Gold Dust Woman

The Biography of Stevie Nicks

By: Stephen Davis

Narrated by: Christina Delaine

Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins

Publisher's summary

Gold Dust Woman gives "the gold standard of rock biographers" (the Boston Globe) his ideal topic: Nicks' work and life are equally sexy and interesting, and Davis delves deeply into each, unearthing fresh details from new, intimate interviews and interpreting them to present a rich new portrait of the star. Just as Nicks (and Lindsay Buckingham) gave Fleetwood Mac the "shot of adrenaline" they needed to become real rock stars - according to Christine McVie - Gold Dust Woman is vibrant with stories and with a life lived large and hard:

• How Nicks and Buckingham were asked to join Fleetwood Mac and how they turned the band into stars
• The affairs that informed Nicks' greatest songs
• Her relationships with the Eagles' Don Henley and Joe Walsh, and with Fleetwood himself
• Why Nicks married her best friend's widower
• Her dependency on cocaine, drinking, and pot, but how it was a decade-long addiction to Klonopin that almost killed her
• Nicks' successful solo career that has her still performing in venues like Madison Square Garden
• The cult of Nicks and its extension to chart-toppers like Taylor Swift and the Dixie Chicks

©2017 Stephen Davis (P)2017 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Wow!

A candid and open biography on the life of Stevie Nicks. Some of the material in this book cross reference easily with the books “Storms” by Carol Ann Harris on her life with Lindsey Buckingham and Fleetwood Mac, and Making Rumours by Ken Callait. So a lot of the information I’d heard through reading these aforementioned books. However there were quotes from interviews I’d never heard so it offers a pretty darn good mix of information. I found it to be wistful, and tragic and triumphant at the same time because that’s what her life was. She’s a trooper! 5 stars all around!

The narration was brilliant

I loved how she sounded when she was doing English accents whenever quoting Mick Fleetwood or Christine McVie. Riveting tale, and Stevie Nicks is truly an inspiration to me.

Very entertaining

I remember many events over the years in which Stevie and or Fleetwood Mac would be playing loudly in the background of my life. I enjoyed this very much

Covers Both Stevie and Fleetwood Mac

I had been trying to decide if I should get this book, or one on Fleetwood Mac. To my delight, this does a great job of covering both. It was one of those books that made me want to keep driving, just so that I could listen longer.
Christina Delaine's voice is perfect for the book.

STEVIE NICKS IS MORE THAN GOLD DUST. SHE'S GOLD!!!

All I can say is that this book was Awesome, wonderful, great, cool, hip, moving, funny and most of all fabulous!!!

P.S. Buy it! you'll LOVE IT💖😁

would be a great book with a different narrator.

it was so annoying when the narrator would change her voice when quoting men, especially annoying when she quoted Mick Fleetwood with a bad English accent. Just read! Great biography despite this.

Epic. Life and bio.

Juicy, in-depth life story of a Rock goddess; may have to listen again. It's that good.

Honest and Detailed

Loved , loved this book! This book was very addictive, if you like going back in time of the rock and roll world . I just don’t know of any person who grew up in the 70s who doesn’t own the Rumors album. To learn how it all came to be is just fascinating. This book is like getting on a Stevie Nicks train and going for a heck of a long ride! And digging every minute of it. True talent and hard working is what I have learned about Stevie Nicks. This book made me laugh and cry! I didn’t want it to end!

Must Listen for Nicks or Mac Fans

This story is full of great information about Buckingham-Nicks, Fleetwood Mac and (of course) Stevie Nicks. Most fans have heard of the heartache and turmoil within Fleetwood Mac, but this book brings it to life with actual accounts and meanings of songs that you'd be hard-pressed to know without this book. It is not sugar-coated, nor does it seem to unnecessarily embellish. It's just like Stevie: honest and heart-felt. It made me hurt for her because it seems that she has unsuccessfully searched for her "one true love" for decades and it turns out that it's not a person, but rather music. Her disappointment in love is our blessing. It doesn't seem fair, however I can't imagine music without Stevie Nicks. Could only have been better if it were read by Stevie herself, however Christina Delaine did a fine job.

could have been better

The first chapter it didn't hold my interest it was kind of boring . she went into to much detail about Stevie Nicks Welch ancestors . I didnt care to much for it .