Stevie Nicks Confirms First Album in 14 Years, Featuring Prince Tribute
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It’s been 14 years since we’ve heard a new project from Stevie Nicks. While the legendary singer-songwriter is certainly no recluse–she tours from time to time, and has been known to join her countless devotees in today’s music industry for spontaneous sit-ins–and she still finds herself in the studio, as with her powerful 2024 single “The Lighthouse,” she hasn’t shared a collection of new material since 2011’s In Your Dreams. Now, at long last, she’s revealed that her next album is in the works.
At last night’s Pollstar Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif., while delivering a thoughtful acceptance speech for the trade organization’s Hall of Fame award, Nicks let it slip that she’s “actually making a record right now.” To the crowd of industry insiders and her producer Jimmy Iovine, who presented the award, the artist spoke to the origins of the still-forming project she calls ‘The Ghost Record,’ “because it just really kind of happened in the last couple weeks, because you know, the fires.”
“I was sitting in a hotel for 92 days,” Nicks shared, “and at some point during that last part of the 92 days, I said, ‘You know what? I feel like I’m on the road, but there’s no shows. I’m just sitting here by myself because everybody else is at the house, doing all the remediations and everything, and it’s just me, sitting here.’ And I thought, ‘You need to go back to work.’ And I did.”
Describing the content of her first full-length release since 2014’s archival collection 24 Karat Gold: Songs from the Vault, she said, “I have seven songs, and they are autobiographical real stories where I’m not pulling any punches for probably the first time in my life. They are not airy-fairy songs that you are wondering who they’re about, but you don’t really get it. They’re real stories of memories of mine, of fantastic men!”
After telling Iovine, “You’re next,” Nicks spoke to another one of the figures recalled in the album, and the one who’s urging spurred her refreshed lens: Prince. To evoke the singular character of her dearly departed friend, the artist recalled attending the premiere for his 1984 quasi-autobiographical film Purple Rain and abruptly leaving after the scene in which his character slaps Apollonia. At the afterparty, she confessed to Prince that the scene upset her, but still offered him a gold necklace as a gift.
“And he goes, ‘I don’t want your necklace,’” she recalled. “And then he said–this is in the song, this is where the record began–‘You always bring me a gift; you never bring me you.’”
Nicks closed by saying she’s ready to write “so that I can go back on the road and do what I love the most.” To that effect, she announced a solo tour earlier this week, with nine dates scattered across North America accompanying her previously announced co-headline dates with Billy Joel in August and October. Secure tickets for that run here, and read on for her full list of tour dates.
Watch Nicks’ Hall of Fame acceptance speech below.
Stevie Nicks 2025 Tour Dates:
3/29 – Detroit – Ford Field *
8/08 – East Rutherford, N.J. – MetLife Stadium *
8/12 – Boston – TD Garden
8/15 – Toronto, Ontario – Scotiabank Arena
8/19 – St. Paul, Minn. – Xcel Energy Center
8/23 – Cincinnati – Heritage Bank Center
8/27 – Columbia, S.C. – Colonial Life Arena
8/30 – Tampa, Fla. – Amalie Arena
10/04 – Santa Clara, Calif. – Levi’s Stadium *
10/07 – Phoenix – PHX Arena
10/11 – Las Vegas – T-Mobile Arena
10/15 – Oklahoma City – Paycom Center
10/18 – New Orleans – Caesars Superdome *
* w/ Billy Joel
