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Wild-hearted hits: Stevie Nicks’ 20 best songs – ranked!
As she tours the UK, we rate the Fleetwood Mac singer’s very best solo material
Photograph: Paul Natkin/Getty Images Nicks in mid-80s air-punching power ballad mode – complete with booming snares, sax solo, hard rock guitars and glossy, epic synths – co-written by the man responsible for John Waite’s not dissimilar Missing You. Another Rumours refugee – it was demoed by Fleetwood Mac – Planets of the Universe shares that album’s lyrical preoccupations: “I was wrong to live for a dream … I still wish you gone.” Nicks’ belatedly completed version is fantastic: tough, with a surprisingly funky chug, and the singer at her steeliest as she bids farewell. Inspired by Little Red Corvette – and featuring Prince himself on keyboards – Stand Back is a fantastic song and a powerful study in contrasts: forceful-but-cool 80s electronic pop, spiked with Nicks’ voice at its most raspily emotive and lyrics surveying the wreckage of her disastrous marriage to her late best friend’s husband.
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