While in remission, Robin discovered that she and her husband, Kim, were expecting a child. I found that video, apparently a spontaneous outburst from a Rolling Stone photo session.The backup singer is Lori Nicks, Stevie's longtime backup singer, close friend, and future sister in-law.Īs some have mentioned, the makeup artist was Stevie's longtime best friend Robin Anderson, who was diagnosed with leukemia in 1981, not long after this was filmed. You can see on her face how good it feels just to let go. It is as if, once it’s started up, there’s no slowing down, no stopping the car is careering down a mountain, with no brakes. Her voice has an undulating, galloping quality. What affects me most about the video is how profoundly Nicks appears to love singing. While the studio recording of “Wild Heart” is saturated, almost wet, this version is all air, all joy. The makeup artist gamely tries to continue with her work, before giving up. Soon, someone is messing with a piano one of her backup singers joins in with a harmony.
Vernon pinched it from a popular YouTube video of Nicks, in which she sits on a stool having her makeup done, wearing a white dress with spaghetti straps. The artist Justin Vernon, of the band Bon Iver, uses a brief sample of “Wild Heart” (a track from “The Wild Heart”) on the group’s new album, “22, A Million.” Nicks’s voice is sped up, pitch-altered, and barely discernible as human-just a high, grousing “wah-wah,” deployed intermittently. Toward the end you can read this (but read the whole piece, too):
There was an excellent article about Nicks in the Novemissue of the New Yorker: “ What the heart says: the resurgent appeal of Stevie Nicks“, by Amanda Petrusich. Steve Nicks and Fleetwood Mac were national treasures, far, far above the autotuned pap that passes for rock music today. The video has been viewed over a million times on YouTube. The backing music was written by Lindsey Buckingham found in a demo which can also be found on YouTube. The video ends with a version of McVie’s “Wish You Were Here”. It starts with Nicks singing a rendition of Love In Store, a song by Fleetwood Mac’s Christine McVie. The famous video was recorded during a Rolling Stone photo shoot in 1981. UPDATE: As Wikipedia notes, this is actually the first time the song was performed, and the other singer is Nicks’s soon-to-be sister in law, Lori Perry-Nicks.
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