Nicks told Fleetwood Mac engineer Hernán Rojas that the song came to her while she was doing ballet with a Russian teacher while listening to Jean-Michel Jarre's Oxygène. 'Sara' was originally conceived as a poem without any music attached to it, although Nicks later came up with a chord progression and melody to accompany it. The vinyl album version length is 6 minutes 22 seconds, and the edited single version length is 4 minutes 37 seconds. ' Sara' is a song written by singer-songwriter Stevie Nicks of the British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac, which was released as a single from the 1979 Tusk double LP. Not to be confused with Sara (Starship song) or Sara (Bob Dylan song).įleetwood Mac, Richard Dashut and Ken Caillat
