Stevie Nicks reflects on ‘Bella Donna’ 40 years on: “It defined how I would feel about love forever”
Stevie Nicks has shared some insights into her debut solo album ‘Bella Donna’, commemorating its 40th anniversary yesterday (July 27).Posting an excerpt of her journal on Instagram, the singer-songwriter said she teamed up with backing vocalists Lori Perry-Nicks and Sharon Celani to create the record, aspiring to be the “girl version” of Crosby, Stills and Nash and to sound nothing like Fleetwood Mac.According to Nicks, the title track was written “about my boyfriend’s mother who was involved with a man in Chile during the coup that happened there in 1973.”“The man she loved was banished to France,” Nicks wrote.“Banished or imprisoned, that was the choice.