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Section about work with other artists?

By this I mean backing vocals and duets. Generally, I wouldn't feel it necessary to include a section about this, but because Stevie has recorded with so many other musicians - John Stewart, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Sheryl Crow to name a few, surely it would be informative to include a section about this? Any thoughts? --Laceandpaperflowers (talk) 23:36, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Side Note: Excessive bias within the article

Whoever has wrote this article (particularly when discussing the later years of Stevie Nicks' career) has added so much personal opinion it becomes a little hard to read. This article could be extremely informative, as there is so much documented on Nicks' life and work, but instead it's filled with comments from Misplaced Pages such as "citation needed" and "original research?". For example, it may be obvious to a fan when listening to Nicks' work that her voice has gained a nasal quality, lost some range etc. but how is that relevant? It's clear if you listen to her songs. Surely someone could rewrite parts of this article, with the appropriate media reports etc., and create a very good article that informs the reader in an impartial style, and is not biased to the opinions of fans or critics? --Laceandpaperflowers (talk) 00:53, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

Be Bold and fix the problems you have identified. You have the ability to fix problems yourself. A new name 2008 (talk) 01:57, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

Well i still haven't heard her later stuff, so no i didn't get to notice the change in her voice, so such stuff is informative to me. --Jerome Potts (talk) 22:27, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

Vocal Range

Just as HER article does for Christine McVie, this article says Stevie's vocal range is "contralto." Unless contralto covers a great deal of ground, they can't both be contraltos. Chrissy's voice is very different and her range seems to be centered at a different point. 76.28.103.69 (talk) 22:32, 4 October 2009 (UTC)Will in New Haven76.28.103.69 (talk) 22:32, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

There are a couple of citations linked from Stevie's article that back up the claim that her vocal range is contralto. If you can find a reliable source that says what Christine's vocal range is, you can add it to the Christine McVie article. For now, I have added a "citation needed" flag to the Christine McVie article.- carolyn (user • talk) 23:37, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

-- Contralto does not just regard range, but also tone of voice and texture. Both Christine and Stevie seem to be more comfortable singing lower notes, and both of their voices have a rich, deep tone associated with contraltos. However, Christine has a wider range than Stevie. 79.64.250.72 (talk) 07:29, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

Yahoo! interview

Where's this Yahoo! interview? Was it in Yahoo! magazine or online? Family Guy Guy (talk) 13:40, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

Lucrezia Santini

Blackbird, Rhiannon, Midnight Special video performance mystical magical audience difficult to find, and well worth it. Haven't checked Buffy buster or bookstores, but had wondered about all the productions... Ms. Nicks seems like more of a Shaman to me, but languages and translations evolve, according to the voice of the people... peace. J.F.K., Nixon, Patton, Poe. starcharms ****75.201.20.42 (talk) 20:27, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

A New Album and Other Projects: 2010 ????

This section is just a rambling sentence about various twitter updates. This is a great article, needs some work, but this section is just horrible !!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.230.104.172 (talk) 02:45, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

Well fix it... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.97.87.69 (talk) 05:32, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

The composer/songwriter

Hey peeps in the know i'd like to find in this article some insight on how she comes up with songs : is she mostly a lyricist, or a composer ? I suppose both, since her songs are not attributed to anyone else, that i noticed. So then, does she start off with the lyrics and put music to it, like Elton John does with the lyrics provided to him, or the other way around ? Does she play an instrument, although not on stage ? If not, then how does she come up with the full orchestration of her melody ? I mean i don't wonder so much the same concerning Christine McVie or Lindsey Buckingham, since they are both instrumentalists. --Jerome Potts (talk) 22:39, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

Generally, she would compose lyrics while forming rudimentary chords and melodies on a piano, or occasionally a guitar. For Fleetwood Mac songs, these demos were fleshed out by Buckingham, with occasional input from Christine McVie. Nicks got final say in how the songs were to sound, but that sound was generally created by Buckingham, though he was never credited as a co-writer. Her solo stuff was usually fleshed out by her co-writers or back-up musicians. Bretonbanquet (talk) 00:28, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. That's very much what i imagined, and it makes complete sense. I'll have to check out her solo stuff at some point. Such information would do well in the article body (if sourced, of course). --Jerome Potts (talk) 18:31, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

Vandalism

Someone redirected this article to Goat and I reverted it, but now it says REDIRECT Goat at the top of the page and I'm not entirely sure how to remove that, as it doesn't show up in the source. Sorry about that. Jenrzzz (talk) 09:14, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

Fixed the goat issue. That was strange. Jenrzzz (talk) 09:16, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

A younger photo request

1979 was 33 years ago at this writing. Is it possible to include a photo of her from this era? She is, after all, a frontwoman, and her image is important. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.88.143.1 (talk) 14:25, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

I found some freely licensed ones I could upload if everyone is okay with it...--Amandallc (talk) 04:58, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

Excellent. Any more? -- Gareth Griffith-Jones/The Welsh Buzzard 10:35, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

There actually are a few more. I uploaded a couple more recent ones to Wikimedia Commons, as well as a couple more from the 70s era. I'll add a couple more to the bio.--Amandallc (talk) 04:43, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

Many thanks. -- Gareth Griffith-Jones/The Welsh Buzzard 08:25, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

You know that "I found some freely licensed" means: you found some files that anyone can reuse anywhere, anytime for every purpose including money making purposes? The files you found are actually published under a Creative Commons license with a non-commercial restriction. This means: the files you found are not freely license. The license you added on Wikimedia Commons was wrong, its not commons:Template:Cc-by-sa-2.0 as you say but commons:Template:cc-by-nc-sa-2.0. --Martin H. (talk) 12:28, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

Actually, I was given permission by the photographer to post them. I'll ask him to change the license...I thought it was under the freely shared.--Amandallc (talk) 05:44, 4 November 2012 (UTC)

One picture was reviewed and accepted. I'll post it to the page. Thanks for taking the time to try to add photos. The licenses for these things can be confusing. --Alwaysaparadox (talk) 23:08, 5 November 2012 (UTC)

She spent her adolescence listening to Janis Joplin records?

Joplin's first LP, with Big Brother and the Holding Company, came out when she was 19. We can quibble over the definition of "adolescence", but about 95% of hers was spent doing something other than listening to Janis Joplin records, which didn't exist yet. 50.200.41.134 (talk) 18:00, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

It now reads thus:
She spent her adolescence playing records constantly, and existing in her "own little musical world". She joined her first band, "The Changing Times", while attending Arcadia High School in Arcadia, California.
— | Gareth Griffith-Jones | The Welsh Buzzard | — 18:26, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

Cite error: The named reference nicksfix1980 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
Cite error: The named reference nicksfix1997 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
Mike Ragogna (2012). "In Your Dreams Documentary Premieres at Hampton's: Chatting With Stevie Nicks". Huffington Post. Retrieved July 8, 2013.
FleetwoodMac.net: Stevie Nicks

witch rumors (media reference)

In the Harry Potter parody in Treehouse of Horror XII, Lord Montymort (Montgomery Burns) says that Lisa Simpson is "witchier than Stevie Nicks"... AnonMoos (talk) 01:58, 7 June 2014 (UTC)

1975-78:Fleetwood Mac and Rumours section. Re:Silver Springs.

Paragraph five, sentence two reads,"Nicks had also written and recorded the song "Silver Springs", but it was ultimately not included on the album because of space limitations for studio albums on vinyl records,which were limited to 24 minutes per side."

It seems to me that time constraints may not have been the only reason, if the real reason at all, for not including "Silver Springs" on "Rumours". I 'm not challenging the 24 minute limit. The Misplaced Pages article on L.P. records makes it clear that a 24 minute limit would be desirable for audio quality and/or technical reasons.

There is only one reference, at the end of the paragraph, for a fan site and link. (nicksfix.com/offtherecord.htm) The link contains a transcript from a radio interview with Nicks decades after the "Rumours" sessions. What is in the transcript doesn't quite match the above quote. In The interview Nicks says "Well, their reasons are, it was too long, and so, without asking me… or telling me… they recorded I Don’t Want to Know…. and put Silver Springs on the back of Go Your Own Way…. which was probably one of the most devastating things anybody has ever done to me in my life…."

Hmmmm. Earlier in the interview Nicks talks about the collaborative process of the band taking one of her songs and working on it to be recorded in the studio. Apparently, and she implies this, the song was set to be included on the album. ( the Wiki article on "Rumours" also states this. ) Seems to me the time issue would have come up at some point before the decision to include the song on the album. The running time for side one of "Rumours" ( per my copy, U.S. release 1977 ) is 19 minutes, 24 seconds, so a edited or re-recorded version of the song at around 4 minutes could have easily been included on the record on side one without any deletions of other songs. The 2004 C.D. release has the song after "Songbird", which could have been done as well in 1977 on side one of the L.P. with an edited or re-recorded version and been within the 24 minute limitation. ( Original studio version of "Silver Springs" is 4:48 as given in the "Rumours" Wiki article for the album. The Live version released as a single from "The Dance" in 1997 is 4:29 as given in the Wiki article for "Silver Springs". )

I accept the 24 minute limit for L.P. sides as an industry standard, and I believe the decision to include "Silver Springs" on "Rumours" had been made and later changed, and I believe an edited or re-recorded version of the song could have been included on the album within the 24 minute limitation, so then the 24 minute limitation as the only explanation for deletion of the song from "Rumours" in this article, just does not suffice for me, especially in light of what Nicks says in the interview from the reference given, and the more than four minutes that was available on side one of "Rumours".

The time constraint reason is repeated in the Wiki article for the song. The reference given there is for the 1997 Documentary of the making of the album, which I have not seen and, may give a satisfactory explanation.

Without a creditable reference to support the assertion that the song was excluded from "Rumours" solely because of the time constraints of L.P. records, it should be removed. I think a paraphrasing of what is said in the Wiki article on "Rumours" should be good enough for this article. "Silver Springs" (4:48), a song written by Nicks, was recorded at the same sessions and intended for inclusion on Rumours. It was eventually released as the B-side of "Go Your Own Way" and has been restored to later reissues of the album.

Also the last sentence of paragraph five in this section states, "The song, the rights to which are owned by Nicks' late mother Barbara, has always been very special to Nicks, and she was devastated when told about the omission after the decision had been made." This is what Nicks said in the interview, which is the only reference given for the paragraph.

Stevie: Well, their reasons are, it was too long, and so, without asking me… or telling me… they recorded I Don’t Want to Know…. and put Silver Springs on the back of Go Your Own Way…. which was probably one of the most devastating things anybody has ever done to me in my life…. and I remember vividly running out into the middle of the record plant studio parking lot, and screaming…. because I knew that Silver Springs deserved to be on that record, and that I Don’t Want to Know was really just a really fun…. guitar song…. and Silver Springs was…. Silver Springs was all about me and Lindsey, you know, and all- I mean…. I mean, he didn’t write beautiful love songs about me, but I did write some beautiful love songs about him.

Note that there is nothing about Nicks Mother owing the rights to the song, and this is the only paragraph in the reference given that relates to the sentence, so that part should be taken out or a suitable reference found.Jonel469 (talk) 15:06, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

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