Stevie Nicks 24 Karat Gold the Concert (2020)

Directed by: Joe Thomas | 135 minutes | music

You don’t often see music videos ending up in cinemas, and in times of corona it is especially special. ‘Stevie Nicks: 24 Carat Gold The Concert’ is a technically outstanding concert registration, both in terms of performance and visually. With Waddy Wachtel (Keith Richards & The X-Pensive Winos), Dave Stewart (Eurythmics) and Benmont Tench (Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers) in the ranks, Nicks has taken the best of the studio giants on tour.

You can have your opinion about the band’s fat eighties sound, it’s not half done. We can even count the veins on Wachtel’s guitars. Nicks’ singing voice is also very good. Many songs are preceded by a (slightly too extensive) introduction, but isn’t it nice to enjoy something that might soon be a thing of the past in the cinema? The concert, which was recorded in Phoenix, Arizona, among other places, certainly has a good live feel.

Fleetwood Mac it’s not, Stevie Nicks doesn’t necessarily need that setting; she has always retained the charisma that is tainted elsewhere by family formation, drink, or other retiring movements. A life on stage, sometimes also with private perils, is still carried by Nicks in his seventies with sensual dignity. After all, rock ‘n’ roll has nothing to do with thundering off the stage, but with persuasiveness from heart to heart.

OK boomer, should we go see this? Would do if you like Stevie Nicks and Fleetwood Mac. Songs performed here such as ‘Landslide’, ‘Rhiannon’ and ‘Gold Dust Woman’ are part of the American Songbook. It must be said that the most famous solo hit ‘Stop Dragging My Heart Around’ was written by Tom Petty and the new material is sometimes a bit of the same. Anyway, Top 2000 material is Stevie Nicks always.