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It\u2019s not easy for someone like Stevie Nicks<\/a> to pull her magic out of thin air. <\/p>\n The best moments she ever had in the studio always came from when she was working amongst her friends, and when everyone found a way to be on the same musical wavelength every time they performed. Everyone might get stuck sometimes, but Nicks knew that she was never going to be pigeonholed as being the witch-like singer who danced next to her boyfriend every time she walked onstage.<\/p>\n But when talking about Nicks\u2019s career, that also means taking into account which record she\u2019s working on. As much as her work in Fleetwood Mac dwarfs pretty much everything that came afterwards, it\u2019s not like her solo career is considered a footnote by any stretch. She had the best in the business working with her, and even if she was working on some of the least complicated tunes in the world, it took the right people to translate that kind of emotion onto the tape every single time they played.<\/p>\n Even if she was confident in getting her own songs out of her system, it was bound to be risky getting a record like Bella Donna off the ground. There\u2019s no possible way that a record with involvement from Jimmy Iovine, Don Henley, and Tom Petty could possibly be considered poor by any means, but there was a lot of risk involved with Nicks taking this kind of jump. She had no support system among her former bandmates, but she was determined to get her songs out since they weren\u2019t getting any love on their mainline records.<\/p>\n And it\u2019s not like anything was subpar by any stretch. If you look at the title track, \u2018After the Glitter Fades\u2019, and the singles like \u2018Edge of Seventeen<\/a>\u2019, you\u2019d have to wonder what the hell the rest of the band was smoking to ignore some of those tunes. Nicks had a wellspring of great music in her arsenal, and it was bound to be a lot more interesting once she was able to play the tunes live.<\/p>\n Because, really, Nicks was born to play her music to any crow that she could. That \u2018Rhiannon\u2019-style demeanour didn\u2019t simply go away when she lost the rest of Fleetwood Mac, but it wasn\u2019t until listening to the reaction from the crowd on that first tour that she realised that she didn\u2019t need to worry about matching up to her old band.<\/p>\n