Stevie Nicks doesn’t have many regrets, but she does regret not meeting David Bowie. When you look at the singers, it’s easy to imagine that they would have been friends. However, somehow they never met. Nicks knows that if they had, they would have collaborated immediately. (Cheatsheet)
Stevie Nicks regrets not meeting David Bowie
Nicks has collaborated with many artists over the years, including Sheryl Crow, Dave Stewart, Don Henley, and Tom Petty. Yet, as Dazed wrote, “there are some artists she never did approach to work with, even if they seemed like a natural fit. David Bowie, for instance.”
Nicks regrets not meeting and collaborating with Bowie. “You know what, I don’t even know that I ever met David Bowie,” Nicks told Dazed. “Had I ever met him, I probably would have said the first thing I usually say whenever I meet somebody who is one of my heroes: ‘Maybe we could get together and work on a song or something?’ That’s usually my first line, because that’s all I really want from all these people – to be in their presence and study what they do.”
“I missed out on that,” Nicks continued. The Fleetwood Mac frontwoman was a massive Bowie fan, but, surprisingly, she never met him. They had to have had mutual friends.
Nicks and Bowie have a lot in common too. They are performance artists and extravagant in their own ways. Nicks knew this too.
“I loved a lot of his songs,” she continued. “A great singer-songwriter. He was also a performance artist. He had a lot of talent and in a lot of different ways. He was a special guy. Really special. I am sorry, because you look back on your life and think, ‘Why didn’t I get on an airplane and go see David Bowie? Why didn’t I get on an airplane and go see a lot of people that I’ll never get to meet now?'”
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