Stevie Nicks 033 (second edition 062)

Look closer to find nine song titles and two lyrics: Sara; Landslide; Gold Dust Woman; Leather and Lace; Dreams; If Anyone Falls; Edge of Seventeen; Stand Back; Rhiannon; “Just Like the white-winged dove”(Edge of Seventeen); “Lightening strikes, maybe once maybe twice”(Gypsy)

Stephanie Lynn Nicks (born May 26, 1948) is an American singer and songwriter. Nicks is best known for her work as a songwriter and vocalist with Fleetwood Mac, and her chart-topping solo career. She is known for her distinctive voice, mystical stage persona and poetic, symbolic lyrics.  Her work both as a member of Fleetwood Mac and as a solo artist has produced over forty top 50 hits and sold over 140 million records, making her one of the best-selling music acts of all time with Fleetwood Mac.

Nicks joined Fleetwood Mac in 1975 along with her then-boyfriend, Lindsey Buckingham. Rumours, Fleetwood Mac’s second album after the incorporation of Nicks and Buckingham, was the best-selling album of the year of its release and to date has sold over 40 million copies worldwide, making it the fifth biggest-selling studio album of all time. The album remained at number one on the American albums chart for 31 weeks and reached number one in various countries worldwide. The album won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1978. It produced four US Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles, with Nicks’s “Dreams” being the band’s first and only Billboard Hot 100 number-one hit.

In 1981, while remaining a member of Fleetwood Mac, Nicks began her solo career, releasing the studio album Bella Donna, which topped the Billboard 200and has reached multi-platinum status. She released eight solo studio albums, with her most recent, 24 Karat Gold: Songs from the Vault, released in October 2014.

Nicks was named one of the 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time by Rolling Stone. She is the only woman to have been inducted twice into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as a member of Fleetwood Mac in 1998 and as a solo artist in 2019. She has garnered eight Grammy Award nominations and two American Music Award nominations as a solo artist. She has won numerous awards with Fleetwood Mac, including a Grammy Award and five Grammy Award nominations.

-credit Wikipedia

“From the very beginning of the first song I wrote before I turned 16 to the last song I ever wrote, there’s a certain thread that I use because it’s just what I do… The songs are all about love and heartbreak – how to pick up the pieces – how to keep moving… I’m really chronicling love from the very beginning. When you write a song and it doesn’t go on a record, it floats around in your life for years. You think about it and go over it until it becomes part of your world. These songs are now 24 Karat Gold. It all started when I fell crazy in love with a really super handsome kid from Arcadia High School who is still my really good friend today… Even now when he walks through the door, it’s like the same as when I saw him walking down the hall in 10th grade… He started me out as a songwriter… From that second onward I told my parents I was going to be a famous singer songwriter. I was 15 1/2.”

-credit stevienicksofficial.com

The artwork:

The first print of this illustration was sold at a silent auction for a non-profit benefit.

Digital Print on Archival Matte – Original illustration done in graphite and the following prisma colors: Aqua Marine for “But the sea changes colours” Edge of Seventeen; Violet Blue for “Violet and Blue” Against all Odds soundtrack; Goldenrod for 24 Karat Gold; Crimson for “red velvet shoes’ in Cathouse Blues also for the 99 references to the heart Stevie made throughout her songwriting career (yes, I counted them).

Artist: Tobin Bortner of Bastrop, Texas – drawing done in April of 2020 – ©Tobin Signs/Look Closer Illustrations

DERIVATIVE Work – photo credits: younger photo is from crystallineknowledge 10de8b0fc099a843055332424de5a21a; holding the mic is from Pitchfork StevieNicks_Ethan Miller-Getty Images630172804

What you get:
$40 (36.95 + 3.05 tax)
11 x 14 Print Package with Authenticity Sheet
signed and numbered (run of 90)
Domestic Priority Mail $8 (Free shipping)