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![]() The song’s irresistible swampy groove, punctuated by Campbell’s searing guitar stabs and Tench’s Booker T-like organ fills brought out a sassy repartee between the two singers, even if the duet was concocted in the studio by Iovine. And I think Jimmy thought the song could be a hit for her.” “At the same time, Jimmy Iovine was dating Stevie, though he was keeping it clandestine. “We’d already cut it as a Heartbreakers song, with Tom singing the whole thing,” Tench says. Petty thought he was giving her the song, not the recording. “That’s why I wanted you to write a song,” Nicks said. She jumped at Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around, which Petty co-wrote with guitarist Mike Campbell. In 1981, Petty said that out of “terrible guilt” he offered to give Nicks another song instead of Insider, and played her a few castoffs from that year’s Hard Promises sessions. “When she came in the control room, I said: ‘Stevie, I’m really sorry but I don’t want to give you this song.’ And she said: ‘I completely understand.’”Īt this point the story gets hazy. Petty then had to make a tough quick decision. “And Tom loved the way her voice sounded. “Stevie naturally gravitated to the harmony part,” Tench recalls. She shared that it was challenging to heal after his death.After the track was recorded, Nicks went to Sound City studio in LA, and Petty sang Insider with her. ![]() When Petty died, Nicks lost a friend of nearly 40 years. When Dimitriades said he couldn’t play with the injury, the musician responded, “Why not? I’ll do it in a chair if I have to.” Stevie Nicks said she’ll never fully recover from Tom Petty’s death Petty reportedly refused to consider canceling. So Tom, I know you’re standing next to me cause you always have been for so many years.” And one week later he died - but he got down the river. And so, God bless him, he finished his tour at the Hollywood Bowl. “He should’ve canceled, and he should’ve just gone home and gone to the hospital. Nicks believed that Petty should have ended the tour early. “Maybe he was talking about it because was ill,” she said, per HuffPost. “I don’t think he even knew when it happened.”Īt the MusiCares Person of the Year in 2018, Nicks shared that Petty was thrilled to have been honored by the ceremony the previous year. “I don’t know how it happened,” his manager Tony Dimitriades told Rolling Stone. According to those close to him, he had a hairline fracture in his left hip but determinedly still played. In 2017, Petty embarked on a tour to celebrate his 40th anniversary with the Heartbreakers. Nicks shared that he was ill toward the end of his life “She came into my life like a rocket, just refusing to go away,” Petty said, per Petty: The Biography by Warren Zanes. She collaborated with Petty on the song “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” and became his close friend. ![]() Ultimately, though, Nicks got exactly what she wanted and more. – Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty /1yPU6wTjYo- Eric Alper ? March 2, 2019 Yeah, you buckle with the weight of the words But in those days, nobody trusted that sort of thing and we just kept thinking, ‘What does she want from us?’” “We didn’t quite know whether to like Stevie or not, because we kind of saw this big corporate rock band, Fleetwood Mac, which was wrong, they were actually artistic people. “We were a little wary of Stevie,” Petty said in the book Conversations With Tom Petty, per American Songwriter. She was a huge fan of the Heartbreakers, but they didn’t feel as warmly toward her. When Nicks first met Petty, she was working on her debut solo album and wanted him to write her a song. Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty | Lester Cohen/WireImage Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty became close friends in the 1980s Nicks also shared the impact that the loss had on her. She shared that toward the end of his life, Petty was “not well.” Nicks asserted her belief that he should have taken time to rest, even though he continued performing until the week before his death. She performed with him on multiple occasions, including on Petty’s final tour in 2017. Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty were so close that Nicks was known as an honorary Heartbreaker. |