![\"Stevie](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Stevie-Nicks-Musician-Fleetwood-Mac-1981-Far-Out-Magazine-1140x855.jpg\")
<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
(Credits: Far Out \/ YouTube Still)<\/p>\n
Tue 24 February 2026 16:00, UK <\/p>\n
Working on any song meant a lot more than getting the right take for Stevie Nicks<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n In many ways, her songs were her musical children, and she wasn\u2019t going to rest until she had something that was absolutely perfect once she walked out of the studio. But whereas some songs might have been the most natural thing in the world, there were more than a few tracks that she had to fight back tears trying to make it through.<\/p>\n Because as much as Rumours was the best-selling album of all time for a while, it\u2019s not exactly the easiest album for any of the band members to talk about. The entire group was going through their emotional baggage and breaking up with each other, so it\u2019s not going to be easy to talk about the darker side of their relationship and then suddenly walk out of the studio like everything was fine. It was a lot to process, but all those emotions demanded to be felt once the tape started rolling.<\/p>\n But while Lindsey Buckingham was reacting in anger most of the time, Nicks always wanted to take the dignified approach. She never wanted to have her relationship with Buckingham end in tears, and even if they had to yell at each other in between takes half the time, \u2018Dreams\u2019 was a far more mature way of dealing with her emotions. Buckingham was writing \u2018Go Your Own Way\u2019 as an attack on her, but she made sure that her songs were about moving on and letting the rain wash both of them clean.<\/p>\n Then again, not all of Nicks\u2019s songs were the cheeriest thing in the world. There\u2019s a truly demented spirit in \u2018Gold Dust Woman<\/a>\u2019, and there are more than a few times on \u2018The Chain\u2019 where the band feel like a powder keg about to explode. But when the record first came out, their producer Ken Callait remembered her being absolutely crushed when she talked about \u2018Silver Springs\u2019 getting left out of the track listing.<\/p>\n It makes sense to lose a few tunes for the integrity of the vinyl record at the time, but that didn\u2019t make it any less painful for Nicks. If anything, this was her chance to lay all her cards out on the table about her relationship, and since she had dedicated the song to her mom and even given her royalties, hearing that they were going to record the old Buckingham Nicks song \u2018I Don\u2019t Want to Know\u2019 wasn\u2019t the easiest conversation.<\/p>\n