Category - Bella Donna (1981)

Bella Donna (1981)

Stevie Nicks: Going solo

Fleetwood Mac’s Stevie Nicks tries on a new hat When Stevie Nicks was cutting her first solo album, the just-released Bella Donna, she recalls, “I promised myself I wasn’t going to get crazy over it. I...

October 5, 1981
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Bella Donna (1981)

Stevie Nicks soars with Bella Donna

A fearsome Kabuki doll grimaces malevolently from atop an antique upright piano into a pastel pink room, where porcelain flamingos stand in fixed motion next to a beige satin-covered bed littered with pillows. Jungle...

September 20, 1981
Bella Donna (1981)

Diversity marks Stevie Nicks’ solo

Fleetwood Mac singer borrows some hard-edged help from Petty. Pop Album Reviews: STEVIE NICKS, Bella Donna, Modern Records. MR38-139. What’s particularly attractive about Stevie Nicks’ solo plunge is the musical and...

August 9, 1981
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Bella Donna (1981)

REVIEW: Bella Donna

Rickie Lee Jones’ Pirates and Stevie Nicks’ Bella Donna are both such long-awaited albums that you could all but hear the amens when they arrived in the stores. It has been nearly two years since the release...

August 2, 1981