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For Stevie Nicks<\/a>, being able to write with someone else was about more than a working relationship.\u00a0<\/p>\n Although she had seen Lindsey Buckingham as a musical soulmate in lots of ways, there are hardly any fond memories that she has from the era where they were constantly making personal digs at each other whenever they began working on Rumours. That kind of toxicity would have made anyone want to go solo, but nothing that Nicks did was going to come together without a little help from her friends as well.<\/p>\n Granted, it\u2019s not like much needs to be added to some of her greatest tunes. Even if she was playing \u2018Dreams\u2019 on a piano by herself with minimal chords, there\u2019s nothing that really needs to be added to the track to turn it into a classic, even if Buckingham\u2019s guitar lines are a nice touch. And even when working on Bella Donna, a lot of the hooks behind the tracks are hearing Nicks\u2019s voice soar over everything.<\/p>\n There might be the occasional song from Tom Petty or duetting with Don Henley on her early tunes, but it was always important for Nicks to remain authentic. She nearly even took \u2018Stop Draggin\u2019 My Heart Around\u2019 off her record because she wanted it to be her definitive statement, but when listening to the record as a whole, it\u2019s not like a song like \u2018Kind of Woman\u2019 and \u2018Edge of Seventeen\u2019 couldn\u2019t hold their own next to Petty\u2019s gifted song, or even many Fleetwood Mac songs for that matter. <\/p>\n But even when she was at her lowest, Nicks was always going to be left to write tunes by herself. Despite Street Angel <\/a>nearly killing her due to her reliance on Klonopin, one of the best lessons she ever got was Petty reminding her that she was capable of making great songs. She needed reassurance that she was still Stevie Nicks, but that\u2019s not to say that she couldn\u2019t write with some friends along the way.<\/p>\n Albums like Trouble in Shangri-La helped her find her footing again, but when she started working on new music a decade later, she had a godsend in Dave Stewart. While he might not have been known by many outside of being the dude with the beard in Eurythmics, Nicks found another musical soulmate when she found that he could practically finish her musical thoughts whenever they started playing.<\/p>\n