The third Stevie Nicks solo album released was "ROCK A LITTLE". Released in November 1985, "Rock A Little" actually didn't reach it's highest BillBoard Chart Position of # 12 until one month later, in December. Remember all of these albums and their chart positions are based on American Chart Positions

Producer: Jimmy Iovine and Rick Nowles
Record Label: Modern/Atlantic Records

Tracks:

1. I Can't wait
2. Rock A Little (Go Ahead Lily)
3. Sister Honey
4. I Sing For The Things
5. Imperial Hotel
6. Some Become Strangers
7. Talk To Me
8. The Nightmare
9. If I Were You
10. No Spoken Word
11. Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You

Tracks Released As Singles And Their Position:

1. Talk To Me....... # 4
2. I Can't Wait......# 16
3. Has Anyone Ever......# 60

Tracks Left Off Of "Rock A Little"

1. One More Big Time Rock "N" Roll Star
2. Reconsider Me (Duet w/ Don Henley)

This album panned by critics as one of her worse, Rock A Little emerged in 1985 during a very difficult period of Stevie's life. It was during this album, that producer Jimmy Iovine Walked out of the studio during the production...never to return. Rick Nowles finished production.
It was during this period in time that Stevie endured a host of emotional upheavals and began to drift into serious drug use. It was during the Rock A Little Tour that Stevie began to put on weight and during one cocaine infused performance in Australia....Stevie went into one of her famous spins and spun directly off the side of the stage. "Live From RedRocks" was recorded during this tour and anyone who see's it that Stevie Nicks is not at her best. While singing she could hardly remember the words to any of her songs and when talking to the audience, she makes no sense.
It was during this tour that Stevie Nicks, the fighter that she is, entered into rehab to kick the cocaine addiction after being told by a physician that she had a severe hole in the septum of her nose and the next time she snorted cocaine she very well could have a brain hemmorhage. Stevie not only went to rehab, but to this day has never touched cocaine again.

"I Can't Wait" accompanied by a fierce hard driving guitar,pounding drums and majestcic bursts of synths.. is a total Stevie Rock N Roll song. "Yeah she wonders how many more hours her heart will feel broken".....Stevie's voice soars into an emotional whirlwind and the video to this song still replays in my mind as I see her climbing stairs and spinning as she screams..proclaiming her throne as Rock "N" Roll's High Priestess.
In her TimeSpace CD liner notes, Stevie had this to say about this particular song.
"I think that this was about the most excited song that I had ever heard. My friend, Rick, whom I had known since I was eighteen and he was thirteen, brought over this track with this incredible percussion thing, and gave it to me asking me if I would listen to it and consider writing a song for it....I listened to the song once and pretended not to be THAT knocked out, but the second Rick left, I ran to my little recording studio and wrote "I Can't Wait". It took all night, and I think it is about how electric I feel about this music......and that night, that SATURDAY night, Rick and I went into a BIG studio and recorded it. I sang it only once, and have never sung it since in the studio. Some vocals are magic and are simply not able to beat. So, I let go of it, as new to me as it was; but you know, now when I hear it on the radio, this incredible feeling comes over me, like something really incredible is about to happen....
To understand this song, you sort of have to let yourself go a little crazy....love is blind, it never works out.....but you just have to have it..... I Can't Wait...."

"Rock A Little (Go Ahead Lily)..written during one of the earthquakes in california (which one...don't know..to many fuking eathquakes there to keep count) is a story about a Ballerina. Something Stevie has always loved to do. A bluesy guitar, with some synths a bit reminiscent to that of "Stand Back", this is one of the slower songs on the album next to "Has Anyone Ever".

"I Sing For The Things"...this is one my all time favorite tunes. Stevie Nicks at her finest..putting her love on the line word for word to a man she loves...."I'll take off my cape for you...I'll take down my hair for you....anything you want me to do my love". Real soulful questions are posed here like..."Have You Ever Been In Love, Or Did The Fear Inside You Make You Turn And Run."

"Imperial Hotel"...great tune. A story about a woman who who's life is fueled by drugs and wonders why the man in her life has left. "She sits across the table...the same "glass" table, cries to her friends, well, why I am so alone.." Supposedly Stevie Nicks wrote this song for and about Jimmy Iovine, who not only was producing this album and left during the making of...but Stevie was also romantically linked to.

"Some Become Strangers" is a great tune because it dela with a love relationship that everyone has encountered. Seeing someone and not totally loving them. Part of you does, which is why stayed in the relationship as long as you did, but a part of you does not and that is the part that finally gives you the courage to make your decision to end/leave.

"Talk To Me"...Stevie Nicks had a gem of an idea when she told Jimmy Iovine that she wanted to record a song by John Waite who had cowrote the hit single, "Missing You", when they brought to her "Talk To Me" she ran with it. "Wounds Get Worse When Treated With Neglect"...perfect imagery.....the best part of this song is when the beat gets really low and Stevie keeps pace and then, BOOM!!!! "LET THE WALLS BURN SET YOUR SECRETS FREE". No one could EVER remake this song and capture the moment as Stevie...No one.
In her TimeSpace CD liner notes, Stevie says this about the song:
"This was a hard song to sing, but I had loved "Missing You" and I loved the words to "Talk To Me." It took a long time to finish though, because I couldn't quite getthe feeling on it....until one night, Jim Keltner came into to do some drum overdubs; and then he stayed to be an audience...to push me a little, to make me get a great vocal. So I had someone to sing to, and I got the vocal....I put some tambourine to it, and it was finished, forevermore. That was one of my unforgettable moments...that I will not soon forget."

"The Nightmare"....not one of my fave's but still what beauitful Poignant Poetry...."Fell Through The Ivory Morning, Deep Into The Waters, of the one she called love."

"If I Were You"...a fantastic stand out song, unlike Stevie's usual of mystical dreamscapes. A great catchy pop synth tune that should have been a single.

"Has Anyone Ever".....MY GOD. This song. This song brings me to tears everytime I see Stevie Nicks perform this song live. This is how she usually closes her sets. What a beautiful/sad ballad with a haunting piano.

IN her liner notes from TimeSpace, Stevie says this about the song written for and inspired by Joe Walsh.

"I guess in a very rare few cases....some people find someone that they fall in love with the very first time they see them....from across the room, from a million miles away. Some people call it love at first sight, and of course, I never believed in that until....that night....I walked into a party after a gig at the hotel, and from across the room, without my glasses, I saw this man....and I walked straight to him....he held out his hands to me, and I walked straight into them. I remember thinking, I can never be far from this person again...he is my soul.
He seemed to be in alot of pain,though hid it well. But finally, a few days later,(we were in Denver), he rented a jeep and drove me up into the snow covered hills of Colorado...for about two hours...He wouldn't tell me where we were going...but he did tell me a story of a little daughter that he had lost. To Joe, she was much more than a child...she was three and a half....and she could relate to him.....
I guess I had been complaining about alot of things going on on the road, and he decided to make me aware of how unimportant my problems were, if they were compared to worse sorrows. So he told me that he had taken his little girl to this magic park whenever he could, and the only thing she EVER complained about was that she was to little to reach up to the drinking fountain. As we were driving up to this beautiful park, (it was snowing a little bit), he came around to open my door and help me down, and when I looked up, I saw the park....His baby's park, and I burst into tears saying, "You built a drinking fountain here for her.....didn't you?" I was right, under a beautiful hanging tree, was a tiny silver drinking fountain....I left Joe to go to it, and on it, it said, dedicated to HER and all the others who were to small to get a drink.
So, he wrote a song for her, and I wrote a song for him...."This is your song...." I said....to the people....but it was Joe's song. Thank you, Joe, for the most committed song I ever wrote.....But more than that, thank you for inspiring me in so many ways. Nothing in my life ever seems as dark anymore, since we took that drive.
"If not for me then, do it for the world......
If not for me then, do it for yourself..."
I want you to ____REMEMBER_____....me.....
Poet....Priest Of nothing......LEGEND......"