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to have a ‘lead’ singer, let alone a female
lead singer,” Forest explains. “They resented
Stevie being the centre of attention.
I did everything possible to convince them
they were missing the boat. In the end
Lindsay [Buckingham] and Stevie [quit]
and Fritz didn’t survive their departure.”
Forest put together a showcase of the
newly named Buckingham-Nicks duo at
the penthouse of the Hyatt on Sunset but,
Forest says, “It didn’t produce any [record
company] bidders.”
So Buckingham-Nicks split with Forest,
scored a Polydor record deal and came
back to Forest (temporarily) in 1974 when Fleetwood Mac came
calling. “I got the call from Stevie that Mick Fleetwood wanted
them to join [his band]. It wasn’t a very good deal – no part of the
publishing. They were just paid sidemen, really. But that changed
real quickly.”
The problems that broke up Fritz began to plague Fleetwood Mac
as Nicks again became the band’s undisputed star. But nearly 40
years after joining the band, Stevie is still with Fleetwood Mac,
who are currently headlining their first tour in three years and
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will play at Montreal’s Bell Centre on June 18.
When asked what it is about Stevie (whose most
recent solo album was the Dave Stewart-produced
In Your Dreams in 2011) that has made her
a gay icon (there is even the famous all-star dragqueen
tribute in NYC each spring called Night of
a Thousand Stevies which Nicks says she will one
day attend in disguise), Forest replies without
missing a beat: “Gay men have always loved their
dance divas, but Stevie has always appealed to
the gay guy rockers. It’s the outfits, the twirling,
the persona. The gay guys just really dig her.”
As for Forest – after seeing both the music and
porn businesses decimated by the digital revolution
– he keeps plugging away, writing his memoirs and looking
for his next big star. Says the man I call The Starmaker, “I’ll probably
die at my desk.”
6 RICHARD BURNETT
Fleetwood Mac headline Montreal’s Bell Centre on June 18. Tickets cost
$64 to $156.
Read Richard Burnett’s POP TART blog for The Montreal Gazette at
http://blogs.montrealgazette.com/category/montreal/pop-tart/.
Read Burnett’s national queer-issues column Three Dollar Bill online at
www.bugsburnett.blogspot.com.