The Truth About Don Henley And Stevie Nicks' Relationship

Publish date: 2024-05-05

In the late 1970s, Don Henley and Stevie Nicks got together after Nicks briefly dated drummer Mick Fleetwood. Henley may have even considered marrying Nicks, according to Smooth Radio. Nicks ended up becoming pregnant by Henley in 1979, per Billboard, and she had an abortion. Nicks has stated multiple times in the past that she deliberately chose not to settle down and have children of her own due to her demanding career. "My mission maybe wasn't to be a mom and a wife; maybe my particular mission was to write songs to make moms and wives feel better," she told ABC Downtown in 2001.

But yes, if the baby had been a girl, she would've been named Sara. "Had I married Don and had that baby, and had she been a girl, I would have named her Sara," Nicks told Billboard magazine, per Mercury News

In 1982, years after the breakup, a duet between Henley and Nicks peaked at No. 6 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks straight. Initially penned for Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter's duet album Leather and Lace, Nicks' version has remained a classic in the pop rock canon and has since been performed live by the two on multiple occasions. In fact, Henley and Nicks seem to remain amicable to this day: the pair went on tour together in 2005, completing ten performances under the bill The Two Voices Tour

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