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(Credits: Far Out \/ Ueli Frey \/ David Wainwright)<\/p>\n
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When looking back at her work, Stevie Nicks<\/a> told the BBC that two tracks, in particular, held pure sincerity: \u201c\u2018Dreams\u2019 was a very real song. \u2018Gypsy\u2019 was very real.\u201d That realness is palpable in both performances. They are tracks that add meaning to the often overused phrase: soul-bearing.<\/p>\n In the Coen brothers\u2019 film\u00a0The Man Who Wasn\u2019t There, there is a scene in which a pretentious French piano instructor dismissively explains, in a roundabout way, \u2018I don\u2019t know what\u00a0it\u00a0is, but she hasn\u2019t got it\u2019. On the surface, this mystic je ne sais quoi of artistry may well seem like the sort of elitist tripe that has allowed squiggles to sell for millions at the Tate Modern, but I\u2019ll be damned if there isn\u2019t more than a grain of truth to it.\u00a0<\/p>\n The French might call it je ne sais quoi, the Spanish go with duende, and perhaps the closest thing in the English language to this mysterious attribute of art is soul. But whatever it is, it wallops you across the face with \u2018Gypsy\u2019. The anthemic track offers a sting beyond the simple chords for very good reasons, too. Nicks is pouring a hell of a lot of expression into this one single opus, which is why it is brimming with a hatful of unknowable aura.<\/p>\n Firstly, the concept of the gypsy in question is tied to the mystic characters that pervade Nicks\u2019 songwriting throughout her entire back catalogue. Contained within is the ethereal power that she perceives in expressive femininity. \u201cAll the characters in my songs<\/a> \u2013 the Gypsies, the Saras, and the on this album, Alice and Juliet \u2013 they\u2019re all me. But they\u2019re all different sides of me,\u201d she told Revolution.<\/p>\n Tragically, there are more sides at play than her own duality in \u2018Gypsy\u2019. The song, written by Nicks, was originally intended to feature on her debut solo album,\u00a0Bella Donna,\u00a0in 1980; however, given the limited space that records allowed at the time, it fell shy of making the cut.\u00a0<\/p>\n Who did Stevie Nicks write \u2018Gypsy\u2019 about?<\/p>\n A tragedy would later ensure that the song saw the light of day with Fleetwood Mac following the sad death of Nicks\u2019 best friend Robin Anderson. Nicks viewed the tale of a trailblazing woman baring her inner fearlessness as a fitting tribute, so she revisited the shelved song and looked to complete it with more raw passion that she had ever placed in a single track.<\/p>\n Anderson\u2019s sad passing beset Nicks with grief while also reminding her of her own past. \u201cI was like the lone gypsy,\u201d she said when reflecting on how Anderson\u2019s death inspired the song, \u201cThis was my best friend from when I was 15 and so I was a solo gypsy all of a sudden and it was very sad for me and that\u2019s sometimes when I write my very best songs\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cRobin had been on the road with Fleetwood Mac for five years. As my speech therapist and also management,\u201d she said, describing her as \u201can incredibly efficient helper.\u201d Mournfully, Nick continued, \u201cI still miss your bright eyes ~ that\u2019s why we don\u2019t do it on stage ~ it\u2019s because it\u2019s really too hard for me to sing. Lightening strikes maybe once, maybe twice\u2026that means one time in your life you find a very good friend, and maybe if you\u2019re incredibly lucky, you might find a second. It all comes down to you, means but you have to look very hard,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>(Credits: Far Out \/ Atlantic Catalog Group)Who is Stevie Nicks\u2019 adopted child?<\/p>\n