Stevie's Dad

[LiquidBlue5000]

I kinda didn't want to say anything until there was definate confirmation of this.. but i have heard from several sources (and they have as well), that Stevie's dad has passed away... sometime yesterday.

I hope that this is just a terrible terrible rumour and that it is not true.. but the fact that so many people have heard of this, I have to believe that there is definate truth to this...

Stevie, if you read this, my heart goes out to you and your family

[seeker007nmss]

I thought he just broke his leg? Now he is gone? Have to wait and see what's up.

[Dreammms]

wow...i hope that isn't true. that's so sad. i keep picturing him introducing her on the in concert video.

[ontheEdgeof17]

I've been hearing the news all day. I don't want to believe it is true, but I think it is.


Best wishes to the family. You're all in my thoughts.

[Jessica Leigh]

It was just on our local news in Phoenix. i think they keep repeating the blurb or it will be on the later news tonight- channel 3.

[SweetGirl24]

I heard this too...I kept wanting to hold out that it wasnt true, but I guess it is. This is so sad I can't imagine. The family is in my prayers

[Hawkeye]

I really really hope this isnt true. Stevie's dad always makes it to her shows. It was the freaking most sweet thing when he flew to Detroit I think to see Stevie on fathers day just this past year. If this is true, it will be by far the sadest celebrity death Ive ever witnessed and he aint even a real celebrity.

[Hawkeye]

where have you guys been hearing this from all day.

[macfanken]

How sad.

[strandinthewind]

I heard it too and didn't want to say it if it were untrue.

Apparently, it is if the tv is saying it.

I met him once and he was a very, very nice man who went out of his way to make me feel comfortable. I cannot say enough nice things about him and wish him eternal peace and his family only the best and the strength to cope with loss of their pillar, friend, and father.

[Merf]

Rest in Peace, Jess.... of course the Nicks family is my prayers.

[SapphireSister]

OMG I knew he was going to die today. I was in the shower this morning and I had this strange feeling it was going to happen (or had just happened). I'm not psychic (sorry no spell check) or anything but I swear I had that thought this morning. I've been waiting for a post all day. I knew when I saw this he had passed. My heart goes out to Stevie and her family. I bet he held out as long as he could for her to finish her tour. This is very devistating. She must be in deep sorrow. We should all pray for her tonight.

[Dreammms]

if it's been on the tv then it must be true. poor stevie and nicks family. i am truly sorry!

[seeker007nmss]

Found this.



"Emotion Runs Deep Between Stevie Nicks and her Dad" Cox News Service, Linda Romine

Jess Nicks always knew his daughter would succeed. But he had no idea she would become one of the leading female rock singers of her generation, or that he would one day have to help her fight for her life.

Today, at 42, Stevie Nicks is a bona fide star who juggles a dual career as a solo artist anda 15-year veteran of supergroup Fleetwood Mac.

Meanwhile, her father, a crusty 65-year-old, runs Compton Terrace, an amphitheater he built southwest of Phoenix. Last weekend, a few days after his daughter and Fleetwood Mac had performed there, he reflected on the love he and Stevie share.

"Most fathers and daughters have a special relationship," he said. "Fathers tend to spoil their little girls."

As a little girl, Stevie lived an affluent life. Jess Nicks worked as a corporate executive who traveled the world.

Throughout their childhood, Stevie and her younger brother, Christopher, moved with their parents from Phoenix to El Paso, Salt Lake City, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago. But Arizona has been home to the Nickses for the past 20 years, and Stevie's home is six blocks away from her parents'.

Spend time talking with Jess and Stevie Nicks and their deep affection for one another is overwhelmingly apparent. Each recalls humourous experiences that have bonded tehm through the years, and each becomes sentimental to the point of tears.

"Stevie's been spoiled all her life," Jess Nicks explained unapologetically. "Poor little thing," he began, as a smile crossed his face. "Once she wanted a special little pair of shoes, and her mother told her no, that they were too expensive. So Stevie didn't tell me about that, but she came to me and asked me if I would buy her the shoes. Of course I bought them for her."

He puffed on his cigarette and grinned. "Burned her mother up."

Jess savors another memory, from Stevie's high school years. The occasion was a father-daughter night in which he and Stevie performed to a recording of "King of the Road."

"I was singing away, and Stevie was singing away," he said between howls of laughter. "Well, she gets to laughing, and I get to laughing, and I'll be damned if she didn't wet her pants - right there on stage!"

"I got the giggles during the first line, 'Trailer for sale or rent,' and I was just hysterical," Stevie remembered with amusement. "And we had actually practiced this! We practiced for a week! But he kept on singing - he's got a really good voice - and he would give me this look like, 'How could you do this to me?' "

Another indication of the closeness Stevie shares with her dad is reflected in the steady stream of affectionate notes they send to one another. A sample of Jess's most recent card to Stevie: "A son is a son until he takes a wife," he said, as tears filled his eyes. He paused to gather his composure, and continued. "But my daughter is my daughter every day of her life..."

Career pressures have been hard on Jess Nick's daughter, who four years ago was addicted to prescription drugs, he said. At the time, Jess and Barbara Nicks feared their superstar daughter would either die from her chemical dependency or commit suicide. After repeated attempts to help her, they flew to Los Angeles one night and convinced her to enter the Betty Ford Center in California.

"She resisted it when we confronted her with it," he said. "She was concerned...that it would be publicized and be detrimental to her career. We spentmost of the night with her and convinced her though, that it was for her health. Finally, she said, 'OK, Daddy, I'll do it.'

"It's tough. It's really tough," he said, shaking his head. "Christ, the career means nothing ot the parents when it comes to the health of your children."

Stevie Nicks remembered her parents' lifesaving intervention from a different perspective.

"He basically said to me, 'How could you possibly even consider putting me through not having you for the rest of my life?' " she recalled quietly. "He said, 'Do you have any idea what it would do to me if you weren't around? You may be rock 'n' roll star to the rest of the world, but you still my daughter, and if you were to die...' "

Overcome with emotion, she could not continue the sentence.

After 28 days at the Betty Ford Center, Stevie was determined to turn her life around. And she has.

"It is scary. It is frightening, " she explained. "But I walked out of those doors saying to myself, 'I'm gonna win this. I'm not gonna disappoint my dad. I'm not going to break his heart.' "

Today, father and daughter are proud of her hard-won sobriety. As life's challenges continue, Jess continues to inspire his beloved daughter. "I can always go home," Stevie explained, as if reassuring herself. "Everybody who knows me knows when it comes to me, there is nothing first in my dad's mind. He could give two cents about everbody else. I am the only one that matters."

"It's wonderfuld to have a father like that."

[golden braid]

I'm so sad now. I think it was so awesome that Jess would travel around the country visiting Stevie and watching her shows. They must have had a very special bond together. I just hope Stevie got to spend the last few days with her father. RIP Jess.