"I desperately wanted to talk to Stevie in person, just to see what the hell she was wearing," says Rolling Stone writer Jancee Dunn, who had the Stevie Bonding experience over the phone. "I was going to make half the page an intro, just so I could describe in minute detail exactly what color those boots were. But she couldn't do it, you know, she's a busy woman, and anyway the phone can be more intimate. I had been prepped that she was very chatty. And she was. Her favorite word is fabulous."

Initially scheduled at half an hour, the interview lasted for an hour and a half. "She was willing to talk about everything," Dunn says. "I asked her to describe the bedroom. She did, and while we were at it, she threw in every room of her house."

The phone friendship sealed, Nicks mentioned that she'd be performing at the Garden State Arts Center in New Jersey, and wouldn't it be great to meet backstage. Dunn decided to make it a family outing. "Judy, my mom is a huge Stevie fan. . . she's got all the solo albums, the Belladonna, the whole nine yards. She has this huge stereo system in her two-tone Buick Le Sabre and she turns up the bass and just blasts Stevie."