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

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 .

A great book!

Excellent book. The reader was fun to listen to as well. The details into her history are there and it also brought to light some things I suspected might have gone on in her life. I adore you Stevie!!!!

Not what I expected

It wasn’t until the credits at the end did I find out this book was not authored by Stevie Nicks. I felt it was too many trash newspaper stories woven together to publish a pathetic story of a great singer. The narrator did a substandard attempt at speaking in an a English accent even tried to sing at one point. I’m disappointed with continuing to read this so called life of Stevie Nicks.

Amazing Life Story

I really enjoyed listening to this great life story and getting to know Stevie as well as many other iconics in the music business. Told with honesty we are taken on this wild ride of Stevie’s life from her grandpa teaching her, at age 5, harmony and performing in front of a small audience of strangers to performing for millions; from serving tables and mopping floors to making millions and living in luxury; from living with a man who controlled and abused her to being a strong independent single woman; from rock bottom drug dependency to an overcoming healthy life. Stevie Nicks is not just a rock and roll singer, she is an incredible song writer, caring, forgiving, loyal, deep person who you will be happy for as she overcomes the road blocks of life coming out a better person for it. She doesn’t shy from responsibility or admission of regrets. I didn’t know much about this woman 7 years my senior before listening. I feel I learned much and at the end of the day Stevie is a kind person of great success using her talents. I like Stevie Nicks. I really enjoyed this audio book!

Fantastic Book

A very well written biography of Stevie Nicks. The author wrote well the the reader was excellent!!!

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!