“Our parents would play her records for us in the house constantly so we’ve been listening to Stevie’s music since we were born,” the Haim sisters shared via email. When Nicks invited the band to her home in 2014 for a T Magazine interview, Nicks gifted the trio with gold moon pendants modeled after her own. “We’d heard about them from other friends who’d received them saying that they hold the power of the moon. Stevie said when we meet someone who is in need of healing, it’s our job to give it to them.”
Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty performing “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” in 1981.
Photo: Larry HulstA new single, “Show Me The Way,” is a different kind of gift to her devotees. The single, out now, began life as a dream that occurred while she was in Chicago editing a concert special in 2008. After spending all day in the studio, Nicks would go home and watch the Democratic primaries or marathon documentaries about the civil rights movement. “I was like a student of history,” she recalls.
One night, Nicks had a crystalline vision: she was invited to a political benefit attended by the civil rights luminaries; Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led her down a hallway to a ballroom where John Lewis and John F. Kennedy awaited her. “I saw myself walking with Martin Luther King from the back, like I was standing on the other side of myself, and for the rest of my life I will have that burned across my heart,” she says now. “I walked down the hallway with him into that room with the Kenendys, and all the people surrounding the piano said ‘Play for us.’”