{"id":2442333,"date":"2019-03-29T22:27:55","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T04:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=814259"},"modified":"2019-03-29T22:27:55","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T04:27:55","slug":"read-stevie-nicks-riotous-rock-hall-induction-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/read-stevie-nicks-riotous-rock-hall-induction-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Read Stevie Nicks\u2019 Riotous Rock Hall Induction Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Stevie Nicks<\/a> delivered a rousing speech at her Rock and Roll Hall of Fame<\/a> induction, following a reverent introduction from prot\u00e9g\u00e9 Harry Styles<\/a>. Nicks is the first woman, the first member of Fleetwood Mac, and the 23rd artist in Hall of Fame history to be inducted twice: she was first inducted in 1998 with Fleetwood Mac, and again in 2019 for her work as a solo artist. Eliciting laughs and ample cheers from the crowd, Nicks dished on the making of her first solo record, 1981\u2019s<\/em> Bella Donna: \u201cI [wanted] to make a Tom Petty album,\u201d she said Friday night. \u201cStraight up rock and roll. I have two great girl singers, Laurie and Sharon that are amazing, and we\u2019re going to be Crosby, Stills & Nash.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Nicks got her musical start when she joined Lindsey Buckingham\u2019s psychedelic rock band, Fritz, in the late Sixties. They later formed the duo Buckingham Nicks before joining Fleetwood Mac. Their contributions on the band\u2019s 1975 self-titled LP and 1977\u2019s<\/em> Rumours helped turn the group into not only one of the best-selling bands of all time, but one of the most culture-defining artists of the decade.<\/em><\/p>\n

While still an active member of Fleetwood Mac, Nicks launched her solo career with<\/em> Bella Donna. The album produced multiple hit singles, including \u201cEdge of Seventeen\u201d and the Tom Petty duet \u201cStop Draggin\u2019 My Heart Around.\u201d She has since released eight solo albums, with the most recent being 2014\u2019s<\/em> 24 Karat Gold: Songs From the Vault. \u201cI feel really blessed to be able to be the Gemini that I am and be able to hop back and forth between my solo career and Fleetwood Mac. My solo career is truly the reason why Fleetwood Mac is still together because I get bored easily,\u201d she told<\/em> Rolling Stone<\/a> in 2016<\/a>. \u201cThat\u2019s why every time I go to work on my solo career, I try to make it as different from Fleetwood Mac as I possibly can so that it really is two worlds. When I feel ready to go back to Fleetwood Mac, when we do our next tour in a year and half, I\u2019ll be ready to go back to Fleetwood Mac, and it\u2019ll be good.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

It was a year after the original line-up reunited for their famed<\/em> The Dance tour, when Nicks was first inducted alongside Fleetwood Mac in 1998<\/a>.<\/em> \u201cNobody expects to ever go in it. But when you get that little invitation, you\u2019re dancing around your house because there is nothing better than being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,\u201d the star told<\/em> Rolling Stone soon after the announcement of her inclusion in this year\u2019s class of inductees. \u201cBeing inducted into it twice, for your own work out of the band \u2014 there really isn\u2019t anything better than that, to be able to be in both clubs. It\u2019s the \u2018You\u2019re in it because you\u2019re in a band\u2019 club and the \u2018You\u2019re in it because of your solo work\u2019 club.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what Nicks had to say at Friday\u2019s ceremony.<\/em><\/p>\n

This speech thing that I was supposed to give now has been following me down \u2014 the sound of its voice will haunt me for the [next] two weeks. It\u2019s not hard for me to go and play for you, but it\u2019s very hard for me to try to tell you \u2014 thank you for for this, for being the first girl in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame \u2014 twice!<\/p>\n

Sometimes I just couldn\u2019t tell great stories. Because it\u2019s like easy \u2014 if I\u2019m telling a story about Prince, I can say, \u2018He picked me up in his purple Camaro. And we went out to his purple house in a suburb outside Minneapolis, nobody knew where I was. And we wrote a song called, \u201cIt\u2019ll Take You Days to Find Her\u201d? And I can actually tell you a great story about that because it is what it is. But for me to tell you a story from my heart, about what this means to me, is very hard \u2026 because this has never happened to me before. [It\u2019s only happened for] 22 men and four \u2014 zero women, and now one woman.<\/p>\n

[Now] I\u2019m like, \u2018Hey man, I can do it!\u2019 Now I\u2019m telling all my friends. The girls in Haim? I\u2019m like, \u201cOkay you guys, you gotta really get it together now. One of you needs to step away. And don\u2019t break up your band, just do an album so you have it. Because it\u2019s gonna take 20 years before you get recognized, again! So you\u2019ll already be like, 60. Again, this is the problem of getting in. I started Bella Donna<\/em> in 1979. I had been in Fleetwood Mac for not even four years, more like three-and-a-half years\u2026 This is a hard thing to do. Because you have to \u2014 the times are different. It\u2019s like \u2014 it\u2019s going to be hard, But I know there\u2019s somebody out there that will be able to do it because I\u2019m going to give you all the directions and I\u2019ll do enough interviews and say what to do.<\/p>\n

I wanna tell you that everybody in my life gave me ideas of what I could say to you \u2014 I have to just say this because I don\u2019t have my glasses on, I can\u2019t even read it \u2014 but I\u2019ve read it so many times in the middle of the night, crying going like \u2018Shit I don\u2019t even know what I\u2019m gonna say up there.\u2019 This morning at 4:30 my assistant came in and I\u2019m laying there, and my little Chinese Crested [dog] lays right on my stomach and she\u2019s looking at me like\u2026 \u2018It\u2019s so late.\u2019 And she goes, \u201cAre you done?\u201d and I\u2019m going \u201cNo I can\u2019t do it. I have to go to bed. I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m going to say. I\u2019m just gonna have go out there and\u2026 six minutes is not very long. So let me move right on \u2014 six minutes for me! I majored in Speech Communication in San Jose State!<\/p>\n

The second I called my mom and said, \u201cI have to quit because me and Lindsey have to move to L.A., because the music is in San Francisco, and record deals are in L.A.. We have to go tomorrow.\u201d My mom said, \u201cOkay, that\u2019s fine, but we will be withdrawing all financial support.\u201d I said, flat out, \u201cI know mom. I know, and I\u2019m up to the challenge. Three waitress jobs, two cleaning lady jobs, it was cool.\u201d Lindsey worked on the music, I worked on food and carrying glasses. I rather enjoyed it because I could get out of the house and go into the real world instead of being in the cave with all the guys who were just laying around smoking pot and messing up my house.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s like I go, \u201cExcuse me? Excuse me? Can I just step over your feet and your pot and everything so I can straighten this place up?\u201d I don\u2019t get paid for doing this at my own house, but I will do it for you because I know you guys work hard. That\u2019s just a little bit of a moment of how we got before Fleetwood Mac. I want to tell you that this solo album thing, I started thinking about this. I only know this because my friend Paul Fishkin, in 1976 who then became my boyfriend after we went to this convention at the Acapulco Princess, which I like to call the Tequila Convention because the first night, everybody had the little necklaces. One of you may have been there, the little necklace around your neck, and they come and they fill it with tequila. Who is going to waste tequila?<\/p>\n

Everybody was so drunk that nobody served us for three solid days, and then it was over. So everybody went to the airport and left, but not me. I stayed, because I\u2019m going like, \u201cI\u2019m already down here. Somebody else paid for it, so I\u2019m going to enjoy this vacation.\u201d Paul and me, I said to him, after playing Rumours<\/em>, which is not even finished, but still really cool the night before, I didn\u2019t even hear it because I passed out as soon as I pushed play, but some people must have heard it because they spoke about it later.<\/p>\n

I said, \u201cNo no, it\u2019s other songs, more demos,\u201d and he goes like, \u201cOkay.\u201d We go out on the beach and I plan for 15 or 20 songs, and he goes, \u201cWow, that\u2019s a lot of songs. Okay.\u201d He\u2019s a record man, so we go back to L.A. and New York. We start going out, and I find out because Paul tells me, a year later when I said to him, [whispers<\/em>] \u201cDo you think there\u2019s any way that I could do a discreet solo album, that would not break up Fleetwood Mac?\u201d I\u2019m going like, \u201cIt\u2019s a secret.\u201d He\u2019s like, \u201cI think so. I think if you\u2019re kind and loving, and you tell them that you will always put them first, and they will always be at the top of your priority list, they will understand and they will stay. Go do what you want to do and have fun. We\u2019ll see you later.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what we eventually did. Yes, my amazing band is still together and very strong today. Last but not least, which probably won\u2019t be last but not least, they can\u2019t get me off this stage. I want to thank, first of all, very quickly, Paul Fishkin because he was the wise man who said, \u201cYou can do both, and you can have both. You just have to do it with love. That\u2019s all.\u201d Then I was introduced to his partner Danny Goldberg who became our group guru and our calm coach who kept us calm. I was gone all the time, so they were talking about this and trying to put it together calmly and serenely.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m off in the world doing Rumours<\/em> and Tusk<\/em>. They\u2019re working behind the scenes to see if they can make this happen. Then it happened. We formed a record company called Modern. We went to Mr. Doug Morris at Atlantic, my hero. I said, \u201cSo Doug, what I want to do is I want to make a Tom Petty album, straight up rock and roll. I have two great girl singers, Laurie and Sharon that are amazing, and we\u2019re going to be Crosby, Stills & Nash. I\u2019m going to be Stills and they\u2019re going to be Nash and Crosby.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo it\u2019s going to be straight up rock \u2018n\u2019 roll, but we\u2019re going to sound like Crosby, Stills & Nash. And Doug\u2019s like \u2014 \u201cFan-fucking-tastic.\u201d Sorry, didn\u2019t mean to swear. So then I said, \u201cWho produces Tom Petty?\u201d He goes, \u201cJimmy Iovine.\u201d I say, \u201cCan you set me up with Jimmy Iovine?\u201d And he goes, \u201cYeah, I can. I\u2019ll give him a call.\u201d He calls Jimmy and he sets us up to go and have dinner. We go and have dinner and I tell him the same thing. Tom Petty, straight-up rock album, but we want to sound like Crosby, Stills & Nash. He goes, \u201cOkay, I can do it. I haven\u2019t done a girl album in a while.\u201d We go, \u201cOkay, good.\u201d<\/p>\n

We both went back to L.A. because he was there finishing Tom\u2019s record. We get there, and 10 days later \u2014 I moved in with Jimmy. It\u2019s just how it was\u2026 I moved in with Jimmy. I learned to make tiny pizzas, and waited for him to finish Tom\u2019s album. Meanwhile, me and Laurie and Sharon are practicing all our three-part harmonies, which Jimmy and nobody else really wanted to hear. We were going to be damned if we weren\u2019t gonna be on that album, being Crosby, Stills & Nash. We got so good<\/em> during that next six weeks, that when he was done and we started Bella Donna<\/em>, we were ready.<\/p>\n

We walked in and we made an album in three months \u2014 which is unheard of, especially in those days. We were focused. We were together. We were organized, and we made a great album. Then Jimmy came to me and said, \u201cWe have a problem Stevie. We made a great album, but you don\u2019t have a single.\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019m like, \u201cSeriously? We don\u2019t have a single, and you didn\u2019t tell me until now?\u201d He goes, \u201cWell I though it would work out. I thought one would come to my head and it didn\u2019t, but I have a plan. Tom Petty says you can have \u201cStop Draggin\u2019 My Heart Around.\u201d It\u2019s already recorded. He\u2019ll sing it with you. And\u2026 Problem solved!\u201d<\/p>\n

I finally got to meet Tom Petty \u2014 who Jimmy had kept me a secret from, because he didn\u2019t want Tom to get pissed off \u2014 and think that his attention was going to be taken away because he had a new girlfriend. I liked it in the basement. It was fine. I got to hear everything, eavesdrop all through it. Anyway, Jimmy, Doug, Paul, Danny \u2014 also Irving Azoff \u2014 I had to hire him in 1976 because my mother said, \u201cYou better get some help here, because you don\u2019t have anybody taking care of your money.\u201d So I hired Irving, who gladly said, \u201cSure I\u2019ll do it!\u201d Not having any idea that he\u2019d still be sitting here tonight, going like, \u201cSure, I\u2019ll do it!\u201d<\/p>\n

My press agent, Liz Rosenberg who I met in 1976, who is still present, and press agenting for me. She\u2019s the best. She\u2019s the Rona Barrett of today. I adore her. She\u2019s elegant and incredible. Talk to her if you can. She\u2019ll get you in the newspaper. Then there was Howard Kaufman who passed away a little while ago \u2014 he then became my manager when Irving had to go become the president of a record company. That was okay, because all have to branch out!<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s see, and Sheryl [Louis], who when Howard passed away, then took on the mantle of being my manager \u2014 which is no easy thing, because I don\u2019t agree with anything anybody says \u2014 especially when it\u2019s a girl! Thank you Sheryl for giving it your all. Anyway, you all have been a fantastic, fantastic audience \u2026 Thank you! If you ever need a keynote speaker, somebody to talk to, someone to talk to a group of people \u2014 I am your girl.<\/p>\n

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