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“While the sound mixing was underway, Bonzo was on the loose, taking care of buisness his own way. One night he showed up backstage at a Deep Purple concert at the Nassau Coliseum on Long Island. Bonzo was drunk and in very high spirits, and was wobbling on his feet in the wings when he noticed a free microphone during a lull in the music. Staggering forward, Bonzo walked out onto the stage before the Deep Purple roadies could grab him. The group stopped playing, amazed, as Bonzo grabbed the mike and shouted, 'My name is John Bonham of Led Zeppelin, and I just wanna tell ya that we got a new album comin' out and that it's fuckin' great!!' Then Bonzo turned to leave, but before he went he turned back and gratuitously insulted Deep Purple's guitarist. 'And as far as Tommy Bolin is concerned, he can't play for shit!!”
― Stephen Davis, Hammer of the Gods

“The kids cheered every time the lights went on and a spotlight revealed Jimmy [Page] bowing his electric guitar, eliciting stygian growls and demonic shrieks, as if to draw the Dark One from his lair in hell. Invariably, some of the more astute of Led Zeppelin's listeners realized that what they were watching was in part a magic show.”
― Stephen Davis, LZ-'75: The Lost Chronicles of Led Zeppelin's 1975 American Tour

“Jim Morrison: I’ve always been attracted to ideas that were about revolt against authority. I like ideas about the breaking away or overthrowing of established order. I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos—especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom. External revolt is a way to bring about internal freedom. Rather than starting inside, I start outside—reach the mental through the physical.”
― Stephen Davis

“Rock was different from rock and roll. Rock was virtuosic and adult, as opposed to popsy and teenaged. Rock and roll was apolitical and fun, while rock was "heavy" and often political, creating vistas of psychic energy that carried beyond the music itself and into radical politics and art.”
― Stephen Davis

“Nothing the Rolling Stones ever did was more important than the respect they showed to the music that had inspired them.”
― Stephen Davis, Old Gods Almost Dead

“reggae version of “I Still Miss Someone (Blue Eyes),” tacitly dedicated to Lindsey Buckingham,”
― Stephen Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“If Anyone Falls in Love,”
― Stephen Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“For What It’s Worth”
― Stephen Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“Bekka Bramlett”
― Stephen Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“Enchanted”
― Stephen Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“Fall from Grace” was another collaboration with John Shanks, and one of Stevie’s fiercest expressions of her will. A furious lyric paired to an incendiary guitar track, “Fall from Grace” was written in a Nashville hotel suite at the end of The Dance Tour,”
― Stephen Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“nicksfix.com”
― Stephen Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“Trouble in Shangri-La.”
― Stephen Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“Nobody heard a hit record in “Rhiannon,” “I Don’t Want To Know,” and “So Afraid.”
― Stephen Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“Rock and Roll” and the symphonic “Landslide”
― Stephen Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“Enchanted,” Stevie’s funny piece of cheerleader rock, was done by her touring band at the Record Plant in Manhattan. She”
― Stephen Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“Prince refused to be credited when “Stand Back” was released as the first single from The Wild Heart in 1983.”
― Stephen Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“Just Like a Woman,”
― Stephen Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“Tom Petty’s song “I Will Run to You” with the Heartbreakers at the Hit Factory on the West Side.”
― Stephen Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“The Dance”
― Stephen Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“documentary Sound City was released in 2013, some fans commented that “You Can’t Fix This” had to be the best, most stirring, most emotionally acute song Stevie Nicks had written in thirty years.”
― Stephen Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“Talk to Me” would become one of Stevie’s most popular, and”
― Stephen Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“At some point that year Stevie Nicks became pregnant by Don Henley.”
― Stephen Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“Angel” from Tusk.”
― Stephen Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“Tom Petty showed up for two shows at New York’s Radio City Music Hall and sang “I Will Run to You” with Stevie.”
― Stephen Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“Has Anyone Ever Written Anything for You,”
― Stephen Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“Designs of Love” and dating from the 1974 Buckingham Nicks sessions. “Straight Back”
― Stephen Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“Lindsey Buckingham was persuaded to add guitar to “I Miss You,”
― Stephen Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“Stevie’s epic “Fireflies”
― Stephen Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“That Made Me Stronger,”
― Stephen Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks