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Tom Petty Music3/17/2021
Author: Rachel Chang Updated: Sep 8, 2020 Original: Jun 3, 2020 Photo: Jeffrey MayerWireImage 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.
Tom Petty Music Mac When SheNicks had just joined Fleetwood Mac when she started hearing Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers music on the radio and became infatuated.I just fell in love with his music and his band, Nicks said in Petty: The Biography by Warren Zanes. 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, Id probably do it and that was before I even met him Soon enough, they did meet in 1978 sparking an electric friendship that endured the highs and lows of each of their careers. 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. And even at their final performance together a surprise appearance by Nicks during Pettys set at Londons 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 READ MORE: Fleetwood Mac: Behind the Drama, Divorce and Drugs That Fueled the Making of Rumours Nicks infiltrated Pettys inner circle When Nicks fell for Pettys music in the 1970s, she was head over heels going to extreme lengths to get in touch with her fellow artist. Her calls to his management went unanswered, so she took on a different approach. If I cant 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. As she started working on her own music outside of Fleetwood Mac, Nicks turned to everyone in Pettys circle. She didnt have a band, she didnt have a single and she didnt have anyone to produce her record, rock biographer Stephen Davis told Interview. 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. 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. Ironically, two weeks later, she was living with Iovine as his girlfriend. Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty in 2003 Photo: Carlo AllegriGetty Images Petty wrote Insider for Nicks but then took it back While that should have been an intimate link to Petty, Iovine attempted to separate his work and personal life. We werent really welcoming to her, Petty admitted in the biography. Instead, Nicks got to know Pettys then-wife Jane Benyo, who he was married to from 1974 to 1996, and eventually Petty realized how genuine and good Nicks was. Petty started consulting on Nicks record and together with Iovine decided it was missing a single, so he wrote one: Insider. But giving up a song wasnt easy for Petty, especially when he realized it was one of the strongest hed ever written, so he took it back, but kept her vocals in. However, Rolling Stone says it was Nicks who gave the song back. However it happened, there was definitely a professional spark. There was a chemistry between Tom Petty and Stevie Nicks that made people wonder, Zanes wrote in the biography. There was something, in phrasing and tone, about the way the voices lay against each other.
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