Watch Stevie Nicks play ‘Angel’ for the first time in over four decades
On October 1st, Stevie Nicks kicked off her US tour in Portland, Oregon, and included a Tusk classic on the official setlist.
Nicks was due to start her tour in August, but all of the dates had to be rescheduled due to “a recent injury resulting in a fractured shoulder.” The Fleetwood Mac star was to rest up for a few months and has certainly come back swinging.
She opened the show with a cover of ‘Not Fade Away’, sliding a few songs later into the classic Fleetwood Mac ‘Dreams’. She also played ‘Gypsy’ and ‘Gold Dust Woman’ from her Fleetwood Mac days, as well as 2024’s ‘The Lighthouse’, inspired by the overturning of Roe versus Wade by the US Supreme Court.
Nicks then pulled out all the stops for her twelfth song of the night, performing ‘Angel’ from the 1979 album Tusk. The last time Nicks had sung this live was in 1983.
‘Angel’ was originally the sixth and final single from Tusk. The song, she admitted in the liner notes of a 2015 reissue of Tusk, was “about Mick Fleetwood. Not so much my love affair with him. I was always taken with his style, and in those days he would walk in the room and I would just look up.”
She added, “It’s all about him and his crazy fob watch and his really beautiful clothes. He’s a very stylish individual and I was just this little California girl who’d never really known anybody like him.”
Nicks will continue the rest of her tour until December 10th, her last scheduled date, when she will play Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, Florida. Notable stops along the way include the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, on November 19th and the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on October 11th.
See footage of Nicks performing the song solo for the first time below.
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