"The only thing I said to her was, 'Understand how physical this is. However, she says Christine needs to know what she's getting herself into if she does rejoin the fold. If she wants to come back, she will come back," Nicks tells ABC News Radio.
After the performances, Nicks says, "He's gonna have a little operation….he'll probably take a couple weeks to recover, and then…sky's the limit!"Īs for John's ex-wife Christine McVie, who left Fleetwood Mac in 1998, what does Nicks think of her old band mate's recent comments in the British press that she'd rejoin the group "if she was asked?" Well, according to Stevie, Christine doesn't need an invitation. But Stevie tells ABC News Radio, "He's doing great…if I ever had any psychic knowledge about me in this body, I am telling you that John McVie is gonna be just fine." Nicks reveals that John will be with the band when they play three shows in Las Vegas in the coming weeks. Speaking of Fleetwood Mac, the band was forced to cancel its Australian and New Zealand tour when bass player John McVie was diagnosed with cancer in October. "You don't just say, 'I'm coming with 10 friends.'" It is a secret society…it is not cool," she tells ABC News Radio. "When you're recording with Fleetwood Mac, it is not fine to invite all your friends over. I don't think I've ever been in a situation like that before." In fact, it was quite a freeing experience for Nicks, because as she explains, making a record with her band Fleetwood Mac pretty much requires everyone to be on lockdown. And if any of my friends came into town and wanted to come over, it was fine. She added, "There was a lot of people here every day. "We wanted people to feel like they were here in this house with me and Dave and all the characters that were here - the singers, the chef, my goddaughter, my assistant, all the people that did all the hard work around us to make it easy, all the techs, everybody." "We wanted people to feel like they were making the record with us," the singer told ABC News Radio at her home in L.A. The idea, says Nicks, was to give fans a truly immersive experience. mansion, where she, her producer Dave Stewart and various friends and associates lived and worked while recording. More than just your standard "making-of" film, In Your Dreams captures the surreal atmosphere at Stevie's L.A.
Nicks, who is often namechecked on the show, is set to appear in the 10th episode of Coven's current season.Stevie Nicks' movie In Your Dreams, which documents the creation of her album of the same name, is out on DVD this week. I know every person in the show is like, 'I better be in that goddamn scene!' It's funny." So I said, 'Let's do it!' So she's flying in for, like, two days and doing her scenes. He says, "She called and said, 'I'm now available, sadly enough, if you wanna use me'. Murphy explains that her tour itinerary initially conflicted with the shooting schedule, but when the band was forced to cancel a string of dates so MCVie could undergo cancer treatment, Nicks became available. However, he tells Entertainment Weekly the cameo almost didn't happen, because the singer's day job with Fleetwood Mac threatened to keep her from the set.
The classic band has scrapped a series of dates next year (14) to allow the bass player to take care of his health, and the unplanned hiatus means singer Nicks can shoot a cameo on one of her favourite shows, American Horror Story: Coven.Ĭreator Ryan Murphy has confirmed the Landslide hitmaker will play herself on the spooky drama after revealing she would be joining the cast for an episode, which is set to air next year (14). John Mcvie's cancer treatment has given his Fleetwood Mac bandmate Stevie Nicks the chance to live out her dream to play a witch on Tv.