The Transformation Of Stevie Nicks Is Seriously Stunning

Stevie Nicks officially began her illustrious career in 1973 with the eponymous album “Buckingham Nicks” - a duo effort courtesy of herself and her then-lover and collaborator Lindsey Buckingham. The two would join Fleetwood Mac the following year, and the rest is, of course, standard classic rock history. But what was Nicks’ life like before the fame? What kind of childhood did she have? How did Fleetwood Mac’s superstardom affect her and her bandmates? What was her reason for kicking Buckingham out of the band in 2018? We think these questions - plus many more - deserve answering. So, let’s take a look at Nicks’ stunning transformation over the years.
#StevieNicks #Transformation #Musician
Sheltered childhood | 0:00
Began singing at 4 | 0:58
Meeting Lindsey Buckingham | 1:34
Relationship with Buckingham | 2:29
No. 1 album | 3:31
Relationship with Don Henley | 4:14
First solo album | 5:18
Battled addiction | 6:00
Fleetwood Mac reunion tour | 6:45
Riff with Buckingham | 7:27
Not retiring | 8:23
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[@TheList]

What was your favorite performance by Stevie Nicks?

[@2011littlejohn1]

Man of The World, Black Magic Woman, Oh Well, Albatross, Jigsaw Puzzle Blues and Need Your Love So Bad.

[@jeremyshelman9716]

My favorite performance was the live version of "Rhiannon" from what used to be their debut album with Fleetwood Mac until you erased it from history. I'm bummed.

[@aliciacarrillo6246]

Storms

[@raymond8784]

I think that too many are tied on the scoreboard.

[@donnamaciver2093]

Sister of the moon live version mirage tour

[@debramorales4283]

Stevie Will NEVER Be DUPLICATED Nor Replaced❣️💋❣️

[@davidgibbs381]

"Rumors" WAS THE 2ND ALBUM featuring Nicks & Buckingham with Fleetwood Mac!!

[@ricksamericana749]

Yes, that's when I turned it off.

[@johnypitman2368]

Opps

[@johnypitman2368]

@@ricksamericana749 I had it on in the background and forgot it was on. Finally turned it off.

[@greggcampbell7152]

AND she reiterated it as the 'debut; later!! 😂😂

[@stingray4mesidewinderbandga]

@@ricksamericana749 me too. p.s. rumours was my 1st concert when i was 15. it was in nashville and that show is on youtube.

[@yousee66]

Was 15 when Bella Donna came out. Played that album so much that I wore it out & bought the cassette 🤘😁

[@benjaminhawthorne1969]

My favorite Stevie Nicks solo album is "Wild Heart!"

[@yousee66]

@@benjaminhawthorne1969 yes...great album also 🙂

[@gregorysmith2548]

@@benjaminhawthorne1969 Mine too. Other Side of the Mirror is my 2nd favorite

[@StephenJohnson-jb7xe]

Rumours wasn't the debut album of the pair in Fleetwood Mac.

[@rogerturner6737]

I always thought that she was so beautiful I never have really followed the tabloid thing so I was not aware of all that some love affair issues I loved her music on her own and with Fleetwood Mac bold beautiful voice ❤

[@katarinakrnjevic8183]

Stevie solo carrier songs were so good and so underrated (edge of seventeen , stop dragging my heart , stand back ,i can't wait)

[@rebeccawagner4167]

Stevie Nicks, is just simply beautiful and her music 🎶 🎵 is what we need in our lives🎉🎉.She is real and true to herself and she puts out quality music 🎶 🎵 and I'm glad that I grew up with this type of music 🎶 🎵

[@wexplo15]

RUMOURS WAS '77! Also, their self titled 1975 FLEETWOOD MAC album was this incarnation's debut. Rumours was the follow up.

[@ceciliareyes9103]

Love you Stevie Nicks ❤

[@lindahandley5267]

Their music is dreamy and you almost have to stop what you're doing and listen. It didn't hurt that all the members of the band were so great looking!

[@brownin329]

Huh?

[@lindahandley5267]

@@brownin329 What did I say that confuses you?

[@thehills4144]

Happy Birthday Stevie ❤️

[@brettsprang7991]

It's nice when love and infatuation unfortunately fizzle out that a person can allow themselves to be vulnerable and fluid. To share your past reflections in earnest are beautiful and generous qualities ❤

[@tamsmith6751]

They put on one great concert Im glad to have seen them.

[@joycemckennon]

Saw FWM live in 1998 ! They may have had their problems but they were and are a great band and played 150% !

[@rvegas81]

I just pulled out her 1981 album today. She's amazing.

[@briankennedy1192]

Bella Donna. Superb album of all time.

[@robbiefrentz9427]

Her voice is unmatched

[@SueK51]

Thank goodness.

[@carlom8879]

Her voice until 1977... it changed then, unfortunately.

[@rainerpierre]

Happy belated birthday to Stevie Nicks!

[@MrJohn49g]

Love her and her music

[@fantasyprincessgirl]

We love you, Stevie!

[@gailgaren9362]

Correction regarding Stevie's birthday. It's May 26.

[@tobycatVA]

She was once, is now, and forever shall be my enchantress. ...Lots of them and all one of a kind, but the most important thing was what was on her mind. Pale pink satin, worn out in a week, but you loved you the most and you said: "Go ahead, Lily" Rock a little...

[@colemangirl054ever]

That Stephen Davis book is TERRIBLE and entirely inaccurate. Additionally, she didn't decide to get the abortion on her own; Don didn't want the baby and essentially told her to get rid of it. She said she would've named the baby Sara if it were a girl, but it's not like he was all excited about the baby and making plans with her.

[@davidray4793]

She is the bomb & a nice person, unlike Madonna a true artist.

[@ForeverMPH]

@Thomas Cavanaugh Where did you read that? Just curious ...

[@vickirutherford5619]

@@thomascavanaugh5895What interview? U can’t just say something like that without backing it up…that’s nt fair to her. So????? What interview?

[@vickirutherford5619]

@@thomascavanaugh5895 I agree w u. I just wanted to know when she said that. And believe me I do not approve of this. I kno that’s not a popular stand to take, but I do nt care right is right.

[@stvienx]

I totally agree. He didn't even get the year difference between SN and her brother right. Davis's book was NOT authorized. Also, she said she got the abortion because Henley didn't want anything to do with the baby. And Lindsey is full of it, he's lucky she put up with his crap as long as she did.

[@ExMachina70]

The song Landslide becomes more profound the older she gets.

[@itsafantakis]

WE ALL LOVE STEVIE!!!

[@jayannakelley9051]

Please speak for yourself. Thank you!

[@GrahamOrm]

Love FM. Fascinating. Thank you.

[@claumeister1]

Rumours was NOT the debut of the Buck/Nicks version of F-Mac. The eponymous“white” album was. Where do you think Rhiannon or Landslide or Monday Morning or World Turning or Over My Head came from ? SHEESH !

[@vickirutherford5619]

U r correct….Rumors was their second album. A Fleetwood Mac Fact👍

[@benjaminhawthorne1969]

I've been "in love" with Stevie since I first heard her voice in the 70's. I'd heard a lot of nice voices on my radio (Singers, DJs, Traffic ladies, etc.) but, invariably, when I saw their pictures, I was always disappointed. You could say "That traffic Girl has a " face for radio!"😄 When I saw Stevie Nicks for the 1st time, I was already in love with her smoky, sultry, nearly husky voice. When I first saw her, I couldn't believe that that big strong voice came out of that pretty little girl?

[@benjaminhawthorne1969]

People ask if Stevie Nicks is a Witch. I can tell you she most certainly is a VERY good witch. She cast her spell on me 40 years ago, and I still adore her. Stevie is one of those artists who appeal to EVERY demographic: 10 year old boys, like I was when I first heard her & saw her, all the way to middle-aged lesbians, like my dear friend Joan.

[@danvelgtr]

Christine looks better than Stevie these days imo.

[@pascalswager9100]

I was stoked to see her at the ICC in Sydney 2017, it was the best night!

[@waltbritnell8901]

I grew up loving this woman and Janet Jackson the same way that some ppl go for Barbara Streisand and Madonna.

[@pascalswager9100]

@@waltbritnell8901 I hear ya! My 16y/o Daughter is in School of rock and chose Stevie as the next performance....so excited! She's doing Joan Jett vs Pat Benetar next month, which is super cool too, can't wait for Stevie though, I listen to her everyday 😁

[@marypiver4040]

The only singer I would like 2 see again is Stevie Nicks!!!

[@sargentpunkin]

I've met her...charming and personable.

[@TheJoan48]

It's truly sad that Stevie and Lindsey can't bury the hatchet for us, their fans. Imagine their music being part of our lives again. They met so young in life they took each other for granted. What they had and still have is a real gift that needs to be shared with the world for either one of them to have their best life. I hope they realize how much we miss them before it's too late. They are true postivitiy in a world of gloom. We need them so much, together, not as solo artists. The magic exists with the two of them.

[@janewhite4486]

Nick's for years !!!

[@janewhite4486]

Joan W ; Did you not read Stevie's book ? Buckingham abused. Nicks for many years !!!

[@irinakolosovskaya4549]

They are real people, why should these two people have to force themselves to like each other for the sake of strangers. We don’t know what happened in their relationship. It’s probably better for their mental health to stay away from each other.

[@flynntaylor5459]

I think it's so complicated. To me it's more like their love was sacrifice so that they could both have careers. Fame is such a pressure cooker and lord knows they were everywhere in the 70s. Both musicians both songwriters both very proud of what they could do. That intensity was almost too much to bare and then you put a crowd of adoring fans eyes glued to this bewitching songstress but pretty much ignoring the side guitar player who really was the one who arranged and produced the band. Even stevie admitted that in her later interviews she said lindsey made mac what it became. My point is that living that for 20 years takes its toll. Long before that Lindsey watching his personal life slip away in her growing career nearly drove him mad. And all that passion love and pain became the biggest hits for the band. They made that sacrifice so their love had to be buried put away under lock and key. It's funny because although neither says it directly you get that feeling that each wonders if it was really worth it in the end. Lindsey finally left the band the first time in the 80s made his solo albums and got married and had kids at like 50. Stevie never did. Her career was all encompassing. She threw herself in it headfirst I think she was crushed that Lindsey escaped and git what he always wanted and it wasn't her. Yes there is and will always be something between them... something even they don't know quite how to name it... but it's like an old war wound you never truly heal from... and once in a while you feel a twinned of that old familiar pain. I adored them singing more often to each other about each other it's like we were really part of the furniture and they were in their own little world grasping desperately to save the love they once cherished when it used to be just the two of them. 💔💔💔💔💔💔💔

[@Kevin-1969]

Another Great entertainer.

[@holzoreo950]

The interview where Lindsey says he feels like she said "him or me" he said some pretty hurtful things. To say to the world she is upset because he found his soulmate and had kids was a low blow to me. He could've said it was a schedule thing BUT everyone under that interview didn't say a word about that statement like ewwww... he didn't have to say it.

[@josiecapps2555]

Loved her from the beginning. Buckingham-Nicks album. I’ve been fortunate to see her several times in concert. You just don’t know if …….🥰

[@trudieristich795]

Love the song hypnotized

[@TracyD2]

I’ve seen her once with Fleetwood Mac in at the Nassau Colosseum in 1987. I almost met them. I was dating a guy that worked the lighting for the colosseum and he brought me and a friend of mine underneath the colosseum to where the band was. Weeelll the last security guard that was to let us through knew my friend that I came with. She started a fight at the concert unbeknownst to me while I was watching the concert. He looked at us and said get them out of here before I throw them out. Oh man it’s still painful to talk about. We hung out with the roadies for the rest of the night. I wasn’t friends with that girl for long and she broke up me and the guy I was dating. Bad news she was. 😢

[@lindahandley5267]

@@TracyD2 Yeah, some friend huh?

[@mickwinters8484]

What a woman😛😍🥰

[@focusedfreebird]

She has transformed.

[@mariachong4143]

I met Stevie Nix when I was 14 years old in a church at Huron South Dakota. Back then they lip synced. She liked my voice. She got angry because I didn't know who she was. I was very shelted. Revern Paul Myers and his wife Diane was my foster parents then . True story.

[@sunshine3914]

More likely she was high. Especially if it was the 70s or 80s.

[@greggcampbell7152]

Nicks

[@lindafinch1520]

Stevie Nicks never ever lip synced!

[@lindamoore6163]

Leather & Lace and Rhiannon & Gold Dust Woman. Too dam many…. Her voice is awesome… next to Janis my favorite is Stevie!

[@toddbeaton1512]

stevie nicks is so amazing

[@johnnybrace]

watch some of their reunion performances together, Stevie and Lindsey....incredible synergy transcends

[@brycehongola2425]

Rumours was the second album☮️🌵

[@kevinmardis248]

Rumours was their second release with the band.

[@Jackietreehorn-z5e]

The hottest, most spiritual hippie chick ever. Seen her 10 times solo. She has great hair!!

[@pabloperez4063]

10???

[@Jackietreehorn-z5e]

@@pabloperez4063 11 times this September

[@audaciousred]

Of course she does She can afford the best of everything so why would she walk around looking like a hag ???

[@Jackietreehorn-z5e]

@@audaciousred she has GREAT hair. I didn't say the maintenance of it. Can you comprehend what I'm saying? She was gifted with beautiful hair.

[@Kimberlite66]

@@audaciousred probably extensions anyway i would say these days.

[@krisnewtonjohn151]

❤🎉😊

[@samuelgonzalez1891]

To Me Stevie Nicks has always been a beautiful lady

[@happycluck4163]

This has inaccurate info!

[@rabinesque]

...and lots of it.

[@marinaassanti3415]

Super Stevie in 1997

[@TheStuport]

Stevie has done what so many before have done....SHE has become her own biggest Fan. Great singer. Wonderful lyricist. But a bit of a pill when the spotlight is not entirely on her.

[@kendallevans4079]

Truth! Lots of rules working with/for her: DO NOT touch her microphone or even the mic stand. Travels alone and privately from FM or even her own band. On and on.....I'm a sound engineer....did some live stuff...

[@cirrus1964]

Well she has charisma, but her voice is filled with Helium, absolutely no great singer!

[@musicisgoodforthesoul999]

The Stuport... Oh my hell I thought I was the only person alive who thought that.

[@kendallevans4079]

@@cirrus1964 Sings off key, down 1/2 a harmonic....people think that's unique, it's not really

[@musicisgoodforthesoul999]

@Thomas Cavanaugh did it say four abortions in the video? I'm not judging you or her I am actually curious.

[@skiweed01]

Ummm her birthday is May 26th, NOT 28th!

[@jimloveday2836]

Rumours was not their debut album.

[@stephaniesands4249]

Rumours was their 2nd album with Buckingham/Nicks!

[@stvienx]

Exactly. So, can you really take what this video says as truthful? How rookie a mistake is that?

[@lancehill5707]

Eternity now wow we

[@joefran619]

She went from having two nostrils to just one!

[@johnellizz]

2:07 They decided to move to Vinewood.

[@melcollins4449]

You are wrong....she was born May 26

[@stephaniesands4249]

The first album was Fleetwood Mac BLACK n White Album

[@wendylynn7605]

The title of this video has absolutely nothing to do with its content. It makes it sound like a makeover show, but it's about her journey as an artist. Guess they didn't think that would get any views!

[@thetruthno1]

Just popped in to say that I thought the thumbnail was a young James Hetfield

[@gene1278]

You don't know what your talking about. Rumors was the 2nd album that Buckingham & Nicks were on. Don't you guys have fact checkers? This is not a good video and you won't learn much from watching it.

[@virginiaviola5097]

There’s a lot of really fundamental mistakes in your reporting. Like, just a simple google search fundamental mistake. ie Rumours was *not* their debut album in the Buckingham Nicks FM configuration.

[@eclipseemusicc]

This girl has like 20 different outfit changes each show

[@julietspoto9652]

Your kidding!! She always has a black dress on!

[@stevencochran5301]

She is an aveces! I loved meeting her, but regret not collecting her love: I was her love, number third. Still, cannot say, no matching, but my eyes are closed.

[@davidrice3337]

LB is far from being a guitar player I have ever been enamored with but facts are facts - Fleetwood Mac,even though they were established , definitely shot thru the RocknRoll Stratusphere because of Stevie Nick's voice and songwriting but - LB didn't have to bring her in - and Stevie without LB would be Sonny without Cher- My point is this - LB gets too much criticism and not enough credit for not only his sound but he and Christine were really the glue - the backbone of a band full of disfunctionable people at different points in their various careers - Mick was and is the Boss - he just chooses to be subservient to the Mystic One - In all fairness to all involved I don't know any of these people and I may be completely out of my somewhat rudimentary mind - it's just speculation -:I've always thought they were overrated in the first place -: 1 phenomenal record and the rest ......... What was Tusk all about anyway?

[@wnd3099]

Lindsey Buckingham 🎸💓🎤

[@kathyblanda7212]

Tytytt

[@jcsolomon6470]

Definitely Summah of 77 hearing dis Recud nah!

[@robchiappe9253]

Rumors wasn't their debut album. Fleetwood Mac, Fleetwood Mac was. Stevie has given so many interviews, we're better off getting the correct story straight from the source.....

[@Alexa-ji8on]

Debut? Rumours was the second. If your gonna throw together a compilation at least get the running order correct

[@TheSteinmetzen]

Both born on May 28th? Hmmmm. Stevie was born on May 26th.

[@daveperala4723]

She came into this club down in Key West back in the mid 80's. Her people DEMANDED that they kick everyone out until she left. Bartender said "HELL no". She came in a few moments later, so stoned she had to have help sitting down. I think she was there for maybe 10 minutes before her people got her out of there. Lost a lot of respect for her then and there.

[@debramorales4283]

"Demanded"? I'm pretty sure that Beyonce...Nikki Minaj...Saweetie..Megan The Horse..Are AloT Louder & Ruder than Stevie ever was or will be!

[@jayannakelley9051]

I always got the feeling she was a Diva..

[@ForeverMPH]

@@debramorales4283 I completely agree with you!!

[@scottmackay8280]

WTH? Rumours was NOT the first Fleetwood Mac album with Buckingham and Nicks. Who made this video? Seriously.

[@RishPanjeetJr]

Nicks is a monster

[@Andrew-vo9tg]

Get your facts straight. The pair joined FM in 1975 officially not '74 and their debut album with FM was that self titled LP FM in 1975. Rumours was the pairs second LP with FM.

[@oleriis-vestergaard6844]

Stevie Nicks voice is getting deeper and deeper , maybe she grow a male voice someday

[@luzestelapacheco8475]

I love all members of Fleetwood Mac band.

[@pcmacd]

3:42 - Rumors a DEBUT ALBUM? In 1977? Dudes. Rumors was the SECOND Fleetwood Mac album with nicks and buckingham. _Don't you have access to Google?_ What about "Fleetwood Mac" in 1975, the first album in which Nicks and Buckingham appeared? I KNOW it was 1975 because I first heard RHIANNON while on a road trip in Tucson, AZ in November of 1975. Saddle up your time machine. I'm just sayin'... ...

[@daledeimel1833]

You can grow old your own way.

[@professornuke7562]

Almost the same band as Pink Floyd, and their insane founders was literally the main reason both bands existed. Stevie is an ego that thinks the world owes her a band. She's no Kate Bush. She got all fighty with her husband but she was as bad as him. The Mac couple meanwhile were mostly "can you fuckin' stop fuckin' each other please? We're tryin' to record."

[@lindafinch1520]

husband? Stevie and Lindsey were never married. Stevie was married one time to a man named Kim; they were married for 3 months.

[@clownworldinc.4801]

She is Amazing….for a Man…..Just another Group that deceived the world. And yes, it’s All of em. Switcheroos at their finest.🤫🤫

[@charlesmartella]

Rock Godess

[@azucenaB02]

In my opinion her statement Fleetwood Mac would’ve been unless she had an abortion, is an excuse as not to admit she was and still is in love with Lindsey, by going back in the band and not get tight up with Don Hanley, she sacrificed her baby. That’s sad, and it’s obvious her face shows so much anger and pain. Bet in her heart she must feel so guilty for what if, but you can tell she’s a Women that’s being shaped by pain drugs and pride not to admit she was wrong.

[@ThePrissy11]

She transformed into an oldies act. That’s what she did.

[@IndyTiger1050]

Wish I hadn't watched, sad life.

[@marceloaraujo8728]

R O C K

[@geraldhighsmith7710]

I have TROUBLE understanding some of her words in her songs she sounds so pitiful so sad I'm glad Madonna came around years later and showed Stevie how it's done LOL 😅

[@fourthtunz]

It's funny I wonder if Stevie ever thinks about how lucky she was that Lindsey was adamant that Fleetwood mac had to take both Lindsey and Stevie? It seems that these people forget how they got where they are. you can see it over and over in the music industry. Like George Harrison forgets that Lennon and McCartney Paid the way until george figure out how to write songs.

[@rickypilcher3618]

...and how LUCKY Fleetwood Mac was to get her!

[@stvienx]

You're forgetting that he didn't want to join and she convinced him that they should.

[@johnham9631]

A WITCH .

[@novaguy509]

Good lord. At 70 years of age it’s time to stop acting like junior high kids. Patch things up with Buckingham and make some new music.

[@raymond8784]

A display of a lot of drive by an intelligent woman.You have to have a really artistic mind and she socialized with a lot of them.

[@kathryneast6919]

Her mom used to do her hair,permed and colored.When she got real hair dressers she looked better

[@douglassrhine989]

Tons of mistakes

[@mikemerrill175]

Jess Harwood of the cover band Rumors of Fleetwood Mac sings Stevie better than Stevie.

[@Kacee2]

Nothing like thinking your stool doesn't stink. I can't believe that she kicked Lindsay Buckingham out of the band. If it weren't for him no one would have ever heard of her.

[@donnamaciver2093]

Everyone knows lindsey pales in her shadow, he's a spoilt baby who spits his dummy out. He can't stand that she's more famous than him

[@Kacee2]

@@donnamaciver2093 she sounds like a goat but Lindsay's guitar playing is very unique. Ask any guitar player. He made her.

[@jayannakelley9051]

@@donnamaciver2093 - So you are apart of their inner circle?

[@MiracleFound]

According to one of the other band members, he was kicked out after they had an argument. Lindsey chased her down and had his hands around her throat, and that was what made them kick him out. In the end they let him back in.

[@scotthembree2285]

Build up. Glom on. Tear down! Intense or plastic and cheesy?

[@jamesalbrecht1631]

She such a snob

[@xmaseveeve5259]

Feminisation.

[@johnlucier5654]

Meh. I love some of her music, but her personal life and relationships have obviously been a bad train wreck. I pity all the men who thought life with her would be anything other.

[@SabineFreytag-jk3vq]

She should finish with touring. Can be a songwriter any time. But with playback and other things she will loose her dignity. Do other creative things!

[@FuchsiaFire444]

How a 15 year old girl talking annoyingly nonstop is enjoyable for narrating the life of a singer of this caliber and history is mindboggling. 30 seconds in and Im out.

[@urex1717]

Never liked her nasally voice. Give me Christine McVie all day and any day.

[@yiabwstetienne7474]

Christine was the Queen of Fleetwood Mac, beautiful, quiet, modest and a great songwriter ❤. Stevie owes everything to Lindsay, had he not insisted they came as a duo, she would never have progressed to stardom. Lindsay as well as being an ace guitarist is a brilliant album producer, He single handedly produced Tango in the night whilst the others were spaced.

[@michaelpaskos9052]

Not me, I'll take Stevie's unique, powerful voice over McVie's rather bland delivery any day of the week.

[@helbitkelbit1790]

Unfortunately , like most women , after the age of 25 . It all goes downhill .

[@gailgaren9362]

Correction regarding Stevie's birthday. It's May 26.

[@julietspoto9652]

Big deal!