Love and enmity, big hair, addiction and masochistic amounts of ambition — the band Fleetwood Mac and “Dallas” have much in common. But only Fleetwood Mac has Stevie Nicks, a petite blonde who could scare the pants off J.R. Ewing if she hadn’t already charmed them off. Power attracts power, and as “Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks” reminds us, Nicks has always attained it her way, and always on her terms. Here the reader gets a solid chronology of Nicks’s musical career, both with Fleetwood Mac and as a solo artist. Ever since Nicks was pushed into taking off her blouse during the cover shoot for her and Lindsey’s debut album, “Buckingham Nicks ,” Nicks has controlled the presentation of her body on her own terms, though those terms are not suitable for all women.

Source: Washington Post December 21, 2017 14:05 UTC