Fleetwood Mac Legend Stevie Nicks' Iconic Solo Album Gets Special Reissue
Stevie Nicks’ iconic first solo album is being reissued 44 years after its original release. The 1981 album Bella Donna will be released on limited-edition, high-end vinyl by Rhino High Fidelity, per ABC News Radio. The limited release will feature just 5,000 individually numbered copies of the Fleetwood Mac legend’s solo debut, priced at $39.98.
Bella Donna was first released in 1981. The top-selling album featured the hit singles “Edge of Seventeen,” “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around,” “Leather and Lace,” and “After the Glitter Fades.”
The album came amid tension between several Fleetwood Mac bandmates. Nicks, Mick Fleetwood, and Lindsey Buckingham all released solo albums in 1981, causing some fans to speculate that the band would break up for good.
In 2021, Nicks marked the 40th anniversary of Bella Donna with a journal post on Instagram. Calling her first solo project a “dream,” the songstress wrote, "I could not have been more proud of those songs or the three months it took me, the girls, and [producer] Jimmy Iovine to craft it. It did not break up Fleetwood Mac. If anything, it kept us together.”
Nicks, 77, recently announced that she will release her first full album of new music in nearly 15 years. “I’m actually making a record right now,” she told the crowd at the Pollstar Awards in April, according to Rolling Stone. “I call it ‘The Ghost Record,’ because it just kind of happened in the last couple weeks, because you know, the [California] fires.”
Nicks revealed that she wrote new songs while holed up in a hotel room amid the California wildfire evacuations earlier this year. “They are autobiographical real stories where I’m not pulling any punches for the first time in my life,” the "Rhiannon" singer added. “They are not airy, fairy songs that you are wondering who they are about, but you don’t really get it. They’re real stories of memories of mine of fantastic men.”