Stevie Nicks And Game Of Thrones: A Musical Match Made For HBO?


Stevie Nicks knows the world of fantasy pretty well. Her 1975 Fleetwood Mac hit song “Rhiannon” derives from a Welsh folk tale about witches and goddesses. And her recent spot on the FX series American Horror Story also explored the worlds of magic and the supernatural.

So no one should be surprised that Stevie Nicks’ favorite TV show at the moment is the HBO fantasy epic Game of Thrones. In fact, says the Fleetwood Mac songstress, she is so enamored of the show, she hopes at some point to be allowed to pen music for it.

“I would love to write some music for the show. I’ve written a bunch of poetry about it — one for each of the characters,” the 65-year-old Stevie Nicks told Britain’s Radio Times magazine. “On Jon Snow… on Arya… on Cersei… on Cersei and Jaime, the blonde on blonde… on Khaleesi… I’m always looking for that kind of inspiration, and I’m very inspired by it.”

The show could probably do a lot worse than to hire Stevie Nicks as a songwriter. As part of Fleetwood Mac in the 1970s, she helped the band’s Rumours album become what was at the time of its release in 1977, the best-selling album of all time. As time went on, it sold 40 million copies, ranking it currently Number Six on the all-time list, about 11 million behind Michael Jackson’s Thriller classic.

Game of Thrones helped Stevie through a difficult moment in her life, and for many people, works of art or entertainment that provide an emotional uplift or escape at those low moments tend to become lifelong favorites.

For Stevie Nicks, she was coping with the death of her mother when she discovered the HBO epic.

“I didn’t leave the house for almost five months,” Stevie Nicks recalled of that dark period in 2011. “And then I got pneumonia. With my pneumonia and my mother’s death, I watched the entire first season of Game of Thrones. That certainly took my mind off everything.”

In addition to Game of Thrones, Stevie Nicks cites another source of inspiration from recent popular culture. “I was very inspired by Twilight,” she says.

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