She recalled the conversation on The Chris Isaak Hour in 2009: “I said, ‘What do you think about my nose?’ And he said, ‘Well, I think the next time you do a hit of cocaine, you could drop dead.'”
Just before leaving for Australia, Nicks was warned by a plastic surgeon of health problems or death if she didn’t stop her cocaine habit. Shortly after the tour supporting the album, Nicks joined Bob Dylan on tour with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers in Australia. She shot straight to number one with her debut solo album, Bella Donna, in 1981, and retained a similar level of commercial success with 1983’s The Wild Heart.īy the mid-1980s, Nicks was still seemingly on the top of her professional game with the release of Rock A Little in 1985, but this period marked a notably dark moment for the singer.
By the late-1970s, the band members had formed particularly strong addictions to the stimulant - as seemed customary for the entertaining elite of the 1970s and ‘80s.Įntering the 1980s, Nicks looked to spread her wings and pursue a solo career to allow more air time for her lyrics and some much-needed breathing space from her bandmates. The final ingredient added to the chaotic cauldron that spawned Rumourswas cocaine. The album was fraught with conflict, reflecting the tension in the band’s various strained relationships and infidelities. I say “best” with regards to the music, but “worst” regarding the state of utter chaos the group was in at the time. All rights reserved.The album famously showed the band at their best and worst. This iconic mobile recording studio now resides in the National Music Center in Calgary, Canada.Ĭopyright © 2023, ABC Audio. Realizing that would mean transporting all their equipment, their road manager and pianist Ian Stewart suggested building the recording equipment into a truck, allowing them to bring the studio to them anytime they wanted to record. The video explains that the recording studio was born out of the band’s desire to not take up studio time rehearsing and instead do that at Mick Jagger’s Stargroves estate in the English countryside. “The Rolling Stones Mobile Studio, built into the back of a truck, not only produced some of the band’s biggest albums but was also used to record some of the most iconic albums of the 1970s,” including albums by Fleetwood Mac, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath.
“Did you know that The Rolling Stones owned the world’s first independent recording studio on wheels?” reads a description of the almost 10-minute clip. The Rolling Stones are giving fans a little insight into their early recording process with a documentary about their mobile studio, which they call “the most important music studio on wheels.”
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