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ROCK & ROLL ICON STEVIE NICKS TELLS "CBS NEWS SUNDAY MORNING" ABOUT THE NOW-FAMOUS 1973 ALBUM COVER THAT ALMOST RUINED HER CAREER -- THIS SUNDAY

          CBS News Correspondent Rita Braver sits down with Stevie Nicks, who will release a 30-year retrospective album next week. At age 58, with more than 20 Top 40 hits and more than 80 million albums sold, Nicks reflects on the good and extremely difficult times in her life. The profile will air Sunday, March 25 (9:00-10:30 AM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

            In 1973, Nicks and then-boyfriend Lindsey Buckingham released their first album, perhaps best known for its controversial cover featuring the two of them nude.  Soon after its release, the record company dropped the couple, citing poor record sales. Nicks tells Braver she was against doing the album cover. "I was very uncomfortable and I didn't want to do it...and I was cajoled by Lindsey and the photographer." Nicks says. After they lost their recording contract, she worked a variety of odd jobs. "I was a waitress and enjoyed it... I did whatever it took to make enough money to pay our rent," she added.

            Then Buckingham and Nicks got a phone call that changed their lives -- from Mick Fleetwood.

            "He sort of said, 'Okay, I've heard about you two, I've heard your music. Come join my band?'" Braver asks.

            "That's exactly what he said," Nicks replies.

            How much did that phone call change their lives? Nicks tells Braver that Fleetwood Mac -- with new members Buckingham and Nicks -- recorded for three months and released their first album. After touring for months, she says, "We were closing in on being millionaires."

            Nicks also tells Braver about the painful experiences that led her to write some of her songs and how some band members wrote music as messages to other members, as internal differences continued to beset the famed group. Still, Nicks says that, despite the stress, she prefers life in a band to her solo career. "I loved being in a band. I never wanted to be a solo star." Nicks says, "That wasn't for me."