Whenever I Call You, Friend: Stevie Nicks’ Greatest Collaborations

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More than thirty years into an incredible career, Stevie Nicks seems busier than ever.  On April 2, there’s a documentary film on the making of her latest album, In Your DreamsTwo days later, Fleetwood Mac kick off their latest tour in Columbus, Ohio. A tour that follows-up her recent string of dates with Dave Grohl‘s Sound City Players.

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Kevin Winter/Getty Images

The Sound City soundtrack features a Nicks/Grohl collaboration, “You Can’t Fix This,” which has added a new classic to her already incredible discography. Watching her work on the song with Grohl in the film Sound City reminded us of the fact that, while she may be referred to as a diva, she’s an incredibly empathetic and generous collaborator. She started her career as half of the duo Buckingham/Nicks with Lindsey Buckingham; soon enough, they joined the Mac. Of course, Nicks wrote and sang several of their biggest hits, but she was always happy to support bandmates Buckingham and Christine McVie on their songs. A rare musician with hits as a solo artist, duet partner and band member, we decided to celebrate some of her best collaborations.

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Kevin Winter/Getty Images

Lindsey Buckingham: Love him or hate him (and Stevie has probably felt both ways), there has always been something about their chemistry, starting with their 1973 album, Buckingham/Nicks. It’s been out of print for years, but easily available as a bootleg for most of that time. The album featured “Crystal,” which Fleetwood Mac later recorded on their first album with Nicks and Buckingham in the band. Outtakes from the album would see new life years later: “Candlebright” and “Sorcerer” appeared decades later on Nicks’ 2001 album Trouble In Shangri-La; that album’s “Planets Of The Universe” grew out of another outtake from that era, “No Light.” Of course, the duo’s years in Fleetwood Mac have been well documented, but they’ve also worked outside of the context of the Mac. They recorded “Twisted,” from the soundtrack of the 1996 film of the same name, as a duo. Lindsey contributed guitar to Shangri-La‘s “I Miss You,” and “Soldier’s Angel” off In Your Dreams.  Although their lives have taken different paths, it’s clear that there’s still magic when the two collaborate.

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Robert Mora/Getty Images

Don HenleyThe Eagles and Fleetwood Mac both dominated radio and the pop charts during the  ’70s, and Nicks and Henley were romantically linked at one point. That romantic tension was evident on “Leather And Lace,” their duet from Nicks’ solo debut, 1981′s Bella Donna. Their rapport lasted through the years; in 2005, they co-headlined a tour, joining each other for several songs during each set. Kenny Loggins – Nicks began to show her clout on the charts outside of Fleetwood Mac on a duet with former Loggins & Messina singer Kenny Loggins: “Whenever I Call You Friend” was a #5 hit in 1978, three years before Stevie’s solo debut.

Read about the rest of Nicks’ best collaborations and collaborators at Radio.com 

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