Stevie Nicks returned to Saturday Night Live for the first time since December 1983 last night (October 12), performing as the musical guest alongside host Ariana Grande. Nicks first sang her recent single ‘The Lighthouse’, a women’s rights anthem co-produced with Dave Cobb and Sheryl Crow, before delivering a rendition of her 1981 hit ‘Edge of Seventeen’. Watch it below.
In an email interview with People, Nicks said: “Well, performing on Saturday Night Live is now as it was then. It’s just about the biggest thing you can do, bigger than a stadium show because it’s going to go out all over the world. “So if you wanna talk about being nervous about something! It doesn’t matter how many shows you’ve done or how much you practice, you’re going to be nervous!”
“So if you wanna talk about being nervous about something! It doesn’t matter how many shows you’ve done or how much you practice, you’re going to be nervous!” she added. “You can never say that Saturday Night Live does not help you to gain lots of new followers, younger people, older people, etc. And so to be asked to do it again … has thrown me into an absolute nervous frenzy, but I’m really excited.”
Grande appeared as the musical guest on SNL just months ago, and she last hosted back in 2016. It didn’t take long for her to break into song during her opening monologue, where she (despite her best intentions) impersonated Britney Spears, Miley Cyrus, and Gwen Stefani. She also starred (and sang) in a number of sketches, including one where she does her Celine Dion impression. Check out those clips below, too.