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.

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.

After the success of the Rumours album and tour in 1977 – 78, Fleetwood Mac began recording their third album with Buckingham and Nicks, Tusk, in the spring of 1978.

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

Beginning in May 2007, Nicks began touring with pop / rock artist Chris Isaak.

In late 2004, Nicks began visiting Army and Navy medical centers in Washington, D. C.

Upon being asked in a question forum on her official website about playing the tambourine, Nicks stated that she began playing the tambourine upon joining Fleetwood Mac in 1975, feeling the need to do something onstage during songs that featured Buckingham or McVie.

Musical and personal conflicts began to emerge in the ways that the individual members handled their new-found success ; Phantom married actress Britt Ekland, while Setzer made guest appearances with stars like Bob Dylan and Stevie Nicks and became the concert guitarist for Robert Plant's Honeydrippers side project.

In the mid 1990s Steinberg began writing with Rick Nowels, who had previously established himself as a songwriter for such artists as Stevie Nicks and Belinda Carlisle.

Nicks began work on Bella Donna in 1979, in between sessions for her third album as part of Fleetwood Mac, Tusk, released in October that year.

Stevie Nicks considers Joplin one of her idols, saying:

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Nicks wrote and recorded demos for the solo project during Tusk sessions in 1979 and the Tusk world tour of 1979 – 80.

After the Mirage tour in 1982, Nicks prepared to record her second solo album.

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

Nicks toured the US and Europe from August to November 1989, the only time she has toured Europe as a solo act.

On the tenth anniversary of her solo career debut, Nicks released Timespace – The Best of Stevie Nicks on September 3, 1991.

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.

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.

After the end of her solo tour, Nicks convened with the other members of the band for recording during 2002.

During the summer of 2005, Nicks continued the tour solo with pop singer Vanessa Carlton as the opening act, playing over 20 dates nationwide.

Nicks continued the tour solo, with Vanessa Carlton opening on some dates.

In 2001, McLachlan provided background vocals, guitar, and piano on the closing track " Love Is " from Stevie Nicks ' eighth solo album, Trouble in Shangri-La, in addition to drawing the dragon used for the " S " in Stevie's name on the album cover.

By the mid 1970s and early 1980s, the original wave of singer-songwriters had largely been absorbed into a more general pop or soft rock format, but some new artists in the singer-songwriter tradition ( including Billy Joel, Stevie Wonder, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, Mark Heard, Lucinda Williams, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Patti Smith, Elvis Costello, Cyndi Lauper, Kate Bush, Rickie Lee Jones, Stevie Nicks, Cheryl Wheeler, Loudon Wainwright III, The Roches and Warren Zevon ) continued to emerge, and in other cases rock and even punk rock artists such as Peter Case, Paul Collins and Paul Westerberg transitioned to careers as solo singer-songwriters.

* " Alice ", a song on Stevie Nicks ' fourth solo album The Other Side of the Mirror

By the late 1970s and early 1980s the original wave of singer-songwriters had largely been absorbed into a more general pop or soft rock format, but some new artists in the singer-songwriter tradition ( including Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, Mark Heard, Lucinda Williams, Patti Smith, Kate Bush, Rickie Lee Jones, Stevie Nicks, Cheryl Wheeler and Warren Zevon ) continued to emerge, and in other cases rock and even punk rock artists such as Peter Case, Paul Collins and Paul Westerberg transitioned to careers as solo singer-songwriters.

He was the featured bass player for Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty's " Stop Draggin ' My Heart Around " single from Nicks ' 1981 debut solo album Bella Donna, as well as other Petty tracks between 1976 and 1981.

The initial recordings for the album were in demo form, with Nicks accompanying herself on piano or electric piano for songs that were initially planned for inclusion but later shelved, such as " Lady from the Mountains ," " Castaway ," " Gypsy " ( later resurrected for Fleetwood Mac's Mirage in 1982 ), and " I Sing for the Things " ( later re-recorded for 1985's solo album Rock a Little ).

Nicks recorded several solo piano demos for the album that were not recorded with the full band personnel, such as " China Doll ", " Christian ( Spinning Wheels )", and " Stay Away ", and other songs were attempted but not completed with the full band, such as " Belle Fleure " and " Sanctuary.

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.