Fleetwood Mac Stevie Nicks is a rock & roll singer like none other. While still a member of Fleetwood Mac, Nicks shot to the top of the album charts in 1981 with her solo debut, Bella Donna. Stacked with four hit singles, the album quickly established her as a successful solo musician.

'Bella Donna' is a term of endearment I use and the title is about making a lot of decisions in my life, making a change based on the turmoil in my soul. You get to a certain age where you want to slow down, be quieter. The title song was basically a warning to myself and a question to others.

1981Bella Donna / Released Bella Donna is the debut solo studio album by American singer and songwriter Stevie Nicks. Released on July 27, 1981, the album reached number one on the US Billboard 200 in September of that year.

Stevie Nicks in her solo career sold more than 20 million records worldwide and was named one of the 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time by Rolling Stone. We chose to do our project on Stevie Nicks because she is a mutual interest and role model to many people, including ourselves.

The rugged honesty of tracks like “Gold Dust Woman” can be heard in the larger-than-life rock of Courtney Love and the spectral pop of Florence + The Machine, while Nicks' delicate acoustic ballads have influenced the A-list likes of Madonna and Taylor Swift.

Walter Egan turned his crush on Stevie Nicks into a hit.

beautiful lady Etymology. The belladonna plant, showing leaves and berries. Borrowed from Italian belladonna (altered by folk etymology: bella donna (“beautiful lady”)) from Medieval Latin blādōna (“nightshade”), of Gaulish origin.

In an interview for VH1's Classic Album series, Nicks offered further insight into the song's meaning: "Gold Dust Woman" was my kind of symbolic look at somebody going through a bad relationship, doing a lot of drugs, and trying to make it.

“Stop Draggin' My Heart Around” (with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers), No. 3, Sept. 5, 1981. The iconic duet was written by Tom Petty and released as Stevie Nicks' first single from her debut solo album Bella Donna.

I just read the words and put it into rhyme and then I'll that paper to the piano and just start writing, and it either happens or it doesn't. Usually if I get it pretty complete on the paper before I get to the piano, then it's usually real easy.

The idea of Stevie Nicks as Fleetwood Mac's “white witch” is particularly poignant as the second wave of feminism rolled into the '70s. By Stephanie Hernandez / 27 June 2023. Fleetwood Mac. Fleetwood Mac.

A Grammy Award-winner, he has written, produced or performed songs for charities in support of disabilities, AIDS, cancer, diabetes, hunger and homelessness, domestic abuse and other causes on behalf of children and adults. His activism has been pivotal in U.S. and world events.