It's Friday ... in case, for some reason, you didn't know that. That means it's time for another episode of Friday Night Videos.
Every week I like to tell a little story to explain why I have chosen an artist to feature.
Well, this week unfortunately I got nothing. Really, nothing. I wish that I could share some cool story about Stevie Nicks. Something like: 'we met one night in a hotel bar and we really hit it off. To make a long story short, we had a hot and heavy weekend ... she started falling for me, but I wasn't ready for serious relationship so I had to let her down easy. We will always have the memories of blah blah blah.'
None of that really happened.
Here is the short of it. It's Stevie Nicks ... its a great song ... and it's the first song I thought of when I started pondering this post.
No, honestly I friggin love this song!
So here is an amazing song from the only woman who could make a shawl sexy:
Here is some history:
Nicks has often told the story of how she wrote the song. She wrote it on the day of her marriage to Kim Anderson on January 29, 1983. The newlyweds were driving up to San Ysidro Ranch in Santa Barbara when Prince's song "Little Red Corvette" came on the radio. Nicks started humming along to the melody, especially inspired by the lush synthesizers of the song, and "Stand Back" was born. They stopped and got a tape recorder and she recorded the demo in the honeymoon suite that night. Later, when Nicks went into the studio to record the song, she called Prince and told him the story of how she wrote the song to his melody. He came to the studio that night and played synthesizers on it, although his contribution is uncredited on the album. He and Nicks did agree however to split the publishing royalties on the song 50-50. Then, she says, "he just got up and left as if the whole thing happened in a dream." The main intro of the song features an Oberheim OB-Xa synthesizer. The synth-bass is played on a Roland Jupiter-8. On the Rock a Little tour, the Oberheim is replaced with a Yamaha DX7.
Two videos were filmed for the single. The first, which was never aired and is referred to as the "Scarlett Version", was a lavish production directed by Brian Grant and features Nicks in a Gone with the Wind type scenario. Upon seeing the completed video, Nicks rejected it as, according to Grant, she felt she looked fat. This version can now be found (with Nicks commentary) on the DVD supplement of her 2007 collection Crystal Visions – The Very Best of Stevie Nicks.
As an alternative, a second video was made on a much lower budget than the original. Directed by choreographer Jeffrey Hornaday, it shows Nicks performing the song behind a microphone in a spotlight-filled room surrounded by glass walls and mirrors, interspersed with shots of choreographed dance sequences. This was the version aired on television and was also included on Nicks' 1986 video compilation I Can't Wait - The Video Collection as well as the aforementioned Crystal Visions compilation DVD. - Wiki
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Stephanie Lynn Nicks (born May 26, 1948) is an American singer and songwriter. Nicks is a songwriter and vocalist with Fleetwood Mac, and also performs solo. 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 120 million records, making them one of the best-selling music bands of all time.
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