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Few rock and roll friendships have endured like that between Stevie Nicks And the delay Tom . Over four decades, the two artists shared songs, support and scene. But their close relationship, which started when Nicks became a mega-fan of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers at the height of Its Fleetwood Mac fame , was not forged overnight. In fact, Petty said that when they crossed for the first time, he was not at all impressed by the other singer. Read the rest for why it took her a while to warm up in Nicks and how she became "the only girl" authorized in her group.

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Nicks was already a huge star when Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers hit the scene. A year after joining Fleetwood Mac, his group released his eponymous album from 1975 to Massive Success. Supplied with drugs and rupture Rumors Followed two years later and became one of the best -selling albums of all time, catapulting his reputation even higher. But that did not prevent her from spending her own Fangirl moment when she caught Wind of Petty from Petty.

"In 1976, I had been in Fleetwood Mac for about a year when I heard Tom Petty's debut", " Nicks wrote in a Rolling stone essay in 2010. "I became a fan right away. I loved the way Dog's voice of Florida de Tom was ringing in workbooks with Mike Campbell guitar and Benmont Tench's Keyboards ... I became such a fan that if I had not been myself in a group, I would have joined it. ""

"Stevie came to me around 1978. And she was this big fan of Goned-Gone," confirmed Petty Conversations with Tom Petty (2005). He added that Nicks had larger plans for their meeting than expressing his admiration. "And it is his mission in life that I should write a song to him," he said.

It took my short times to warm up to the new fan, which would soon become a large part of his life. "We were not really welcoming to her when she started to come," he said in 2015 Petty: Biography by Warren Zanes . "We were not impressed by the superstars. It was simply not in our nature. Maybe if it was Elvis." In the absence of a warm reception of Petty himself, Nicks became close to his wife then Jane Beny . In the process, she brought it to the world of drug star drug consumption, which has led to a new distrust. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

"Stevie really had Jane in her corner," recalls Petty in Zanes' biography. "Because Stevie would deliver her, it took me a long time to realize how authentic and good Stevie was."

According Conversations with Tom Petty , other members of the group were also pushed by the impression that Nicks was part of a "large corporate rock group". However, they quickly discovered that money and attention did not prevent Fleetwood Mac from remaining "artistic people" in the heart. "But at that time, nobody trusted this kind of thing and we just continued to think:" What does she want from us? "" Said Petty.

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What Nicks wanted, according to the subversive and relatively poorly received album of Fleetwood Mac and relatively poorly received Defense , had to be in fact in heartbreakers. At that time, she had written a backlog outside her group who were ready to be recorded. Nicks went to Atlantic Records President Doug Morris with a proposal, as She revealed during a 2017 performance . "I said:" So listen, what I would really like to do is to be in Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers group. Do you think it can happen? "", She recalls. "He said," No, it won't happen. You obviously did not hear the mantra of Tom Petty: no authorized girls. ""

Locked from the group, Nicks said that she had asked to meet the producer of Petty, Jimmy Iovine , to do what she nicknamed "an album Tom Petty Girl". The two met, quickly twinned romantically and started working on Nicks' first solo album, Bella Donna , released in 1981.

Weeks in recording the album, Iovine came to Nicks with a big problem, as she explained during the same show 2017. "You don't have one," she told her. Then he presented a plan: Nicks would finally get this Heartbreakers song that she had wanted in the form of "Stop Draggin 'My Heart Around", written by guitarist and main songwriter Mike Campbell .

The Heartbreakers played and Petty sang the backup on the only song in the album not written by Nicks. While Iovine would prove to be wrong on the album not having a single - "Leather and Lace" and "Edge of Seventeen" (whose title came from an unhappy comment that Benyo had made The age she had met mesquin ) were both sustainable successes - this song spent 21 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 and remained both the biggest success in Petty, According to Billboard .

Nicks and Petty would continue to be friends for decades, occurring frequently and Play collaboration at their last meeting, a few months ago His December 2017 death an accidental overdose. Nicks also revealed in her Rolling stone Piece that she was finally able to join the Heartbreakers after playing 27 shows together in 2006 - at least at an honorary level. "Tom gave me a small platinum sheriff badge that had 24 carats and diamonds on the top and said" to our honorary sorrow, Stevie Nicks "," she said. "In the back, he said" to the only girl in our group. ""