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Thread started 03/31/04 10:20am

UptownDeb

Prince inspired Stevie Nicks

I was watching one of the entertainment news shows last night and they were showing celebrities who'd come out to see Prince perform. One of them was Stevie Nicks. She's a big fan. Talking about him she seemed genuinely touched by his brilliance, and so moved that she said: "I'm going to cry."

Anyway, I had no idea she was a fan. So I was poking around the net and discovered that he inspired her to write "Stand Back." She said that he played synthesizer on it in the studio; but I'm not sure if it's him we hear on the actual recording.

Anyway here it is in her own words.
(My apologies if this is old news. I've never heard this story before (I'm a little slow).
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Reply #1 posted 03/31/04 10:31am

Byron

Favorite part of that link (thanks, btw, Deb..):

"I phoned Prince out of the blue, hummed a melody, and he listened," says Nicks of the latter hit's gestation. "I hung up, and he came over within the hour. He listened again, and I said, 'Do you hate it?' He said, 'No,' and walked over to the synthesizers that were set up, was absolutely brilliant for about twenty five minutes, and then left. He was so uncanny, so wild, he spoiled me for every band I've ever had because nobody can exactly re-create - not even with two piano players-what Prince did all by his little self."

thumbs up!
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Reply #2 posted 03/31/04 10:38am

UptownDeb

Your welcome, Byron!

Here's my absolute favorite quote:

Standback comes from a place unknown even to me. A hush surrounded it from the very beginning~and a feeling that it had always been was there from the first. 'Standback' lives in it's own timespace. It never belonged to me, it has always belonged to the world~and to Prince, who inspired the entire song.
~Stevie Nicks, Timespace Tourbook, 1991
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