Stevie was in Australia in November for the Victorian Racing Carnival - she had a race named for her, The Stevie Nicks Stakes - and to promote the Australian leg of her Gold Dust solo tour, which begins in February, including performing separate concerts with John Farnham and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. It might be summer, but we are sitting in her living room with a fire roaring, with Stevie’s Yorkshire terrier Sulamith at her side, and it feels perfect. “I sit here, the ocean crashes outside and I write in my journal, then go to the piano. “My idea of a good time is right there,” she says pointing to a desk in her study. Meet Stevie Nicks and you learn it’s impossible to separate her from her home (she has another in her birthplace of Phoenix, Arizona), which for her is both a cocoon and source of inspiration. One of the things I love about going to Australia is that I can stay by the ocean wherever I go.” I need the roar of the ocean it gives me energy. “But the thing that makes it for me is the ocean. “I designed this place, it’s all me,” Stevie says proudly, showing The Weekly around her 1927 two-story, Spanish-style abode. The Pacific Ocean outside provides the perfect soundtrack, as the sound of waves lapping the shore seeps into every corner of the house. There are fairy dolls and life-size sprites, gold scarves and velvet couches, beaded pillows and antique lamps. It’s early afternoon and there are candles lit and dripping, the sweet smell of incense fills every room. What if, privately, Stevie Nicks keeps things simple? Then you step inside and immediately start smiling, relieved. So as you make your way past the hedges blooming with bougainvillea, roses, honeysuckle and jasmine, up the white steps inlaid with Spanish titles, your heart starts to beat a little faster, your curiosity gets the better of you. When its owner is the ultimate rock poet, a woman who has spent 30 years channeling gypsies, sprites and goddesses, it’s only natural to envision velvet surrounds and lace shawls - bohemian meets heavenly. THE ONLY THING you’re hoping as your car climbs the sweeping driveway to Stevie Nicks’ Los Angeles oceanfront home is that you won’t be disappointed, that the house will be as you imagine it.
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