If you missed the first broadcast, the OWN Network will rebroadcast Oprah Winfrey’s Master Class with Stevie Nicks on Sunday, April 14, at 5:00 p.m. local time. Use the channel locator to find the OWN Network in your area.
You can also view the episode in its entirety anytime here.
On Sunday, March 24, The OWN Network premiered Oprah Winfrey’s Master Class with Stevie Nicks. In the revealing episode, Stevie talked about her early years with her musician grandfather (A.J. Nicks), the influence of her pragmatic mother (Barbara Nicks), her relationship with Lindsey Buckingham, her ill-fated marriage to Kim Anderson, and her addictions to cocaine and Klonopin.
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Stevie talks about the importance of writing.
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Stevie talks more in depth about her breakup with Lindsey Buckingham.
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Stevie appears on tonight’s episode of Oprah Winfrey’s Master Class. The program airs on the OWN Network at 10pm ET / 9pm CT. To find the OWN Network on your TV, click here.
The legendary Fleetwood Mac singer-songwriter opens up about her compelling life.
By Maya Salam
Yahoo! TV
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Getty Images/Getty Images – LOS ANGELES, CA – JANUARY 31: Singer Stevie Nicks performs at the concert to celebrate the premiere of “Sound City” at the Hollywood Palladium on January 31, 2013 in Los Angeles, …more
On Sunday night’s “Oprah’s Master Class,” Fleetwood Mac’s legendary lead singer, Stevie Nicks, will open up about her compelling life, and no topic is off-limits, including her drug use at the height of her success.
In this sneak peek, Nicks says, “I used to carry a gram of cocaine in my boot at all times.” Reflecting back at herself during that period, she confronts the memory, asking, “Could you have just laid off the brandy and the coke and the pot for two days?” — admitting that she didn’t look beautiful; she looked high.
But drug use didn’t hinder her success, and neither did her failing personal relationship with her musical partner Lindsey Buckingham. As Fleetwood Mac wrapped its No. 1 album Rumours, she broke up with Buckingham, insisting that their focus should be on the success of the band: “Our breaking up is not going to break up this band. And I’m not going to quit and neither are you,” Nicks told him. “The band was way more important than each separate person’s problems. And we knew that.”
Nicks says that if she and Buckingham hadn’t joined Fleetwood Mac, their lives would have been dramatically different, and they probably would have gotten married and had a child.
But fate took them in a different direction: They did join the iconic band, which had existed for nearly 10 years before Nicks and Buckingham were brought in. “And then, bang, Mick [Fleetwood] called. And life changed. Overnight,” Nicks says. After buying Fleetwood Mac’s existing records and listening to them twice, Nicks says that she told Buckingham, “I think that we can add to this band. I think that, you know, I think they have a real kind of witchy side that would appeal to us.”
Buckingham was more skeptical, instead wanting to finish the album the duo had started and even go back to school, but Nicks would have no part of that. She wanted to join Fleetwood Mac, and the rest is history.
In the interview, Nicks also addresses her unflinching decision-making nature — and it all began with her endlessly supportive mother: “My mom would always say to me, ‘You’d better be the president of your company, or the lead singer of your band, or the boss. Because you don’t like to be told what to do.’ And she was totally right.” And while her mother encouraged her to do whatever she wanted, she was also strict. As Nicks says, “She was hard on me in a lot of ways because she wanted me to be independent. … And she wanted me to be fearless.”
Fleetwood Mac singer gets candid in upcoming interview with Oprah
By Jon Blistein
Rolling Stone
March 21, 2013 2:40 p.m.
Stevie Nicks gets candid in an upcoming interview with Oprah Winfrey, talking about music, her struggles with addiction and the recent death of her mother on Oprah’s Master Class this Sunday, March 24th.
Now you can check out this exclusive clip in which the Fleetwood Mac singer talks freely about her breakup with bandmate Lindsey Buckingham, which famously happened as the group began work on their 1977 classic Rumours.
“The band was way more important than each separate person’s problems,” Nicks says during the interview. “And we knew that. So we never, ever, with everything that happened to us, ever, let love affairs break Fleetwood Mac up. But Lindsey always blamed Fleetwood Mac for the loss of me. Had we not joined Fleetwood Mac we would’ve continued on with our music but we probably would’ve gotten married, and we probably would’ve had a child.”
This year Fleetwood Mac is celebrating the 35th anniversary of Rumours with an extensive box set reissue that saw release this past January, while on April 4th, the band will reunite for their the opening show of their first tour since 2009.
