Stevie Nicks’s New Album Will Bring Some Fleetwood Smack

Somebody get Don Henley to a safe location. Lindsey Buckingham, witness protection. Who has eyes on Joe Walsh? Stevie Nicks has teased that she’s working on a new album, her first in over a decade, which she’s calling a “ghost record” for reasons that will send chills down the spines of certain men from her past. “I have seven songs, and they’re autobiographical, real stories where I’m not pulling any punches for probably the first time in my life,” Nicks said during her acceptance speech at the 2025 Pollstar Awards. “They’re not airy-fairy songs that you’re wondering who they’re about but you don’t really get it. They’re real stories of memories of mine — of fantastic men.” From the podium, Nicks warned presenter Jimmy Iovine, a former lover, “you’re next.”

In her speech, Nicks said she began writing the album over the last few weeks after the Los Angeles wildfires temporarily displaced her from her home. “I was sitting in a hotel for 92 days, 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,” she explained. “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.” Nicks pointed to an interaction with Prince that served as the basis for “where the record began,” which occurred at the 1984 premiere of Purple Rain. When Prince’s character slapped Apollonia in the film, Nicks was so distraught that she left and sat in a bathroom until the screening ended. Later, when she tried to gift Prince a “24-karat necklace with little gold hearts on it,” he turned cold and busted out the scripture: “You always bring me a gift. You never bring me you.” Weird, now we have chills.