![]() ![]() ![]() Nicks also appears on The Heartbreakers’ live album Pack Up The Plantation to perform “Insider” and the mid 1960s Sonny Bono and Jack Nitzsche song, “Needles and Pins.” She’s performed several Petty songs herself in concert over the years, including “I Need To Know” as far back as 1981. Unfortunately, Petty opted to release the version without Nicks, and relegated her contribution to the eventual Playback boxset. That vibrato she lays down on the line “I’m okay most of the time” is out of this world. Her harmonies really are tremendous here: playful, raw, and powerful. My personal favorite though is a demo version of Petty’s playful Full Moon Fever ditty, “Apartment Song.” Nicks stopped by one day, liked the song, they had a few drinks, and cut the vocals over a single take. Petty wrote another track for Nicks, “I Will Run To You,” which she released on her follow-up, 1983’s Wild Heart. Petty made up for that snub with “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around,” one of the all-time great rock 'n’ roll duets, released on Nicks’ 1981 solo album, Bella Donna. Petty initially wrote “Insider” for Nicks, but ended up falling hard for the song and kept it for himself, releasing it on 1981's Hard Promises (which is named after a lyric from the track) with Nicks supplying the harmonies. The result of Nicks and Petty’s friendship is a handful of absolutely fantastic tracks. Stevie Nicks always joked that if she had the opportunity to join one band, it would have been The Heartbreakers. But Stevie was really adamant about me writing her a song. But in those days, nobody trusted that sort of thing and we just kept thinking, “What does she want from us?” And then, of course, she turned into one of my great, great friends forever. ![]() 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. And it was her mission in life that I should write her a song. And she was this absolutely stoned-gone huge fan. Shania got to stand there with me and watch my boys.If Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers had said “leave Fleetwood Mac and come and join us,” I probably would have joined Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers. I look back on that and what a magical moment that was. I need to watch this show with you." Shania and I watched Tom's show and sang at the top of our lungs. She said, "I'm going to be greedy right now. After I came off stage from my set, she came backstage. It was interesting because Shania Twain had come to see me and to watch Tom. We didn't know it as well as we thought we did. It was funny-you play a wrong chord, and everybody's eyes go straight up. Ron Blair dragged out a bass but didn't play it very loud because it wasn't plugged in. We stood there and rehearsed it with Steve Ferrone beating on the couch, everybody sort of humming their parts. ![]() When I went into the dressing room before the Hyde Park show, it was me, the Heartbreakers, the Webb Sisters, some other friends. As she told Fricke two weeks after the rock star's death: We hadn't played "Stop Draggin'" since MusiCares. In a new interview with Rolling Stone's David Fricke, Nicks looks back on that last night with Petty. ![]()
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