What Stevie Nicks Says 'Gypsy' Is Really About

"It just starts with a little inspiration," Nicks explained to CBS (via YouTube). "Something will happen to me, whether it's something that happens to me, whether a man walks by me and just smiles at me in a certain way that just makes me go what a beautiful smile that was, and then I just might go and write, 'This smile is the only thing I saw...,' and there I'm off then. There my poem has begun." 

Which brings us to Nicks' popular Fleetwood Mac song "Gypsy," the definitive hit from the group's 1982 album "Mirage." It's one of the band's most famous songs of the 1980s, reaching No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 and remaining on the charts for 14 weeks (via Showbiz Cheatsheet). Many fans thought the song was simply a mirror of Nicks' mystical, gypsy-like style with her flowing hair and clothing, shawls, cloaks, and boots. But she has talked about the meaning of the song over the years. "Gypsy is about um ... going back to the gypsy that I was prior to Fleetwood Mac," she told Rock's Family Tree, according to the website, In Her Own Words.

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