just really broken up, and we'd kind of broken up off and on for a year before that. So this is 1977. None of the couples were happy... which, on one hand, really lends to the creative process."

The film includes interviews with Nicks about Fleetwood Mac's rise to fame, sources of inspiration, childhood memories and her surprising passion for the Twilight franchise.

She notes that promoting the album In Your Dreams involved a gruelling two years of touring and promotion. In the end, it didn't amount to much.

"I didn't sell a lot of records, you guys. For me, for a big act like moi, I didn't. Worldwide I probably sold 300,000 records. It's awesome if you're an unknown artist and you have a hit single but it's not really that awesome if you're Stevie Nicks," she says.

"It's such a different age now."

In Your Dreams reaches Winnipeg on May 2, May 3 and May 5.

Fleetwood Mac performs at the MTS Centre on May 12.

-- The Canadian Press

[Macfanforever]

Originally Posted by WildHearted

Right, I know she looks young.

I don't understand why the media is getting her age wrong when it's a very easy thing to fact check - first Oprah, and now this.

LOL As long they making her younger.Stevie wont mind.

[gldstwmn]

Originally Posted by WildHearted

http://nickslive.blogspot.com/2013/0...vie-nicks.html

"I didn't sell a lot of records, you guys. For me, for a big act like moi, I didn't. Worldwide I probably sold 300,000 records. It's awesome if you're an unknown artist and you have a hit single but it's not really that awesome if you're Stevie Nicks," she said

Oh Stevie. That's ONE record. In this day and age it's damn respectable. Not only that it's one of the best, most consistent records you've ever made. And you know it.

[vivfox]

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[gldstwmn]

Originally Posted by michelej1

http://blogs.canoe.ca/turntable/musi...at-toronto-qa/ Jam Showbiz April 16, 2013

Nicks told a packed crowd, which had included Fleetwood Mac bandmates drummer Mick Fleetwood and bassist John McVie before they exited pre Q&A,.”

I love that Mick and especially John showed up. How sweet of them!

[gldstwmn]

Originally Posted by WildHearted

Why does everyone think she's 62?

Maybe she tells them she is.

[michelej1]

O.Canada.com

http://o.canada.com/2013/04/18/movie...your-dreams-2/
Jay Stone Published: April 18, 2013, 6:08 pm


In Your Dreams 2½ stars out of 5

Starring: Stevie Nicks, Dave Stewart

Directed by: Dave Stewart and Stevie Nicks

Running time: 100 minutes

Parental guidance: No problems

Fans of the singer Stevie Nicks — none of whom could possibly be bigger fans than Stevie Nicks herself, it appears — will be in heaven with In Your Dreams, a documentary about the yearlong project to record her 2011 solo album. It’s all there: the inspirations, the moments of musical serendipity, the day Reese Witherspoon dropped by and gave her a title for one of the tunes, the many, many scenes of Nicks writing or singing or talking or just hanging out in her lush California home, being artistic.

Other, lesser fans will have to make do with serendipitous moments of our own: the voice-over when Nicks expresses the wish that In Your Dreams will inspire younger audiences “to go back to the old ways and start over. This is our prayer.” Or the magical moment when, after writing the lyrics to Italian Summer at a hotel in Italy, she gives the hand-written manuscript to the front desk clerk and tells him, “Some day this is going to be very important.”

In fact, Italian Summer is a good song, one of many we get to enjoy in excerpts from the music videos that also festoon this vanity project. The film, like the album, is produced by Nicks and Dave Stewart, the Eurythmics guitarist, who joins Nicks and several other top-notch musicians. These include Mick Fleetwood and Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac, the alma mater for Nicks, plus her longtime backup singers, in whom, she speculates, the public finds “comfort in that love that we have as three very strong women.”

And maybe they do. In Your Dreams features endorsements from members of the public, including an American sailor whose life was altered by Soldier’s Angel. Nicks wrote that song after touring Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and seeing the wounded warriors, one of a few genuine moments of emotion in the film. In Your Dreams would be impossible if it wasn’t for the fact that Nicks — whose throaty growl hasn’t lost much of its power — is a talented rock singer and Stewart is, as she informs us, “one of the greatest and grandest guitar players.”

The film only touches on her childhood and early career: this isn’t a portrait of the artist, it’s a diary of the art, including the volumes of her writings that she gave to Stewart as possible lyrics (at one point she compares herself to Bob Dylan). There’s a touching reminiscence surrounding the song New Orleans, written six days after Hurricane Katrina and inspired by TV clips of a young boy who looks at the camera and — with shocking and moving frankness — says, “We just need some help sent here. And it’s just pitiful.”

The Witherspoon song comes when the actress tells Stewart he can stay at her condo in Nashville. “It’s cheaper than free,” she says, and the next thing you know, Stewart and Nicks have turned that idea into a love song. Another factoid: Lady From the Mountain was inspired by the Twilight movie New Moon, in particular the part where Bella is abandoned by the love of her life, which also happened to Nicks. Hopefully, she says, someone will hear that song and think, “The same thing happened to Stevie Nicks and she’s still alive.”

In your dreams. OK, OK. But she started it.