Stevie Nicks saved one thing particular for the encore of her large present final night time (July 12) at London’s Hyde Park, as she welcomed longtime good friend and occasional onstage collaborator Harry Styles for performances of her 1981 Tom Petty duet “Cease Draggin’ My Coronary heart Round” and the Fleetwood Mac basic “Landslide.”
As Nicks advised the 60,000-strong viewers, the event was a solution to have a good time what would have been the 81st birthday of her Fleetwood Mac bandmate Christine McVie, who died of most cancers in 2022.
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“It’s loads to ask somebody to sing a heavy track a couple of finest good friend that died so all of the sudden and so sadly,” she mentioned. “So, what I need to say to you is that Christine was Harry’s woman, she was my woman, she was your woman. She was from right here. and he or she liked all of us, and right now was her birthday.”
For Styles, who was sporting a songbird pin in an obvious reference to the McVie-penned track of the identical identify from Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours album, it was his first on-stage look since wrapping his Love On Tour outing nearly a yr in the past. He and Nicks have beforehand teamed up a number of instances at each other’s reveals, and he inducted Nicks into the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame as a solo artist in 2019. Each are managed by trade legend Irving Azoff’s firm Full Cease.
The Hyde Park setting was doubly acceptable tonight, as Nicks and Petty carried out “Cease Draggin’ My Coronary heart Round” collectively for the ultimate time in July 2017 on the similar venue. Petty died lower than three months later of an unintentional drug overdose.
Nicks has three extra reveals in Europe by way of the top of the month, and in late September will make up concert events in Grand Rapids, Mi., and Hershey, Pa., that had been initially postponed in June on account of sickness.
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