



Stevie Nicks is at work on a new album filled with “memories of mine of fantastic men.”
“I have seven songs, and they are autobiographical real stories where I’m not pulling any punches for probably the first time in my life,” the 76-year-old rock icon said. “They are not airy, fairy songs that you are wondering who they are about but you don’t really get it.”
Nicks shared details about the upcoming LP — her first collection of new songs in nearly a decade and a half — in a speech Wednesday at the Pollstar Awards, a live-music industry event where she was inducted into the trade magazine’s hall of fame.
The Fleetwood Mac singer and songwriter said she’s calling the album “The Ghost Record” because it grew out of the recent LA wildfires.
“I was sitting in a hotel for 92 days,” she told the audience, “and at some point during that last part of the 92 days, I said, ‘You know what? I feel like I’m on the road, but there’s no shows. I’m just sitting here by myself because everybody else is at the house doing all the remediations and everything, and it’s just me sitting here.’ And I thought: You need to go back to work. And I did.”
Nicks also announced last week that she’ll tour this year starting in August, alternating solo dates and gigs with Billy Joel, with whom she played Inglewood’s SoFi Stadium in 2023. Her most recent LP was 2014’s “24 Karat Gold: Songs from the Vault,” which offered new recordings of orphaned tunes she’d written as long ago as 1969; “In Your Dreams,” her last album of originals, came out in 2011.
Stars often confused for each other meet: A longtime case of celebrity mistaken identity has finally been settled. Grammy Award-winning Michelle Williams came face-to-face with her famous namesake, five-time Oscar-nominated Michelle Williams, after more than two decades of getting confused for each other.
“We had an amazing show tonight! The crowd was lit,” the former Destiny’s Child member said in an Instagram video after her performance in Broadway’s “Death Becomes Her” on Thursday.
Noting that she had “more things to sign,” she then held up a handful of photos of the 44-year-old “Dawson’s Creek” alum, before panning the camera to reveal the special guest in her dressing room.
‘Sinners’ tops box office: Brand names, not filmmakers or stars, are said to rule the box office these days. But Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners,” led by twin Michael B. Jordans, proved a bloody exception to modern movie rules, launching with $45.6 million in ticket sales in U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to studio estimates Sunday.
“A Minecraft Movie,” the year’s biggest hit, followed close behind in second, collecting $41.3 million in its third week of release.
That gave Warner Bros. an enviable one-two punch at the box office.
April 22 birthdays: Actor Jack Nicholson is 88. Singer Mel Carter is 86. Director John Waters is 79. Musician Peter Frampton is 75. Comedian Ryan Stiles is 66. Actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan is 59. TV personality Sherri Shepherd is 58. Singer Kellie Coffey is 54. Actor Cassidy Freeman is 43. Musician Machine Gun Kelly is 35.