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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.’
By Deborah Barrow, Editor-in-Chief

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."

Live in Chicago <span class="caps">DVD</span>

For More:

Fleetwood Mac Tour Dates

Stevie Nicks Live in Chicago DVD

Stevie Nicks The Soundstage Session CD

DOWN MEMORY LANE: Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty’s 1981 "Stop Dragging My Heart Around" Music Video:

63 Reader Comments (so far…) Sign In or Register to comment

roberta wickham

I think you should continue to take good care of yourself so that you can keep your options open.  You can have plastic surgery even when you’re 80, if you’ve managed to avoid cardiac or other health problems that are SOMETIMES influenced by lifestyle choices.  

A number of years ago, I interviewed Oleg Cassini.  At the time, he was well into his eighties.  Aside from his long career as a designer and a romancer of film stars, what I found extremely interesting about Cassini was his very youthful walk.  So I think that one of the main things that preserves the illusion of youth — besides an unlined face and a chiselled jawline — is a lively gait and good posture.  Visible eyebrows help a lot too, but I think others have pointed that out.

By roberta wickham on 04/01/2009 8:59 am
Val Page

I couldn’t agree with you more Roberta.  I’m 32 year’s old.  I’ve had cosmetic surgery on my breast’s, particularly my right breast, because there was excessive tissue, at a abnormal rate, than my left side.  It was very heavy, very painful, and it gave me immense pain in my neck, because it was so heavy, it affected my posture.  I’ve never looked back from that reconstructive surgery, and i’m proud of it, and quite happy to talk about it.  To see someone deny they’ve not had any surgery or botox, or any sort of uplift, and then look so airbrushed, is totally bogus, and does not make them real or likeable, just totally saddo.  

More and more, i see women over 40/50/60 look like they have the skin and hardly no wrinkles, that only lucky 25 year old’s have.  It’s even more sad, if they keep on denying they’ve had any work done.  Who are you fooling Stevie and the like.  Of course you have had work done, everyone in Hollywood does, like D’uh!!!.  And at the end of the day, ‘So What’, this is the twenty first century.  Who care’s if you’ve had work done or not.  It’s great if you don’t feel you need it, but don’t try to fool people that you haven’t had a little help, no one is that magical, especially at her age!.  

Val 

 

By Val Page on 05/14/2009 5:37 pm
N P

Thank you, Wow! Can’t get enough of Stevie. She just rocks!

And she pours her heart out. Love her Trouble in Shangri-La cd. Especially the songs, Every Day and Too Far from Texas. I am not sure, but I have a feeling that these songs are autobiographically correct. She’s not afraid to tell the truth.  

Love her version of Crash Into Me.

And she does an amazing version of Silent Night. What a hauntingly beautiful voice.    

By N P on 03/31/2009 11:21 am
Tinka Parker
She may have been slapping all those creams on, but she was undoing it all by taking heaps of drugs.
By Tinka Parker on 03/31/2009 12:16 pm
Tinka Parker
Love the music though.
By Tinka Parker on 03/31/2009 12:16 pm
Serena .

I love, love, LOVE Stevie Nicks.  I saw her back in the 90s in Tallahassee, Florida. 

You go girl!

By Serena . on 03/31/2009 12:57 pm
Kryssi K

I recently went through a phase where I had to listen to her song "Stand Back" AT LEAST five times before moving on to the next song on my mp3 player…

Have you heard her semi-recent "Trouble in Shangri-La"? Surprisingly perfect album. I can’t say there’s  a song on there I dislike!

By Kryssi K on 04/04/2009 4:59 am
WowedbywowOwow NYC

My husband to this day believes that Stevie Nicks is one of the sexiest women around.

 

By WowedbywowOwow NYC on 03/31/2009 1:43 pm
Andrea Brandon
She looks great.
By Andrea Brandon on 03/31/2009 5:07 pm
mike plante
Stevie Nicks is a really good person as well as a natural beauty at 60. She gives her time unselfishly to many worthy causes here in Phoenix as well as at Walter Reed Medical Center. As far as the caddy comments by the obviously saggy Roberta Wickams out there, horsefeathers. All you New York dollies who spent too many days by the pool in Boca can go pound sand. You couldn’t carry one of Stevie’s Boa’s on your best day.
By mike plante on 03/31/2009 7:41 pm
Deena B.
You know, I think I heard about her ties to Walter Reed Medical Center but had forgotten until I read your post.  Kudos to her for that!  I think I read she gives ipods, loaded with music, to the patients?  A very thoughtful gesture.  Did I also read that her father was a military man?  I may be wrong about that but, if so, I guess she has a special place in her heart for those folks.  When I was younger, I wanted her hair in the worst way!  If she has had any work done - and maybe she hasn’t - I will say it is one of the better jobs I have seen.  She certainly doesn’t have that tight, drawn look so many celebrities have.    
By Deena B. on 04/01/2009 7:57 am
roberta wickham

Since you know how nice a person Stevie is, as well as being closely familiar her eleemosynary career, I assume you are a personal friend, and possibly an employee, and therefore are possibly biased. 

Since you are making this personal, I look older than Stevie, because I AM older than Stevie.  I am also thinner than Stevie, so no, I don’t sag.  I am allergic to the sun, I don’t drink or smoke and — unlike some people (not mentioning any names) — I have never done drugs.  So I look okay for my age, but I’d be idiotic to pretend I’m in my twenties or thirties.

 As I said, nobody is forcing Nicks to own up to work she has had done, but it’s ridiculous — and offensive — for her to go out of her way to ANNOUNCE that she’s had no assistance from cosmetic surgeons.

It’s true the skin will wrinkle faster in a person who smokes, goes out in the sun, drinks alcohol — or does drugs.   But in the absence of those behaviors, the skin will wrinkle anyway — only slightly later.

By roberta wickham on 04/01/2009 8:33 am
Kris Merrill
What’s with all this nastiness and negativity!?! Smile and enjoy life and all the wonderful music!
By Kris Merrill on 04/01/2009 4:42 pm
Kris Merrill
If you look into most people’s faces you will see beauty - probably in their eyes. I’ve seen some people who’s "face" would be graded beautiful by magazines and plastic surgeons, but they aren’t beautiful. The eyes are empty. I really hope that women can stop obsessing over their looks. Obsessing is a negative place to be. By the way, I never learned to embroider. Grandma tried to teach me but it didn’t take. Hey,  Roberta, have a pleasant evening and have sweet dreams!
By Kris Merrill on 04/01/2009 9:39 pm
roberta wickham
Thank you.  I will.   Same to you, Kris.
By roberta wickham on 04/01/2009 10:23 pm