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Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks
Written by Stephen Davis
Narrated by Christina Delaine
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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About this audiobook
Gold Dust Woman gives "the gold standard of rock biographers" (the Boston Globe) his ideal topic: Nicks' work and life are equally sexy and interesting, and Davis delves deeply into each, unearthing fresh details from new, intimate interviews and interpreting them to present a rich new portrait of the star. Just as Nicks (and Lindsay Buckingham) gave Fleetwood Mac the "shot of adrenaline" they needed to become real rock stars-according to Christine McVie-Gold Dust Woman is vibrant with stories and with a life lived large and hard:
#9679How Nicks and Buckingham were asked to join Fleetwood Mac and how they turned the band into stars
#9679The affairs that informed Nicks' greatest songs
#9679Her relationships with the Eagles' Don Henley and Joe Walsh, and with Fleetwood himself
#9679Why Nicks married her best friend's widower
#9679Her dependency on cocaine, drinking and pot, but how it was a decade-long addiction to Klonopin that almost killed her
#9679Nicks' successful solo career that has her still performing in venues like Madison Square Garden
#9679The cult of Nicks and its extension to chart-toppers like Taylor Swift and the Dixie Chicks
#9679How Nicks and Buckingham were asked to join Fleetwood Mac and how they turned the band into stars
#9679The affairs that informed Nicks' greatest songs
#9679Her relationships with the Eagles' Don Henley and Joe Walsh, and with Fleetwood himself
#9679Why Nicks married her best friend's widower
#9679Her dependency on cocaine, drinking and pot, but how it was a decade-long addiction to Klonopin that almost killed her
#9679Nicks' successful solo career that has her still performing in venues like Madison Square Garden
#9679The cult of Nicks and its extension to chart-toppers like Taylor Swift and the Dixie Chicks
Author
Stephen Davis
Stephen Davis is America’s pre-eminent rock journalist and biographer, having written numerous bestsellers on rock bands including Watch You Bleed and the smash hit Hammer of the Gods. He lives in Boston.
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Reviews for Gold Dust Woman
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Amazing she’s one of my favorite artists her story is based of life and passion
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This book took me right back to Junior High and High School - years when Fleetwood Mac was in constant rotation on the radio.
I had to stop reading to go re-listen to the songs and watch old concert videos on YouTube.
I had some idea of the messy love affairs, but I hadn't known how extensive the drug use was. Although thinking back to the 70s I think it was almost assumed that rock bands were using drugs.
I also had no idea of the all-star line up of musicians who collaborated with Stevie once she started her solo career. Really well-written and well-researched biography. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5As I read this thorough biography, I used my phone to play videos of every song mentioned. Turns out I'm a bigger fan than I remembered! Learned a lot about Stevie as well as many other musicians I've enjoyed over the years. Well worth the read.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Gold Dust Woman:The Biography of Stevie Nicks🍒🍒🍒🍒
By Stephen Davis
2017
St Martin's press
I truly enjoyed this biography. Stephen Davis, for me, has a style of writing that is personal and makes me feel like I know the subject and understand them. It makes this a fun and memorable read.
I have been a fan of Stevie Nicks, and loved her music and mystique. Her legend and talent, her ability to persevere and always move forward, and her love of music are inspiring.
This bio delves into her past relationships and affairs, her long successful career and her magnetism. Using interviews and reviews, he shares her days in Buckingham Nicks, her affairs and their influence on her life and lyrics, and how she has influenced so many young rising talented artists throughout her life and still today. He explores her relationship with Buckingham, Don Henley, Joe Walsh and Mick Fleetwood.
She is a legendary figure that will never be forgotten. Her lyrics will be recited for years. Her mystique is soft and light, but full of a deep and hard lived past. Her life shiny stories, her larger than life image .....she is like Gold Dust. But so much more.
Well written, well researched. An easy, enlightening fun......highly recommended. - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Very interesting biography, I'm amazed at the level of detail that is possible. But the author had contact back in the later 1970s with Mick Fleetwood and the members of Fleetwood Mac, so the details seem credible. This was a good walk down memory lane to a Fleetwood Mac concert on 8/21/1980 at the Omaha Civic Auditorium, Omaha, NE. Hard to believe but the set list for that concert in online. The sad reminder in this book are the constant stream of drugs that fuel the music and the concerts. An engaging story of music, angst, relationships, and everything that went with the rise of big 1970s music.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I'm not in a position to judge the accuracy of author Stephen Davis's unauthorized look into the life of Fleetwood Mac singer-songwriter Stevie Nicks, but I do know that he got her birthdate wrong on the book's first page. Despite that gaffe (and there may be others) this is a mostly-engaging retelling of Nicks's rise to fame, descent into bad romances and drug addiction, and finally her triumphant return to form with the band that made her famous. This book is unsympathetic to Nicks's abusive former lover and musical partner, Lindsey Buckingham, for whom "high strung" is the kindest adjective the author can muster. Nicks's definitive biography has yet to be written, but until that time, this is an entertaining, if not overly insightful, placeholder.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I have always been enamored, almost obsessed, with Stevie Nicks. I think my Dad had more than a little crush on her when she and Lindsey Buckingham brought old British blues band, Fleetwood Mac, to the front of the music scene with splash and glory and twirling chiffon. I can't blame him. I had a crush on her, too, but in a little girl's way--the I-want-to-be-her way that little girls get for women who awe and inspire them. That crush has never gone away. I still admire Stevie Nicks, more and more all the time! Listening to this book on HooplaDigital, I was able to often feel like I was in the same room as Stevie. (It must be pointed out, she did not read the book--it was written by Stephen Davis, and it was read by Christina Delaine--a talented voice-over actress.) I had read a little bit about Fleetwood Mac in the past, but this book really gave insights into Stevie's part of that world... from her constant drawing, painting, journaling, to her rocky relationship with Buckingham, to other relationships she had over the years--all inspiring her music. I would recommend this to anyone who even just likes the Mac a little bit! It's a story worth reading/hearing!!!
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Like most unauthorized biographies, there were moments of supposition that hurt the narrative, but not bad. It did not make me like Stevie Nicks any better, but it did make me want to listen to some songs again.