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The Enchanted Works of Stevie Nicks
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Twisted
- Enchanted booklet 1998 - "When I was asked to do a song for the movie Twister, I had my friend Rebecca read the script. She then gave me the "Reader's Digest" condensed version so I could decide whether to so it or not. As she explained it to me ... I realized that this really was MY story. It was about people who had extreme jobs, like chasing tornadoes, or being in a rock band. Anyway, I really handcrafted this song for the movie.
 Unfortunately if you saw the movie you missed the song and you certainly missed my message. So I decided to give you the original demo recorded March 10, 1996 on a 4-track Tascam by my assistant extraordinaire, Karen Johnston. I was living in a beach house overlooking Sunset boulevard and the Pacific Coast Highway, and beyond that always, the ocean. When I decided to put this in the "box set" I called Jesse V. (Valenzuela - from the Gin Blossoms) (just last week) and he put some vibe mandolin on it. I love this song. I hope this time, you will understand it.
Long Distance Winner
- Billboard Magazine 1998 - "Back then (Buckingham/Nicks era) Long Distance Winner was very much about dealing with Lindsey. How else can I say it? 'I bring the water down to you/But you're too hot to touch.' What the song is really all about is a difficult artist saying, 'I adore you, but you're difficult and I'll stay here with you but you're still difficult.' And the line 'Sunflowers and your face fascinate me' means that your beauty fascinates me but I still have trouble dealing with you, and I still stay. So it's really just the age-old story you know?"
It's Late
- Enchanted booklet 1998 - "Recorded April 20, 1995 at Vintage Studio in Phoenix, Arizona with Jesse Valenzuela. This song, and five others, were recorded on this night. It was the first time I ever met Jesse and the beginning of a friendship I have come to treasure. I was feeling very uninspired about music. He reinspired me. "It's Late" was a song I had been singing since the fourth grade. It was one of my grandfather's favorites."
Blue Lamp
- WLIR Raido Interview 1981 - "The Blue Lamp is one of my very favorite songs. Blue Lamp was written about a blue lamp that my mother gave me when I first joined Fleetwood Mac. Very heavy leaded glass lamp that I carried on an airplane home with a friend of mine. She carried the base and I carried the shade, home to LA. And we were really afraid it was going to get broken because it was this you know, leaded glass lamp. They didn't want us to take it on the plane cause it was too big. Well, we got it on the plane by screaming and yelling and crying. So that is the lamp that I carried from my mother's home. And it became, and has remained, my favorite possesion. It is the one thing that never changes. It is without a doubt the only light that shines
 through the shining night much of the time for me. And the blue lamp was supposed to be on the cover (of Bella Donna) the picture of the blue lamp. And I decided to change the cover so there ar e some very, very wonderful pictures of this group of women and this room and stuff around this blue lamp. So someday those pictures will come out and you'll get to really see the blue lamp. Cause it really is the most beautiful thing you've ever seen, it looks like a huge blue mushroom. And it's a wonderful thing for my mom too because it's all so real, even though it sounds like sort of a gothic fairy tale song you know, it's totally real, every line in it is real."
- BAM Magazine 1981 - "It was very important that it, the song Blue Lamp, find a place for itself. I love that song. It was really the beginning of Bella Donna because it was the first thing I'd ever recorded with other musicians, and it was the first time I'd ever recorded by standing in a room singing at the same time that five guys were playing. Fleetwood Mac doesn't record that way. They record from a more technical standpoint."
- Rollingstone Magazine 1994 - (regarding her bedroom) "It's fabulous ... not because there's a lot of expensive stuff in it but because of all the neat stuff I've collected since I was in high school. There's a lamp that my mom bought for me when I first joined Fleetwood Mac. It's a blue Tiffany lamp, dark blue, and it's called the Blue Lamp."
- VH1 Storytellers 1998 - (A fan asks "what the deal was" with the Blue Lamp) - this is Stevie's response - "The Blue Lamp is a real Tiffany lamp. It was the first night after I joined Fleetwood Mac my mom bought that lamp for me. So it was the first really beautiful thing that I got, and it was from her, and I ended up carrying it back from Phoenix to Los Angeles on the plane and they didn't want to let me on the plane with this blue lamp and I said, 'well, then you're going to have to run over me, cause we're not going without the lamp.' So the blue lamp became like this, you know, it still sits right in my living room in Phoenix it's a beautiful lamp, and people write songs about it and people walk in the house and say, 'oh that's the blue lamp" like you just said, you know. So yeah, it really exists. It's really a lamp."
Reconsider Me
- Enchanted booklet 1998 - "Jimmy Iovine brought me this song written by Warren Zevon. I think Jimmy and I were fighting and for some reason I wasn't in a very "reconsider me" state of mind. I don't think Jimmy ever forgave me for not trusting his judgment so, Jimmy here it is little one. Better late than never. And yes Don Henley IS singing with me, and Warren, thank you"
- Mercury News: San Jose 1998 - "When Jimmy (Iovine) brought me the song he thought it was going to be a key song in my career, like a second 'Stop Draggin My Heart Around.' But we got in a big fight because I really don't like to do other people's songs that often. That's why I write my own songs. I was pretty crazy at that point in my life and you couldn't tell me anything. And I said to him 'I would never say the words "reconsider me" to somebody. I would never ask somebody to reconsider loving me.' Well he thought that was the biggest bunch of crap he'd ever heard, so we had a big fight about it and that's just about the last time Jimmy and I ever worked together. But all these years later I'm not uptight about it anymore. I'm delighted to be doing Warren's song now."
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