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.

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 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.

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.

During the Rumours tour, Nicks had a relationship with singer / songwriter Don Henley of the Eagles.

In the 2nd quarter, though, Eli Manning connected with Hakeem Nicks for a short touchdown pass to make it 7-2 Giants heading into the 2nd half.

Then the Giants took control, as Manning threw for two more TD passes to Mario Manningham and Nicks and the defense completed its shutout of the Falcons to give the New York Giants the win, 24-2, and the Falcons their third straight playoff loss with Matt Ryan and Mike Smith.

In 2006, Paste magazine named McVie, together with bandmates Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, as the 83rd greatest living songwriter or songwriting team.

While there, Buckingham landed a guitar-playing gig with the Everly Brothers, and toured with them while Nicks stayed behind.

Also in 1975, Nicks worked with clothing designer Margi Kent to develop Nicks's unique onstage look, with costumes that featured flowing skirts, shawls and platform boots.

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.

Nicks recorded the hit duets " Whenever I Call You Friend " with Kenny Loggins in 1978, and " Gold " with John Stewart in 1979.

During 1981, Nicks toured with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and New Zealand band Split Enz as a guest.

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.

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

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

Nicks became romantically involved with Hine.

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.

After a few months ' respite from the Say You Will tour, Nicks did a four-night stint in May 2005 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, and then did a 10-show tour with Don Henley.

In addition to playing piano and Hammond organ with the Heartbreakers, Tench is also known as a skilled session musician, having recorded with dozens of notable artists, including Johnny Cash, U2, Elisa, Stevie Nicks, Lucinda Williams, Sam Phillips, You Am I, Susanna Hoffs, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, The Rolling Stones, Don Henley, John Prine, Ringo Starr, John Fogerty, Elvis Costello, Bonnie Raitt, Sheryl Crow, Waylon Jennings, Paul Westerberg, X, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Carlene Carter, The dB's, Alanis Morissette, The Ramones, The Screaming Trees, The Tragically Hip, The Divinyls, The Goo Goo Dolls, Green Day, The Cult, The Jayhawks, Dave Rawlings, Fiona Apple, Lone Justice, Sean Watkins, New Found Glory, Tift Merritt, Peter Case, Neil Diamond, Ryan Adams and Powderfinger, Naughty Sweeties City of Glass, as well as many others.

Members of Venice have performed alongside, or recorded with, Bruce Springsteen, Don Henley, Elton John, Heart, Phil Collins, Sting, Melissa Etheridge, Cher, Ozzy Osbourne, Jackson Browne, David Crosby, Stevie Nicks, Billy Idol, Michael McDonald, Dave Mason, Tim Moyer, Chris Isaak, Robin Beck, Kenny Loggins, the Doobie Brothers, Styx, Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys, Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, Bon Jovi, Warren Zevon and Dutch band Yellow Pearl.

Stevie Nicks wrote the title track of the album, however after receiving word that Colter and Jennings might divorce, released her own version of the song as a duet with Don Henley, which peaked at No. 6 on Pop chart, also in 1981.

He wrote music for the Cheech & Chong film Up in Smoke and he has also produced recordings by Don Henley, Neil Young, Jon Bon Jovi, Stevie Nicks, Billy Joel, Hanson, Tracy Chapman, Louise Goffin and others.

Along with friends Tom Petty and Don Henley, Nicks brought in famed session musician Waddy Wachtel, Bruce Springsteen's E-Street Band pianist Roy Bittan, and Muscle Shoals session man Donald " Duck " Dunn of Booker T. & the MGs.

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.

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.

After Fritz disbanded in 1972, Nicks and Buckingham continued to write and record as a duo, producing demo tapes at the coffee plant belonging to Buckingham's father Morris.

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 performed at the second US Festival at Glen Helen Regional Park in San Bernardino, California, and later toured the US from June 1983 to November 1983.

During the 1992 US presidential campaign, Bill Clinton used the Fleetwood Mac hit " Don't Stop " as his campaign theme song, and Nicks joined her band mates to perform the song at Clinton's 1993 Inaugural Gala.

Nicks, who is, had gained weight, peaking at 175 lb ( 79. 4 kg ).

In late 1993, while Nicks held a baby shower at her house, she tripped and cut her forehead near a fireplace.

Nicks made several television appearances in support of the album and performed at the 2001 Radio Music Awards.

During 2010, Stewart used Twitter to confirm various facts about the album ; in one of the tweets, Stewart stated that he, Nicks, Waddy Wachtel, Mike Campbell ( of the Heartbreakers ), Mike Rowe, and Steve Ferrone were all working on the album, and that Mick Fleetwood has also contributed drums to at least one track.

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 last Stevie Nicks / Chris Isaak show was June 17, 2007 at the Tweeter Center in Boston, MA.

On January 31, 2010, Nicks performed with Taylor Swift at the 52nd Grammy Awards.

Standing at, Nicks has stated she felt a little ridiculous standing next to the much taller Mick Fleetwood.

Other acts like Cher, Usher, Frank Sinatra, Eminem, Beyoncé, Whitney Houston, Jessica Simpson, Barbra Streisand, Alicia Keys, Shakira, Nelly Furtado, Katy Perry, Depeche Mode, U2, The Killers, Stevie Nicks, Pink Floyd, Blink 182, The Who, Deep Purple, The Osmonds, Muse, Brooks & Dunn, Marc Anthony, Luciano Pavarotti and Aventura performed more than once at the venue.

In 1989, Stevie Nicks performed at the Summit as part of The Other Side of the Mirror Tour.

Fleetwood Mac singer Stevie Nicks released a 60-minute long DVD of her 1986 concert at the amphitheatre, towards the end of her Rock a Little tour.

Stevie Nicks performed a special four-night stint at The Colosseum in May 2005.