For years, Stevie Nicks has kept a treasured 1970-era photograph
framed and with her on the road, getting untold moments of inspiration
while touring both as a solo artist and with Fleetwood Mac. She’s
pictured with George Harrison, along with the well-known Maui restauranteur Bob Longhi.
Nicks, as revealed in Graeme Thomson’s George Harrison: Behind The Locked Door,
was in Hawaii at the time doing some uncredited co-writing with the
former Beatles star. Nicks was said to have contributed to “Here Comes
the Moon,” from 1979′s George Harrison.
This treasured photograph was apparently taken while the guitarist put
the finishing touches on “Soft-Hearted Hana,” from the same studio
project — which was, in turn, dedicated to Longhi.
The image from that long-ago impromptu collaboration in 1978, originally passed along by a friend, stays with Nicks even today.
“When I go on the road it goes right on my makeup mirror,” Nicks says.
“So before I go on stage, whether it’s with Fleetwood Mac or me in my
solo career, the three of us are looking back at me and that has been my
inspiration every single night. There’s lots of nights where you kind
of go, I wish I didn’t have to go on stage tonight, I’m tired, I don’t
feel like doing it, and I look at George Harrison and look at Longhi and
look at me and I go: ‘Well, you just have to, because it’s important,
it’s important to make people happy, so get out of your chair, put on
your boots and go out there and do your thing.’”
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