Stevie Nicks - A Survivors Story

[Gypsy-Rhiannon]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main...tevienicks.xml

I love the picture posted with this article

[danax6]

Originally Posted by Gypsy-Rhiannon

I love the picture posted with this article

Holy F, yes!

Thanks for posting! This will be my new sig pic tonight, nobody steal it!

[Gypsy-Rhiannon]

Originally Posted by danax6

Holy F, yes!

Thanks for posting! This will be my new sig pic tonight, nobody steal it!

I'm off to buy a copy of the telegraph... I'm assuming it's in the magazine you can buy


I found this interesting:

And who has been the greatest love of her life?

'My great, great love was Joe Walsh.'

Joe Walsh? Of the Eagles? I struggle to keep the note of surprise out of my voice.

'It's crazy, isn't it?'

I am no expert on Nicks's romantic adventures, but I've done my research. Her affairs with Buckingham, Fleetwood, Don Henley, the record executive Jimmy Iovine - all are well chronicled. But nowhere have I found a single reference to Joe Walsh.

'1983 to 1986,' Nicks says crisply. 'I don't know - why do you love somebody? Why do you love them so much that when they walk in the room your heart jumps out of your chest? I don't know. But I fell in love with Joe at first sight from across the room, in the bar at the Mansions Hotel in Dallas. I looked at him and I walked across the room and I sat on the bar stool next to him, and two seconds later I crawled into his lap, and that was it.

'We were probably the perfect, complete, crazy pair. He was the one that I would have married, and that I would probably have changed my life around for…' She pauses. 'A little bit. Not a lot. But he wouldn't have changed his life either.'

The reason they broke up, she says, is that they were both 'really seriously drug addicts. We were a couple on the way to hell.'

The relationship finally ended when Walsh got on a plane and went to Australia 'to get away from me, basically. He thought - or so I'm told by my friends that Joe told - that one of us was going to die, and the other person would not be able to save them. And I did think I was going to die, absolutely. It took me a long, long time to get over it - if I ever got over it. Because there was no other man in the world for me. And it's the same today, even though Joe is married and has two sons. He met somebody in rehab and got married. And I think he's happy.'

Oddly enough, Nicks once said very much the same thing about Lindsey Buckingham, telling one journalist that Buckingham was 'my first love and my love for all time. But we can't ever be together. He has a lovely wife, Kristen, who I really like… I look at him now and just go, "Oh, Stevie, you made a mistake." '

Nicks shoots me a look when I mention this. 'Well, he was my great musical love, and that's very different. Lindsey and I both loved each other not just because we loved Lindsey and Stevie, but because we loved what Lindsey and Stevie did. And that is definitely what kept Lindsey and me together for as long as we did stay together. It's not that he's not a great love - he is a great love. And I write songs about him to this day. I don't know why. But whenever we're together we fight - to this day.'

All I can say is that if the reporter found no mention of Stevie and Joe Walsh then they didn't look hard enough!

[GODDESS6]

awesome pip, thanx!!!!!!!!!!!~ i loved reading it & the pic is!!!!~

[Liza]

Great - thanks for posting it. Very interesting. It looks like Stevie is quite sure that she will not tour with Mac without Christine.

Thanks again - I am going out to buy this now.

[equeen102289]

That was the best article I have read in a long time! Thank you very much for posting!

And I just have to say...I told you so! (referring to this):

'My great, great love was Joe Walsh.'

[melacine]

OMG, I just bought this magazine off eBay just a minute ago without seeing this post first. I read the Joe Walsh clip, I can't wait to read the entire article now and I HOPE that pick is in the magazine!!! Here's the cover posted from the auction. It said it was "available for one day only from UK newspaper".

luv,
Shel

[GODDESS6]

Originally Posted by melacine

OMG, I just bought this magazine off eBay just a minute ago without seeing this post first. I read the Joe Walsh clip, I can't wait to read the entire article now and I HOPE that pick is in the magazine!!! Here's the cover posted from the auction. It said it was "available for one day only from UK newspaper".

luv,
Shel

i almost bought that~ i wasn't sure if it was this article tho~ glad you got it...ENJOY!!!~

[danax6]

Originally Posted by Gypsy-Rhiannon

I'm off to buy a copy of the telegraph... I'm assuming it's in the magazine you can buy


I found this interesting:

And who has been the greatest love of her life?

'My great, great love was Joe Walsh.'

Joe Walsh? Of the Eagles? I struggle to keep the note of surprise out of my voice.

'It's crazy, isn't it?'

I am no expert on Nicks's romantic adventures, but I've done my research. Her affairs with Buckingham, Fleetwood, Don Henley, the record executive Jimmy Iovine - all are well chronicled. But nowhere have I found a single reference to Joe Walsh.

'1983 to 1986,' Nicks says crisply. 'I don't know - why do you love somebody? Why do you love them so much that when they walk in the room your heart jumps out of your chest? I don't know. But I fell in love with Joe at first sight from across the room, in the bar at the Mansions Hotel in Dallas. I looked at him and I walked across the room and I sat on the bar stool next to him, and two seconds later I crawled into his lap, and that was it.

'We were probably the perfect, complete, crazy pair. He was the one that I would have married, and that I would probably have changed my life around for…' She pauses. 'A little bit. Not a lot. But he wouldn't have changed his life either.'

The reason they broke up, she says, is that they were both 'really seriously drug addicts. We were a couple on the way to hell.'

The relationship finally ended when Walsh got on a plane and went to Australia 'to get away from me, basically. He thought - or so I'm told by my friends that Joe told - that one of us was going to die, and the other person would not be able to save them. And I did think I was going to die, absolutely. It took me a long, long time to get over it - if I ever got over it. Because there was no other man in the world for me. And it's the same today, even though Joe is married and has two sons. He met somebody in rehab and got married. And I think he's happy.'

Oddly enough, Nicks once said very much the same thing about Lindsey Buckingham, telling one journalist that Buckingham was 'my first love and my love for all time. But we can't ever be together. He has a lovely wife, Kristen, who I really like… I look at him now and just go, "Oh, Stevie, you made a mistake." '

Nicks shoots me a look when I mention this. 'Well, he was my great musical love, and that's very different. Lindsey and I both loved each other not just because we loved Lindsey and Stevie, but because we loved what Lindsey and Stevie did. And that is definitely what kept Lindsey and me together for as long as we did stay together. It's not that he's not a great love - he is a great love. And I write songs about him to this day. I don't know why. But whenever we're together we fight - to this day.'

All I can say is that if the reporter found no mention of Stevie and Joe Walsh then they didn't look hard enough!

Yeah, and Stevie's off again with her "83 to 86", because they broke up during the recording of RAL.

I don't know, it's the same old stuff again... she says the same things about different guys all the time. She said about Rupert Hine that whenever he walked into the room, the room seemed on fire, and that she fell in love with him the first time she saw him. She's said about that Lindsey also. In this interview she says Joe Walsh would have been the only guy that she could have married, but then she implied that regarding Paul Fishkin also. Joe Walsh was her great, great love, but then so was Mick Fleetwood. And as the interviewer pointed out, so was Lindsey Buckingham. I loved that it was said she shot him a look when he said that, because to me it seemed like she didn't want to be confronted with that. I bet she hates it when people drag up stuff she's said in the past, especially considering how inconsistent she is.

Some other funny parts...

- Tammy Wynette and Stevie Nicks together in rehab. Oy.

- She turned Glen Parrish into a guinea pig.

- Here's the irony, she says: the 'powers that be' had sent her to the psychiatrist in order to keep her working, but the 'treatment' he gave her made work almost impossible. 'It's very Shakespearean. It's very much a tragedy.'

Oh, the drama!

- a copy of The Johns Hopkins Consumer Guide to Drugs sits beside Luxury Hotels of the World.

Exactly what I have in my closet also!

- Nicks is delightful company; but you wouldn't want to cross her.

No kidding.

- Nicks and Buckingham were more careful, retaining an independent business management firm to handle their affairs when they joined Fleetwood Mac. 'So even though we spent a lot of money, a lot of it was invested.'

What was it invested in?

'I have no idea.'

Riiiiiiiight.

I'll have to go out after work and see if I can find a copy of this around here somewhere. Did this come out today? Because usually it takes a bit longer for UK mags to get here.

[irishgrl]

Oy, Stevie, how many "great loves" have you had?

perhaps thats a slap in the face for Liddybuck eh? Im sure it was deliberate

[Nixxxed]

Now that's a shot I would buy a poster of.

Thanks for posting, Pip!

[jannieC]

I was thinking about the "greatest love" thing earlier and I think that I too have changed my opinions about my relationships when I look back. If you had asked me five years ago who my "greatest love" was, I definitely would have given you a different answer than one I would give today. And there's no telling what I'll say when I'm 60. It's her past- she's entitled to remember it any way she likes.

I thought it was an interesting article- I loved how the interviewer tried to get a bit more in depth than other interviews I've read.

Also, prescription meds, particularly benzos, are HEINOUS to detox and come clean from. I'll bet she does look back at that era in her life as "tragic".

[Tango]

Thank you Pip!

[michelle2677]

wow! great article!!

thanks pip

[MacMan]

That was really great! And I like that pic, she looks really great in it... Any chance of a larger scan of the mag cover if anyone gets it?