Rock Goddess | 03/31/2009 8:05 am
Stevie Nicks: This Is What 60 Looks Like Now (Video)
No computer, no cell phone, no face-lift. ‘I am old-school all the way. School of rock.’
Stevie Nicks is a very busy woman.
Some 40 years into one of the most remarkable careers in music, she is touring the country with her famous supergroup, Fleetwood Mac, which still fills large venues with rapturous baby-boomer fans; she is releasing a new solo CD, "The Soundstage Sessions," as well as a new solo concert DVD, "Live in Chicago."
And that’s just March and April. So what’s with this sudden flurry of activity?
"It wasn’t meant to all be together," Nicks told wowOwow in an interview squeezed in during a short break in the concert tour. "Live in Chicago" was supposed to release last October, but with the Election, it was moved to this two-week period while the tour is on vacation."
What’s it like to be a rock goddess at the tender age of 60? "I would be lying to you if I told you it was easy. Our show is very hard and very long: two hours and ten minutes. Spinning around in seven-inch heels, it’s long. You have to be in really good shape. You have to take care of yourself."
In her new DVD, Stevie Nicks takes to the stage like the gypsy that she was: blonde hair to the waist. Morgane Le Fay wedding dress under a black jacket. Top hat. Feather. Ubiquitous scarves. As The Washington Post said about the Fleetwood Mac concert, "Nicks showed she still knows how to really work a shawl."
"I’ve never had a face-lift and I never will. I stopped laying in the sun at 28. I never go to bed with makeup on. I have creams and lotions and I take 20 minutes of rubbing it in my skin … like a little biochemist." Nicks tells her many female friends now in their 30s, "If you think you’re not going to care how you look when you’re 60, I’m here to tell you: You are going to care more. When you’re young and thin and cute, beauty, it’s your world. You will be sorry, later on, if you don’t take better care."
When asked about her online life, she skips barely a beat: "I don’t have a computer or a cell phone. I am old-school all the way. I am school of rock."
"In 1983 when I was going out with the love of my life, Joe Walsh (legendary rock god of James Gang and Eagles fame), he had built a room in a loft filled with pianos." According to Nicks, the first time she heard a tune she had just picked out on an electronic keyboard instantly played back by Walsh with full orchestration, she realized, "Everyone, even the violinists had been replaced."
Later that year, Walsh told Nicks he couldn’t be with her on her favorite holiday, Halloween, because he had to work on his computer.
"That means I have also been replaced. If computers are going to replace me in a man’s life and replace those violinists …"
That was the end of Nicks’s relationship with computers.
So no Facebook, no tweeting, no MySpacing for Nicks. She does have an official website, a good one — The Nicks Fix — which she infrequently posts to, but is kept up-to-date by her webmasters. (Great pictures, by the way.)
When asked who she wants to come back as in her next life, she says she wants to return as her Yorkie/Chinese Crested mix. "She only wears Ralph Lauren. She always wears Ralph Lauren. She travels like a rock star."
For More:
Stevie Nicks Live in Chicago DVD
Stevie Nicks The Soundstage Session CD
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It’s all a matter of opinion. I really liked McVie’s voice better; who can forget her amazing vocals on Rumours. But many like Nicks, so it’s all good. Hats off to her on a fun career.
"I’ve never had a facelift and I never will. I stopped laying in the sun at 28. I never go to bed with makeup on. I have creams and lotions and I take 20 minutes of rubbing it in my skin … like a little biochemist."
Horsefeathers!!
I guess a little tucks around the jawline, botox, fillers, and various mini-procedures don’t count as facelifts.
As soon as a star announces she hasn’t had a facelift, I think, "Wow. She’s had a facelift."
I once interviewed a very famous plastic surgeon, and one of the things I asked him was whether it was possible for a professional to tell if a woman had had work done on her face. He toldme that if a woman looks far younger than other women her age, then she probably has had work done — although it might not be a full "lift."
Then he told me about a time when he was seated next to the late Princess Grace at an event, and he was trying to see if he could spot any scars. Apparently Grace caught on to what he was up to, because she deliberately angled her head and neck so that he could see nothing. He said it was almost like a little game that he and she were playing.
Lots of people who are on TV go from one "mini-lift" to another, so they don’t have to disappear for large stretches of time. One newswoman — who is now nearly 80, but looks a lot younger — has been spotted periodically leaving the offices of plastic surgeons, although there’s never been a sudden, radical change in her appearance to suggest she had a facelift.
I don’t necessarily think that women who have had plastic surgery should announce it, but to deny that there has been work done when there actually has been is unfair to other women.
It makes them feel that they are losing their looks because, somehow, nature didn’t grant the the privilege of eternal youth that apparently comes with being rich or famous.
It’s simply not fair — or honest — to write "This Is What 60 Looks Like Now."
Sixty only looks like that with a lot of help and money. And I agree with you that there’s no shame at all in having plastic surgery. People carry on as if it were some kind of moral failing.
Perhaps if we were more honest, we’d be able to enjoy a bit of much-needed optimism about what can be done to make us look better.
You may say Horsefeathers but there are those of us that hated the sun. Growing up my sister teased me for being ghost white when she was a bronzed goddess. I told her that one day I will be hot and she will look like a Coach bag. Well, she is still 2 years my junior and I look 20 years her junior. She tells me often how much she wished she was never a sun worshiper in her youth because at 42 I am stilled asked for ID at the Bar but she isn’t.
Believe it or not a person can get into their 40s, 50s, 60s without looking like they are old. The sun is the killer and if you avoided it for all you’re worth then you can look decades younger than your peers.
Ummm…how SURE are we that they HAVEN’T had work done? It’s not that I doubt them, it’s just…they look SOOOO good and considering their age…………
Yes I’m horrible, I realize this.
All I’m sayin’ is that, these days, YA NEVER KNOW. Besides, does it really matter, anyway? As long as women who look good FEEL as good as they look on the inside, and/or they do it for THEMSELVES.
There’s no question but that some behaviors are aging, including overexposure to the sun, drinking, smoking and doing drugs.
It’s easy to say — if you’re only 42 — "Believe it or not a person can get into their 40s, 50s, 60s without looking like they are old." It is indeed possible to look like you’re 20 at your age.
But after menopause, the equation changes and your skin and your body become a lot less cooperative than you’ve grown used to.
In ten or fifteen years, you’ll eat those words. People who look like they are twenty or thirty years old by the time they are sixty have had surgical assistance of some sort, whether they admit it or not. Like Washington Cube, I think admitting it is better so that people like you are not deceived into thinking that youth goes on forever, just as long as you do healthy things and stay of of the sun. That’s simply not how it works. Sorry.
Well, thanks for raining on my parade. LOL. What about genetics? My Dad is 71 and looks like he’s in his 50s. I’m gonna continue to believe I can look young even at 60. I also act 12 and that’s not gonna stop anytime soon either because I plan on riding my Harley and doing the other fun things I love to do well into my 80s if I should live that long.
A girl can dream can’t she.