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Stevie Nicks has shared her first new music in six years, a haunting prayer for peace and understanding called “Show Them the Way.”

Nicks also shared a statement that explains how the song came to her in a dream.

“The year was 2008,” she begins. “I was in St Charles, Illinois. It was cold, snowing~ and it was winter – February. I was there to edit a concert film. It’s like making a record.  You go to the studio everyday – come home – sit down with your dog – and turn on the TV.”

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were battling it out for the Democratic nomination and Nicks was watching documentaries.

“Mostly the fight for civil rights,” she writes. “The dreams of John Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Bobby Kennedy and John Lewis ~ and all the hidden figures that surrounded them. I was hypnotized.”

This went on for two months, during which she had “a dream that was so real that I was pretty sure it had happened.”

She started writing the story of the dream out the moment she opened her eyes.

“I was invited to a party – to play piano and sing a few songs,” she writes. “It was a benefit. There were political people there. It felt – really important. I was just the piano player, the voice, part of their dream.”

Within a day, she’d turned the dream into a poem and then, a day later, a song. But she never recorded the song until now.

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Why Nicks felt the time was right for new music

“I felt that this was its time, its reason,” she writes. “I understood what it meant then and what it means now – Please God, show them the way – Please God, on this day. Spirits all, give them the strength. Peace can come if you really want it. I think we’re just in time to save it.”

It’s Nicks’ hope, she writes, that “this song and its words will be seen as a prayer – a prayer for our country – a prayer for our world. I love you always.”

The music video was directed by Cameron Crowe.

In a statement, Crowe said he believed it was one of Nicks’ best and most personal songs.

“Within hours of hearing the song we were already putting together the video about her ‘dream about a dream,'” he writes.

“‘Show Them The Way’ began as a poem and grew into one of her strongest musical tracks. It feels like both a gift and a fever dream about hope and promise. We finished the video on the full-moon with a whole lot of passion and excitement about immediately sharing it with the world right now.”

How you can hear the new music

The song is available on all formats via BMG.

It features drums by Dave Grohl, electric guitar by Dave Stewart and backing vocals by Sharon Celani and Lori Nicks, Stevie Nicks’ sister-in-law. 

The Stevie Nicks 24 Karat Gold The Concert film is scheduled to be released in cinemas worldwide on Oct. 21 and 25.

Tickets can be purchased on StevieNicksFilm.com.

The film is directed and produced by Joe Thomas and distributed by Trafalgar Releasing and BMG.  

The two CD, two LP and digital releases of the concert will be available Oct. 30 from BMG and can be preordered at https://stevienicks.lnk.to/24KCDPR

Reach the reporter at [email protected] or 602-444-4495. Follow him on Twitter @EdMasley.

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