Stevie Nicks

“And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues!” (Mark 16:17) the preacher went on and on. God this bible that. The words entered Mistys left ear and shot out of her left ear like a bullet. She didn’t care. She knew she wasn’t the witch or demon these people though she was. She had already been through this in her nightmares. This time though, it was real. She could see the men setting up a wooden pole and pouring gasoline…

Feminism From 1970 and 1980 To Now The people and events from the 1970’s and 1980’s have greatly influenced feminism today. During this time period women reemerged as more rebellious to traditional female roles. Feminism is “The belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities. It is the theory of the political, economic and social equality of the sexes.” (Watson 2015). The second wave of Feminism was during this time period. Feminism used different forms of media and…

In one of my favorite songs, Stevie Nicks sings, “lighting strikes, maybe once, maybe twice.” I believe that if you don’t look up from your statistics and your charts and your lists and your plans, you’re not going to see the lightning when it strikes. And that, in my opinion, is truly…

his puppetry as more of a joke. On both What Time Is It? and Vanity 6, he played cat and mouse with a series of crediting deceptions, peppering the liner notes with bogus songwriting notations. (Another secret hit around this time was the 1983 Stevie Nicks single “Stand Back.” Although he was concealed in the credits, he dropped the synth riff that helped a decent song climb to the top of the…

themselves would admit to their heavy drug use. As a consequence, the fans of the rockers began experimenting with drugs, influencing them to want to follow in their footsteps. Many rock musicians, including John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, Stevie Nicks, Eric…

As stated by the legends of the iconic band ACDC, “it’s a long way to the top if you want to rock and roll”. These words serve as a summation of the music that plagued a generation and became more than a new genre of music loved by so many people and hated by even more. The rough and wild world of Rock and Roll music was the pretext for the changes in society that were much needed during the time of its birth and throughout its entire rein of its popularity, spanning from 1951 to the present day…

Popular music, "music written and marketed with the intention of achieving mass distribution and sales now principally in the form of recordings" (Merriam-Webster.com), played a significant role in the daily life of people of the 20th and 21st centuries. From psychedelic to rock, modern music encompassed it all. As time progressed, the quality and genre adapted to the people 's interests. Some artists decided to go against the grain and change popular music for the better. These five artists-…

Neither Dale Carnegie nor the publishers, Simon and Schuster, anticipated more than this modest sale. To their amazement, the book became an overnight sensation, and edition after edition rolled off the presses to keep up with the increasing public demand. Now to Win Friends and InfEuence People took its place in publishing history as one of the all-time international best-sellers. It touched a nerve and filled a human need that was more than a faddish phenomenon of post-Depression days, as…