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“This incredible connection”: The artist Stevie Nicks was honoured to cover her song
Lauren Hunter
Sun 4 May 2025 12:00, UK
If there’s anything that history has proven, it’s that Stevie Nicks doesn’t bow down to many people. She can celebrate other artists, uplift the next generation, but being truly reverential as a rock god herself is another matter. In many ways, it’s all about saving face – if you want to be seen as an ethereal queen, you have to act like one – but that still doesn’t mean she still can’t be stopped in her tracks if something truly incredible rolls along.
It’s worth remembering that iconic band leaders like Nicks are notoriously hard to please, not necessarily always because of ego but because, especially when it comes to hearing other artists covering their songs, most of the time it’s nothing that they haven’t already had to endure listening to a hundred times before. In that respect, it takes a certain special tenacity and spirit to cover a beloved tune and even turn the original singer’s head – but this is exactly how Nicks fell into the orbit of one particular 1990s powerhouse.
Landslide’ is one of those behemoth Fleetwood Mac tunes that likely every artist and their dog have tried to put their spin on over the years, but in Nicks’ eyes, none packed quite as much of a punch as Billy Corgan in the Smashing Pumpkins. Indeed, a fiery ‘90s grunge outfit may not seem to be the ideal candidates for a misty-eyed 1970s ballad, but the Pumpkins evidently left such an imprint on the song that it left the original songstress awestruck.
In a 1998 interview, Nicks enthused: “I was very honoured to have Billy Corgan pick out that song on his own. There’s nothing more pleasing to a songwriter than [someone] doing one of their songs. It also led to me being friends with Billy Corgan, and the possibility that we’ll work together. Over this song, there’s been this incredible connection…he reached out.”
Taken from the band’s 1994 compilation album Pisces Iscariot, Corgan and Co.’s take on ‘Landslide’ was, by the nature of the record it came to life on, a rough cut around the edges. However, in many ways, this is its essential charm – the original song was never about excessive production or particularly soaring sonics, just the lyrics and a true emotional heart.
Corgan’s recognition of this in putting just enough of his own imprint on the cover without changing the song into something it never intended to be was perhaps exactly what Nicks found an affinity in, reflecting on all the powers of reminiscence, love, and memory that she had written the song in tribute to some two decades prior.
Whether Nicks’ speculation over the pair working together really materialised or not, the fact remains that the singular power of ‘Landslide’ managed to build a bridge between two seismic eras of rock music and make them a whole, proving that the connection she spoke of heralded unknown magical possibilities for the genre at large. Musicality is one thing, but it turns out that simply seeing one’s reflection in the snow-covered hills was enough to move sonic mountains.
