Stevie Nicks wrote a new album while holed up in a hotel after being forced to evacuate her house due to wildfires in California.
The Fleetwood Mac star was forced to flee her Pacific Palisades mansion after it was threatened by the fires that ravaged southern California after breaking out in January, killing 30 people and destroying more than 18,000 homes, and she used her time “sitting in a hotel” to write new songs.
Stevie said on stage at the Pollstar Music Awards: “”I’m actually making a record right now. I call it the ghost record because it occurred within the last few weeks.
“Because of the fires, I spent 92 days in a hotel, and at some point during that time, I said, ‘You know what? I feel like I am on the road, but there are no shows.
“I’m just sitting here by myself because everyone else is at the house doing all the remediations, and it’s just me, so I thought, ‘You need to go back to work.'” And I did; now I have seven tunes.”
She went on to describe her new tracks, saying: “They are autobiographical, real stories in which I am not holding back for the first time in my life.
“They’re not airy fairy tunes where you wonder who they’re about but don’t quite understand it. They are true stories based on my memories of wonderful men.
Stevie’s house remained standing after the flames, and she had previously praised the firefighters who saved it during her performance at the FireAid charity concert in Los Angeles earlier this year.
She informed the audience, “Knowing that I was a full-fledged Pacific Palisadean woman with a historic, magnificent, famous house that was nearly snatched from me as the fire came up the hill behind my house.
“And I was very sure, when they hauled me away and evacuated me – my least favorite phrase now – to another secure spot, that when I looked back, my house was on fire…
“[But the house] stands firm, just like her mother.” And in my perspective, she saved the entire street.”
She dedicated her rendition of ‘Landslide’ to the firefighters that rescued her home.
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