''Trouble in Shangri-La'' is the sixth studio album by American singer-songwriter

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. Released on May 1, 2001, it was her first solo studio album since 1994's '' Street Angel''. The album debuted at number five on the ''Billboard'' 200, Nicks' highest peak since 1983's '' The Wild Heart'', selling 109,000 copies in its first week. It remained in the top 10 the following week at number nine, with 76,000 additional copies sold. ''Trouble in Shangri-La'' spent a total of 20 weeks on the chart, and was certified Gold by the

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within six weeks of release for shipments of 500,000 units. As of February 2011, it has sold over 663,000 copies in the United States. Three singles were released: "Every Day", " Planets of the Universe", and "

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". The album's release was followed by the Trouble in Shangri-La Tour, which became the 27th highest-grossing tour of 2001, earning $14.1 million from 38 shows.

Background

Shortly after the muted reception to her previous album, '' Street Angel'', and a crushing bout of writer's block caused by Klonopin dependency between 1987 and 1994, Nicks asked close friend

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to help her write and record a new album. Petty advised her that she did not need any help and to have more faith in her own abilities, which Nicks recounts in the track "That Made Me Stronger". Nicks then proceeded to write the title track to the album and the closing song "Love Is", but while crafting a track for the 1996 movie

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, titled "Twisted", she was reunited with former lover and

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frontman,

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, which formed part of a chain of events that led to the full reunion of the '' Rumours'' line-up of the band in 1997. One of the tracks on the album, "Fall from Grace", recounts the ever-troubled relationship between

members as experienced during that 1997 reunion, which nonetheless culminated in the multi-platinum selling live album '' The Dance''. This somewhat turbulent experience was a 9-month interruption to the recording of ''Shangri-La'' but it inspired Nicks to pen this track, and another, "Thrown Down", which, although recorded for her solo album, ultimately surfaced in a newer version on the 2003

release '' Say You Will''. Following promotion for her 1998 3-disc retrospective '' Enchanted'' and an accompanying tour (both at the insistence of her former label

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, who wanted to capitalise on the 1997 reunion of Fleetwood Mac, and complete Nicks' six-album deal), Nicks finally continued to record her material for ''Shangri-La'', enlisting the help of

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, who had been a fan of Nicks for some years. The pair worked on a couple of tracks that would end up on the soundtrack to the movie ''

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'' (see below), but Crow also contributed the song "It's Only Love", and performed on and co-produced several other tracks. The two became good friends and Nicks, in return, performed on Crow's 2002 album '' C'mon C'mon'', including writing and providing lyrics for the b-side song "You're Not the One". The pair have also performed on stage together numerous times since the 1990s. When Crow's own career commitments in 1999 prevented her from completing work on the album, Nicks initially produced one track, "Bombay Sapphires", alone. At the suggestion of their mutual management company,

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performed backing vocals. Nicks then enlisted the help of

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for co-production duties on the remaining tracks to be recorded. He had previously sent her a demo of a track he had co-written with

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, "Every Day", which she liked, and it was the first track the pair then recorded at Shanks' home. The track would also be released to radio as a single. Johnson recorded his own version of the song for his album ''

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'' in 2010. Shanks is also notable for helping Nicks to finally record a completed studio version of her 1976 composition " Planets of the Universe" after several failed attempts over the years with other producers. It was the last track to be completed for the album in late 2000, and it went all the way to #1 on Billboard's Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart. The dragon that is used for the "S" in Nicks' name on the album cover (and also appears elsewhere on the disc art) was drawn by

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, who also provides keyboards and background vocals on the album's closing track, "Love Is".

Songs

Though most of the songs on this album were relatively recent compositions, written between the years 1995 and 2000, there are three songs that date back to the 1970s: * "Candlebright" dates backs to the "Buckingham-Nicks" sessions (previously titled "Nomad"). The song was recorded by Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham in demo form, and was almost used on Fleetwood Mac's 1975 eponymous album, however "

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" ultimately made the album instead. * "Sorcerer" also dates back to the "Buckingham-Nicks" era and was recorded as a demo, as well as being performed on the subsequent tour. It was also considered for some Fleetwood Mac projects, in particular 1979's ''

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'', before ending up on ''Trouble in Shangri-La''. The track had also previously been recorded by

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(with backing vocals by Nicks) in 1984 for the film soundtrack ''

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''. In 2016 a previously unreleased full production recording of the song was released on the expanded reissue of Nicks' album ''The Wild Heart'', recorded during the sessions for that album but ultimately shelved. * " Planets of the Universe" was written during the '' Rumours'' period while Nicks and Buckingham were separating, which was Nicks' inspiration for the song. A rough demo (performed by

) ended up on the remastered and expanded release of ''Rumours'' in 2004. Nicks chose to include only an edited version of the song on ''Trouble in Shangri-La'', omitting a verse which she ultimately felt was 'too spiteful' towards Buckingham. The full-length 2001 version of this song, with the extra verse (as originally demo-ed on the expanded release of ''Rumours''), did appear on a 6 track single release in late 2001. Two tracks from the ''Shangri-La'' sessions were given to film soundtracks. "If You Ever Did Believe", which Nicks recorded with

, became the theme song to the 1998

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film

. The track's origins actually lie in the coda of a 1976 demo of " Gold Dust Woman", one of Nicks' signature tracks from the Fleetwood Mac album '' Rumours''. The song was released as a promotional 7-inch vinyl single to radio stations in the US, and a video featuring Crow and Nicks was made for VH-1 promotion. To date, CD availability of the track is restricted to very-hard-to-find promotional CD singles issued to US radio stations, or the ''

'' soundtrack album, which also features a newly recorded version of Nicks' 1973 composition "Crystal", originally recorded for the ''

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'' and 1975 ''

'' album releases with

on lead vocals. The version for

features Nicks on lead vocals, with Crow on backing vocals. Before Nicks herself released "If You Ever Did Believe", the song was given to singer-songwriter

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. It appears on Goffin's self-titled second album from 1981. Nicks sings background vocals on the track and is credited as such on the inner sleeve. Another track, "Touched by an Angel", was given to the 2001 remake of '' Sweet November'', starring

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and

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. Again, availability of the track is restricted to the movie soundtrack CD.

Videos

Two promotional videos were shot for single releases; "Every Day" features Nicks performing in an enchanted forest setting, and "Sorcerer" featured Nicks with Sheryl Crow, both playing guitars in a straightforward performance set in a room where the lyrics to various Nicks songs magically appear on the walls. Both of these videos are available, with optional Nicks' commentary, on the DVD supplement of the 2007 release '' Crystal Visions - The Very Best of Stevie Nicks''. A promo-clip for "If You Ever Did Believe", featuring both Crow and Nicks, was exclusively produced for VH-1 airplay, but to date has not been made commercially available.

Track listing

Personnel

– vocals, keyboards (4, 9, 11),

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(6), backing vocals (7, 9) * Patrick Warren – keyboards (1–5) *

– keyboards (1, 4, 5, 12), guitars (1, 4, 5, 12), bass (4, 5, 12) *

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– acoustic piano (2, 6),

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(2, 6), keyboards (8) * Rami Jaffe – keyboards (5) *

David Kahne David Kahne is an American record producer, musician, composer, and former record company executive. Professional career Kahne started his musical career as a working musician and soon became Director of A&R for America's first punk and ne ...

– keyboards (9) * Charles Judge – keyboards (10) * Sylvain Grand – keyboards (13) *

Pierre Marchand Pierre Marchand (born 1958) is a Canadian songwriter, musician and record producer. Marchand is known for his ongoing collaboration with Sarah McLachlan, having produced all of her albums since '' Solace'' in 1991. He also co-wrote several of M ...

– keyboards (13), guitars (13) *

– acoustic piano (13), guitars (13), backing vocals (13) *

– guitars (2, 3, 8), vocals (2, 3), bass (6), acoustic guitar (7), backing vocals (8, 12) * Jeff Trott – guitars (2, 3, 7, 8) *

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–

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(2), guitars (3) *

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– guitars (6) * Mike Campbell – guitars (6, 8) *

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– guitars (9, 10) *

– additional guitars (10), backing vocals (10) *

Rick Nowels Richard Wright Nowels Jr. (born March 16, 1954) is an American songwriter and record producer. He has co-written and co-produced over 90 hit singles with multiple artists,Tim Pierce Tim Pierce (born 1958 in Albuquerque) is an American session guitarist. He has worked for artists such as Joe Cocker, Crowded House, Goo Goo Dolls, Michael Jackson, Beth Hart, Roger Waters, Alice Cooper, Johnny Hallyday, Phil Collins, and th ...

– guitars (10) * Michel Pepin – guitars (13) * Al Ortiz – bass (1, 11), guitars (11) * Tim Smith – bass (2, 3) * Dan Rothchild – bass (7) * John Pierce – bass (10) * Brian Minato – bass (13) *

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– drums (1, 11, 12) *

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– drums (2, 3) *

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– drums (4–6) * Brian MacLeod – drums (7, 8) * Scott F. Crago – drum loops (7) *

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– drum loops (7) * Gary Ferguson – drums (10) * Wayne Rodrigues – drum programming (10) * Ashwin Sood – drums (13) *

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– percussion (11) * David Campbell – string arrangements (10) * Sharon Celani – backing vocals (1–5, 10, 11, 13) * Lori Nicks – backing vocals (1–5, 10, 11, 13) *

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– vocals (6) *

– vocals (11)

Production

* Shari Sutcliffe – production coordinator * Stephen Walker – art direction, design * Sarah McLachlan – graphic design * Vena – photo illustration *

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and Neal Preston – photography * Howard Kaufman and Sheryl Louis – management Technical * Mark DeSisto – engineer (1, 4, 5, 12) * Brian Scheuble – engineer (2, 3, 7, 8, 11) * Dan Chase – engineer (4, 5, 12), Pro Tools engineer (4, 5, 12) * Don Smith – engineer (6) * Rob Brill – engineer (9) * Randy Wine – engineer (10) * Mike Plotnikoff – engineer (13) * Wayne Rodrigues – additional engineer (10), Pro Tools engineer (10) * Dominique Grand – additional engineer (13) * Pierre Marchand – additional engineer (13) * James Murray – Pro Tools engineer (1, 12) * Lars Fox – Pro Tools engineer (5, 7) * Buddy Judge – Pro Tools engineer (11) * Robert Breen, Steve Kaplan, Chris Reynolds, Jamie Sickora, Matt Silva, Justin Smith and Howard Willing – assistant engineers *

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– mixing at Image Recording Studios (Los Angeles, California) *

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and Robert Hadley – mastering at The Mastering Lab (Hollywood, California)

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Singles

Tour

Trouble in Shangri-La Tour - 2001 Opening night set list (with Sheryl Crow): * "

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" * "Enchanted" * "Outside the Rain" * "

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" * " Gold Dust Woman" * "

" * "My Favorite Mistake" * "Every Day" * "

" * " Stand Back" * " Planets of the Universe" * "Everyday Is a Winding Road" * "Too Far from Texas" * "Bombay Sapphires" * "Fall from Grace" * "

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" * " I Need to Know" (Encore) * " Has Anyone Ever Written Anything for You?" (Encore)

Footnotes

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