Stevie Nicks Reveals She’s Working On New Album, Includes Song About Prince

The legendary Stevie Nicks, who tonight was inducted into the Pollstar Live Hall of Fame at the Beverley Hilton in Los Angeles (and graces the cover of this week’s Pollstar) broke news from the stage during her acceptance speech that she is currently working on a new album.

“I’m actually making a record right now,” Nicks said. “I call it the ghost record because it just kind of happened in the last couple of weeks.”  Nicks said she began working on the new recording after ann extended evacuation from her Los Angeles home due to the recent wildfires.

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“I have seven songs and they are autobiographical,” Nicks continued, “real stories where I’m not pulling any punches for probably the first time in my life. They’re not airy-fairy songs that you’re wondering who they’re about, but you really don’t get it. They are real stories, memories of mine, of fantastic men.”

Nicks then pointed to one of those “fantastic men,” famed music mogul Jimmy Iovine and said, “You’re next.” Iovine, who inducted Nicks into the Pollstar Live Hall of Fame, produced her records and once dated Nicks.

Another “fantastic man” is the great Prince, who initially inspired Nicks to work on her new record. “I’ve written a song about Prince because we were friends,” she said before recounting a story of meeting up with the famed musician at the Hollywood premiere of “Purple Rain,” which she apparently couldn’t watch after the film’s love interest, Apollonia, is slapped.

“So I go across the street to the party. (Prince) Is upstairs in a little room and he’s basically waiting for me to ask me, ‘Well, did you love it?’ And I’m like, ‘I only saw the first half.’ And he’s like, ‘Why?’  “Because you slap that girl.’  And I said, ‘But I brought you a gift. It’s a really beautiful 24 carat necklace with little gold hearts on it.’ And he goes, “I don’t want your necklace and then he said, this is in the song and this is where this record began. ‘You always bring me a gift. You never bring me you.’

Nicks, whose extensive music career dates back to the 1960s, forming Buckingham Nicks, joingng Fleetwood Mac in 1974  and going solo in the early-’80s has had one of the most successful careers in the music business. She’s the only women to be elected to the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame—twice.

According to Pollstar Boxoffice Reports, Nicks has averaged 10,200 tickets and $1.2 million gross per show. Her career gross, listed at $320 million, is much higher with her Boxoffice reports only dating back to 2001. If you add in Fleetwood Mac’s Boxoffice total of $600 million and her solo career launched in 1981 she easily crosses the $1 billion mark.