The Wild Heart (Deluxe Edition - Remastered) Stevie Nicks

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Album-Release:
1983

HRA-Release:
02.11.2016

Label: Rhino Records

Genre: Pop

Subgenre: Pop Rock

Artist: Stevie Nicks

Composer: Sandy Stewart, Stevie Nicks

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  • 1Wild Heart06:10
  • 2If Anyone Falls04:09
  • 3Gate And Garden04:07
  • 4Enchanted03:06
  • 5Nightbird05:01
  • 6Stand Back04:51
  • 7I Will Run To You03:22
  • 8Nothing Ever Changes04:09
  • 9Sable on Blond04:15
  • 10Beauty And The Beast06:04
  • 11Violet And Blue05:04
  • 12I Sing For The Things04:40
  • 13Sable on Blond07:37
  • 14All The Beautiful Worlds05:40
  • 15Sorcerer05:35
  • 16Dial the Number04:30
  • 17Garbo (B-Side)03:31
  • 18Are You Mine (Demo)03:10
  • 19Wild Heart (Session)06:37
  • Total Runtime01:31:38

Info for The Wild Heart (Deluxe Edition - Remastered)

Stevie Nicks returned in 1983 with her follow-up solo album, The Wild Heart. The album produced hits like “Stand Back,” “Nightbird” and “I Will Run To You,” which features Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. THE WILD HEART: DELUXE EDITION builds on the original album with unreleased versions of “All The Beautiful Worlds” a session version of “Wild Heart” and “Garbo,” the B-side to “Stand Back.”

„Stevie Nicks was following both her debut solo album, Bella Donna (1981), which had topped the charts, sold over a million copies (now over four million), and spawned four Top 40 hits, and Fleetwood Mac's Mirage (1982), which had topped the charts, sold over a million copies (now over two million), and spawned three Top 40 hits (including her 'Gypsy'), when she released her second solo album, The Wild Heart. She was the most successful American female pop singer of the time. Not surprisingly, she played it safe: The Wild Heart contained nothing that would disturb fans of her previous work and much that echoed it. As on Bella Donna, producer Jimmy Iovine took a simpler, more conventional pop/rock approach to the arrangements than Fleetwood Mac's inventive Lindsey Buckingham did on Nicks's songs, which meant the music was more straightforward than her typically elliptical lyrics. Iovine did get a Mac-like sound on 'Nightbird,' in which Nicks repeated her invocation to 'the white winged dove' from Bella Donna's 'Edge of Seventeen,' and on 'Sable on Blond,' a 'Gypsy' soundalike. His most daring effort was the album's leadoff single, 'Stand Back,' which boasted a disco tempo. Elsewhere, the songs were largely interchangeable with those on Bella Donna, even down to the obligatory duet with Tom Petty. Nicks seemed to know what she was up to -- one song was called 'Nothing Ever Changes.' As a result, The Wild Heart sold to the faithful -- it made the Top Ten, sold over a million copies, and spawned three Top 40 hits ('Stand Back,' 'Nightbird,' and 'If Anyone Falls'). And that was appropriate: if you loved Bella Donna, you would like The Wild Heart very much.“ (William Ruhlmann, AMG)

Stevie Nicks, vocals
Sharon Celani, backing vocals
Lori Nicks, backing vocals

Sandy Stewart, keyboards, synthesizer, backing vocals, piano
Tom Petty, guitar, vocals (track 7)
Mike Campbell, guitar (track 7)
Benmont Tench, organ, keyboards (tracks 3-5, 7)
Howie Epstein, bass (track 7)
Stan Lynch, drums (track 7)
Mick Fleetwood, drums (track 9)
Steve Lukather, guitar (track 6)
Don Felder, guitar (track 8)
Prince, synthesizer (track 6)
David Monday, guitar (tracks 1, 3)
Dean Parks, guitar (track 1)
Waddy Wachtel, guitar (tracks 2-6, 9)
David Williams, guitar (track 6)
Roger Tausz, bass (track 1)
Bob Glaub, bass (tracks 2, 4, 8)
Kenny Edwards, bass (tracks 5, 9)
John Beal, bass (track 10)
Roy Bittan, synthesizer, piano (tracks 2, 4, 8-9)
David Foster, piano (track 5)
Brad Smith, drums, percussion (tracks 1, 3)
Russ Kunkel, drums, drum overdubs (tracks 2, 4, 6, 8)
Bobbye Hall, percussion (tracks 2, 4, 6, 8)
Chet McCracken, drum overdubs (track 5)
Marvin Caruso, drums (tracks 5-6)
Ian Wallace, percussion (track 6)
David Bluefield, OB-Xa programming, DMX drum machine (track 6)
Phil Kenzie, saxophone (track 8)
Carolyn Brooks, background vocals (tracks 2, 10)

Recorded at A&R Studios, New York, NY; Goodnight Dallas; Hit Factory, New York, NY; Record Plant, Los Angeles, CA; Studio 55, Los Angeles, CA
Recording and engineering by Greg Edwards, Shelly Yakus
Produced by Jimmy Iovine, Gordon Perry, Tom Petty

Digitally remastered


Stevie Nicks
Stephanie Lynn Nicks was born on May 26, 1948 to Jess and Barbara Nicks in Phoenix, Arizona. The family moved often throughout her childhood, living in New Mexico, Utah, and Texas as Stevie's father moved up the corporate ladder. At one point, Jess was 'simultaneously first and second-in-command of Armour Meats and Greyhound respectively.' Stevie's mother instilled in her a love of fairy tales and fantasy, and her grandfather, Aaron Jess Nicks, taught her to sing. He was a frustrated, unsuccessful Country/Western singer who lived up in the Arizona mountains. By the time Stevie was four years old, he she was already singing along with him on country classics; she also recalls getting up and dancing on the tables at the bar her parents owned. A.J. Nicks wanted to take his talented, young granddaughter on the road with him, but this idea was squashed by Jess and Barbara.

The last time Stevie and her younger brother, Christopher, moved with the family was from Los Angeles to San Francisco. Stevie began writing songs at age sixteen after receiving a guitar for her birthday, and occasionally provided entertainment at school functions at Menlo-Atherton High. The first band Nicks was in, called The Changing Times, was heavily influenced by the harmonies of the Mamas and the Papas. She met Lindsey Buckingham during her Senior year of High School-- he was a Junior-- and the two, along with friends Javier Pacheco and Calvin Roper, formed Fritz Raybyne Memorial Band. Upon graduating, Stevie attended San Jose State University, where she studied Speech Communication. Since the other members of Fritz were still in High School, Stevie had to commute back and forth almost nightly in order to make the rehearsals and gigs.

In 1968, Fritz began their professional career in the Bay area, opening for acts such as Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, and CCR. Watching Janis perform made quite an impression on the young songwriter: 'You couldn't have pried me away with a million dollar check...I was absolutely glued to her. It was there that I learned a lot of what I do onstage...I said, 'If ever I am a performer of any value, I want to be able to create the same kind of feeling that is going on between her and her audience.'' While Fritz's manager kept trying unsuccessfully to get a them a record deal, the male members of the group were beginning to feel a little uneasy with all the attention their attractive female singer was receiving. Stevie recalls, 'Those guys didn't take me seriously at all. I was just a girl singer and they hated the fact that I got a lot of the credit. They would kill themselves practicing for ten hours and people would call up and say, 'We want to book that band with the little brownish-blondish haired girl.' There was always just really weird things gong on between us. I could never figure out why I stayed in that band. Now I know it was in preparation for Fleetwood Mac.'

When Fritz finally broke up in 1971, Lindsey and Stevie remained musically involved, and soon became romantically involved as well. Both 1998 Copyright Dave and Torri Liden; This print is available for sale in The Penguin Photo Gallery eventually dropped out of San Jose State (much to Stevie's parents' dismay) and moved to L.A. to pursue their musical dreams. Eventually ,in 1973, the duo landed a deal with Polydor Records and made the Buckingham Nicks album. Stevie remembers spending her last $111 on a beautiful white blouse to wear for the cover shoot, but the end result was that she and Lindsey both appeared on the album quite bare-chested: 'I was crying when we took that picture. And Lindsey was mad at me. He said, 'You know, you're just being a child. This is art.' And I'm going, 'This is not *art*. This is me taking a nude photograph with you, and I don't dig it.'' Despite its intriguing cover, the album was a flop, and Nicks and Buckingham fell on some very hard times financially. They moved in with friend Richard Dashut, whom they'd met while making the album, and Stevie managed to pay the bills by getting a waitressing job at Clementine's, working for $1.50 an hour. Her worried parents began to encourage her to set some limits on this musical career that seemed to be going nowhere fast. Stevie admits that times were very tough: 'It's very easy for me to remember having no money...while I was waiting tables, I'd get some money from them (her parents) here and there. But if I wanted to go back to school, if I wanted to move back home, *then* they would support me. If I was going to be here in L.A. doing my own trip, I was going to have to do it on my own.'

When the offer to join Fleetwood Mac came from Mick, the two didn't have to think about it very long: 'So since I think that we can additionally add something to their band, I think we should 1979 Copyright Joe Sia; This print is available for sale in The Penguin Photo Gallerydefinitely do this because we could be dead by next year because of lack of food. ' Upon joining the group, Stevie went out and bought all of their previous albums- '...I sat in my room and listened to all of them to try and figure out if I could capture any theme or anything. And what I came up was the word mystical- that there is something mystical that went all the way from Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac straight through Jeremy, through all of them.' Nicks added her own touch of mysticism in her song 'Rhiannon' which climbed the charts in 1975.

By the time Rumours was completed in February, 1977, Stevie and Lindsey's relationship had come to an end. However, like John and Christine McVie, neither one wanted to bow out of Fleetwood Mac. Stevie recalls, 'Really, each one of us was way too proud and way too stubborn to walk away from it...what would we have done? Sat around LA and tried to start new bands? Nobody wanted to do that. We liked touring. We liked making money, and we liked being a band. It was just, 'grit your teeth and bear it.'' Photo © Chris WalterStevie's hypnotic 'Dreams' was to become the band's only number one hit song in the States. Her magnificent 'Silver Springs,' on the other hand, was left off the album in favor of 'I Don't Want to Know,' and never quite received the attention and the airplay it deserved. According to Bob Brunning's biography of the band, Stevie 'tore out into the parking lot and screamed with anger, frustration, and shock that the song she wrote about Lindsey was going to be relegated to the B-side of his song about her, 'Go Your Own Way.'' Years later, it was yet another controversy over 'Silver Springs' that eventually drove Nicks to leave the band-- Mick would not give her the song for her 1991 release Timespace and Stevie decided that this was the last straw. Over the years Nicks had embarked on an extremely successful solo career (produced in great part by Jimmy Iovine), and thought she'd simply continue on her own.

Ironically, Silver Springs was the very song which the band chose to release as their first single when they 'reunited' with the Rumours line-up in May, 1997. After years of devoting herself to solo pursuits, Nicks decided to put the bitterness of the past behind her and join the group and tour once more. Stevie was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on January 12, 1998 at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City. She recently finished a United States tour promoting her box set, Enchanted. She currently has another solo album in the works which is being produced by Sheryl Crow and is expected to be released in the fall of 1999.

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