{"id":800749,"date":"2026-10-13T01:18:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T01:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/800749\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T01:18:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T01:18:24","slug":"the-50000000-single-stevie-nicks-wrote-in-sly-stones-bed-a-little-bit-of-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/800749\/","title":{"rendered":"The $50,000,000 single Stevie Nicks wrote in Sly Stone\u2019s bed: \u201cA little bit of magic\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Stevie<\/p>\n

Credit: Far Out \/ YouTube Still<\/p>\n

Mon 12 October 2026 15:33, UK <\/p>\n

\u201cPeople needed a little bit of magic. I think it\u2019s a little bit of magic.\u201d \u2013 Stevie Nicks<\/a><\/p>\n

Fleetwood Mac song \u2018Dreams\u2019 holds a special place in the hearts of many, and not just because of its incredibly poignant and forever pertinent lyrics: \u201cThunder only happens when it\u2019s raining\/ Players only love you when they\u2019re playing\u201d. The now-iconic vocal delivery by Stevie Nicks has, rather fittingly, conjured up a rather intoxicating effect<\/a> on its listeners.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The track isn\u2019t just their only number one hit, but a distillation of everything that made Nicks, the band and their sound so beguiling \u2013 a potent cocktail of magic, music, melody, and plenty of melodrama. But the track wasn\u2019t crafted in the myrrh-tinged smoke of a mercurial, coke-addled studio but in the bedroom of a famed funk master.<\/p>\n

\u2018Dreams\u2019 was one of the singles taken from the 11th studio album by the British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac. Released in 1977,\u00a0Rumours\u00a0was the band\u2019s second album after Nicks and her then-partner, Lindsey Buckingham, joined the group. It now sits among the best-selling albums of all time and, \u2018Dreams\u2019, a creation credited to Nicks, is arguably the jewel in its crown.<\/p>\n

Ironically enough, \u2018Dreams\u2019 was a song born out of a time when the band went through what seemed like one of their worst nightmares. It was a tumultuous time for the group, individually as well as collectively. With more or less all the members going through rough patches in their romantic relationships and their interpersonal bridges seemingly burned, it became a struggle for the band to come together as a whole, too.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

\"Sly<\/a>Credit: Sly Stone Music<\/p>\n

Yet as Buckingham, Nicks\u2019 partner for almost eight years romantically and professionally, later said in an interview, \u201cWe had to go through an elaborate exercise of denial, keeping our personal feelings in one corner of the room while trying to be professional in the other\u201d. Or at least fairly professional, given Mick Fleetwood once claimed he has snorted seven miles of cocaine over the years.<\/p>\n

Rumours exemplified both of those worlds. When the studio started to get too suffocating, they needed to get out and take a breather. For Nicks, this was the moment that separated her abilities as a songwriter and as a musician from all others.<\/p>\n

Further reading: From The Vault<\/p>\n

During a particularly heated moment in the studio, fuelled no doubt by cocaine and creative differences, Nicks decided she had had enough. She walked out of the room \u2013 the studio where the band was at work \u2013 took her Fender Rhodes piano with her and didn\u2019t return until she had the primary draft for \u2018Dreams\u2019 in her hand, ready to play to the rest of the band. <\/p>\n

Despite the inopportune moment, \u2018Dreams\u2019 came to Nicks relatively smoothly. She took the heartbreak that plagued her<\/a> during the separation from Buckingham after their eight-year-long relationship that had begun in high school and put it to constructive use. \u2018Dreams\u2019 was the simple but effective outcome.<\/p>\n

At the time, the band were stationed at the Record Plant studio in San Francisco, working on their demos. As Nicks said in an interview, \u201cEverybody was working on something else in the main studio, and I had this idea,\u201d she commented. \u201cI was kind of wandering around the studio, looking for somewhere I could curl up with my Fender Rhodes and my lyrics and a little cassette tape recorder.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then, Nicks came across a friendly guy who seemed to understand her plight and asked if she was looking \u201cfor a place to go and play\u201d. He said he knew a place, but he remained secretive about it. As Nicks recalled him saying, \u201cYou can never tell anybody,\u201d to which Nicks\u2019 response was quite amusing, \u201cOh my God, a magic room!\u201d <\/p>\n

It was right up her dreamy street. \u201cOh my God, I\u2019ll never tell anybody,\u201d she insisted.<\/p>\n

Sly Stone, a piano, and Stevie\u2019s masterpiece<\/p>\n

The room in question was the quadrant of the esteemed Sly Stone, which happened to be a mini-studio. She never once in all the time she had worked in the building with the band knew that this room existed. According to Nicks, \u201cIt\u2019s a big studio with a sunken circular shape, actually like a lighthouse, like a circle, and there\u2019s keyboards all around, a bunch of keyboards that went down this tunnel kind of thing\u201d.<\/p>\n

Up next was the part of the room that would become the hub of Nicks\u2019 solo part-brainstorming-part-meditative session \u2013 the exquisite bed that occupied a part of the room. It was, as Nicks recalled, \u201cThis big half-moon circular bed with all black and red velvet. It sounds a little garish, but it was actually beautiful\u201d. <\/p>\n

In some ways, the bed sounds like bloody Rumours itself: an odd mix of corny and classy, but always captivating. Nicks took her place on the bed and \u201cjust started playing \u2018Dreams\u2019. And within about 20 minutes, it was written and recorded \u2013 I mean, super-simply, but I thought, \u2018Thank you, Sly Stone and the spirits of Sly Stone and all of your band\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

As she penned the track, she had his vulnerable yet bold attitude in mind. Inspired by that outlook, she held nothing back. In time, people adored that mix. As of roughly 2020, \u2018Dreams\u2019 and \u2018Go Your Own Way\u2019 alone had fetched the band around $100,000,000 between them over the years. Since then, the former has done a lot of the heavy lifting thanks to viral success. So, now, its profits sit well over $50,000,000, all thanks to Sly Stone\u2019s secret bed.<\/p>\n

Embalmed in the funk star\u2019s private cove, Nicks felt at home. Just like that, in a matter of less than half an hour, one of the biggest hits in the history of contemporary music was conceived and composed. Stevie Nicks made it look like it was a breeze, but that was only possible because she was, well, Stevie Nicks.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s true when they say that inspiration hits you at the most unusual times, in the most unusual places. Who knew that that place for Nicks would be Sly Stone\u2019s very comfortable and very aesthetic bed in his equally beautiful studio? Either way, let\u2019s take this moment to thank the lucky stars for how marvellous the coincidence was and continues to be even now.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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