Fleetwood Mac singer Stevie Nicks has been immortalised in plastic – along with her very personal Barbie doll.
Modelled on the outfit the Fleetwood Mac singer, 75, wore on the duvet of the band’s 1977 album Rumours, Nicks mentioned the doll brings again “all the memories of walking out on a big stage in that black outfit and those gorgeous boots”.
Complete with quick blonde hair, full fringe and smoky eye shadow, the Barbie additionally carries the singer’s iconic tambourine draped in ribbons. It is an instrument she usually performed throughout her time in Fleetwood Mac and nonetheless makes use of in her ongoing solo profession.
The singer mentioned her first concern when first approached by producers Mattel was that the doll wouldn’t seem like her or “have her spirit”.
These considerations have now been reassured.
“I see myself now in her face. What we have been through since 1975, the battles we have fought, the lessons we have learned together. I am her and she is me. She absolutely has my heart,” she wrote on X (previously Twitter).
As a part of the method, Nicks despatched the unique Rumours outfit, full with the Italian-made boots, to Mattel.
“When Mattel first sent her to me, I told them her eyebrows are a little too arched and my eye makeup… I said you need to raise that dark eyeshadow above the fold in her eye and that will fix it,” she informed USA Today.
“Then once I acquired her on 22 June, I opened her up and I went, ‘she’s simply excellent’.
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“If nobody else in the world got her but me, I’d almost be OK with that.”
The doll is about for launch on 10 November, however shares have already offered out throughout pre-sale because it began on Monday, based on feedback left by dissatisfied Nicks followers on the Mattel web site.
(L-R) Members of Fleetwood Mac: Mike Campbell, John McVie, Stevie Nicks, Christine McVie and Mick Fleetwood. Pic: AP
Some keen followers even reported the doll being put up on public sale web site, eBay, for $100 (£82) practically double the $55 (£45) retail value.
Nicks joins the likes of tennis star Naomi Osaka, Elvis, Elton John and most just lately the star’s of the 2023 Barbie movie, Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, to have their likeness replicated in a figurine.
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