![]() ![]() She spent her adolescence playing records constantly, and lived in her "own little musical world". With the Goya guitar that she received for her 16th birthday, Nicks wrote her first song, titled "I've Loved and I've Lost, and I'm Sad but Not Blue". Her father's frequent relocation as a vice president of Greyhound had the family living in Phoenix, Albuquerque, El Paso, Salt Lake City, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Īs a toddler, Stephanie could pronounce her own name only as "tee-dee", which led to her nickname of "Stevie". Nicks' mother was protective, keeping her at home "more than most people" and fostered in her daughter a love of fairy tales. Nicks' grandfather, Aaron Jess "A.J." Nicks Sr., taught Nicks to sing duets with him by the time she was four years old. Nicks is of German, English, Welsh and Irish ancestry. Stephanie "Stevie" Nicks was born at Good Samaritan Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona to Jess and Barbara Nicks. Life and career 1948–1971: Early life and career beginnings Rumours was also rated the seventh-greatest album of all time in Rolling Stone's list of the " 500 Greatest Albums of All Time", as well as the fourth-greatest album by female acts. The albums Fleetwood Mac, Rumours, and Bella Donna have been included in the "Greatest of All Time Billboard 200 Albums" chart by Billboard. She has won numerous awards with Fleetwood Mac, including a Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1978 for Rumours. Nicks has garnered eight Grammy Award nominations and two American Music Award nominations as a solo artist. She is the first woman to have been inducted twice into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: first as a member of Fleetwood Mac in 1998 and then as a solo artist in 2019. Her Fleetwood Mac songs " Landslide", " Rhiannon", and " Dreams", with the last being the band's only number one hit in the US, together with her solo hit " Edge of Seventeen", have all been included in Rolling Stone 's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Nicks was named one of the 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time and one of the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time by Rolling Stone. Īfter the release of her first solo album, Rolling Stone named her the " Reigning Queen of Rock and Roll". She has released eight studio solo albums and seven studio albums with Fleetwood Mac, selling a certified total of 65 million copies in the US alone. In 1981, while remaining a member of Fleetwood Mac, Nicks began her solo career, releasing the studio album Bella Donna, which topped the Billboard 200 and has reached multiplatinum status. ![]() Rumours, the band's second album with Nicks, became one of the best-selling albums worldwide, being certified 20× platinum in the US. Both download and print editions of such books should be high quality.Stephanie Lynn Nicks (born May 26, 1948) is an American singer, songwriter, and producer known for her work with the band Fleetwood Mac and as a solo artist.Īfter starting her career as a duo with her then-boyfriend Lindsey Buckingham, releasing the album Buckingham Nicks to little success, Nicks joined Fleetwood Mac in 1975, helping the band to become one of the best-selling music acts of all time with over 120 million records sold worldwide. Most newer books are in the original electronic format. Also, their file size tends to be smaller than scanned image books. ![]() These ebooks were created from the original electronic layout files, and therefore are fully text searchable. We mark clearly which print titles come from scanned image books so that you can make an informed purchase decision about the quality of what you will receive. The text is fine for reading, but illustration work starts to run dark, pixellating and/or losing shades of grey. It's the problem of making a copy of a copy. Unfortunately, the resulting quality of these books is not as high. We essentially digitally re-master the book. Also, a few larger books may be resampled to fit into the system, and may not have this searchable text background.įor printed books, we have performed high-resolution scans of an original hardcopy of the book. However, any text in a given book set on a graphical background or in handwritten fonts would most likely not be picked up by the OCR software, and is therefore not searchable. ![]() The result of this OCR process is placed invisibly behind the picture of each scanned page, to allow for text searching. Most older books are in scanned image format because original digital layout files never existed or were no longer available from the publisher.įor PDF download editions, each page has been run through Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software to attempt to decipher the printed text. These products were created by scanning an original printed edition. ![]()
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