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Any musician is playing with fire when they decide to break free from their mainline group. It\u2019s one thing to be able to have a great foundation to work with, but the second that you decide to go solo, you\u2019re opening up to criticism that you can\u2019t share with another four or five people. If it all went south for Stevie Nicks<\/a>, she was bound to go back to Fleetwood Mac feeling defeated, but the \u2018Gold Dust Woman\u2019 was always bound to have more to offer than the mystical side of Rumours.\u00a0<\/p>\n Before she even got her solo deal, Nicks already had plans for what a career on her own would sound like. Anyone who had worked with their ex during the making of an album was bound to think about times when they didn\u2019t have to answer to them, and when Tusk eventually dropped, it\u2019s no surprise that Nicks was getting more frustrated with Lindsey Buckingham insisting on making the most artsy version of Fleetwood Mac that he could.<\/p>\n Although the band ended up having mixed feelings about her going solo, it would have been a crime had she not been able to release Bella Donna. For as great as tunes like \u2018Leather and Lace\u2019 and \u2018After the Glitter Fades\u2019 were in their most raw form, there\u2019s no way that they could have shared space on a Fleetwood Mac album. This was her stepping out and becoming a legend in her own right, but there\u2019s always more to a career than a bunch of good singles.<\/p>\n Yes, \u2018The Edge of Seventeen\u2019 was a phenomenal piece of work, but since she had one of her biggest hits donated to her by Tom Petty in \u2018Stop Draggin\u2019 My Heart Around\u2019, Nicks had reservations about how she was perceived. Her biggest hit at the time wasn\u2019t even written by her, so if she got a second chance at the big time, she was going to make sure she made the most authentic version of herself as she could.<\/p>\n And while The Wild Heart does have the same level of quality as Bella Donna, it\u2019s clear that we\u2019re listening to a much more seasoned version of her. \u2018Stand Back\u2019 had much more grit behind it, and even when she duets with Petty on the song \u2018I Will Run To You\u2019, there\u2019s no doubting that she has total control over the sound she wants to get.<\/p>\n She had all the accolades that she wanted on her first album, but she knew that The Wild Heart was the moment she truly broke through, saying<\/a>, \u201cBella Donna kicked off my solo career, but as I walked away from The Wild Heart, everybody knew that I had arrived as a solo artist. I was not going to just say, \u2018That was fun\u2019 and go back to Fleetwood Mac. I was going to be able to handle being in both bands.\u201d<\/p>\n That didn\u2019t mean the balance was going to be all that easy, though. Once she started filling massive venues on her own, the rest of Fleetwood Mac remember her being more unreliable behind the scenes, to the point where she was only in the studio for a few weeks at a time when making Tango in the Night, which led to her infamous fight<\/a> with Buckingham before they could tour the record.<\/p>\n But for all of the headaches that came with scheduling, Nicks is one of the few artists who was able to balance both her careers at the same time. Because in a world where most people end up being tied to one project, the world told Nicks they were more than happy to hear her in whatever band she wanted to be in.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Related Topics<\/p>\n The Far Out Music Newsletter<\/p>\n All the latest music news from the independant voice of culture.
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