Forty years ago on July 8th, 1981, Stevie Nicks issued “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” as the lead single from her debut solo album Bella Donna. The song was penned by Mike Campbell and Tom Petty, who joined Nicks as a featured vocalist on the cusp of his own widespread …
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Fleetwood Mac‘s 12th album is both demented and debonair, familiar and foreign — a sprawling double LP that, like the Beatles’ White Album before it, reveled in its own messiness, jumbling together the work of three distinct songwriters. Singer Stevie Nicks and keyboardist Christine McVie carried the commercial weight on …
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In Lindsey Buckingham’s own words as he and his Fleetwood Mac bandmates accepted MusiCares Person(s) of the Year Award, the band was “a group of chemistry.” That chemistry of drama, anger, love, sadness and sense of family has created one of pop’s most enduring musical canons, and as a steady …
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