Music Video Babe: Stevie Nicks

Ahhhh..... where to start with "The Goddess of Rock"?

Many of the Fleetwood Mac and solo MTV-era music videos have been removed from YouTube -- probably not at the request of Ms. Nicks -- but I can't be sure of that.

I don't have a single favorite "music video babe" but Stevie Nicks would be in any set of my favorites. Both her singing and her look from the heyday of Fleetwood Mac, as well as her solo career, make her a lasting image in any collection of mine showing off "female pulchritude" or talent.

I guess I'll start with a first easy recollection: my first wife and I almost named our daughter Rhiannon. I suspect that name has become more commonly given to girl children than it was in 1950.

After my first marriage dissolved, Stevie helped Olivia keep me me company on MTV while I stayed home either alone or taking care of the aforementioned daughter. The MTV-era "Gypsy" video ranked very highly with me then, but I can't find that online now. I did find this excellent photo collage to the same music.

In 1983 I saw Stevie perform live (Wild Heart Tour) at Alpine Valley in East Troy, WI. That concert was one of the best I've ever attended. I remember Joe Walsh opened for her (excellent), but she blew the audience away with her set of songs. I ranked "Edge Of Seventeen" my favorite by her from that time period. This video has her commentary on that song laid over a live performance.

Videos seem to come and go at YouTube, but this one has survived a long time. It shows off Stevie at top of form from about the same time period as that Alpine Valley concert. Although originally performed by Fleetwood Mac, she "solos" here --

(At the end of that, one can hear the beginning of "Edge of Seventeen" starting.)

Stevie Nicks still tours performing her hits. (I'm now wishing for that Crystal Visions CD/DVD, oh yeah....!!!) 

Happy Birthday Stevie !!!

Crystal Visions - The Very Best of Stevie Nicks (CD / DVD)

Posted by Tom Ender, who wishes he was still as young and energetic as he was at that Alpine Valley concert in 1983.