The colourful story of a totemic female rocker

BIOGRAPHY/MUSIC: Gold Dust Woman: The Biography Of Stevie Nicks, By Stephen Davis, St Martin’s Press, €25

Stevie Nicks once said that “chiffon lasts forever if you take good care of it”. It’s a good tip (if chiffon is your thing, of course), and one that the American singer, who turns 70 next year, has applied across most areas of her life.

For Nicks, music seems to have been a given ...