Following a fractured shoulder, the legend returned to the stage and unearthed a Tusk classic
There’s no better way to ring in October than a Stevie Nicks concert. After a fractured shoulder caused her to reschedule tour dates, the legend returned to the stage on Wednesday in Portland, Oregon — and unearthed a Fleetwood Mac deep cut.
Nicks performed “Angel,” from the 1979 Fleetwood Mac album Tusk, for the first time since 1983. Check it out below.
In the liner notes to the 2015 reissue of Tusk, Nicks said that “Angel” was about her bandmate Mick Fleetwood — “Not so much my love affair with him,” she said. “I was always taken with his style, and in those days he would walk in the room and I would just look up. ‘I still look up when you walk in the room… I try not to reach out.’ It’s all about him and his crazy fob watch and his really beautiful clothes. He’s a very stylish individual, and I was just this little California girl who’d never really known anybody like him.”
Nicks also performed her new song “The Lighthouse,” which she premiered on Saturday Night Live last year, in her first performance on the show in 40 years. “I used to have a dream that I would buy a lighthouse and it would have that twisty staircase that would go all the way up,” she told Rolling Stone last year. “I would have a little place at the bottom with a bed and a bathroom, and that would be my place when I wanted to go and record by myself, right on a cliff.”
Last month, Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham released the long-awaited reissue of Buckingham Nicks — the album they released as a duo in 1973 prior to joining Fleetwood Mac — which was out of print for decades. Hopefully, she throws some of those tracks, like the excellent “Crystal,” in set list rotation.
