Stevie Nicks to join forces with Billy Joel for one-off Baltimore concert - Daily Mail

Stevie Nicks and Billy Joel volition articulation forces for a one-off performance successful Baltimore successful October - marking the musician's instrumentality to the signifier pursuing the death of her bandmate Christine McVie.

Nicks, 74, and Joel, 73, volition instrumentality to the signifier connected October 7 astatine the M&T Bank Stadium - marking the archetypal clip they person performed connected the aforesaid signifier successful Maryland.

In a statement, Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott said: 'I deliberation it goes without saying that making Baltimore 1 of a fewer stops for these 2 legends speaks volumes astir Baltimore being a metropolis radical privation to sojourn and solidifies america arsenic an amusement destination.

Live Nation DC-Baltimore President Kelly Flanigan said: 'Live Nation is precise excited to beryllium backmost astatine M&T Bank Stadium aft a six twelvemonth hiatus. 

'With implicit 300 cardinal records sold and 12 Grammy Awards betwixt the 2 of them, October 7, 2023 [is] definite to beryllium an unforgettable nighttime of music.'

Tickets spell connected merchantability January 20 astatine 10am connected Ticketmaster portion Citi cardmembers volition person entree to presale tickets opening connected Monday, January 16 astatine 10 americium until Thursday, January 19 astatine 10 p.m. done the Citi Entertainment program. 

The lawsuit volition besides people the 50th day of Joel's mega hit, Piano Man. 

The upcoming performance announcement comes 2 monthsafter English instrumentalist McVie's death astatine 79 pursuing a little illness, 

Nicks, who dated Lindsey Buckingham and Mick Fleetwood, has been unfastened astir grieving her 'best person successful the full satellite since the archetypal time of 1975.'

Upon learning the news, Nicks revealed successful a handwritten enactment via Instagram that she did not cognize her adjacent pal was sick until 3 days earlier her passing.

As she grappled with the contiguous aftershock of Mcvie's death, the performer wrote that she was singing the Haim song, Hallelujah. 

'See you connected the different side, my love,'  she concluded successful her heartfelt letter. 

McVie is champion known for penning and singing immoderate of their band's biggest hits, including Don't Stop, Little Lies, Say You Love Me, You Make Loving Fun and Songbird. 

Her genius and warm, soulful vocals helped to crook the one-time blues set into 1 of the astir palmy stone groups of each time, with much than 100million grounds sold worldwide. 

Many of her songs featured connected Rumours, their best-known enactment from 1977 which chronicled the group's cause usage and affairs and is regularly cited arsenic 1 of rock's top albums.

Born Christine Perfect successful the Lake District colony of Bouth, Cumbria, successful 1943, she grew up adjacent Birmingham. She studied astatine creation schoolhouse and qualified arsenic an creation teacher – but alternatively became 1 of the fewer women progressive successful the British blues roar of the precocious 1960s, joining a set called Chicken Shack and besides releasing a solo album. She joined Fleetwood Mac bassist John McVie successful 1968 and by 1970 was an integral portion of Fleetwood Mac.

Their British-American stone set was founded successful London successful 1967 and sold much than 100 cardinal records worldwide, making them 1 of the astir palmy groups successful history. Their best-known songs see Dreams, Go Your Own Way and Everywhere.