

She is here for the Heart & Soul tour, a month-long series of concerts with Rod Stewart. Stevie Nicks is holding court in a hotel suite with spectacular views of the ocean off Miami, as her tiny terrier, Sulamith, yaps about in a blue sweater. Nicks and Anderson divorced after three months. "So that was the Robin who would have said, 'You've lost your mind. And she said to me, 'Don't come back until you're not high – don't come back into this place where everybody is dying.'" I'd drink half a bottle of brandy on the way there, 'cause I couldn't stand it.

Nicks had visited Snyder during her cancer treatment. And I said, 'Robin wants this to end – now.' I felt it as strongly as if she'd put her hand on my shoulder." And one day it wasn't rocking and it was very dark and the baby was very quiet. "I know that sounds crazy, but it was always rocking whenever I'd walk in, and I knew Robin was there. She describes how she became aware of Snyder's displeasure: "One day when I walked into Matthew's room, the cradle was not rocking," she says. Nicks, now a multimillionaire, may have remarkable recall for details and dates from her four decades in music, but she also betrays the hallmarks of 70s cosmic thinking. And therefore accidentally break that guy's heart, too." But the fact is, Robin would not have wanted me to be married to a guy I didn't love. And it was just because I had this crazy, insane thought that Robin would want me to take care of Matthew. "It was insanity," the 62-year-old says now. Three months later, Nicks and Anderson were married. Snyder's baby Matthew had been born two days before she died of leukaemia. The regret that has really stayed with her is her marriage, in 1983, to Kim Anderson, widower of her best friend Robin Snyder.
