In their 70s imperial phase, Fleetwood Mac were hardly prudes. This is the band, after all, who considered thanking their cocaine dealer in the liner notes to their classic, world-conquering record Rumours. Stevie Nicks, for example, only knocked her drug addiction on the head when her doctor advised her that she wasn’t far off suffering a brain haemorrhage due to substance abuse. She already had a hole in her nose because of it. She took the advice seriously.
But it doesn’t mean that Nicks, a legend of rock’n’roll debauchery and one of the finest songwriters of her generation, doesn’t draw the line somewhere. And that line comes down just before people start swearing too much.
