According to Nicks, Kelly portrays the young Stevie Nicks blending with the soul of Nicks ' 62 year-old self.

Many celebrities-among them Courtney Love, Michelle Branch, Belinda Carlisle, the Dixie Chicks, Mary J. Blige, Sheryl Crow, Nadia Ali, Florence Welch, Taylor Swift, Laura Branigan, Sarah McLachlan, Kelly Clarkson, Vanessa Carlton, Georgi Cussick, Tori Amos, Michelle Hotaling, Jennifer Hanson, Ruston Taylor, and Delta Goodrem-have cited Nicks as an inspiration.

* 2011: " Wide Sargasso Sea ", song written by rock ' n ' roll singer Stevie Nicks about the novel and film ; it appears on her 2011 album In Your Dreams.

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.

Nicks appeared in the video for " Bootylicious " and in an episode of MTV's Making The Video that featured it, in which she expressed her admiration for both the song and the group.

Further homage was paid to Nicks with her appearance in the original " Bootylicious " video.

Stevie Nicks makes an appearance in the beginning of the song's video.

The video for the following single from Survivor, " Bootylicious ", featured a cameo by Stevie Nicks.

The live performance of ' Leather and Lace ' was, however, used as a video promo for the single release ( even though it was a solo version and did not feature Don Henley ), and did surface on the 1986 VHS collection " I Can't Wait ", which collected together six of Nicks ' promo-clips between 1981 and 1985.

Bin Laden makes a video tape revealing his hostages, and again the Army mistakes the goat for Stevie Nicks.

" Nicks also stated in a 1983 Entertainment Tonight interview: " I spent thousands of dollars on beautiful black clothes and had to stop wearing them for a long time because a lot of people scared me.

During the early 1980s she wore Renaissance poets ' velvet berets with plume feathers ( as shown in the vintage photo used on the cover of her March 2007 CD release Crystal Visions – The Very Best of Stevie Nicks ).

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.

Having overcome cocaine addiction, and dependency on tranquilizers, Nicks remains a popular solo performer.

She had planned on becoming an English teacher, but she and Buckingham dropped out in 1968 to move to Los Angeles in pursuit of a music career when Nicks ' family moved to Chicago.

Nicks and Buckingham joined Fleetwood Mac on December 31, 1974, after Keith Olsen played their track " Frozen Love " for drummer Mick Fleetwood, who had come to Studio City in California, in search of a studio to record Fleetwood Mac's next album.

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

Following the success of Fleetwood Mac, increasing tension between Nicks and Buckingham began to take its toll on their creativity, and Nicks ended the relationship.

Also, Nicks and Buckingham sang back-up on Warren Zevon's debut album.

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.

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.

One track, " Magnet & Steel ", prominently featured Nicks on back-up vocals and became a hit single on Billboards " Hot 100 " chart during the summer of 1978.

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.

Nicks released Bella Donna on July 27, 1981 to critical and commercial acclaim.

In November 1981, Nicks embarked on the White Winged Dove tour, which she had to cut short to record the Mirage album with Fleetwood Mac.

Nicks released The Wild Heart on June 10, 1983.

Nicks appeared on Saturday Night Live in 1983, performing " Stand Back " and " Nightbird ".

Following the tour for The Wild Heart, Nicks commenced work on her third solo album.

The tour marked a turning point in Nicks ' career: although she had achieved significant critical acclaim, drugs were taking a toll on her performing, affecting her vocals and changing her on-stage persona.

Also in 1988, Nicks began work on a fourth solo album with British producer Rupert Hine.

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.

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.

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.

The band went on a world tour to promote the album, on the last night of which Buckingham and Nicks reunited on stage to perform " Landslide ".

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.

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.

Nicks owns a strand of Joplin's stage beads.

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.

By this stage she had become a highly respected background vocalist, continuing to tour with such acts as with Rita Coolidge, Stevie Nicks, George Michael, and Bette Midler.

However, some music artists have worn them in music videos and on stage, such as Lenny Kravitz, Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones, and Stevie Nicks from the rock band Fleetwood Mac.