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The Wild Heart of Stevie Nicks
Grab your lace shawl and top hat and get ready to twirl—this is a full-throttle appreciation of the life and voice of Stevie Nicks from one of rock criticism’s most celebrated writers.
Best-selling author and Rolling Stone columnist Rob Sheffield explores the music and artistry of the rock goddess who has kept generations of music lovers totally bewitched and spellbound, with such classic rock hits as "Rhiannon" and "Gypsy". With her recent induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (the only female artist to be honored for both her group and solo work), Nicks, who turns 70 this month, is being celebrated for living the seasons of her life with ferocious wit, fierce honesty, unstoppable talent, and a lot of rock & roll.
Drawing from Rolling Stone magazine’s extensive archives, and his long time appreciation of Nicks, Sheffield shares the stories behind the best-selling records and the spitfire 1997 Fleetwood Mac reunion show that put the band back on top of the charts—and why Stevie Nicks still speaks to us today. A dynamic, revelatory sketch of the one-of-a-kind icon, The Wild Heart of Stevie Nicks is a portrait as revealing as it is dazzling, as human as it is pure magic.
Best-selling author and Rolling Stone columnist Rob Sheffield explores the music and artistry of the rock goddess who has kept generations of music lovers totally bewitched and spellbound, with such classic rock hits as "Rhiannon" and "Gypsy". With her recent induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (the only female artist to be honored for both her group and solo work), Nicks, who turns 70 this month, is being celebrated for living the seasons of her life with ferocious wit, fierce honesty, unstoppable talent, and a lot of rock & roll.
Drawing from Rolling Stone magazine’s extensive archives, and his long time appreciation of Nicks, Sheffield shares the stories behind the best-selling records and the spitfire 1997 Fleetwood Mac reunion show that put the band back on top of the charts—and why Stevie Nicks still speaks to us today. A dynamic, revelatory sketch of the one-of-a-kind icon, The Wild Heart of Stevie Nicks is a portrait as revealing as it is dazzling, as human as it is pure magic.
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First published January 1, 2019
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About the author
Rob Sheffield
11 books1,082 followersRob Sheffield is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone magazine. In addition to writing music reviews and profile stories, Sheffield also writes the Pop Life column in the Mixed Media section of the magazine. His work has also been featured in The Village Voice and Spin. A native of Boston, Sheffield attended Yale and the University of Virginia, and is six foot five.
His first book, Love is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time (an excerpt of which was featured in the January 2007 issue of GQ), was released by Random House in January 2007. It received starred reviews in Publisher's Weekly and Library Journal.
His first book, Love is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time (an excerpt of which was featured in the January 2007 issue of GQ), was released by Random House in January 2007. It received starred reviews in Publisher's Weekly and Library Journal.
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May 20, 2019
So, I started listening to this audible freebie last night, and then couldn't stop listening. When video and songs were mentioned, I just had to go to YouTube and find the videos. Gypsy, Silver Springs, two of my all time favorites. Sheffield, the narrator is an unabashed Stevie fan, sometimes gushingly so. But, so am I, grew up with Fleetwood Mac, just loving Stevies many personas. Music brings back memories, so I spent last night in a return to my younger days. Memories flooded in with the songs. Not all good either, but oh well, so it goes.
This short audible history goes into the bands internal relationships, messy pasts together, but luckily for their fans, they used this trauma to recreate, again and again. It's in their music, all the pain and sorrow, but they made it work. I listened to Gold Dust woman last year, which is much more detailed, but for a shortie, a brief return, this was good.
This short audible history goes into the bands internal relationships, messy pasts together, but luckily for their fans, they used this trauma to recreate, again and again. It's in their music, all the pain and sorrow, but they made it work. I listened to Gold Dust woman last year, which is much more detailed, but for a shortie, a brief return, this was good.
May 20, 2019
2.5 Stars
Having enjoyed Fleetwood Mac’s Music over the years and knowing very little about the band this was interesting free audio from Audible that was short concise and to the point at under 3 hours it gave me a little background information on the band and their music.
When I was eight years old my 18 year old cousin came from New Jersey and was supposed to stay 2 weeks in Ireland with her country bumpkin relations on the farm. She loved Ireland so much that she refused to go home after two weeks and ended up staying the whole summer. Anyhow she arrived with two albums Rumors by Fleetwood Mac and an album by the BeeGees and she taught her Irish Cousins some moves and by the end of the Summer I thought I was Stevie Nicks as I could sing every song on the Album and loved that Summer.
The audio is entertaining and interesting and these guys had some wild times and some amazing music. Best selling author and Rolling Stone Columnist Rob Sheffield explores the music and artistry of Stevie Nicks warts and all. You can tell by the audio that he is an avid fan of Stevie Nicks. I enjoyed the listen as it was perfect company for my Friday 3 hour clearing routine and I gained just enough insight into the bank to satisfy my curiosity.
Having enjoyed Fleetwood Mac’s Music over the years and knowing very little about the band this was interesting free audio from Audible that was short concise and to the point at under 3 hours it gave me a little background information on the band and their music.
When I was eight years old my 18 year old cousin came from New Jersey and was supposed to stay 2 weeks in Ireland with her country bumpkin relations on the farm. She loved Ireland so much that she refused to go home after two weeks and ended up staying the whole summer. Anyhow she arrived with two albums Rumors by Fleetwood Mac and an album by the BeeGees and she taught her Irish Cousins some moves and by the end of the Summer I thought I was Stevie Nicks as I could sing every song on the Album and loved that Summer.
The audio is entertaining and interesting and these guys had some wild times and some amazing music. Best selling author and Rolling Stone Columnist Rob Sheffield explores the music and artistry of Stevie Nicks warts and all. You can tell by the audio that he is an avid fan of Stevie Nicks. I enjoyed the listen as it was perfect company for my Friday 3 hour clearing routine and I gained just enough insight into the bank to satisfy my curiosity.
November 30, 2021
This was actually a really good listen 🎧
I found this really interesting, and informative, I had no idea this band had all this drama going on in the background wow what an eye opener.
Listing to Fleetwood Mac songs now is a completely different experience.
I find myself stopping in the middle of a song, and saying to myself oh no you did not go there, again.
I found this really interesting, and informative, I had no idea this band had all this drama going on in the background wow what an eye opener.
Listing to Fleetwood Mac songs now is a completely different experience.
I find myself stopping in the middle of a song, and saying to myself oh no you did not go there, again.
November 24, 2019
The Wild Heart of Stevie Nicks by Rob Sheffield and narrated by the author is a short book about Stevie's professional and personal life. Her bands, lovers, hits, ups, and downs. I couldn't believe it when he said she is 78! She just seems forever young! 😎
Great narration especially for an author.
Great narration especially for an author.
September 30, 2025
This was a good overview of Stevie’s career, tumultuous relationships and struggles with drugs written by a fan unafraid to expose the unflattering bits. If you’re a fan it’s definitely worth a listen.
May 3, 2019
The Real Life Daisy Jones & The Six
Review of the Audible Studios audiobook (2019) narrated by the author
If you're of a certain age and became a fan of Fleetwood Mac when its self-monikered 1975 album and 1976's "Rumours" were released, then modern day pastiches like Taylor Jenkin Reid's "Daisy Jones & The Six" just pale in comparison to the real life equivalent. A light romanticized soap opera just doesn't come close to an almost 50-year love-hate feud (if you start counting from the early Buckingham Nicks high school years) that is Stevie Nicks, Lindsay Buckingham and the rest of Fleetwood Mac.
The timing of this quickie Audible Original seems suspiciously close to the release of Reid's book and not to anything else specific in Stevie Nicks' career as there is no new music that I am aware of. Rob Sheffield is a Rolling Stone magazine writer and editor who has several books on popular music to his credit. He is also a life long fan of Stevie Nicks which is very apparent in the occasionally gushy hyperbole in this career overview. Still, he provides a warts and all summary that sticks to the highlight periods of the Mac's years and the better Nicks solo albums. It is up to date enough to reference the current Mac 2018-19 tour after Lindsay Buckingham's firing and to mention the latter's open-heart surgery on Feb. 8, 2019 without having anything new on his health prognosis.
The audio narration by the author was well done. This is one of the Audible Originals free offerings to its members for May 2019.
Review of the Audible Studios audiobook (2019) narrated by the author
If you're of a certain age and became a fan of Fleetwood Mac when its self-monikered 1975 album and 1976's "Rumours" were released, then modern day pastiches like Taylor Jenkin Reid's "Daisy Jones & The Six" just pale in comparison to the real life equivalent. A light romanticized soap opera just doesn't come close to an almost 50-year love-hate feud (if you start counting from the early Buckingham Nicks high school years) that is Stevie Nicks, Lindsay Buckingham and the rest of Fleetwood Mac.
The timing of this quickie Audible Original seems suspiciously close to the release of Reid's book and not to anything else specific in Stevie Nicks' career as there is no new music that I am aware of. Rob Sheffield is a Rolling Stone magazine writer and editor who has several books on popular music to his credit. He is also a life long fan of Stevie Nicks which is very apparent in the occasionally gushy hyperbole in this career overview. Still, he provides a warts and all summary that sticks to the highlight periods of the Mac's years and the better Nicks solo albums. It is up to date enough to reference the current Mac 2018-19 tour after Lindsay Buckingham's firing and to mention the latter's open-heart surgery on Feb. 8, 2019 without having anything new on his health prognosis.
The audio narration by the author was well done. This is one of the Audible Originals free offerings to its members for May 2019.
October 10, 2021
Listened to this on Audible. It's a short listen at less than three hours.
I grew up listening to Fleetwood Mac and Stevie Nicks. Several of their/her songs are on my playlist today.
The drug use wasn't a surprise, but the amount of it and the way it debilitated her was. She was sober in 1986. Let that sink in. One year among decades. She became sober again later in life and I don't recall what year that was.
Definitely interesting information about Fleetwood Mac such as three of the five being song writers and two couples among them. Lots of turmoil over the years. The meaning behind songs provides new light. The inspiration as well. When Stevie met Tom Petty's southern wife, Mrs. Petty said she'd loved him (or something similar) since the age of 17. With her southern twang, it sounded like the edge of 17 and that inspired a song.
Stevie is a huge songwriter and today in her 70s is still writing songs. I didn't realize songwriting is part of why she split off on her own nor that she was a part of Fleetwood Mac at the same time as she was a solo act. I cannot imagine the energy that took.
Lots of interesting nuggets in this one. I started listening and couldn't stop.
Some foul language.
I grew up listening to Fleetwood Mac and Stevie Nicks. Several of their/her songs are on my playlist today.
The drug use wasn't a surprise, but the amount of it and the way it debilitated her was. She was sober in 1986. Let that sink in. One year among decades. She became sober again later in life and I don't recall what year that was.
Definitely interesting information about Fleetwood Mac such as three of the five being song writers and two couples among them. Lots of turmoil over the years. The meaning behind songs provides new light. The inspiration as well. When Stevie met Tom Petty's southern wife, Mrs. Petty said she'd loved him (or something similar) since the age of 17. With her southern twang, it sounded like the edge of 17 and that inspired a song.
Stevie is a huge songwriter and today in her 70s is still writing songs. I didn't realize songwriting is part of why she split off on her own nor that she was a part of Fleetwood Mac at the same time as she was a solo act. I cannot imagine the energy that took.
Lots of interesting nuggets in this one. I started listening and couldn't stop.
Some foul language.
May 28, 2019
Read this in honor of Stevie's birthday this week. The information here is great, because of course it is - it's about Stevie Nicks. But this writing was insufferable. If it weren't such a short read I never would have bothered to finish it. Felt like an essay written for a high school standardized exam with "Who is your favorite artist, and why?" as its prompt. Redundant, uninspired, uncreative, overenthusiastic fawning, full of tropes and cliches. Half of the book was literally just the author telling us 'I REALLY LOVE FLEETWOOD MAC'. Like, k dude.
May 17, 2019
The details about Stevie are great but the book is more about Rob's obsession with Stevie than it is about anything else.
May 14, 2019
This audible originals gem came to me right when I needed it most. I've enjoyed Rob Sheffield's earlier work and I love that he writes and narrates this as a love letter to the high priestess of rock n roll. Half way through this short listen, I busted out my Stevie CDs will an even greater love and appreciation for the music. A woman living on her own terms all the while making the best rock n roll the genre has to offer - there is no better middle finger in the air to all the naysayers.
May 31, 2019
I really enjoyed this biography of Stevie Nicks and her time in Fleetwood Mac and her solo career. I didn't realize she had become so dependent on the benzos and didn't realize she was such good friends with Tom Petty. I loved how the younger divas would come to her, and how she thought of them as her lost children. Really fun listen.
December 3, 2022
Had to re-listen after the news that Christine McVie passed .. it's obviously about Stevie the most but also a great story of Fleetwood Mac.
May 30, 2019
If you have an Audible subscription, this is a freebie & is just the right length for a long drive or a morning spent doing a bunch of household tasks. Sheffield - one of poptimism’s great champions - expands a recent long interview with Stevie to tell her story as an artist & godmother to singers & songwriters across at least three generations. An absorbing delight, with appropriate attention paid to taking Nicks seriously as a songwriter of rare ability & productivity, as well as to what she (what we all) lost to years of addiction. His love for & depth of knowledge about both Fleetwood Mac and Nicks, Christine McVie, and Lindsey Buckingham as solo artists shines through & sent me scurrying over to Spotify to listen & relisten to their back catalogues.
May 21, 2019
I used to think I was a pretty strong Stevie Nicks fan back in my college years. I’m not much of a concert goer, but one of the three I’ve been to was Stevie Nicks. I had all her albums up to that time, knew tons of the lyrics by heart, and knew it was only a matter of time until she got inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Then I came across this Audible Original and realized that for me Stevie Nicks was just a passing phase. Rob Sheffield has been breathing Stevie’s air for his entire life and he clearly thinks in her lyrics. The whole book could almost be described as stringing versus from her various songs together to make a narrative whole. And what a narrative it is. If you’ve any interest in Stevie or Fleetwood Mac this book is a must listen. Everyone knows that the band had romantic problems—hookups and breakups—during the making of Rumors, but I had no idea just how long lasting and how crazy the drug-fueled romantic madness really was.
Through it all, Stevie’s strong voice resonates as Sheffield successfully articulates why she is so important to rock and roll and why her music continues to resonate with so many fans. I’m very glad I stumbled across this book.
If you liked this review, you can find more at www.gilbertstack.com/reviews.
Then I came across this Audible Original and realized that for me Stevie Nicks was just a passing phase. Rob Sheffield has been breathing Stevie’s air for his entire life and he clearly thinks in her lyrics. The whole book could almost be described as stringing versus from her various songs together to make a narrative whole. And what a narrative it is. If you’ve any interest in Stevie or Fleetwood Mac this book is a must listen. Everyone knows that the band had romantic problems—hookups and breakups—during the making of Rumors, but I had no idea just how long lasting and how crazy the drug-fueled romantic madness really was.
Through it all, Stevie’s strong voice resonates as Sheffield successfully articulates why she is so important to rock and roll and why her music continues to resonate with so many fans. I’m very glad I stumbled across this book.
If you liked this review, you can find more at www.gilbertstack.com/reviews.
June 15, 2019
The Wild Heart of Stevie Nicks was one of the free Audible Original selections offered in a recent month. I'm not necessarily a Stevie Nicks fan or Fleetwood Mac fan but I enjoy music so I thought this would at least be interesting, and it was. The author admits to being obsessed with Stevie and it really comes across this way, and sometimes this becomes a bit irritating.
The book starts out with her meeting Lindsey Buckingham and spends most of the rest of its time covering her life in Fleetwood Mac. There is a lot of shawl and twirling talk as you would imagine! The parts about the disfunctionality of Fleetwood Mac were particularly interesting. I'm sure fans of the band knew all about this. What was less interesting and gross (in my opinion) was all talk of bed-hopping within the band and drug usage. Rock and roll cliches abounded. Blah.
What I did like was the stories behind some of the notable Fleetwood Mac songs, Stevie's collaboration with Tom Petty and encounter with local hero, Prince. Stevie wrote song "Stand Back" using the same melody as Prince's "Little Red Corvette" after she heard it on the radio, and decided to contact him to seek his permission to release her song.
Overall, it was a worthwhile listen. Anyone growing up in the MTV music video generation like myself will at least find it interesting.
The book starts out with her meeting Lindsey Buckingham and spends most of the rest of its time covering her life in Fleetwood Mac. There is a lot of shawl and twirling talk as you would imagine! The parts about the disfunctionality of Fleetwood Mac were particularly interesting. I'm sure fans of the band knew all about this. What was less interesting and gross (in my opinion) was all talk of bed-hopping within the band and drug usage. Rock and roll cliches abounded. Blah.
What I did like was the stories behind some of the notable Fleetwood Mac songs, Stevie's collaboration with Tom Petty and encounter with local hero, Prince. Stevie wrote song "Stand Back" using the same melody as Prince's "Little Red Corvette" after she heard it on the radio, and decided to contact him to seek his permission to release her song.
Overall, it was a worthwhile listen. Anyone growing up in the MTV music video generation like myself will at least find it interesting.
July 18, 2022
Sheffield is a rock journalist with backstage access to this rock legend. And he‘s also got a (practically) lifelong adoration of Stevie‘s music and style. So this is his chance to delve into how she started, what Fleetwood Mac was really like, and what she‘s doing in her (gasp!) 70s. Hint: she still wears boots and top hats on stage!
May 19, 2019
I've been a fan of both Stevie Nicks as a solo artist and as part of Fleetwood Mac. This is an easy listen offered by Audible by someone who is apprently a fan himself. I would have liked further details throughout her life but is a very good overall sense of this incredible woman.
May 7, 2019
It’s easy to tell that the author truly admires both the music and the musicians he’s writing about throughout this narrative. A great little introduction of both Stevie Nicks and Fleetwood Mac.
May 18, 2019
Whether you are a fan of Fleetwood Mac or Stevie Nicks as a solo artist/songwriter this book is one that you must hear. It is brief and there could be a lot more detail but for a good overview of her career, this is excellent.
May 30, 2019
Really enjoyed this audible free book. It was sad, fun & enlightening!
May 7, 2019
Came across this on one of the free audible month choices and being a fan of Stevie Nicks, I definitely had to give this a listen.
This is an inside look into Stevie Nicks and Fleetwood Mac. It was an interesting take of her background. Although I never really believe everything I read or hear from books, news, etc. on artists, etc., unless it comes straight from their mouths, I did enjoy this author's take on her life and career.
I always find when musicians share their background giving a real look into how they got to where they are now and getting through their struggles. It gives realism and it shows not just the highs, but the lows as well.
Nice audiobook.
This is an inside look into Stevie Nicks and Fleetwood Mac. It was an interesting take of her background. Although I never really believe everything I read or hear from books, news, etc. on artists, etc., unless it comes straight from their mouths, I did enjoy this author's take on her life and career.
I always find when musicians share their background giving a real look into how they got to where they are now and getting through their struggles. It gives realism and it shows not just the highs, but the lows as well.
Nice audiobook.
May 4, 2019
A nice, quickie primer of Stevie Nicks and Fleetwood Mac, read by the author who is clearly a giant, gushing Nicks fan (to the point where his writing got a bit over-the-top and embarrassing). Fun to listen to after reading Daisy Jones & The Six, but left me wanting a more thorough, deep-dive on The Mac and Stevie. Would’ve liked this better had it been read by someone else, since the author up-talks a lot, something that drives me nuts.
May 22, 2019
This is a perfectly serviceable listen for a quick and dirty understanding of Fleetwood Mac and their assorted drama. But it’s basically like a long Rolling Stone article—which is fine, for that medium—and is boring at times, confusing at others. It is yet another argument for why 95% of authors shouldn’t record audio of their own work.
May 14, 2019
Interesting background overall so it was good for me as a fan of the music who isn't as familiar with the relationships behind the scenes. Couldn't really get into the narrator though.
Free Audible Original.
Free Audible Original.
August 2, 2019
Iconic indeed... Stevie has history and i would love an autobiography!!!
March 24, 2022
This book is good, not great. The first half really feels like a fan fueled missive, a letter of adoration, a star struck mini biography. Stevie Nicks is such a complex woman and we didn't get a sense of that until the second half or so.
Still, I learned a lot about her and Fleetwood Mac. It's a short listen. The narration is passable. I'm happy that I listened to it, and I would recommend it. Will I go out and tell the world that they need this? Probably not. I did like Stevie Nicks more after this because of all the things she has gone through. It was a good listen for Women's History Month.
Still, I learned a lot about her and Fleetwood Mac. It's a short listen. The narration is passable. I'm happy that I listened to it, and I would recommend it. Will I go out and tell the world that they need this? Probably not. I did like Stevie Nicks more after this because of all the things she has gone through. It was a good listen for Women's History Month.
May 16, 2019
We're only two books in, but I think I'm in love with Rob Sheffield's pocket biographies of classic rock singers.
Honestly, I don't know if he's planning on more, but I sure hope so. His On Bowie, written in the wake of David Bowie's sad passing, firmly set the tropes in place: some scant pre-career biographical information, a glancing look at the rise to fame, and then a deep dive into the big moments. These books are short and punchy and Sheffield knows what we came here to read about. Or, because this is an Audible original, hear about.
Stevie Nicks just got inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist, the first woman to be inducted twice, so it's with a sense of ceremony that Sheffield launches into this engaging tale of Nicks' life in and out of Fleetwood Mac. We get it all: recording Rumours, the Rolling Stone album cover that led to one of Stevie's clandestine affairs, the making up, the breaking up, the cocaine, the shawls. All of it is relentlessly positive, even when discussing Nicks' long, dark, Benzo-induced haze; Sheffield allows these books to be tributes rather than takedowns, and he never met a lyric he couldn't spin into a profound paragraph closer.
It takes a special and specific talent to glide over a full career in such a short span of words, capturing the grandeur and sweep of a life lived in rock, and dipping down only when it's most important and relevant. I've long loved Sheffield's music-focused memoirs (Love is a Mixtape; Talking to Girls About Duran Duran; Turn Around, Bright Eyes), but these small bios (and I could even include his very good Dreaming the Beatles in this) really pop. Now I'm just holding out for a Springsteen one.
Honestly, I don't know if he's planning on more, but I sure hope so. His On Bowie, written in the wake of David Bowie's sad passing, firmly set the tropes in place: some scant pre-career biographical information, a glancing look at the rise to fame, and then a deep dive into the big moments. These books are short and punchy and Sheffield knows what we came here to read about. Or, because this is an Audible original, hear about.
Stevie Nicks just got inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist, the first woman to be inducted twice, so it's with a sense of ceremony that Sheffield launches into this engaging tale of Nicks' life in and out of Fleetwood Mac. We get it all: recording Rumours, the Rolling Stone album cover that led to one of Stevie's clandestine affairs, the making up, the breaking up, the cocaine, the shawls. All of it is relentlessly positive, even when discussing Nicks' long, dark, Benzo-induced haze; Sheffield allows these books to be tributes rather than takedowns, and he never met a lyric he couldn't spin into a profound paragraph closer.
It takes a special and specific talent to glide over a full career in such a short span of words, capturing the grandeur and sweep of a life lived in rock, and dipping down only when it's most important and relevant. I've long loved Sheffield's music-focused memoirs (Love is a Mixtape; Talking to Girls About Duran Duran; Turn Around, Bright Eyes), but these small bios (and I could even include his very good Dreaming the Beatles in this) really pop. Now I'm just holding out for a Springsteen one.
February 23, 2020
What a beautiful love letter to Stevie Nicks!
Devotion to Stevie Nicks is nothing new. But 50 years into her career, it’s easy to take her for granted. (Yeah - she’s over 70 now, and put out Buckingham Nicks in 1973, so yeah, more than half the world has had Stevie Nicks singing to them for their entire lives.) And this book does a fantastic job of pulling together her body of work, her achievements, to review & refresh her remarkable career - and life. Like all icons, she is a lesson in being your true, authentic self, and watching success follow from there. Because in all that time, Stevie hasn’t changed - but we let her change us.
Long live Stevie Nicks!
Devotion to Stevie Nicks is nothing new. But 50 years into her career, it’s easy to take her for granted. (Yeah - she’s over 70 now, and put out Buckingham Nicks in 1973, so yeah, more than half the world has had Stevie Nicks singing to them for their entire lives.) And this book does a fantastic job of pulling together her body of work, her achievements, to review & refresh her remarkable career - and life. Like all icons, she is a lesson in being your true, authentic self, and watching success follow from there. Because in all that time, Stevie hasn’t changed - but we let her change us.
Long live Stevie Nicks!
July 26, 2025
Believe it or not, people had doubts about whether Stevie Nicks could cut it as a solo artist. She might’ve been the most famous member of Fleetwood Mac but every song she had released had been guided by Lindsey.
Was she capable of standing on her own?
✨1.75 stars✨
Shortly after finishing Long Yarn Short, I decided to listen to this while doing some stuff around the house.
As a slightly surface level fan of Fleetwood Mac and Stevie Nicks, this was a great little listen with pockets of information that I didn’t know about the band. But towards the halfway and end mark, I kind of lost some interest as it felt more like a love letter to Fleetwood Mac and Nicks.
Overall, a great reading goal buster and a good starting point if you want to hear some of their backstory ✨🌻
Was she capable of standing on her own?
✨1.75 stars✨
Shortly after finishing Long Yarn Short, I decided to listen to this while doing some stuff around the house.
As a slightly surface level fan of Fleetwood Mac and Stevie Nicks, this was a great little listen with pockets of information that I didn’t know about the band. But towards the halfway and end mark, I kind of lost some interest as it felt more like a love letter to Fleetwood Mac and Nicks.
Overall, a great reading goal buster and a good starting point if you want to hear some of their backstory ✨🌻
June 5, 2019
This was the PERFECT thing to read after finishing Daisy Jones & The Six. I love how much of a fanboy Sheffield is, which made it that much more fun to listen to. And now I want to listen to all the Fleetwood Mac.
My only very minor complaints are that it was sometimes hard to hear when he was quoting Stevie or speaking as himself, and he occasionally presumed the listener had more 70's rock band knowledge than I had.
My only very minor complaints are that it was sometimes hard to hear when he was quoting Stevie or speaking as himself, and he occasionally presumed the listener had more 70's rock band knowledge than I had.
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