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Stephanie Lynn Nicks (born May 26, 1948) is an American singer, songwriter, and producer known for her work with the band Fleetwood Mac and as a solo artist. She is known for her distinctive voice, mystical stage persona and poetic, symbolic lyrics.
After starting her career as a duo with her then-boyfriend Lindsey Buckingham, releasing the album Buckingham Nicks to little success, Nicks joined Fleetwood Mac in 1975, helping the band to become one of the best-selling music acts of all time with over 120 million records sold worldwide. Rumours, the band's second album with Nicks, became one of the best-selling albums of all time, being certified 20× platinum in the US. In 1981, while remaining a member of Fleetwood Mac, Nicks began her solo career, releasing the studio album Bella Donna, which topped the Billboard 200 and has reached multiplatinum status. She has released eight studio solo albums and seven studio albums with Fleetwood Mac, selling a certified total of 65 million copies in the US only.
After the release of her first solo album, Rolling Stone named her the "Reigning Queen of Rock and Roll". Nicks was named one of the 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time and one of the 100 Greatest Singers of All Timeby Rolling Stone. Her Fleetwood Mac songs "Landslide" and "Dreams", with the latter being the band's only number one hit in the US, together with her solo hit "Edge of Seventeen", have been included in Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
She is the first woman to have been inducted twice into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as a member of Fleetwood Mac in 1998 and as a solo artist in 2019. She has garnered eight Grammy Award nominations and two American Music Award nominations as a solo artist. She has won numerous awards with Fleetwood Mac, including a Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1978 for Rumours. The 1975 album Fleetwood Mac, Rumours and Bella Donna have been included in the "Greatest of All Time Billboard 200 Albums" chart by Billboard. Furthermore, Rumours was rated the seventh-greatest album of all time in Rolling Stone's list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time", as well as the fourth-greatest album by female acts.
Excerpts from Stevie Nicks Personal Website: https://www.stevienicksofficial.com/about
I began thinking about making this record in February of this year because I had about five months before Fleetwood Mac rehearsals started in August. We didn't have a year to hang out and work on music like I usually do. I had about 40 songs originally done in demo form from 1969-1987 and '94 and '95. I thought we could certainly make an album from this collection – probably three albums. Many of the songs were already out there on the internet and fans have been asking for them for years through fan sites and letters. I used to make cassettes of my music and give them to anybody. But to know that these songs were finally going to be recorded with the same love they were originally done when they were demos – that was joyous for me. I narrowed it down to 30 and had to keep weeding out. I think Waddy hit it on the head when he said, "Stevie really writes one very long song. They're all involved with each other. Each song is a lifetime... Each song has a soul... Each song has a purpose. Each song is a love story... They represent my life behind the scenes, the secrets, the broken hearts, the broken hearted and the survivors... These songs are the memories – the 24 Karat gold rings in the blue box… These songs are for you."
From the very beginning of the first song I wrote before I turned 16 to the last song I ever wrote, there's a certain thread that I use because it's just what I do... The songs are all about love and heartbreak – how to pick up the pieces – how to keep moving... I'm really chronicling love from the very beginning. When you write a song and it doesn't go on a record, it floats around in your life for years. You think about it and go over it until it becomes part of your world. These songs are now 24 Karat Gold. It all started when I fell crazy in love with a really super handsome kid from Arcadia High School who is still my really good friend today... Even now when he walks through the door, it's like the same as when I saw him walking down the hall in 10th grade... He started me out as a songwriter... From that second onward I told my parents I was going to be a famous singer songwriter. I was 15 1/2.
You usually don't write songs about being super happy... When you write a song or a book, it's usually when someone walks away. I think that's the first moment you start to think about it not working out and you start to write. The relationship may go on for longer but you've already started writing in your head because you see the future... Other times, you know a relationship won't work from almost the beginning but you wouldn't trade what you shared for a million dollars...
It's not acting... It's never acting... It's the reason I go onstage and sing Edge of 17 every night since '81 or Gold Dust Woman. I just take myself back to that time when it was written... Sometimes I can't remember what happened yesterday but I remember so well what happened through the whole period of time that I wrote these songs.
Fast forward to 2014, I said to Dave (Stewart, co producer), "How do we make a record in a few months?" And he said, "We go to Nashville for two weeks." So we all got on a plane – Waddy (Wachtel co producer/Stevie's musical director), Dave, Lori and Sharon (long time background vocalists), my assistant Karen and I headed to Nashville from LA. By this time, I had narrowed it down to 17 songs. I knew we had to smash the recording of them into ten days. Later I'd figure out which 14 would make the record. We went in on Monday morning and did two songs – even got a good vocal... Then, two more each day through Friday. Then we went into the smaller room to do little touches. We flew back to LA and started working at my house for three weeks doing background and guitar overdubs. It was really coming together.
The only way this would have been possible was because of the amazing "Nashvillians" (as I named them) the brilliant musicians who we worked with in Nashville. Dave said that these guys can record all these songs in two weeks. I had my doubts because I don't know any band in the world that could record all these songs in two weeks. It was like Annie Oakley rode in and hired a gang. We were a whole different can of beans than they were used to working with for sure. They were a great band – tantamount to Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers... They reminded me of Tom's band because they were so good and they played together so well. We were awestruck for the whole time just watching them. For me to stand in the vocal booth and be able to see all of them - that they could learn the songs that fast – it blew my mind... I told them, "I'm making a great record. Don't care if it's a hit record. And they were all on board. We recorded live and just about all the final vocals are live... This was going to be a fast moving train... That is how we roll and that IS how we rolled. And we did it."
Ages ago I wanted to learn how to become a photographer. I don't sleep at night so I thought, who am I going to ask to stay up all night and then do a show tomorrow night... I'm not going to get Christine (McVie) to be a model... She's going to say, "Are you crazy? I'm going to the bar, bye." And so it began... I had a long cord that plugged into the Polaroid which I put on a tripod with the button in my hand... I'd be completely dressed – red lipstick and hair and long white gown in the middle of the night... I'd start moving furniture and lamps around and kept changing the lighting... Lots of times I ran out of film and would send people out to buy more in the middle of the night but the end result was I taught myself about lighting and how to take a great picture. I realized the songs and pictures from that time all fit together and from these I would select the art work for the album. They were of a time. I had stored them all in shoe boxes and they still look great. Many have a golden tone to them which is perfect for the title of the album. And all the shots are not just me but certain people in my life who surrounded me as I was writing these songs... Everybody is represented here... These songs and photographs came from all these people. This is not a solo effort... We just got the last photo release signed by Jimmy Iovine... Without the pictures of Jimmy, I would have had to throw out the whole idea because he was so important with "Belladonna" and my solo career... If it hadn't been for Jimmy, I don't know if it would have ever really gone anywhere.
I even did some of the calligraphy for the packaging. My trusty assistant Karen found the most amazing calligraphy pen and I decided to write all the titles of the songs. I never thought I could do it but the pen was indeed magical and I thought it was an extra added touch to include the calligraphy as part of the package for 24 Karat Gold.
Regarding Fleetwood Mac, it's going to be so great to look over to my right and see Christine behind the Hammond organ... I've missed her so much... I never thought she'd come back... She said she was never coming back... But she started seeing a therapist and one day she had an epiphany. I think he said, "What are you doing staying out in your castle, Guenivere... What are you doing out there? You need to come back and start living life... Go back to the band..." At that time, it was Mick, John, Lindsey and I touring... She called up and asked, "What would you think if I came back to the band?" And I said, "Chris, it is your band... Get a trainer..." So she got a trainer and she's been working out for the last six months and she's stronger than all of us. She's going to leave us in the dust.
Updated: Feb 25, 2022
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James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American musician, singer, and songwriter. Although his mainstream career spanned only four years, he is widely regarded as one of the most influential electric guitarists in the history of popular music, and one of the most celebrated musicians of the 20th century. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame describes him as "arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music".
Born in Seattle, Washington, Hendrix began playing guitar at the age of 15. In 1961, he enlisted in the US Army, but was discharged the following year. Soon afterward, he moved to Clarksville then Nashville, Tennessee, and began playing gigs on the chitlin' circuit, earning a place in the Isley Brothers' backing band and later with Little Richard, with whom he continued to work through mid-1965. He then played with Curtis Knight and the Squiresbefore moving to England in late 1966 after bassist Chas Chandler of the Animals became his manager. Within months, Hendrix had earned three UK top ten hits with the Jimi Hendrix Experience: "Hey Joe", "Purple Haze", and "The Wind Cries Mary". He achieved fame in the US after his performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, and in 1968 his third and final studio album, Electric Ladyland, reached number one in the US. The double LP was Hendrix's most commercially successful release and his first and only number one album. The world's highest-paid performer, he headlined the Woodstock Festival in 1969 and the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970 before his accidental death in London from barbiturate-related asphyxia on September 18, 1970.
Hendrix was inspired by American rock and roll and electric blues. He favored overdriven amplifiers with high volume and gain, and was instrumental in popularizing the previously undesirable sounds caused by guitar amplifier feedback. He was also one of the first guitarists to make extensive use of tone-altering effects units in mainstream rock, such as fuzz distortion, Octavia, wah-wah, and Uni-Vibe. He was the first musician to use stereophonic phasing effects in recordings. Holly George-Warren of Rolling Stone commented: "Hendrix pioneered the use of the instrument as an electronic sound source. Players before him had experimented with feedback and distortion, but Hendrix turned those effects and others into a controlled, fluid vocabulary every bit as personal as the blues with which he began."
Hendrix was the recipient of several music awards during his lifetime and posthumously. In 1967, readers of Melody Maker voted him the Pop Musician of the Year and in 1968, Billboard named him the Artist of the Year and Rolling Stone declared him the Performer of the Year. Disc and Music Echo honored him with the World Top Musician of 1969 and in 1970, Guitar Player named him the Rock Guitarist of the Year. The Jimi Hendrix Experience was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. Rolling Stone ranked the band's three studio albums, Are You Experienced, Axis: Bold as Love, and Electric Ladyland, among the 100 greatest albums of all time, and they ranked Hendrix as the greatest guitarist and the sixth greatest artist of all time.
Jimi Hendrix estate sues bandmates’ heirs after alleged royalties and copyright threat
Estate claims families of Hendrix’s bassist and drummer threatened them with a copyright infringement case over ‘millions of pounds’ of unpaid royalties
The Jimi Hendrix Experience in 1967 …
(L-R) David Noel Redding, Jimi Hendrix, ‘Mitch’ Mitchell.Photograph: Express/Getty Images
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The estate of Jimi Hendrix is suing the heirs of the trailblazing guitarist’s former bandmates after they allegedly threatened to sue for “millions of pounds” in unpaid royalties dating back decades, Billboard reports. In December, Lawrence Abramson, a British lawyer representing the families of the Jimi Hendrix Experience bassist David Noel Redding and drummer John Graham “Mitch” Mitchell, sent a cease-and-desist letter that claimed they owned a stake in Hendrix’s music and threatened to sue for infringement.
The Hendrix estate and Sony said that the settlements “specifically” concerned the band’s recordings and that there had been no claim by Redding and Mitchell or their successors “for almost half a century … concerning the copyright ownership, exploitation of these recordings by plaintiffs or payments of royalties”.
Advertisement Hendrix and Sony are not suing for damages, but a ruling that exonerates them of the claims made by representatives for Redding and Mitchell. The Guardian contacted representatives for Redding and Mitchell’s estates, who said they could not yet comment. In the cease-and-desist letter, representatives for the Redding and Mitchell estates argued that the agreements reached in 1970 were unenforceable and that they were owed millions in royalties dating back to 1973. 'Colourful, vibrant, sensual!' Stars on Jimi Hendrix, 50 years gone Read moreHendrix formed the Jimi Hendrix Experience in 1966. They scored hits, particularly in the UK, with songs such as their cover of All Along the Watchtower and originals Voodoo Chile and Purple Haze. The group broke up in 1969 after Redding’s departure. Hendrix died in September 1970 at the age of 27. Redding died in 2003 and Mitchell in 2008. Lawyers for the group’s rhythm section claim that “both died in relative poverty having never received their true entitlement from their works, performances and founding membership of the Jimi Hendrix Experience”.
Iconic musician Jimi Hendrix will always be known as one of the talented artists of all time, but there are some little-known facts about this rock star that might surprise you. Here, PPcorn present 15 facts you didn’t know about Jimi Hendrix.
“Jimi” was actually born Johnny Allen Hendrix. Jimi’s mother and father did not have a very good relationship, so when Jimi went to live with his father after he gained custody, he father renamed him James Marshall Hendrix. He didn’t actually spell his name “Jimi” until 1966.
Before Jimi got his first guitar, he would pretend he knew how to play guitar using just an old broom. He was even rumored to have brought the broomstick to school with him, and he would often dance with it.
Though you could argue his first instrument was the broomstick, his first real instrument was the ukulele. However, it was a special ukulele – he found it in the trash, and it only had one string.
Though Hendrix went on to become wildly famous and successful, he never even finished high school. He dropped out before he enlisted in the military.
Speaking of the military, the only reason Hendrix enlisted was to avoid prison. Hendrix was caught in stolen cars on two occasions when he was growing up. He had to choose jail or the military, and he made his choice.
One conspiracy theory, in particular, alleges that Hendrix was actually murdered. The conspiracy theory states that his girlfriend at the time, Monika Dannemann, made him overdose.
Also related to his death, Hendrix is a member of the 27 Club, the group of famous artists who died at the age of exactly 27. Other members of this club include Amy Winehouse and Jim Morrison.
Hendrix had a very tumultuous relationship with his mother. Many people think this is because his mother was an alcoholic.
Hendrix classified the music he played as part of the “electric church.” According to him, he wanted his music to be part of a safe place that anyone could access and experience his music in a sort of religious way. He liked the idea of music bringing people together without judgments.
Did you know Hendrix taught himself how to play guitar? He first learned on the one-string ukulele we mentioned in part one, but he then realized he could teach himself even more on an actual guitar. He had never taken a single guitar lesson in his life.
Speaking of guitar lessons, Jimi Hendrix never learned how to read music. He learned how to play by ear, rather than by reading notes on a page.
His hit song, “All Along the Watchtower,” was actually written and recorded by Bob Dylan less than one year before Jimi Hendrix covered it. After Hendrix died, Dylan began playing the song the same way Hendrix did as a tribute to him.
Hendrix definitely has one son – James Sundquist. However, he may have a daughter as well, Tamika Hendrix. However, there has never been DNA testing to prove that Tamika is Hendrix’s daughter.
Hendrix would often reference comic book characters when talking with friends. In addition to Spider-Man, Hendrix was also a fan of Batman.
It’s true! This man truly was a genius. His screenplay, written entirely by himself, was called Moon Dust. The main character, named The Powerful Sound King, was based on his own personality. Other characters in the screenplay were based off of Spider-Man characters.
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