With most of the songs chosen, recording sessions started in November at Studio 55 in Los Angeles. They stood behind me at the piano, and when I heard their three voices together it was just: ‘Wow’, goosebumps.” They loved each other and loved to harmonise.
At the drop of a hat they’d break into a cappella versions of old songs like Chapel Of Love. Lori and Sharon were so instinctive and so intuitive. “I think she had enough for her first three solo albums and beyond. “It was song after song after great song,” Tench recalls. “It was one of those real rock’n’roll experiences that you can never forget.” “We were like Joni Mitchell and Crosby, Stills And Nash, living in this great house and making music,” Nicks remembers. This is somebody I’d really love to play music with.’”įor two months, Tench, Nicks and her girlfriends rehearsed five days a week. She’s a creative perpetual-motion machine. The second I heard that, I went: ‘Now I get it. But then I bought the single to Go Your Own Way and flipped it over, and there’s Silver Springs. But I didn’t know what was going on with the top hat and the twirling and the witchy stuff.
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“I had seen Fleetwood Mac play, and with Stevie I just didn’t get it,” he says. But he admits he revised his first impression of her. Tench had met Nicks briefly when the Heartbreakers backed her on a recording of Outside The Rain the year before (the track ended up on Bella Donna). Give the woman a fourth song, for God’s sake! ” That’s why Silver Springs didn’t make it on to Rumours. "But Stevie may have just gone: ‘Look, I’ve got these songs, let’s do a record without the family baggage there was around Fleetwood Mac.’ Stevie, Christine and Lindsey only got three songs per record. “And remember, back then, if somebody in a huge band made a solo record, your first thought was: ‘Wow, is the band breaking up?’ It was really unusual and risky to step away. The Heartbreakers’ keyboard player was tapped by Iovine to act as “musical director” for Bella Donna. “It’s a big deal the first time you do a solo record,” Benmont Tench tells Classic Rock. But the idea of releasing an album under her name was still somewhat scary. She also sang on Kenny Loggins’s Whenever I Call You Friend and Walter Egan’s Magnet And Steel, both hits. She wrote a song cycle around the Welsh mythological goddess Rhiannon for a film (despite having the screenwriter for The Man Who Fell To Earth attached, it never got made). Outside of Fleetwood Mac, Nicks had been flirting with a few projects. L-R: John McVie, Mick Fleetwood, Christine McVie, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks (Image credit: Michael Putland/Getty Images ) Fleetwood Mac backstage at Wembley Arena, London, June 1980, with sales awards for Rumours and Tusk.
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