"I was very influenced by Janis Joplin, the one time
I saw Janis in person and all the times I saw her on television with her feathers & her
bell-bottomed pants & her beautiful silky blouse tops." Stevie liked the look so much that she traveled to San Francisco to try to duplicate it at the
Velvet Underground, a store where Joplin & Jefferson Airplane's Grace Slick bought their
clothes. "It was a tiny little store, but it had the most beautiful things," Nicks recalled.
"Tunic tops that came down to your mid-thigh and evening gown, old-lady nightgown material
bell-bottoms that weren't really wide, but instead fell straight over a really high boot.
It was in that room where I thought 'These are the kind of clothes I'm going to wear
forever.' " *
"I danced around as Isadora Duncan at four years old. And my parents said 'What are we gonna do?' I'd pay my brother 50 cents a week, just to dance with me, just because I loved to dance so much."**
Garbo
by Stevie Nicks
I love to waltz with a man in a dark linen suit
All alone -- at a party with someone I knew
From a time gone by -- turned to stone
You could be Garbo or even Marlene
You could be Marilyn...
Or you could forget
I play the part but then all of us do
And I do it so well as I do it to you
In this town full of strangers
In this town full of fools
Venus doesn't glitter when she stands next to you
When you're waltzing through stardom
You miss what you lose
Lose yourself in a silvery dress
For you think you must do what you feel you do best
And you musn't give it up for you're still but a guest
You could be Garbo or even Marlene...
Or you could forget
*from an article by Booth Moore of the LA Times
**from "Everything You Want to Know About Stevie Nicks" by Ethlie Ann Vare and Ed Ochs (1984)
Layout and all other written material Copyright 1996-2006 Catresea Ann Canivan for Stevie Nicks Dreamweaver of Shadow and Light
