{"id":563536,"date":"2026-04-04T05:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T05:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/563536\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T05:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T05:33:10","slug":"the-anti-war-song-stevie-nicks-said-would-live-on-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/563536\/","title":{"rendered":"The anti-war song Stevie Nicks said would live on forever"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Stevie<\/p>\n

(Credits: Far Out \/ YouTube Still)<\/p>\n

Sat 4 April 2026 2:00, UK <\/p>\n

Stevie Nicks<\/a> didn\u2019t want to spend her life making songs that were only going to last a few weeks on the charts. <\/p>\n

She wanted to keep her music evolving throughout every piece of her career, and even though Fleetwood Mac didn\u2019t give her much wiggle room after a while, having her solo career was like giving her songs a new home that they wouldn\u2019t have had next to any of Lindsey Buckingham\u2019s experiments. And while there are many tunes that stand the test of time for a reason, Nicks felt that there were a few tunes that were going to live forever before they had even been released.<\/p>\n

Then again, it\u2019s not hard to see what Nicks was talking about when making some of those early hits. It doesn\u2019t take a cutting-edge musical genius to realise that \u2018The Edge of Seventeen\u2019 was going to be absolutely everywhere within a matter of weeks when it came out, but it gets harder to judge when you\u2019ve been in the game for too long. No one wants to hear the same artists on the radio forever, but \u2018Soldier\u2019s Angel\u2019 is a tune that had a lot more legs beyond being a typical rock and roll song.<\/p>\n

Nicks had touched on the true horrors of war here, and when talking about the track, she felt that no one could take away the power and energy the tune had, saying<\/a>, \u201cI think that \u2018Soldier\u2019s Angel\u2019 is probably the song off of this record that will live on forever because it does sort of capture a moment in time through Iraq and Afghanistan and everything that\u2019s going on now. These wars aren\u2019t over, and these kids are coming back, and they\u2019re so wounded, and they\u2019re never going to be the same, and people should try to remember that.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the real magic behind all of Nicks\u2019 tracks is about how they sound when they are played with the rest of the band. Whereas Buckingham would have usually reserved all of the fun parts for himself in the studio, Nicks wanted to create an energy whenever she made one of her songs, and the right take didn\u2019t matter if someone played a wrong note. It was about what felt right when you heard it back.<\/p>\n

And when you look at the subject matter, Nicks wasn\u2019t beating around the bush all that often. She had already been through songs that had difficult subjects like moving on from 9\/11<\/a> on \u2018Illume\u2019, but this was one of her topical songs about something that was happening on the ground. She had already talked about war as a concept on \u2018Desert Angel\u2019, but given how divided the country was around the time of the Iraq War, she had a lot more on her mind this time around.<\/p>\n

No one was going over there to have some fun, and since people started being sent back home with severe trauma, Nicks\u2019s song really emphasises the gravity of the situation. All of these young men and women are doing everything they can to serve their country, but they are also going through one of the most heinous acts that mankind can ever stoop to in service of what they believe is justice.<\/p>\n

Depending on what side of the political fence you\u2019re on, the song might also enrage you, but Nicks didn\u2019t make music thinking about toeing the political line. She wanted to make music that reflected the times she was in, and her comment about the wars being far from over was something that everyone needed to keep in mind. There was a lot of work to do, and Nicks wasn\u2019t about to listen to the other side that was telling her that she needed to stay out of politics every time she sang.<\/p>\n

She had a lot on her mind, and even if it took a while for her to nail down her thoughts, there\u2019s a reason why her political material touches a raw nerve whenever she plays it. This was the same person who wrote those emotionally gripping songs back on Rumours, and even if her tunes had a much different lens this time around, she didn\u2019t lack any of the musical power that she had from back in the day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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