The backing music was written by Lindsey Buckingham found in a demo which can also be found on YouTube. The video has been viewed over a million times on YouTube. The video ends with a version of McVie's 'Wish You Were Here'. It starts with Nicks singing a rendition of ' Love in Store', a song by Fleetwood Mac's Christine McVie. The video was recorded during a Rolling Stone photo shoot in 1981. When Nicks played the song to her friend Tom Petty he said it was 'epic' The song is over six minutes long. She made several changes to the lyrics of the song, such as an introduction dedicated to her then recently deceased friend, Robin Anderson. Nicks wrote the music of 'Wild Heart' for the album version of the song which gave her full writing credits for the song.

A long, long time ago, right at the same time that Bella Donna came out.' Album version I mean at the same time that Enchanted was written. In an interview with Jim Ladd in 1983, Nicks said of the song, 'The song the Wild Heart is kind of an abstract song, that was written in Long Island, New York.

The original demo has the music of Fleetwood Mac's song 'Can't Go Back'. The song was written in 1981 and first performed during a Rolling Stone photo shoot with her to-be sister-in-law Lori Perry-Nicks. It was the third single from her second solo album, The Wild Heart. Learn about the people, places, and events that have influenced her work-and why Nicks’ music is as powerfully alluring today as it was when you first heard it decades ago.ĭrawing from Rolling Stone magazine’s extensive archives, and his long time appreciation of Nicks, Sheffield shares the stories behind the best-selling records and the spitfire 1997 Fleetwood Mac reunion show that put the band back on top of the charts-and why Stevie Nicks still speaks to us today.' Wild Heart' is a 1983 song by the American singer/songwriter Stevie Nicks. Grab your lace shawl and top hat and get ready to twirl-this is a full-throttle appreciation of the life and voice of Stevie Nicks from one of rock criticism’s most celebrated writers.īest-selling author and Rolling Stone columnist Rob Sheffield explores the music and artistry of the rock goddess who has kept generations of music lovers totally bewitched and spellbound, with such classic rock hits as 'Rhiannon' and 'Gypsy.' With Stevie Nicks’s 2019 solo induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, the time is right to uncover the stories behind the songs you love.

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