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.

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

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 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 has subsequently stated in several interviews that she was not happy with the album or the successful world tour that followed, citing production disputes with Buckingham as a core factor, as well as the absence of fellow female band member Christine McVie.

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 has started a charity foundation entitled " Stevie Nicks ' Band of Soldiers " which is used for the benefit of wounded military personnel.

Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys has expressed extreme interest in working with Nicks.

" 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.

Margi Kent, a designer from California, has worked with Nicks since the 1970s to perfect her style.

Nicks has worn suede platform boots in various colors, usually black, cream, tan or maroon in almost all of her performances since 1975.

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

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.

A rumor that has trailed Nicks through the years is that she is a witch and is heavily involved in Wicca.

Nico has influenced many musicians, including Siouxsie and the Banshees, Bauhaus, Stevie Nicks, Elliott Smith, Patti Smith, Morrissey, Björk, Coil, Jocelyn Pook, Fabienne Shine ( who covered " All Tomorrow's Parties "), Dead Can Dance, Marcus Reeves as well as numerous contemporary goth bands.

Coahoma Elementary is the host of the world's first Kindergarten Rodeo, which continues to this day and has featured local and international rodeo and country and western celebrities as entertainers and trainers, including Coahomians Quail Dobbs and Jody Nicks.

Faithfull has recently recorded a cover version of a Stevie Nicks track from the Fleetwood Mac album Tusk as part of a Fleetwood Mac tribute project.

In his career, he has become friends with many rock legends such as Roger Waters, Tom Petty, Stevie Nicks, John Lennon, George Thorogood, Steven Van Zandt, and Jackson Browne, along with original MTV veejay J. J. Jackson and filmmaker Cameron Crowe.

The station's former breakfast presenter Simon Nicks, referred to on-air as Nicksy, left his position in September 2005 and has presented an overnight show on rival station Key 103.

The diverse range of artists that Chamberlain has contributed his drumming to the tours and albums of include Peter Gabriel, The Wallflowers, Fiona Apple, Sam Phillips, Kanye West, Weapon of Choice, David Torn, Tori Amos, Chris Isaak, Macy Gray, Stevie Nicks, Dave Navarro, Kevin Max, Master Musicians of Jajouka, Stone Gossard, Martina McBride, Garbage, Elton John, Natalie Merchant, Anika Moa, David Bowie, Brad Mehldau, Keith Urban, Liz Phair, John Mayer, Finn Brothers, William Shatner, Jon Brion, Robbie Williams, Shakira, Morrissey, Indigo Girls, Sean Lennon, Sarah McLachlan, Sara Bareilles, Brandi Carlile, Dido, Lisa Marie Presley, Elvis Costello, Bruce Hornsby, and Regina Spektor.

Nicks performed in a series of shows in August 2010 (" it's not really a tour ," she said ).

interview on April 28, 1998, Nicks said of the rumor: " I have no idea what precipitated those rumors … I am not a witch.

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.

His production and performance credits include The Dandy Warhols, Blink-182, eels, G. Love & Special Sauce, Stevie Nicks, Melissa Etheridge, Steve Allen, Hal Blaine, Marilyn Manson, Beck, Soulwax and Air.

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.