Blue Denim (song)
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| Studio album by Stevie Nicks | ||||
| Released | June 7, 1994 | |||
| Recorded | 1992–1994 | |||
| Genre | Pop rock, adult contemporary | |||
| Length | 57:32 | |||
| Label | Modern Records/Atlantic Records | |||
| Producer | Stevie Nicks, Thom Panunzio, Exec. Glen Parrish | |||
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Street Angel is the Gold-certified fifth studio album from American singer-songwriter and Fleetwood Mac vocalist Stevie Nicks. Released in 1994, the album debuted at #45 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart with first week sales of 38,000 and spent only 3 weeks within the top 100. The album has since sold over 500,000 copies in the US and was certified Gold.
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 publicized departure from Fleetwood Mac, and during the tail end of her 7-year-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 shipping 500,000 copies.
Unlike all of her previous releases, the album did not yield any major hit singles, though "Maybe Love Will Change Your Mind" reached #57 on the Billboard Hot 100. A second single, "Blue Denim", reached number 70 in Canada.
The album enjoyed slightly more prominence in the UK, where it peaked at #16, though again there were no top 40 hits from it. "Blue Denim" was originally lined up as the lead-release in the UK, and promotional copies were circulated to radio stations in April 1994, but it was replaced at the last moment by the more pop-friendly "Maybe Love Will Change Your Mind", which peaked at #42. The UK release of the "Maybe Love..." single featured two separate CD-single releases as an attempt to boost the song's chance of UK chart success (no promotional video was shot for the single, unlike "Blue Denim"), and included a newly recorded version of "Thousand Days" (originally demo-ed for her 1985 Mirror, Mirror album).
Nicks was not happy with production work done by Glyn Johns on the sessions and spoke about the issues in an interview with Joe Benson: "And I didn't fix it while I was working with the person that I was working with (Johns)... who doesn't like to be talked about because he's not speaking to me, um... I didn't like it when he was there, and he knew it, and basically he told me to... like, in no uncertain English, very rough terms, to shut up and deal with it and this was the way it was going to be."
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