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Stevie Nicks Reveals How Sister-in-Law Saved 1983 SNL Set (Exclusive)

Stevie Nicks — who will return to perform on 'Saturday Night Live' for the first time in 41 years on Oct. 12 — looks back on her 1983 performance on the late-night show, revealing a "horrible wrench" was thrown into her set before her sister-in-law Lori saved the day, making it "a magical show."

At the time, I had my friend who wrote 'Stand Back,' and she was gonna do the second song, which was called 'Nightbird' — and she freaked out and had terrible stage fright, so she couldn't do it," Nicks says. When she returns to SNL, Nicks is expected to play her new song "The Lighthouse," which she wrote as a call to action after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, eliminating the constitutional right to abortion. Women's reproductive rights are a personal subject for Nicks, who in 2020 revealed to The Guardian that she "would have had to walk away" from Fleetwood Mac if she hadn't gotten an abortion in 1979.

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