Street Angel (album)

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Street Angel

Studio album by Stevie Nicks
Released	May 23, 1994
Recorded	1992-94
Genre	Rock
Length	???
Label	Modern
Timespace - The Best of Stevie Nicks (1991)	Street Angel (1994)	Enchanted (1998)

"Street Angel" is the fifth solo album from American singer/songwriter and Fleetwood Mac vocalist Stevie Nicks. The album was released in 1994, during a particularly unhappy time in Nicks' life and career. It was the first album she released after her much publicised departure from Fleetwood Mac, and during the tail end of her years-long dependency on the prescription medication Klonopin. It is the least successful record of her solo career, peaking at only #45 in the U.S. The album has, however, achieved gold status there for sales over 500,000 copies.

Unlike all of her previous releases, the album did not yield any hit singles, with "Maybe Love Will Change You Mind" only charting at #57 on the Billboard Hot 100, and the second single "Blue Denim" not charting at all.

The album enjoyed slightly more prominence in the UK, where it peaked at #16, though again there were no top 40 hits from it.

Nicks has tended to look upon the album's lack of success as a result of her dependency on Klonopin, and most of the songs used were outtakes from previous solo albums. "Greta," "Love Is Like a River," and "Listen to the Rain" date back to the Rock A Little era. "Destiny" was written in the early 1970's before Nicks joined Fleetwood Mac, and shares some lyrics with the song "Enchanted". It was considered for The Wild Heart album. "Rose Garden" was written when Nicks was 17 and was considered for the Rock A Little album. Street Angel also featured a cover of Bob Dylan's "Just Like a Woman," with Dylan himself on harmonica.

[edit] Track listing

Blue Denim (Nicks, Campbell)
Greta (Nicks, Campbell)
Street Angel (Nicks)
Docklands (Horn, Cook)
Listen To The Rain (Nicks, Jones, Crago)
Destiny (Nicks)
Unconditional Love (Stewart, Munday)
Love Is Like A River (Nicks)
Rose Garden (Nicks)
Maybe Love Will Change Your Mind (Nowels, Stewart)
Just Like A Woman (Dylan)
Kick It (Nicks, Campbell)
Jane (Nicks, Derouin)
God's Garden (Jones) (Only available on the Japanese edtion)
Inspiration (Jones) (Only available on the Japanese edtion)

[edit] B-sides

Mirror Mirror (B-Side to Blue Denim cassette single)
Thousand Days (B-Side to the European CD single for Blue Denim and UK single for Maybe Love Will Change Your Mind. Later appeared on disc 3 of the Enchanted box set. The song was originally written for the Rock A Little album, and demos were recorded, but the song was scrapped.)