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The music of Stevie Nicks matters. This declaration comes from a professor of music at Princeton University, Simon Morrison, who spends his days steeped in Tchaikovsky as an expert in Russian and Soviet music, but spent his youth playing Fleetwood Mac's Tusk album over and over again. While the professor in him is able to analyze her voice, the poetry of her lyrics and the harmonic syntax of her songs, the fan appreciates the hard wisdom that inspires songs like Landslide and Dreams. He sets aside sensationalism to look at the rock icon as an artist in his new book, Mirror In the Sky: The Life and music of Stevie Nicks.
