Nicks joined Fleetwood Mac on December 31, 1974, along with her then boyfriend Lindsey Buckingham. Fleetwood Mac's second album after the incorporation of Nicks and Buckingham, 1977's Rumours, produced four 10 singles (including Nicks' song "Dreams", which was the band's first and only number one) and remained at #1 on the American albums chart for 31 weeks, as well as reaching the top spot in various countries around the world. To date the album has sold over 40 million copies worldwide, making it the ninth highest selling album of all time.
Nicks began her solo career in 1981 with the 8 million selling album Bella Donna, and she has produced five more solo studio albums to date. Her seventh solo studio album entitled In Your Dreams, and her first in ten years, has completed production with Dave Stewart of Eurythmics fame at the helm, and is due for release on May 3, 2011.
After the release of her first solo album, Rolling Stone deemed her "The Reigning Queen of Rock and Roll Having overcome cocaine addiction, dependency on tranquilizers, and chronic fatigue syndrome, Nicks remains a popular solo performer. As a solo artist, she has garnered eight Grammy Award nominations and, with Fleetwood Mac, has a further five nominations (one of her nominations with Fleetwood Mac won the 1977/1978 award for Album of the Year for Rumours). As a member of Fleetwood Mac, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998.* 1 History
o 1.1 Early life
o 1.2 Buckingham Nicks: 1972–1974
o 1.3 Fleetwood Mac and Rumours: 1975–1978
o 1.4 Tusk, Bella Donna and Mirage: 1978–1982
o 1.5 Wild Heart and Rock a Little: 1983–1986
o 1.6 Tango in the Night and The Other Side of the Mirror: 1987–1990
o 1.7 Timespace and Street Angel: 1991–1996
o 1.8 The Dance: 1997–1998
o 1.9 Enchanted and Trouble in Shangri-La: 1998–2001
o 1.10 Say You Will: 2001–2004
o 1.11 Crystal Visions and Soundstage Sessions: 2007–2009
o 1.12 In Your Dreams: 2010-present
* 2 Tours
* 3 Solo tours
* 4 Stevie Nicks' Band of Soldiers
*o 7.1 Microphone and tambourine
o 7.2 Rumors of witchcraft
* 8 Discography
o 8.1 Solo
+ 8.1.1 Studio albums
+ 8.1.2 Live album
+ 8.1.3 Compilations
+ 8.1.4 Solo videos and DVDs
o 8.2 As Buckingham Nicks
o 8.3 With Fleetwood Mac
* 9 See also
* 10 References
* 11 External links
Nicks was born at Good Samaritan Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona, to Jess Nicks, a corporate executive, and Barbara Nicks, a homemaker. 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. a young child, Nicks had difficulty pronouncing her given name Stephanie, instead pronouncing it "tee-dee", which became the nickname "StevieNicks' father Jess's career as a food business executive necessitated frequent moves, and the family lived in Phoenix, Albuquerque, El Paso, Salt Lake City, Los Angeles, and San Francisco during Nicks' youth. 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". She joined her first band "The Changing Times" while attending Arcadia High School in Arcadia, CA, a suburb of Los Angeles
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