5th Solo Release: TIMESPACE...Greatest Hits
Producers: Numerous
Chart Position: #30

Tracks:

1. Sometime's It's A Bitch
2. Stop Dragging My Heart Around
3. Whole Lotta Trouble
4. Talk To Me
5. Stand Back
6. Beauty And The Beast
7. If Anyone Falls
8. Rooms On Fire
9. Love's A Hard Game To Play
10. Edge Of Seventeen
11. Leather & Lace
12. I Can't Wait
13. Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You
14. Desert Angel

Tracks Released As Single From THIS Album And Their Chart Position

1. Sometime's It's A Bitch....# 56
2. Desert Angel....(B Side) to above song
3. Love's A Hard Game To Play.....Released but failed to enter into charts


After "The Other Side Of The Mirror"...Stevie Nicks was prescribed the tranquilizer KLONOPIN by a physician to aide her in not relapsing into Cocaine. Slowly.....this drug began stealing Stevie's creativity and will to live.
It was during this era that "80's Hairbands" were ruling the airwaves. Stevie's record company instructed her to "tap" into this scene. They paired her with Jon Bon Jovi, from the band, Bon Jovi and Brett Michaels, lead singer of Poison. Dedicated Stevie Nick fans KNEW this was not the greatest of idea's. BUT, Stevie Nicks fans are loyal. We are some of the MOST loyal fans any performer has the priviledge of having. But, however loyal we are, Stevie Nicks's "TIMESPACE" Greatest Hits only went as high as # 30 on Billboard US Charts. Stevie has stated numerous times that she regrets having listened to record executives and even recording the Jon Bon Jovi penned "Sometimes It's A Bitch" and Brett Michaels penned "Love's A Hard Game To Play." In order for something to sell, it has to be believable...and even she felt....it wasn't.
With this review, I am simply going to type word from word all of Stevie Nick's writing excerpts from her liner notes in the release. It's very special...because as we all know....it is very VERY rare when we are treated to anything such as this by Stevie.

But, unlike most...I actually consider "Sometime's It's A Bitch" one of my absolute favorite song. It is the story of MY life and while writing her thoughts for each song on the "TIMESPACE", Stevie Nicks had this to say about the song
"When I first heard this song, I really did not quite understand what Jon was trying to say....but over the two weeks that we sang it together (at my mike), I started to realize that Jon, without knowing it, had sort of taken a time machine back eighteen years and watched my life, the good parts....and the bad. It was not a love song, which I of course had expected it to be; it was much more than that....to me. Bon Jovi had picked up on the fact, before meeting me, that there was no way he could know what I had lived through....without having lived through it with me....so he dreamed.....
He dreamed about what the notorious Stevie Nicks had been like.....and what it had all done to her...the indulgences, the lifestyle. I felt that if he knew nothing else about me...he knew I had a strong instinct to survive.
Someday maybe all the people who did not go through this with us will understand; that considering the generation we come from.....we are very lucky to be alive..."Sometimes...It's a bitch." Jon Bon Jovi

"Stop Dragging My Heart Around"....."Jimmy Iovine played this song to me while he was still finishing Tom's album; it was one of those songs that Tom was not going to do, and he told Jim that I could do it. I wasn't used to doing other people's songs, so I really didn't like the idea at first....but I loved Tom Petty, so I agreed to try. So we went into the studio and sang it live, together. I was completely entranced, and I instantly fell in love with the song. Duets were the things I loved the most....maybe this was a second begining......
And we would sing like no one else, and nobody else would ever sing.....like us.

"Whole Lotta Trouble"...see the writting entry for this song on "Other Side Of The Mirror" review.

"Talk To Me"...see the writting entry for this song on the "Rock A Little" review.

"Stand Back"....."I got married the day I wrote this song. We were driving to Santa Barbara and a new song by Prince came on, so we pulled over somewhere and got the tape. It just gave me an incredible idea, so I spent many hours that night writing a song about some kind of crazy argument, and it was to become one of the most important of my songs. I have been doing this song for years, Fleetwood Mac does it also, and I never get tired of it. "Stand Back" has always been my favorite song on stage, because....when it starts, it has an energy that comes from somewhere unknown....and it seems to have no Timespace. I've never quite understood this sound....but I have NEVER questioned it.
I become a different person, and I like that, because usually I make up my OWN characters....but the lady in "Stand Back" was not my idea. By the way, Prince did come into the studio the night I called him about the song, and he played an incredible synthesizer on it....and then he just walked out of my life, and I didn't see him for a long time.
It was extraordinary.....

"Beauty And The Beast"...."We recorded this live in New York, with Roy Bittan playing grand piano, and Paul Buckmaster doing the strings and conducting the orchestra, and me and the background singers, all at the same time. It was like we had gone back in time; we all wore long black dresses, and served champagne, and recorded it all in one room...when it was over, I walked out with this elderly gentleman who played violin...and the generation gap ceased to exist.
I also remember Mick (Fleetwood) and I years later at the Red Rocks "Rock A Little" video. He had come by himself to play, and he stayed there with me all night (in the rain) to do close-ups.....everyone else had left.
Who is the beauty, and who the beast.....? Which one of you? Have you ever really been able to answer that? I have, it took a long time, but I did finally..... find the answer.

"If Anyone Falls"....."There was a time when I was falling out of one love and into another, when nothing else seemed to matter except this person. I adored him.....he was everything I wanted to be; a real rock and roller....and a lover of the Stones....small and frail sometimes, but in many ways the strongest person I had ever known. His word was law. I became him...he became me, and no one dared intrude upon this union. He is no longer with me, but his spirit twin never leaves him. It was music combined with love, combined with the fact that when Waddy was beside me, I felt completely safe. It is to my great sorrow that we are no longer on stage together,but it is to my great joy that he always seems to be with me, even after all this time.
"Love is a word that some entertain....If you find it, then you have won the game...."

"Rooms On Fire"....see "The Other Side Of The Mirror" review

"Love's A Hard Game To Play"......"This song was just brought to me barely two weeks ago by a most extraordinary young man. One of those men who has everything...beauty, sensitivity,warmth, and a love for life that I had not seen in a long time. I recorded his song, singing it for him to the best of my ability...hoping that the people would love the song as much as we loved doing it. A new friend, in this business, who asks for nothing but for me to be happy, is a very rare thing. I hope he will remain my friend for a long time, because finding someone like him seldom happens in one's lifetime. But when it does....there is nothing like it. He was happy because I believed in him. And he brought something back to me that I though I had lost.....My laughter.....

"Edge Of Seventeen"........." I had lived up in the hills with JImmy (Iovine) for almost six months. He was coming to the end of Tom Petty's album....it seemed I had waited a long time, and so since no one really knew where I was, I was starting to get very edgy to do something.....I was also starting to feel very unimportant and very sorry for myself. I was ready to begin "Bella Donna," and it seemed like it would just never happen. Jimmy had told me many times about his incredible friendship with John Lennon; how John had taken Jimmy in and taught him how to record. He was his teacher....and I was entranced because I could not imagine these two together. Anyway, it was a real life fairy tale, and I believed it. Then one grey day the fairy tale ended....Jimmy's friend was dead....But Jimmy's love for John did not die. A terrible sadness set in over the house, there was simply nothing I could do to help and nothing I could say. So I went home.....Jimmy would have to go this one alone.
I went home to Phoenix.....and went to visit my uncle (who was very sick), not knowing that no one but his son,John, was there....and I sat on his bedside, while John sat on the floor beside him, and we stayed there. My father did not come, nor my mother...nor my aunt...so I sat there and held his hand, and sometime right about sunset, he slightly turned his head to John, and then to me, and his hand slowly let go of mine. I did run out into the hallway, but no one was there....and the white winged dove took flight.....
"Well I hear you, in the morning....
And I hear you, at nightfall.....
But sometimes, to be near you....
Is to be unable......to hear you...."
Goodbye to you both, I said.....
There was nothing else left to say."


"Leather & Lace"......I wrote this song because Waylon Jennings called me up and asked me to write a song called "Leather & Lace." It was to be a duet for him and his wife, and I worked very hard trying to explain what it was like to be in love with someone in the same business, and how to approach dealing with each other. It's probably the hardest thing in the world to do because it falls out of your hands and into the hands of the world, which tends to want you to not be able to handle it. I have to tell you now that Mr. Don Henley was pretty much responsible for this song because he came over every day and told me to either start over, or that I was on the right track,and he made me finish it (because I almost gave up many times). When it was finally finished, Don and I made a very simple demo of it....he sang it with me, and it was.....truly wonderful. And then I found out that Waylon and Jessi were breaking up, and Waylon just wanted to sing it by himself. After all of the hard work I had put into the philosophy of two people dealing with this problem, I told Waylon that only four people in the world could sing this song: he and his wife, or myself and Don Henley. Don and I had been going out for quite awhile, and, bless his heart, he did sing it with me,and again, as fate would have it....it became one of the most special love songs that I would ever write......and remains that, even today, after all these years. All in all, it was an unforgettable experience, as was he.....Blame it on my wild heart.

"I Can't Wait"....see the review to "Rock A Little"

"Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You"....see the review to "Rock A Little."


"TIMESPACE" ends with the third new recording for this album...."Desert Angel."
Written for all the men and women involved in "Operation Desert Storm"
Inspired by Paradise Valley, my desert...and the rain
"I returned to Phoenix late last night for a few days~~~today is May 28th. I have been in Los Angeles since March 3rd, but I was here from December 23rd for a little over two months---the two months the Persian Gulf War began and ended. My friend who takes care of my fan mail,Ginny,began calling me at the end of December telling me that she had already sent a lot of tapes, CD's, and autographed pictures for these guys that were writing to me from the Gulf. Then at the begining of January,Ginny suggested that I write these people a serious letter about how I was feeling about their participation in the Gulf War. Of course, I had been watching nothing else on TV except CNN, and I was totally overwhelmed that they cared about what I thought. So, the days went slowly by, all of us thinking that it would never happen, as January 15 loomed ahead of us. So I thought about this letter that I would write every day for fourteen days. While all this was going on, there was something the city was doing called "Operation Desert Angel." It meant that you could go down to the shopping centers or malls and get a little dog tag in the shape of an angel with the name of someone from Arizona who was in the Gulf.....and it became a very important and personal way to get to them. It was on TV and radio constantly; all this time I was still trying to figure out what I could write to the ones in the Gulf who are alone and scared....and I also knew I would write a song called "Desert Angel," and suddenly I knew exactly what to say in the letter to the troops, I would tell them about Rhiannon, and about my treasured gold cross, and I would send them my feeling of sanctuary. I would do what I do when I sing~~~~I would try to make them forget, even if for a moment, and they could come into my world.
I finally wrote the letter---the night before the first shot was fired--and everyone thought I should send it to Stars and Stripes. I mailed it off and four days later, I wrote "Desert Angel," in my house, here in Paradise Valley. My letter did make it into Stars and Stripes, which I never, ever expected. On February 17,1991, I went into Vintage Recorders and sang to a track that Michael Campbell had given me a few days after I had sent the letter. There were five songs on it, and as I listened,the second one came on,and I knew without going any further, that I had found my "Desert Angel." From the begining, all the people who were around me really loved this song, because it meant so much more to all of us than it did to just me. We had lived through it, we had prayed, and my song would make at least all of us....never forget this war. So, "Desert Angel" is coming out on the "B" side of the first single of my "Best Of" album. I am doing this because I wanted you to have it as quickly as possible. I hope that for all of you that were there, it will always be a lullaby that will remind you that everything will be fine, it is over, you can sleep now. And for us here who felt helpless and scared, a lot of things really do work out for the best in the end.....I can only write songs when I am totally inspired.....and the flag that you, Sgt. Robert M. Garcia, sent me is something that makes me feel something that I wish I could explain to you, but I can't. Yes, when you washed it out for me, the colors did ring true....
"Operation Desert Shield,
Operation Desert Storm,
Operation Desert Angels....
In waiting."

I was born in the desert~~~
So I know how it feels there.....
We'll look up....it's a shooting star--
But it's as black as night....no stars

Well this is the first thing,
That I've written-
Since I wrote about freedom....
And then the wall came down-
Well we thought it was a great...begining
People were free to cross the line--
But then something happened....in the desert
Something broke the stars...into pieces

Well I live below....a great red mountain
In the shape of a great huge beast--
In a place the Indians call......Paradise Valley
Well this has always been my sanctuary---
I send that to you....too
There on the other side of the world
In the desert....
And we are the Guardians----
No black clouds.....justthe faces of oyu

So where is my father,
Where has he gone...?
Where is my husband--
Where is my son.....?
Where is my father,
Where has he gone....?
What is it that happened here,
Is this real....? This war....?
This can't be happening

Ooh well I need to see you
In your.....far away war---
And you should know.....how much we love you
They call us here, Operation Desert Angel....
In waiting.....Operation Desert Shield
Operation Desert Storm.....Operation Desert Angel.....
Come home...........Operation.....Desert.....Angel's