I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you're behind a guitar, you get used to being behind a guitar, and you don't really perform because you can't. I wanted to be able to just hold on to the mike and sing.

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On February 4 2012 (the 35th anniversary of the release of Rumours) the group Mirabelle released Crystal Revisions a tribute album consisting of Fleetwood Mac and Stevie Nicks covers. Margi Kent a designer from California has worked with Nicks since the 1970s to perfect her style. Recalling the strong influence of Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix on her music and life Stevie Nicks told a UK interviewer "I saw how they went down and a part of me wanted to go down with them.

Fleetwood Mac's second album after the incorporation of Nicks and Buckingham Rumours released in 1977 was the best-selling album of all time the year of its release and to date is the eighth best-selling album of all time having sold over 40 million copies worldwide. She has produced seven more solo studio albums to date with her most recent entitled In Your Dreams and released on May 3 2011. 1 on the American albums chart for 31 weeks and reached the top spot in various countries worldwide.