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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Nicks has expressed major disappointment with the album, claiming that a lot of production work took place during her second stint in rehab, meaning she had little to no say over the final product.

Nicks had begun writing actively for Trouble in Shangri-La in 1994 and 1995 as she came out of her Klonopin dependency.

Carlton had previously been on tour with Nicks in 2005 and 2006.

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

Until July 2007 Nicks lived in Paradise Valley, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix in a home she had built in 1981 and shared with brother Chris, his wife Lori and their daughter Jessica.

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 ).

Nicks then had her personal jeweler, Henri David of Philadelphia, make replicas of the moon pendant which have become treasured gifts to her friends.

" 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.

Escape had the fifth highest selling debut of 1981, just behind Bella Donna from Stevie Nicks.

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.

By September 1975, Zevon had returned to Los Angeles, where he roomed with then-unknown Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham.

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.

Along with the CD, Nicks also released a DVD titled Live In Chicago.

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.

Nicks was also the featured performer for Bette Midler's benefit function, Hullaween, in October 2006.

According to BMI, " Landslide " also earned Nicks the 35th Robert J. Burton Award as " Most Performed Country Song of the Year ".

She also commented that she once saw a woman in her audience dressed in dripping chiffon with a Gibson Girl hairstyle and big boots and Nicks knew she wanted something similar.

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.

He also appeared on albums by Bob Dylan, Robbie Robertson, Crosby Stills and Nash, Stevie Nicks and Squeeze.

Previous hit singles by Annie Lennox (" Why ") and The Cranberries (" Dreams ") are also included, as are new recordings by Sheryl Crow, Sarah McLachlan, Stevie Nicks and The Pretenders among others.

Nicks also played one night exclusive shows at The Colosseum again in August 2005 and December 2006.

Anastacia joined Celine Dion, Shakira, Cher, Dixie Chicks, and Stevie Nicks for VH1's Divas Live in 2002 and she also contributed the song " Love Is a Crime " to the Chicago soundtrack.

In addition to Stevie Wonder, Greg Phillinganes has worked and toured with other notable musicians such as the Bee Gees, Anita Baker, Eric Clapton, Donald Fagen, Aretha Franklin, Patti LaBelle, Michael Jackson, Richard Marx, Paul McCartney, Quincy Jones and Stevie Nicks among others, He was also the musical director for Michael Jackson's Bad & Dangerous concert tours.

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.

The crash was also indirectly responsible for bringing foreign coaches such as Carlo Fassi and John Nicks to the United States.

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.

Berri recorded " The Sunshine After the Rain " initially in Nicks bedroom in Hull with Steven-inspired after hearing his mum playing the original downstairs whilst making breakbeat upstairs-then as a demo at ' Animal Tracks ' Recording Studio in Hull, E. Yorks with Steve Kirkby as producer and engineer, who also played the original backing track and programmed all the beats and sequencer lines.

The album also marked the first recording featuring Nicks ' backing vocalists, Sharon Celani and Lori Perry, who still record and tour with Nicks today.

It was also home to the defunct North Pole Nicks, before the Nicks relocated to Newby Field.

Nicks also worked with friend Sandy Stewart, who wrote the music for three tracks on the album and performed on several ( Stewart would go on to write the 1987 Fleetwood Mac hit " Seven Wonders ").

The band has also recorded ( both individually and as a band ) with a wide range of other artists including Bob Dylan, Meat Loaf, Bonnie Tyler, Air Supply, Dire Straits, David Bowie, Peter Gabriel, Stevie Nicks, Tom Morello, Sting, Ian Hunter, Ringo Starr, Ray Davies, Ronnie Spector, Gary U. S. Bonds, Darlene Love, Southside Johnny, The Grateful Dead, Santana, Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris, Tracy Chapman, Lady Gaga, and Aretha Franklin.

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.

* 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.

The version of " Sorcerer " on the actual soundtrack album was performed by Marilyn Martin ( written by Stevie Nicks ).

The song " Running through the Garden " was written by Stevie Nicks after she read " Rappaccini's Daughter ".

It was written and produced by Rob Fusari, Falonte Moore, and group member Beyoncé Knowles for the band's third studio album Survivor ( 2001 ), and contains a prominent sample from the 1981 recording " Edge of Seventeen ", as written and performed by Stevie Nicks.

Though Bella Donnas personnel list includes some 20 musicians, the album is very much Nicks ' own work, with all but one of the songs on the record written by her.

: All songs written by Stevie Nicks, except where noted.