Stevie Nicks owes songwriting to the boy who broke her heart aged 15
Stevie Nicks says she owes her songwriting abilities to the boy who broke her heart when she was 15.
The Fleetwood Mac star reveals that she was so devastated by the break up that she was inspired to pick up her guirae and pen her first tune.
She recalls: "I have a lot of amazing memories, and I really do pull from my past (when songwriting)... (My first song) was about the first boy that I fell in love with, who was, like, the guy in 10th grade and I was so taken with him. We went out for, like, a month, and then he started going out with my best friend and that ended in two weeks.
"Then the summer happened and I picked up my guitar... and I wrote a song about him."
And Nicks confesses she still has feelings for man who started it all.
She continues, "I sometimes wonder had it not been for that experience... because even now I'm still really good friends with him. He lives in Michigan (and) he brings his wife and comes to the show. And even now, when he walks in the show, I have to say... my heart still skips a little bit of a beat. I was 15-and-a-half!
"But I wonder sometimes, had that not happened, would I have gone so fiercely into songwriting? I'm not sure."
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