Stevie Nicks Releases New Track ‘The Lighthouse’
Stevie Nicks released the new anthemic and timely song “The Lighthouse.”
In a statement shared via social media, Nicks says of the new song, “I wrote this song a few months after Roe v. Wade was overturned. It seemed like overnight, people were saying, ‘What can we, as a collective force, do about this…’ For me, it was to write a song.”
She continued, “It took a while because I was on the road. Then early one morning I was watching the news on TV and a certain newscaster said something that felt like she was talking to me~ explaining what the loss of Roe v. Wade would come to mean. I wrote the song the next morning and recorded it that night. That was September 6, 2022. I have been working on it ever since.”
Nicks concluded, “I have often said to myself, ‘This may be the most important thing I ever do. To stand up for the women of the United States and their daughters and granddaughters ~ and the men that love them.’ This is an anthem.”
“The Lighthouse” can be heard below and is available for streaming/download here.
In recent years, Nicks has become more vocal on a variety of political and controversial issues. In a 2020 interview with The Guardian, she talked about the abortion she had in 1979 when she was dating Don Henley. Nicks said, “If I had not had that abortion, I’m pretty sure there would have been no Fleetwood Mac. There’s just no way that I could have had a child then, working as hard as we worked constantly.” She also cited her then-heavy use of drugs as another reason for terminating her pregnancy.
Around the time she began work on “The Lighthouse,” Nicks released a cover of Buffalo Springfield’s “For What It's Worth.” At the time, Nicks said of the cover, “I meant something to me then, and it means something to me now. I always wanted to interpret it through the eyes of a woman, and it seems like today, in the times that we live in, that it has a lot to say.”
In 2020, she released a song titled “Show Them The Way,” which was inspired by notable figures from the 1960s — including President John F. Kennedy, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rep. John Lewis and Robert F. Kennedy — and the Black Lives Matter protests.
