{"id":791468,"date":"2018-12-20T10:28:43","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T17:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=771519"},"modified":"2018-12-20T10:28:43","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T17:28:43","slug":"flashback-stevie-nicks-launches-solo-career-with-edge-of-seventeen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/flashback-stevie-nicks-launches-solo-career-with-edge-of-seventeen\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: Stevie Nicks Launches Solo Career With \u2018Edge of Seventeen\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Earlier this month, Stevie Nicks<\/a> learned that she was going to become the first woman ever inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on two occasions<\/a>. \u201cMy biggest hope is that I have opened the door due to the fact that there\u2019s 22 men who have gone in twice and zero women,\u201d she told Rolling Stone<\/em>.<\/a> \u201cI think that\u2019s really a little off balance. That\u2019s what I\u2019m hoping, that what\u2019s happened here to me will give all the little rock and roll stars that are just waiting out there a little hope that they can also do what I do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nicks the solo star was born in 1981 when Jimmy Iovine took time away from working with Tom Petty to help her craft her debut album. \u201cIt was Jimmy that said, \u2018I will produce your record and we\u2019ll make you a Tom Petty record, expect it\u2019ll be a girl Tom Petty record,’\u201d Nicks recalled. \u201cI found that very exciting and I was jumping off the walls. That\u2019s how it all started.\u201d<\/p>\n

Iovine assembled a killer band that included E Street band keyboardist Roy Bittan, drummer Russ Kunkel, guitarist Waddy Wachtel, bassist Donald \u201cDuck\u201d Dunn and every member of the Heartbreakers besides bassist Ron Blair. The first two singles off Bella Donna<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 \u201cStop Draggin\u2019 My Heart Around\u201d with Tom Petty and \u201cLeather & Lace\u201d with Don Henley \u2014 were duets with other established superstars that helped her earn tons of airplay. Once those entered the Top Ten, they finally released one where she sang by herself. The title was inspired by an offhand comment by Petty\u2019s wife Jane when she told Nicks that they met at \u201cthe age of 17.\u201d Due to her thick Northern Florida accent, Nicks heard it as \u201cthe edge of 17,\u201d and she was off and running with an incredible new song. Check out a live video for it right here from her 1982 tour.<\/p>\n

Stevie\u2019s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame<\/a> comes right in the middle of a Fleetwood Mac tour, and as of now she hasn\u2019t figured out what songs she\u2019ll perform at the event. \u201cI have to really give that some thought,\u201d she said. \u201cTomorrow is our last show until the end of January and right now I\u2019m in a hotel because I can\u2019t get out of road mode while we\u2019re still playing, so I\u2019m five minutes from my house, but I\u2019m going home tomorrow night after the show. And then the next day I\u2019ll start thinking about all that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Odds are high that \u201cEdge of Seventeen\u201d will be in her set. It may have only peaked at Number 11 on the Hot 100 (by comparison, 1986\u2019s widely-forgotten \u201cTalk to Me\u201d got to Number 5), but it\u2019s become her signature solo song and likely played no small role in getting her into the Hall of Fame in the first place.<\/p>\n

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Earlier this month, Stevie Nicks learned that she was going to become the first woman ever inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on two occasions. \u201cMy biggest hope is that I have opened the door due to the fact that there\u2019s 22 men who have gone in twice and zero women,\u201d she […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-791468","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 18:29:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}