Stevie Nicks on Inspiration, Collaboration, and Her New Dreams

[michelej1]

New Now Next by Snicks 8/4/2015

[From a countdown of hits by female artists]

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Fleetwood Mac was going through personal turmoil when they recorded Rumours, and the result was one of the greatest albums of all time.

Stevie Nicks explains the genesis of “Dreams”: “I took a Fender Rhodes piano and went into another studio that was said to belong to Sly, of Sly & the Family Stone. It was a black-and-red room, with a sunken pit in the middle where there was a piano, and a big black-velvet bed with Victorian drapes. I sat down on the bed with my keyboard in front of me. I found a drum pattern, switched my little cassette player on and wrote ’Dreams’ in about 10 minutes. Right away I liked the fact that I was doing something with a dance beat, because that made it a little unusual for me.”

The second single released from the album, it hit #1 in June 1977, becoming Fleetwood Mac’s only #1 song.