Stevie Nicks dishes on special bond with 'adopted son' Harry Styles

Stevie Nicks honoured his friendship with Harry Styles after the former One Direction member performed with him for an emotional tribute.

Styles had joined Nicks onstage for a duet of Stop Dragging My Heart Around and landslide on McVie’s 81st birthday on Friday.

According to Variety and Deadline, the Fleetwood Mac singer lauded Styles for the performance and told the audience that she specifically asked him to join her for a duet to remember her bandmate Christine McVie.

Speaking of her bandmate, who died of a stroke on November 30, 2022, Nicks shared, “At the end of the show, since the end of last year and since Christine passed away, I would say something about her, and I asked Harry to do this with me and it’s a lot to ask someone to sing a heavy song about a best friend that died so suddenly and so sadly.”

“What I want to say to you is that Christine was Harry’s girl, she was my girl, she was your girl, and she loved all of you, and today would’ve been her birthday,” she added.

Nicks said that she typically “turns to the stage” when dealing with heavy moments.

In addition, she admitted to making this a regular practice ever since Chriss passed away.

Meanwhile, Styles celebrated McVie, sporting an embroidered songbird pin in the memory of her piano ballad Songbird.

Styles and Nicks have shared a special bond over the years as the 76-year-old singer called the As it Was crooner "best friends in another life."

"He's a brother and a son and maybe we're best, best friends in another life or something. I don't know. But yes, we're very close," she stated in a previous interview.

In 2019, Fast forward to 2019,  while chatting with Rolling Stone magazine, Nicks said that Styles is "the son I never had," adding that she "adopted" him.