Which member of Fleetwood Mac had a solo hit with 'Edge of Seventeen'?

The Fleetwood Mac member who had a solo hit with “Edge of Seventeen” was Stevie Nicks.

Nicks recorded the song for Bella Donna, her debut solo studio album, released in 1981. The single followed in February 1982 and became one of her signature songs, reaching No. 11 on the US Billboard Hot 100. Its driving guitar pattern and repeated “white-winged dove” refrain helped give Nicks a powerful identity apart from Fleetwood Mac.

The song’s emotional background is often misunderstood. Nicks wrote it after the deaths of her uncle Jonathan and John Lennon, who died within the same week in December 1980. The title came from a conversation involving Tom Petty’s then-wife, Jane Benyo, who described meeting Petty at an “age of seventeen”; Nicks initially misheard the phrase as “edge of seventeen.”

A common mix-up is confusing the song with Fleetwood Mac tracks such as “Rhiannon” or “Dreams.” Nicks was a major Fleetwood Mac vocalist and songwriter, but “Edge of Seventeen” belongs to her solo catalog.