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"Rooms on Fire"
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Single by Stevie Nicks
from the album The Other Side of the Mirror
B-side
ReleasedApril 24, 1989 (1989-04-24) [1]
Length4:35
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Rupert Hine
Stevie Nicks singles chronology
"Imperial Hotel"
(1986)		"Rooms on Fire"
(1989)		"Long Way to Go"
(1989)
Music video
"Rooms on Fire" on YouTube

"Rooms on Fire" is a song by American singer and songwriter Stevie Nicks from her fourth solo studio album The Other Side of the Mirror (1989). Written by Nicks and Rick Nowels, and produced by Rupert Hine, the song was released on April 24, 1989, by the Modern label, as the lead single from The Other Side of the Mirror. The 12-inch single was released in a limited-edition poster sleeve in certain territories.

Contents

"Rooms on Fire" was successful on both sides of the Atlantic, reaching number 16 on the UK Singles Chart and on the US Billboard Hot 100 while topping the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart. In the United Kingdom, it was Nicks' first solo top-forty hit and is her highest-charting song to date. The single was also highly successful in Canada and New Zealand, reaching numbers nine and 12 respectively.

In the accompanying music video for "Rooms on Fire", Nicks is seen holding a baby dressed in white, played by her goddaughter. "Rooms on Fire" was performed sporadically at Nicks' live concerts up until New Year's Eve of 1999, though it has yet to be played live since then. Nearly 30 years after original release, Nicks planned to sing "Rooms on Fire" on the 24 Karat Gold Tour, but the song was cut from the setlist.

Background and composition

In a 1989 interview, Nicks gave personal insight as to the meaning of "Rooms on Fire":

"Rooms on Fire is about a girl who goes through a life like I have gone through, where she finally accepts the idea that there never will be those other things in her life. She will never be married, she will never have children, she will never do those [that] part of life."

The song, according to the liner notes of Timespace: The Best of Stevie Nicks , was inspired by Nicks's brief relationship with Rupert Hine.

"The night I met Rupert Hine was a dangerous one. He was different from anyone else I had ever known...He was older, and he was smarter, and we both knew it. I hired him to do the album before we even started talking about music. It seemed that we had made a spiritual agreement to do a magic album...in a fabulous Dutch castle, at the top of the mountain. We recorded it in the formal dining room...where, upon the walls hung all these very old and expensive pieces of art...looking at us...we were never alone."

"It always seemed to me that whenever Rupert walked into one of these old, dark castle rooms, that the rooms were on fire. There was a connection between us that everyone around us instantly picked up on, and everyone was very careful to respect our space...our TIMESPACE, so we all lived at the castle for about four-and-a-half months." [2]

Track listings

US 7-inch and cassette single [3] [4]

  1. "Rooms on Fire" (7-inch remix) – 4:32
  2. "Alice" – 5:50

International 7-inch single and Japanese mini-CD single [5] [6]

  1. "Rooms on Fire" – 4:20 (4:26 in Japan)
  2. "Alice" – 5:46 (5:41 in Japan)

UK 12-inch, CD, and cassette single [7] [8] [9]

  1. "Rooms on Fire" – 8:56
  2. "Alice" – 5:46
  3. "Has Anyone Ever Written Anything for You?" (live version) – 5:00

Personnel

Charts

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