‘Saturday Night Live’ Technical Issue Before Stevie Nicks’ Performance Paused the Show

Eagle-eyed “Saturday Night Live” fans immediately spotted something was amiss before the show’s musical guest Stevie Nicks‘ second performance. After a landslide of web comments, it turns on the market was indeed a technical issue that was resolved quickly.

The seemingly smooth episode for the fiftieth anniversary season (which featured Oasis impersonations and a unbelievable monologue from host Ariana Grande) hit a speed bump right before Grande was set to re-introduce Nicks for her next song. The problem caused the show to place up a Nicks billboard for around 50 seconds while the emergency was attended to after which leapfrogged into an ad break.

When things were fixed, Grande appeared and introduced the legend again. Shortly after the enduring guitar intro from “Fringe of Seventeen” begins, you may see Nick fidgeting with her mic pack on her right side, but ultimately didn’t affect the singer’s performance.

This was not the singer’s first time on the “SNL” stage. Forty-one years ago, in 1983, Nicks performed “Nightbird” and “Stand Back” on stage after wrapping her tour for her album “The Wild Heart.” The night’s host was comedian Flip Wilson.

And, after all, there was the enduring Stevie Nicks parody performed by Lucy Lawless by which the siren reveals her next big project, “Stevie Nicks’ Fajita Roundup.” The beloved sketch aired in 1998.

“I did not get the joke,” Lawless told The Ringer of their comprehensive oral history of the fajita sketch. “Not being from America, barely having ever eaten proper Mexican food, or Tex-Mex or anything.” The truth is, Lawless brought her concerns all of the method to the show’s creator, Lorne Michaels.

“I said, ‘Oh, Lorne, like—mate, you already know, it’s not funny. Just, please, please, just drop it. No harm, no foul,’” Lawless said. “[Lorne was] like, ‘No, no, no. I feel it’s a keeper here. I feel it’s a keeper. It’s going to do good.’”

The remainder was Tex-Mex history.