By Music News
Jul 28, 2021 | 7:00 PM
Stevie Nicks posted a note to fans in commemoration of the 40th anniversary this week of her 1981 solo debut,
Bella Donna. She wrote candidly about being inspired by her then-boyfriend,
Fleetwood Mac assistant engineer,
Hernan Rojas, whose family played a role in the album's title track: “This song was written about my boyfriend's mother who was involved with a man in Chile during the coup that happened there in 1973. The man she loved was banished to France. Banished — or imprisoned, that was the choice. The love story never really ended, but she never saw him again. I was so touched by this story of lost love that I wrote 'Bella Donna.'”