| "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" | ||||
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| Single by Stevie Nicks & Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers | ||||
| from the album Bella Donna | ||||
| B-side | "Kind of Woman" | |||
| Released | July 8, 1981 | |||
| Recorded | 1981 | |||
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| Length | 4:03 | |||
| Label | Modern | |||
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| "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" on YouTube | ||||
"Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" is a song recorded by Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and released as the first single from Nicks' debut solo album Bella Donna (1981). The track is the album's only song that was neither written nor co-written by Nicks. Written by Tom Petty and Mike Campbell as a Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers song, Jimmy Iovine, who was also working for Stevie Nicks at the time, arranged for her to sing on it.[3] Petty sings with Nicks in the chorus and bridge, while his entire band provides instrumentation with the exception of Ron Blair, who was replaced by bassist Donald "Duck" Dunn for the recording.
A performance of the song in the studio was used as the promotional video. The video was the 25th video to be played on MTV's launch date on August 1, 1981.[4] Petty and Nicks also sang together on the songs "Insider" (from Petty's album Hard Promises (1981)) and "I Will Run to You" (from Nicks's album The Wild Heart (1983)), and frequently performed impromptu live versions of these and 1960s classic "Needles and Pins" in many shows through the 1980s.
As of 2017, "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" remains a mainstay of Stevie Nicks's solo performances, and on July 9, 2017, Nicks performed the song together with Petty and the Heartbreakers at the British Summer Time festival at Hyde Park in London,[5] in what turned out to be their final performance of the song together before Petty's death in October 2017.
The song peaked at No. 3 on the American Billboard Hot 100 for six consecutive weeks, (Nicks's biggest solo hit and the Heartbreakers' biggest hit as well). However, in the United Kingdom, the song only managed to peak at No. 50 on the UK Singles Chart.
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- ^ Timespace: The Best of Stevie Nicks (Liner Notes). Stevie Nicks. Modern Records. 1991.
{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link) - ^ Graham, Mark. "The First 30 Videos That Played On MTV". Vh1.com. Archived from the original on October 7, 2013. Retrieved 19 January 2014.
- ^ "Fans delirious as Stevie Nicks joins Tom Petty on stage". BBC News. Retrieved July 10, 2017.