Stevie Nicks once said Harry was like the “love child” between you two? Why do you think she puts it that way? “Without my girls wanting to see One Direction, we–Stevie and I–never would have met Harry.” “Two factions from completely different worlds came together,” continues Fleetwood of the fateful encounter. It’s also recently rocketed back into the collective consciousness via TikTok thanks to creator Dogg Face (real name Nathan Apodaca), whose viral “Cranberry Dreams” video Fleetwood recreated to further Internet-breaking effect. The group’s iconic song “Dreams” was, after all, one of the first tunes Styles learned as a kid.
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Try as Fleetwood did to play “cool dad,” and fly under the radar (at 6’ 5”, no less), Styles, a lifelong Fleetwood Mac fan, immediately came up to him. Obliging the pleas of his twins Ruby and Tessa, he took them to a One Direction concert and subsequent meet-and-greet at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.
“My 12-year-old daughters said, ‘Dad we want to go and see Harry Styles!’ ” says Fleetwood with a laugh, recalling the catalyst for him first meeting the British pop singer back in 2014. The connection of Styles and Fleetwood began as any cross-generational friendship between two music legends does. Accordingly, they will know that he’s the perfect free-spirited sorcerer-and force of style-for the job.
“I felt there couldn’t be a better embodiment of Pleasing, or a person who could so naturally capture the wizardry that we love.” Any Fleetwood Mac fan knows the pivotal role that the Fleetwood drummer played not just in forming the band, but holding it together during the making of their landmark 1977 album Rumours amid heartbreak and emotional turmoil. “Mick is someone who brings me-and countless others-great joy,” he continues.
“He’s a magical man,” says Harry Styles of Mick Fleetwood, who he counts as a musical hero, close confidante, and now, the new face of his brand, Pleasing.