The Wild Heart of Stevie Nicks [Audiobook]

Grab your lace shawl and top hat and get ready to twirl—this is a full-throttle appreciation of the life and voice of Stevie Nicks from one of rock criticism’s most celebrated writers.

Best-selling author and Rolling Stone columnist Rob Sheffield explores the music and artistry of the rock goddess who has kept generations of music lovers totally bewitched and spellbound, with such classic rock hits as "Rhiannon" and "Gypsy". With her recent induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (the only female artist to be honored for both her group and solo work), Nicks, who turns 70 this month, is being celebrated for living the seasons of her life with ferocious wit, fierce honesty, unstoppable talent, and a lot of rock & roll.

Drawing from Rolling Stone magazine’s extensive archives, and his long time appreciation of Nicks, Sheffield shares the stories behind the best-selling records and the spitfire 1997 Fleetwood Mac reunion show that put the band back on top of the charts—and why Stevie Nicks still speaks to us today. A dynamic, revelatory sketch of the one-of-a-kind icon, The Wild Heart of Stevie Nicks is a portrait as revealing as it is dazzling, as human as it is pure magic.

This audio dives deep into Nicks’s time as one-fifth of Fleetwood Mac and her equally astonishing solo career, exploring:

• How she grew up singing duets with her grandfather, a country singer, who fueled her love of music by buying her 45s

• Time spent waitressing and cleaning houses for a living, in the early 70s, while writing songs with one of her great loves, Lindsey Buckingham

• The twisted and tormented history of Fleetwood Mac, before she and Lindsey showed up

• The moment Stevie crystalized her vision of who she wanted to be in this rock & roll world

• Her affair with Mick Fleetwood during the Rumours tour and the rock & roll excess that was the making of Tusk

• Her enduring friendships with Tom Petty and Prince—and how much she misses them