![]() “There was something, in phrasing and tone, about the way the voices lay against each other.” Their duet “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” was a hit “There was a chemistry between Tom Petty and Stevie Nicks that made people wonder,” Zanes wrote in the biography. However it happened, there was definitely a professional spark. However, Rolling Stone says it was Nicks who gave the song back. At least that’s the way the story was told in Petty’s biography. Petty started consulting on Nicks’ record and together with Iovine decided it was missing a single, so he wrote one: “Insider.”īut giving up a song wasn’t easy for Petty, especially when he realized it was one of the strongest he’d ever written, so he took it back, but kept her vocals in. Instead, Nicks got to know Petty’s then-wife Jane Benyo, who he was married to from 1974 to 1996, and eventually Petty realized how “genuine and good” Nicks was. We weren’t impressed by superstars - it just wasn’t our nature.” “It wasn’t like she received a lot of warmth. “We weren’t really welcoming to her,” Petty admitted in the biography. Eventually, Nicks started showing up when Petty and the Heartbreakers were around. While that should have been an intimate link to Petty, Iovine attempted to separate his work and personal life. Petty wrote “Insider” for Nicks - but then took it back Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty in 2003 Photo: Carlo Allegri/Getty Images Ironically, two weeks later, she was living with Iovine as his girlfriend. Nicks told Iovine she wanted to be a “girl Tom Petty” in 1979. So he put her in touch with Iovine instead. As Petty detailed in his biography, he had opted not to produce her album, despite the fact that Nicks said she would cater her schedule to his. “She basically stole the Heartbreakers from Tom Petty, stole his producer Jimmy Iovine and then stole their next single, which was ‘Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around.’ She got everything she wanted.”īut it didn’t quite happen that fast. ![]() “She didn’t have a band, she didn’t have a single and she didn’t have anyone to produce her record,” rock biographer Stephen Davis told Interview. “If I can’t be in Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, I want to make a record that sounds as much like T.P.’s as possible,” she said in his biography.Īs she started working on her own music outside of Fleetwood Mac, Nicks turned to everyone in Petty’s circle. Her calls to his management went unanswered, so she took on a different approach. When Nicks fell for Petty’s music in the 1970s, she was head over heels - going to extreme lengths to get in touch with her fellow artist. READ MORE: Fleetwood Mac: Behind the Drama, Divorce and Drugs That Fueled the Making of Rumours Nicks infiltrated Petty’s inner circle “She came into my life like a rocket, just refusing to go away,” Petty, who died of an accidental overdose in 2017, said his biography.Īnd even at their final performance together - a surprise appearance by Nicks during Petty’s set at London’s BST festival in Hyde Park in July 2017 where they performed their 1981 hit “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” - Nicks was forever a Petty fan, declaring on stage, “You know that Tom Petty is my favorite rock star!” Soon enough, they did meet in 1978 - sparking an electric friendship that endured the highs and lows of each of their careers. ![]() “I would laughingly say to anyone that if I ever got to know Tom Petty and could worm my way into his good graces, if he were ever to ask me to leave Fleetwood Mac and join Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, I’d probably do it - and that was before I even met him!” “I just fell in love with his music and his band,” Nicks said in Petty: The Biography by Warren Zanes. ![]() Nicks had just joined Fleetwood Mac when she started hearing Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ music on the radio and became infatuated. While the four decades-long friendship between Tom Petty and Stevie Nicks grew into one of mutual love and respect for one another, it started as a one-way obsession.
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