Stevie Nicks fans worried as she is forced to postpone upcoming shows after surgery

Stevie Nicks has been forced to postpone upcoming shows after undergoing surgery to treat a leg injury.

The singer, 76, will need time to recover and has pulled out of the shows – leaving fans in Glasgow and Manchester devastated. A statement released on OVO Hydro’s Twitter confirmed the news.

It read: “Due to a recent leg injury requiring a minor surgical procedure that will require a few days of recovery, Stevie Nicks’ scheduled performances in Glasgow on Saturday, July 6th and Manchester on Tuesday, July 9th have been postponed.”

Some fans took the sudden cancellation better than others. One fan tweeted: “Not sure if that’s very fair, announcing this the afternoon of the event?!?!”

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Stevie has spoken openly in the past about how the Covid-19 pandemic robbed her of key time in her musical years. She said: “This pandemic is more than just a pandemic to me. It’s robbing me of what I consider my last years of youth.

“I don’t have 10 years to just sit around and wait for this thing to blow over. I have places to go, people to sing for, another album to make. Every day that goes by, it’s like taking that time away from me. I think that’s the hardest thing. Will it be safe next year for us to go into Madison Square Garden in New York? I don’t know if it will be.”

Stevie, who is worth an estimated £57million, was born Stephanie Nicks in Phoenix, Arizona. Her father Jess, who was the chairman of the famous Greyhound bus company, taught her to sing duets with him when she was four and she wrote her first song on a guitar she was given for her 16th birthday.

She met Lindsey Buckingham in high school and they went to college together. Stevie had planned to be an English teacher, but she dropped out to pursue a music career with Lindsey, releasing the album Buckingham Nicks in 1973.

However, this failed to set the world on fire and she had to take odd jobs to keep the dream alive. “I had nothing,” she recalls. “I was a waitress and a cleaner. I was the main breadwinner. It was a lot of fun, but it was hard.”

Things got a little more exciting when Fleetwood Mac asked Buckingham to join them as their lead singer and guitarist. He insisted that Steve join too, and that was the beginning of their incredible journey. After the original line-up led by blues guitar genius Peter Green collapsed, Mac made a risky move from England to the US in search of fame and fortune.

They struck gold when Stevie and boyfriend Lindsey Buckingham joined in. Their own Gold Dust Woman became an ethereal stage icon and the group went on to score a string of successful albums.

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