I remember at one point actually falling backward out of bed onto the floor, which made us both laugh hysterically. There was a fair amount of what I’d call skirmishing that went on. Stevie is an incredibly talented, soulful and beautiful woman. Obviously they were all still wide awake, aided, I imagine, by what we in England call “marching powder.” Stevie went back in the bathroom and about an hour later came out in a long Victorian nightdress and quietly slipped into the other side of the bed. to the sound of doors rustling open and in the half-light saw Stevie opening and closing closets, as if it was the middle of the afternoon. I just went to bed in one of the four bedrooms upstairs. At around three in the morning, I ended up saying to myself, “OK, I’m really tired now and I have no idea where I am or which hotel Annie and the band are staying in.” The house seemed enormous to me, so I wandered around, and when I came back to the living room, they had all disappeared into a bathroom for what seemed like hours.
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She invited me back to her house for a party, and 10 minutes later, still in full sweaty leather stage gear, I was in the back of a limo with Stevie and her backing singers.When we got there it wasn’t really a party: just Stevie and her singers being very speedy, laughing and talking. Stevie remembers that I looked her straight in the eye and said, “I want to be your boyfriend.” Little did I know that the day before, Joe Walsh and Stevie had had a big fight and had broken up. I didn’t know who she was, but there was something about her that I was instantly attracted to. Underneath she wore a black lace dress and she had long, flowing hair.
They last played together in 2017, when Nicks joined Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers on stage for British Summer Time in London's Hyde Park.įor the full interview, pick up the new issue of Classic Rock magazine, which hits the shops (and online (opens in new tab)) on April 29.Stevie was in my dressing room doorway, wearing a faux-fur coat just like the first time I met Annie. Stevie Nicks would go on to form a lifelong friendship with Petty, eventually dubbing her a "honorary heartbreaker". This is somebody I’d really love to play music with.’” She’s a creative perpetual-motion machine.
“The second I heard that, I went: ‘Now I get it. He explains, “But then I bought the single to Go Your Own Way and flipped it over, and there’s Silver Springs.
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The change in judgement came about when he decided to go out and buy a Fleetwood Mac record. I didn’t know what was going on with the top hat and the twirling and the witchy stuff”.īut again, discernments were revised, and Tench ended up working with Stevie Nicks on her first album. He says “I had seen Fleetwood Mac play, and with Stevie I just didn’t get it.
In another questionable moment of judgement, it's revealed that Heartbreaker keyboardist Benmont Trench, the 'musicial director' of Bella Donna, wasn't exactly a fan of Nicks on their first meeting when his band backed her on the recording of Outside The Rain.
"But it pissed me off because it came out at the same time as our single, and I think ours suffered.”
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