![]() ![]() I’ve always believed in spiritual forces. She says that, for all her fears about her career, “some people are really afraid of dying, but I’m not. I ask about her approach to spirituality. Nicks is unabashedly funny, dry as a bone, often sidling into sarcasm. The night she fell ill last year, she had just become the first woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice – an honour that reflects her wild success as one of the lead singers of Fleetwood Mac and as a solo artist, as a writer and singer of raw, magical songs about love and freedom, including Dreams, Rhiannon, Gold Dust Woman, Landslide and Edge of Seventeen. It is nearly midnight in LA when we speak on the phone not a problem for Nicks, who is “totally nocturnal”. My mother said to me: you will never depend upon a man to support you. ![]() “I’m not, at 72 years old, willing to give up my career.” ![]() “It isn’t just singing it’s that I would never perform again, that I would never dance across the stages of the world again.” She pauses and sighs. What would it mean to her to stop singing? “It would kill me,” she says. She fell seriously ill in March 2019, ending up in intensive care with double pneumonia after that shock, she fears contracting Covid-19 could end her singing career: “My mom was on a ventilator for three weeks when she had open-heart surgery and she was hoarse for the rest of her life.” “My assistant, God bless her, she puts on her hazmat suit and goes to get food, otherwise we’d starve to death,” she says. She has barely left her home in Los Angeles this year. Stevie Nicks has been taking the pandemic even more seriously than most. ![]()
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