Stevie Nicks: There’d Be No Fleetwood Mac ‘If I Had Not Had That Abortion’

Breitbart ^ | 10/15/20 | Alana Mastrangelo

[Impala64ssa]

After telling Variety that she’s contemplating leaving the United States if President Donald Trump wins re-election, rocker Stevie Nicks says there wouldn’t have been a Fleetwood Mac if she had not had an abortion.

“If I had not had that abortion, I’m pretty sure there would have been no Fleetwood Mac,” said Nick in a recent interview with The Guardian. The singer ended her unborn child’s life in 1979 while she was dating Don Henley of The Eagles. “There’s just no way that I could have had a child then, working as hard as we worked constantly. And there were a lot of drugs, I was doing a lot of drugs — I would have had to walk away.”

Besides, Nicks felt that “the music we were going to bring to the world” was much more important than the life of her own flesh and blood.

“And I knew that the music we were going to bring to the world was going to heal so many people’s hearts and make people so happy,” she said. “And I thought: you know what? That’s really important. There’s not another band in the world that has two lead women singers, two lead women writers. That was my world’s mission.”

The rocker jumped into the presidential election last week, telling Variety in an interview to promote her new single “Show Them the Way” that she’s “thinking: Oh, space” if Trump wins. “Maybe I can talk Elon Musk into giving us a jet and letting me pick 50 people.” Nicks is not the only celebrity elite to suggest that she wouldn’t have been able to figure out how to be successful in her career if she had started a family.

[deadrock]

There’s not another band in the world that has two lead women singers, two lead women writers.

How heartless.

[Eleutheria5]

If she had had the baby, despite the terrible trauma of suckling from the breast of Stevie Nix, it might have amounted to something; discovered a cure for Covid or the Big C, or just become a mediocre accountant or attorney or 7/11 cashier, but best of all, Fleetwood Mac would never have been, and Stevie might have become a decent human being after the mothering instinct kicked in.

[af_vet_1981]

“Oh well”

Ah, yes

Peter Green-era Fleetwood Mac throwing it down on the BBC's Monster Music Mash in 1969. With a little more work, I think this could have been at least as recognizable of a blues-rock hit as Led Zeppelin's "Black Dog".

[af_vet_1981]

Fleetwood Mac was formed in London in 1967, founded by guitarist Peter Green, drummer Mick Fleetwood and guitarist Jeremy Spencer, before bassist John McVie joined the lineup for their self-titled debut album.

Correct, and according to Mick Fleetwood, it was really Peter Green's band but Peter did not want the name and insisted it be named after Mick Fleetwood and John McVie.

As you probably know, Fleetwood Mac’s name comes from the last names of the original drummer and bassist: Mick Fleetwood and John McVie. But neither of them suggested that name. Original guitarist and singer Peter Green came up with the name and Fleetwood later said it was an example of Green’s selflessness.

“He was also always willing to give as much space and creative freedom to other members,” Fleetwood told the Irish Times in 2017.

[alstewartfan]

Two things are certain: One, her baby never got to smell a flower or see the success of Fleetwood Mac, and two, the kid was spared the horror of being the child of selfish, brain-addled Stevie Nicks.

[T.B. Yoits]

The drug-addled egomaniac can't recognize how much adoptive parents would have loved the child they could have been blessed with if she could only have seen past herself and given her child up for adoption.

It was, and still is, all about her.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Naah, couldn’t do that. Had to help “create” Fleetwood Enema, er, Mac.

[dfwgator]

Ann Wilson made my teenage pants go crazy in the 70s.

[deadrock]

What was not to love? Beautiful, with a tour de force voice and vocal range.

[HamiltonJay]

Rationalization of selfishness, claiming it to be altruistic...

Evil