Talk:Rhiannon (song)

Was This Song Written for Fleetwood Mac?

This article claims that Stevie Nicks wrote "Rhiannon" for Fleetwood Mac. According to the wikipedia page for the 1975 album Fleetwood Mac, however, the song was written for her previous band, Buckingham Nicks and performed on a number of occasions live before she and Lindsey Buckinham joined Fleetwood Mac. There is no citation for either claim. There is a recording available on YouTube that purports to be a live Buckingham Nicks performance of the song (though this is pretty sketchy evidence). It would be great if someone with some actual evidence for either version of the story would add a citation and correct the articles if necessary.--BenA (talk) 04:34, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

There is a transcribed interview with Bob Aguirre — one of the co-founders of Fritz and a drummer in the Buckingham Nicks live band — that should settle this matter authoritatively. On the Fleetwood Mac fan website The Penguin, in a question-and-answer session with website readers (posted in December 2001), Aguirre confirms that Stevie Nicks did indeed write “Rhiannon” in 1974, before she joined Fleetwood Mac.

According to Aguirre, “Yes, BN [Buckingham Nicks] did many recognizable FM [Fleetwood Mac] tunes: ‘Monday Morning,’ ‘I Don’t Want to Know,’ ‘Rhiannon,’ which was the newest song we did, ‘Sorcerer,’ which is on Stevie’s latest album [2001’s Trouble in Shangri-La], ‘Blue Letter.’ ” Aguirre also submitted a written Buckingham Nicks set list to the site owner to post, which confirmed his statement.

Aguirre added in a response to a question about how the song was performed in 1974: “When we did the song in Alabama, we needed another up-tempo song in the set, so we made it faster. You can hear Stevie say right after her intro, ‘Remember, not to fast.’ But the arrangement as you know it was already intact [before Fleetwood Mac recorded it].” (He also revealed that Lindsey Buckingham’s “I’m So Afraid” on the 1975 Fleetwood Mac album was written and recorded as a demo in 1974.)

For additional authoritative evidence, on the same website see the question-and-answer session with Gary “Hoppy” Hodges, a drummer on the Buckingham Nicks album in 1973. Hodges says about a series of Buckingham Nicks gigs in the Deep South, “We did a full set — ‘Lola (My Love),’ ‘Rhiannon,’ ‘Don’t Let Me Down Again,’ ‘Crystal,’ ‘Lady from the Mountain’ [later recorded on Nicks’s In Your Dreams in 2011 and retitled ‘Moonlight’], ‘Frozen Love,’ ‘Races Are Run,’ ‘I Don’t Want to Know,’ and ‘Blue Letter.’ We did them all, no covers.

Finally, the YouTube material advertised as Buckingham Nicks live audio is indeed Buckingham Nicks, from various gigs in 1974 and early 1975, including Tuscaloosa (Alabama) and Birmingham (Alabama). The audio surfaced about twenty years ago from Xavier Pacheco and other members of Fritz (the band that Buckingham and Nicks were a part of in college). 198.102.58.250 (talk) 23:27, 1 July 2022 (UTC)

At Odds?

The beginning sentences of these two paragraphs seem at odd to me:

"After writing the song, Nicks learned that Rhiannon was a Welsh goddess, and was amazed that the haunting song lyrics applied to the Welsh Rhiannon as well."

"Nicks later learned that Rhiannon was not a witch at all, but a mythical Welsh goddess."

What it seems to me that happened is that someone added part and didn't check to make sure it flowed. Any suggestions guys? Billvoltage (talk) 21:11, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

picture

why not add a pic of stevie's painting of rhiannon? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.105.119.203 (talk) 00:16, 2 April 2007 (UTC).

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BetacommandBot 22:10, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

certification

Silver awards in the UK are for 200,000 sales. They were downgraded from 250,000 in 1980s. These are downloads/streams since 2004 Coachtripfan (talk) 15:22, 1 February 2020 (UTC)