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  • Stevie Nicks: Stand Back, 1981-2017 (Box set)

    A bit like Michael Jackson, we can overlook our favourites’ flaws if they turn out good tunes. Nicks not only turned a blues band into Fleetwood Mac but bashed out some good tunes of her own, for which we forgive her the cocaine abuse, the brandy, the champagne and the chain-smoking that ruined her voice.…

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    Stevie Nicks: Bella Donna / The Wild Heart

    Stevie Nicks is the bonkers but brilliant singer with Fleetwood Mac, whose ethereal, scratchy voice is famous. You know the sound, so you know what these two remastered CDs contain. Bella Donna was her first solo release and is the better of these two, presumably because she had a batch of songs written over the…

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    Stevie Nicks: 24 Karat Gold — Songs From the Vault

    This is a collection of Nicks’s tunes, the ones she had just lying around and it’s, well, a Stevie Nicks album. Despite the fact that the tracks are from various years (between 1969 and 1987), it holds together well as a body of work. Recorded in Nashville with a group of session players (including Dave…