
Selections were based on their Hot 100 chart performance. Tom and Stevie's live duet "Needles and Pins" from the "Pack Up The Plantation" Album came in at No.16 and Stevie and Tom's duet "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" from "Bella Donna" was selected as No.1. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Stevie Nicks Tom Petty - Stop Draggin My Heart Around / kind of woman 7 Vinyl at the best. Sadly, there's no new Nicks duets on Petty and the Heartbreakers new album, Hypnotic Eye: "There are no girls in the Heartbeakers," he says."Ĭounting down Petty's 20 biggest smashes with the Heartbreakers and beyondīillboard recently ran down Tom Petty's Top 20 Billboard Hot 100 Hits. Some of my best musical memories of her are sitting on the couch and just playing the guitar while she sings." I've know her since 1978 and she's insisted on being in my life (laughs). "Have you got a couple of hours? She's a good friend. (The original version without Nicks appears on the Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' 1995 box set Playback.) Petty says it was hard to sum up their friendship.


It was written by Petty and Mike Campbell as a Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers song, but producer Jimmy Iovine, who was also working for Stevie Nicks at the time, arranged for her to sing on it. "One of my favourite Tom Petty songs is Stop Draggin' My Heart Around, a duet with Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks, the first single from her 1981 solo debut, Bella Donna.

Her favourite being "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around".
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In fact, the Fleetwood Mac member has spent the bulk of her. I look back on that and what a magical moment that was: Shania got to stand there with me and watch my boys.In this excerpt taken from a much larger interview piece written in the Toronto Sun, interviewer Jane Stevenson lists her 5 essential Tom Petty songs. The long and enduring friendship between Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty, who died on Monday at the age of 66, is the stuff of legend. Tom Petty had already recorded the song weeks before Iovine. He was pissed when Iovine gave it to Nicks. I need to watch this show with you.' Shania and I watched Tom's show and sang at the top of our lungs. Tom Petty did not write this song for Stevie Nicks. "She said, 'I'm going to be greedy right now. After I came off stage from my set, she came backstage," Nicks recalled in a 2017 interview with Rolling Stone.

"It was interesting because Shania Twain had come to see me and to watch Tom. Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty became close friends in the 1980s When Nicks first met Petty, she was working on her debut solo album and wanted him to write her a song. It was also the last time Nicks ever saw her dear friend. Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty were good friends for a long time, and many suspected the Fleetwood Mac star and the Learning to Fly singer had a romantic relationship, even when Petty was. The performance opened with Nicks' solo band, followed by a concert from The Heartbreakers. Nicks launched her solo tour with a passionate performance at Seattles Climate Pledge Arena that paid tribute to Tom Petty and Christine McVie. In fact, the duo's last performance together was a rendition of "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" with Petty and the Heartbreakers in July 2017 at Hyde Park in London. To call it even, Petty later penned Nicks' single "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around". While the song was originally intended for Nicks, the Fleetwood Mac singer insisted Petty keep it for his own record instead. First meeting in 1978, the duo's first performance together came in 1981 on the song "Insider" from Petty's record "Hard Promises", according to Rolling Stone.
