{"id":791326,"date":"2018-12-15T07:02:26","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T14:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=769572"},"modified":"2018-12-15T07:02:26","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T14:02:26","slug":"stevie-nicks-there-is-nothing-better-than-being-inducted-into-the-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/stevie-nicks-there-is-nothing-better-than-being-inducted-into-the-hall-of-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"Stevie Nicks: \u2018There Is Nothing Better Than Being Inducted Into the Hall of Fame\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Stevie Nicks<\/a> was two shows away from wrapping up the 2018 leg of Fleetwood Mac<\/a>\u2018s world tour when the news came in that she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist<\/a>, making her the first woman in history to enter the institution twice. \u201cIt\u2019s a lot to take in emotionality,\u201d she told Rolling Stone<\/em> the following evening. \u201cI\u2019m kind of really emotional now. If I have to cry, you just have to let me cry and then we\u2019ll get back to this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nicks managed to avoid crying during our 20-minute conversation, but she did explain why this honor is so meaningful to her, why she\u2019ll miss Tom Petty and Prince that night along with her parents, how she hopes this will inspire younger women in the industry, how the other members of Fleetwood Mac reacted, what she told the members of Haim after a recent show and how she hopes to finally meet Janet Jackson at the ceremony.<\/p>\n

Walk me through the moment of when you found out you were in.
<\/strong>I obviously found out about the nomination<\/a> [in October], but I never believe anything is going to happen until it actually happens. I believed that the nomination was happening because the nomination happened. But I didn\u2019t give it that much thought because I was out on the road working extremely hard with an extremely hard schedule for a little old lady like myself. I was just like, \u201cOkay.\u201d<\/p>\n

But I\u2019ve always been that way, ever since I was a little girl. When something big or fantastic happens, I never go there in my mind. I just go, \u201cThat\u2019s really great.\u201d And I really appreciate that. But I don\u2019t really believe it ever. That\u2019s because in my whole life I\u2019m the type of person where I don\u2019t want to get my feelings hurt, so I\u2019m not going to believe it until it actually is. That\u2019s in every type of part of my life, from family to friends to projects to whatever. I don\u2019t know where that came from, but it started a long time ago, that way of accepting things.<\/p>\n

When I found out yesterday that it was for sure I was getting ready for the second big show at the Forum, so I was super tired and super wanting to walk onstage and for all of us to just be spectacular. And then I\u2019m trying to process the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame<\/a>, so it\u2019s a lot for one brain to take in. I was just like, \u201cThat\u2019s great. That\u2019s amazing. I\u2019ll be there.\u201d<\/p>\n

But then when we went onstage\u2026 I never would have expected anybody in the band to have said anything about it. But I was standing right in front of Mick [Fleetwood] and all of a sudden he did say something about it, but I had one of my ear monitors out. I thought he said something about the Hall of Fame, but I wasn\u2019t really quite sure. I turned around and looked at him and I could hear he was saying, \u201cCongratulations. We\u2019re really proud of you.\u201d It was something like that. I couldn\u2019t really tell what he said.<\/p>\n

And then I turned towards Christine [McVie] and she was like, \u201cCongratulations sweetheart\u201d or something and I\u2019m just standing there and thinking that this was not anything that would have been mentioned onstage before. [She seems to mean before Lindsey Buckingham left the group, but she was unwilling to field questions about that situation.]<\/p>\n

I was a little bit verklempt and I didn\u2019t know what to do. And then we were getting ready to go into the song that Neil [Finn] and I do [\u201cDon\u2019t Dream It\u2019s Over\u201d] and then during the \u201cLandslide\u201d dedication I said, \u201cI wouldn\u2019t have said anything about this, but because Mick and Christine said something about it, you\u2019ve opened the doors.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then I made a dedication to Jimmy Iovine for making this Gemini able to have two careers, which for somebody like me was so wonderful because I like bouncing from one thing to the other back to the other back to the other. I\u2019m never bored, ever, and if I want to take a vacation, I told the audience, I don\u2019t want to go to Hawaii for a year. I really just want to go to Hawaii for like two weeks and then come back and start on another project. That\u2019s how I\u2019ve always been. I would be bored stiff.<\/p>\n

The fact that I\u2019ve been able to have these two careers my whole life\u2026 I joined Fleetwood Mac at the beginning of 1975. We started talking about the solo album at the end of 1979, so my solo work was just a little over four years behind Fleetwood Mac. It has made my life amazing because I\u2019ve been able to have these two amazing careers and live in two completely different worlds. I did dedicate it to Jimmy Iovine, him and several others. But it was Jimmy that said, \u201cI will produce your record and we\u2019ll make you a Tom Petty record, expect it\u2019ll be a girl Tom Petty record.\u201d I found that very exciting and I was jumping off the walls.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s how it all started. The people around me in my solo career were all very much like, \u201cThis is not going to mess with Fleetwood Mac. You\u2019re going to be able to do both. It\u2019s what you do. You\u2019re a Gemini. You want two lives.\u201d And then it just took off, both things. So I\u2019m very grateful to all the spirits that it was made easy for me to do this and nobody was angry with me and saying, \u201cYou shouldn\u2019t do this.\u201d Everybody backed up the whole thing. That was really wonderful because it could have gone the other way, but it didn\u2019t go the other way.<\/p>\n