Stevie Nicks was called out of premature retirement and the resulting live album, 1997's The Dance, went to # 1 in the US album charts.

Fleetwood Mac's second album after the incorporation of Nicks and Buckingham, 1977's Rumours, produced four US Top 10 singles ( including Nicks's song " Dreams ", which was the band's first and only US number one ) and remained at No. 1 on the American albums chart for 31 weeks, as well as reaching the top spot in various countries around the world.

Nicks was born at Good Samaritan Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona, to Jess Nicks, a corporate executive, and Barbara Nicks, a homemaker.

Nicks ' grandfather, Aaron Jess Nicks, a struggling country music singer, taught Nicks to sing, performing duets with her by the time she was four years old.

Nicks ' mother was very protective of her, keeping her at home " more than most people were " and fostering in her a love of fairy tales.

The album was not a commercial success, despite the live shows that Nicks and Buckingham performed together to support it, and Polydor dropped the pair from the label.

The song built to a climax in which Nicks ' vocals were so impassioned that drummer and band co-founder Mick Fleetwood declared, " her < i > Rhiannon </ i > in those days was like an exorcism.

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.

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.

In November 1977, after a New Zealand concert for the Rumours tour, Nicks and Fleetwood, who was married to Jenny Boyd, secretly began an affair.

However, Nicks was unhappy with the album, and opted to record a new batch of songs in 1985.

In 1989, Nicks set to work with Fleetwood Mac on a new album, Behind the Mask, which was released in 1990 to moderate commercial success in the US.

Nicks was criticized for her weight gain.

Nicks used material written mostly in previous years to record a solo album in 1992 and 1993 entitled Street Angel, which was ultimately released following her detox in May 1994.

Despite praise from critics and fans for her vocals on the three-month Street Angel tour, Nicks was crushed by the focus on her weight and the poor reception of the album itself.

In 1995, Nicks was reunited with Lindsey Buckingham and contributed the duet " Twisted " to the Twister movie soundtrack, while in 1996 the Sheryl Crow penned " Somebody Stand By Me " featured on the Boys on the Side soundtrack, and Nicks also remade Tom Petty's " Free Fallin '" for Fox's TV hit Party of Five.

Nicks put work on a new solo album on hold when she was approached by Warner Music to release a solo career-spanning box set, to finish her contract with Atlantic Records in the US.

The box set Enchanted was released to acclaim on April 28, 1998 with liner notes from Nicks, as well as exclusive rare photographs, and pages from her journals.

According to Nicks, friend and former musical partner Tom Petty was responsible for convincing her to write music again when he rebuffed her request that he write a song with her.

She has famously been quoted since as stating that she has " no memory of this tour " due to her increasing dependency on the tranquillizer Klonopin, prescribed in ever increasing amounts by a psychiatrist between 1987 and 1994 in an attempt to keep Nicks from regressing to her former abuse of cocaine.

" Nicks has gone on record to the New York Times as being strongly opposed to the prospect, and was quoted in 2009 as saying " Over my dead body.

Listen to Me: Buddy Holly is being produced by Peter Asher and includes contributions from Stevie Nicks, The Fray, Cobra Starship, Jeff Lynne, Train's Pat Monahan, Patrick Stump, Jackson Browne, Chris Isaak, Natalie Merchant, Imelda May, Ringo Starr, Lyle Lovett, Zooey Deschanel, Brian Wilson and more.

The record featured Crow singing many of her hit singles with new musical spins and guest appearances by many other musicians including Sarah McLachlan, Stevie Nicks, the Dixie Chicks, Keith Richards, and Eric Clapton.

During this time, Nicks wrote " Rhiannon " after seeing the name in the novel Triad by Mary Leader, unaware at the time of the Mabinogi legend of Rhiannon.

Nicks ' " Rhiannon ", which appeared on the album, would eventually be voted one of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time by Rolling Stone magazine.

That year, Nicks sang back-up on virtually every track of Not Shy, recorded by musician Walter Egan, a friend of both Nicks and Buckingham.

Disgusted by the criticism she received during the tour for being overweight, Nicks vowed to never set foot on a stage again unless she slimmed down.

Nicks promoted the song with a video directed by Dave Stewart.

Another song on the album " For What It's Worth " features Nicks ' niece in the video, and was inspired by a past bus tour with Tom Petty.

Swift, who describes Nicks as one of her childhood heroes, introduced her to the audience by saying " It's a fairy tale and an honor to share the stage with Stevie Nicks.

According to a September 2007 article in the Daily Telegraph, Nicks says she is again selling her home, her recently purchased Pacific Palisades home ( purchased two years before by Nicks, right down the street from a rental home she had for years in Pacific Palisades ).

Over the years, Nicks has developed a style which she calls her " uniform ", which is best exemplified by the outfit worn on the cover of Fleetwood Mac's Rumours, perhaps the base inspiration for many of her costumes.

Nicks has even commented in interviews recently that she never would have dreamed that her trademark " Bella Donna / Witchy Woman " image would have been taken so seriously by her fans, often joking that she does not live her private life in her stage clothes and " Stevie garb " as many people seem to think.

* Rhiannon, song by Stevie Nicks and Fleetwood Mac

The album debuted at # 6 on the Billboard 200 giving Nicks her fifth top ten album on that chart, with 52, 000 copies sold in the first week.

The Deep Dish version went on to reach No. 2 on the Billboard Hot Dance Airplay Chart, as well as providing Nicks with her third UK top 40 hit.

The highest chart position was # 1 on the Billboard album chart where it stayed for a week ( removing Stevie Nicks ' Bella Donna from the top spot ), in September 1981.

Stevie Nicks considers Joplin one of her idols, saying:

Despite the departure of Stevie Nicks, Christine remained loyal to Mick Fleetwood and her former husband, recording five songs for the band's 1995 effort Time.

Stephanie Lynn " Stevie " Nicks ( born May 26, 1948 ) is an American singer-songwriter, best known for her work with Fleetwood Mac and an extensive solo career, which collectively have produced over forty Top 50 hits and sold over 140 million albums.

Nicks joined Fleetwood Mac in 1974, along with her then-boyfriend Lindsey Buckingham.

Nicks began her solo career in 1981 with the 8 million selling album Bella Donna.

Nicks is known for her distinctive voice, mystical visual style, and symbolic lyrics, as well as the famous ( sometimes tense ) chemistry between herself and former boyfriend and guitarist / vocalist in Fleetwood Mac, Lindsey Buckingham.

As a young child, Nicks had difficulty pronouncing her given name Stephanie, instead pronouncing it " tee-dee ", which became the nickname " Stevie ".

With the Goya guitar that she received for her sixteenth birthday, Nicks wrote her first song called " I've Loved and I've Lost, and I'm Sad But Not Blue ".

Nicks first met her future musical and romantic partner Lindsey Buckingham during her senior year at Menlo Atherton High School.

Buckingham contacted Nicks a few years later and asked her to join him and his bandmates Javier Pacheco and Calvin Roper in a band called Fritz.

Fritz became popular as a live act from 1968 until 1972, opening for popular musicians Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin-both of whom Nicks credits as inspiring her stage intensity in later years-among others, in the San Francisco Bay Area.

By 1978, Nicks had amassed a large backlog of songs dating back to her Buckingham Nicks days that she had been unable to record and release with Fleetwood Mac because of the constraint of having to accommodate three songwriters on each album.

" Following Robin's death in 1982, Nicks married Robin's widower Kim Anderson, believing that her friend would want her to care for the baby.