STEVIE NICKS – ROCK A LITTLE LP – Nr MINT 1985 FLEETWOOD MAC

Stevie Nicks – Rock A Little
(Parlophone Records  1985  0622404721)
Matrix No’s: A1/B1

Vinyl in Nr MINT condition
(there are some light surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality)

Sleeve in Excellent condition
– sticker mark in top left corner and small split in top edge
Inner Sleeve has small splits either side

Stephanie Lynn “Stevie” Nicks (born May 26, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter who is often referred to as the Queen of Rock and Roll.

Nicks is best known for her work with Fleetwood Mac, and for her chart-topping solo career. She is known for her distinctive voice, mystical stage persona and poetic, symbolic lyrics. Collectively, her work both as a member of Fleetwood Mac and as a solo artist has produced over 40 top-50 hits and sold over 140 million records, making her one of the best selling music acts of all time with Fleetwood Mac.

Her influence in fashion, music and musical performance is widely acknowledged; and as such, she has been named one of the 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time, and as one of the world’s top “100 Greatest Singers of All Time” by Rolling Stone. As a member of Fleetwood Mac, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. She has garnered eight Grammy Award nominations and two American Music Award nominations as a solo artist. She has won numerous awards with Fleetwood Mac, including a Grammy Award and five Grammy Award nominations.

Nicks joined Fleetwood Mac in 1975 along with her then boyfriend, Lindsey Buckingham. Rumours, Fleetwood Mac’s second album after the incorporation of Nicks and Buckingham, was the best-selling album of the year of its release, and to date, has made sales of over 40 million copies worldwide, making it the fifth-highest selling studio album of all time. The album remained at number one on the American albums chart for 31 weeks and reached Number One in various countries worldwide. The album won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1978. It produced four U.S. top-10 singles, with Nicks’ “Dreams” being the band’s first and only U.S. number-one hit.

In 1981, while remaining a member of Fleetwood Mac, Nicks began her solo career, releasing the album Bella Donna, which topped the Billboard album charts and reached platinum status less than three months after its release, and has since been certified quadruple-platinum. She has released a total of eight solo studio albums to date, with her most recent titled 24 Karat Gold: Songs from the Vault, released in October 2014. During her solo career, she has had a close working relationship with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. They served as a backing band for several tracks on each of her solo albums, and the two toured and performed together frequently over the past three decades. The song “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around”, performed by Nicks and Petty, was one of the biggest hits for either artist.

Rock a Little is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter and Fleetwood Mac vocalist Stevie Nicks.

Released in late 1985 while Fleetwood Mac were still on a lengthy hiatus following their album Mirage in 1982, Rock a Little hit the top 20 in its second week and ultimately peaked at #12 on the U.S. Billboard charts, and was certified platinum after just 1 month of its release for sales in excess of 1,000,000 units. It was also certified gold in the UK for sales in excess of 100,000 units. Although sales did not match Nicks’ earlier albums, Bella Donna and The Wild Heart (both selling in excess of 4 and 2 million copies in the U.S. respectively), Rock a Little produced the hits “Talk to Me” (US#4), “I Can’t Wait” (US#16), and the mainstay encore for Nicks’ live shows, “Has Anyone Ever Written Anything for You” (US#60). A fourth single, “Imperial Hotel” was released in Australia. The album peaked at #5 in Australia, #8 in Canada, and #30 in the UK.

Track listing

All songs written by Stevie Nicks, except where noted.

1. “I Can’t Wait” (Stevie Nicks, Rick Nowels, Eric Pressly) – 4:37
2. “Rock a Little (Go Ahead Lily)” – 3:39
3. “Sister Honey” (Nicks, Les Dudek) – 3:50
4. “I Sing for the Things” – 3:45
5. “Imperial Hotel” (Nicks, Mike Campbell) – 2:53
6. “Some Become Strangers” (David Williams, Amy Latelevision, Peter Rafelson) – 3:30
7. “Talk to Me” (Chas Sandford) – 4:10
8. “The Nightmare” (Stevie Nicks, Chris Nicks) – 5:23
9. “If I Were You” (Rick Nowels, Nicks) – 4:31
10. “No Spoken Word” – 4:14
11. “Has Anyone Ever Written Anything for You?” (Nicks, Keith Olsen) – 4:34

Personnel

• Stevie Nicks — lead vocals
• Jamie Sheriff — synthesizers, programming (tracks 1-3, 11)
• Billy Payne — synthesziers (track 2)
• Charles Judge — synthesizers, piano (tracks 3-4, 8-9, 11)
• Greg Phillinganes — synthesziers, keyboards, timpani (tracks 5, 7)
• Chas Sandford — synthesizers, guitar, bass guitar (track 6)
• Rick Nowels — keyboards (tracks 1, 3, 8, 10-11)
• Bill Cuomo — keyboards (track 10)
• Benmont Tench — piano, organ (tracks 5-6)
• George Black — guitar, bass (tracks 1, 3, 8)
• Michael Landau — guitar, background vocals (tracks 1, 3, 8)
• Waddy Wachtel — guitar (tracks 2, 10)
• Danny Kortchmar — guitar (track 3)
• Mike Campbell — guitar (track 4)
• Kenny Edwards — bass (track 2)
• Bob Glaub — bass (tracks 4-5)
• Michael Porcaro — bass (track 10)
• Bobbye Hall — percussion (track 3)
• David Kemper — percussion, tambourine (tracks 9, 11)
• Steve Jordan — drums (track 2, 5, 6)
• Russ Kunkel — drums (track 3)
• Andy Newmark — drums (tracks 8-9)
• Denny Carmassi — drums (track 10)
• Barney Wilen — saxophone (track 6)
• Lori Perry-Nicks — background vocals
• Sharon Celani — background vocals (tracks 1-10)
• Maria Vidal — background vocals (tracks 1-2, 7-8)
• Marilyn Martin — background vocals (tracks 1-3, 5-6, 10)
• Carolyn Brooks — background vocals (track 11)