Nicks’s 65th birthday was May 26, and she spent it twirling onstage at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Chances are, you or someone next to you was weeping during “Landslide,” with that chorus you might casually dismiss as cliché until you find yourself singing it in unison with 15,000 fans: “Time makes you bolder / Children get older / I’m getting older, too.” Fathers and daughters danced enthusiastically side by side, and the air was thick with the smell of furtive intergenerational pot smoking. Everywhere in the arena were homages to Stevie: top hats, feathers, flowing black fabric. That much was evident at Madison Square Garden this spring, the third stop of a constantly extending, sold-out Fleetwood Mac world tour (coming to Jones Beach on June 22). Twirling in the outstretched arms of Stevie Nicks, those shawls have magic in them. This was all to be expected, and somehow it still thrills.
There may also be a wind machine, or perhaps you’re just imagining it. All night you’ve been anticipating their arrival on the Fleetwood Mac stage: the witchy moment when Stevie Nicks, that blonde chanteuse, abruptly disappears from view and, with a simple costume change she’s perfected over 35 years, reemerges a woman transformed, wrapped in fringed silk signaling a visitation by Rhiannon or Gold Dust Woman or the livid spurned lover of “Stand Back,” fine fabric unfurling from her delicate shoulders like the banner of an advancing army, heralding not just a song but the coming of an event. Look to the shawls let them show you the way. She makes history as the first woman to be inducted into the Hall twice her first induction was with Fleetwood Mac in 1998. We’re revisiting it now in honor of Stevie Nicks’s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. This profile originally ran on June 9, 2013.
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