![]() ![]() So, she finally met Tom Petty and the other members. When she couldn’t reach anyone from the band or the crew, she decided to work with their manager, Jimmy Iovine. The singer was eager to join Petty’s band even if it required her to leave Fleetwood Mac. “Tom was a completely masculine personality, but it softened him and made him much more understanding,” she told Rolling Stone, adding that she was “never afraid to pick up the phone and explain a situation to him - and he would just talk me down.Mesmerized by the group’s unique sound, Stevie Nicks started to look for ways to meet Tom Petty and show that she was serious about her intention. That made Nicks turn to him for advice often. “The women around him pretty much went their own way, and he was good with that.” “He was surrounded by really strong women,” she told Rolling Stone. Of all the traits Nicks admired about Petty, she was most drawn to his unique sense of understanding and ability to write about women with empathy. She chalked it up to his two daughters and his two loving wives (after separating from Jane, he married Dana York in 2001). Some of my best musical memories of her are sitting on the couch and just playing the guitar while she sings.” Nicks admired Petty’s empathy I’ve known her since 1978 and she’s insisted on being in my life. When Petty was asked about their friendship, he told the Toronto Sun, “Have you got a couple of hours? She’s a good friend. “There was something, in phrasing and tone, about the way the voices lay against each other.”īut their chemistry clearly went beyond the stage and into the small moments as well. “There was a chemistry between Tom Petty and Stevie Nicks that made people wonder,” Zanes wrote in the biography. However it happened, there was definitely a professional spark. However, Rolling Stone says it was Nicks who gave the song back. At least that’s the way the story was told in Petty’s biography. Petty started consulting on Nicks’ record and together with Iovine decided it was missing a single, so he wrote one: “Insider.”īut giving up a song wasn’t easy for Petty, especially when he realized it was one of the strongest he’d ever written, so he took it back, but kept her vocals in. Instead, Nicks got to know Petty’s then-wife Jane Benyo, who he was married to from 1974 to 1996, and eventually Petty realized how “genuine and good” Nicks was. We weren’t impressed by superstars - it just wasn’t our nature.” “It wasn’t like she received a lot of warmth. “We weren’t really welcoming to her,” Petty admitted in the biography. Eventually, Nicks started showing up when Petty and the Heartbreakers were around. While that should have been an intimate link to Petty, Iovine attempted to separate his work and personal life. Photo: Carlo Allegri/Getty Images Petty wrote “Insider” for Nicks - but then took it back Ironically, two weeks later, she was living with Iovine as his girlfriend. Nicks told Iovine she wanted to be a “girl Tom Petty” in 1979. So he put her in touch with Iovine instead. 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. “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.’ She got everything she wanted.”īut it didn’t quite happen that fast. “She didn’t have a band, she didn’t have a single and she didn’t have anyone to produce her record,” rock biographer Stephen Davis told Interview. ![]() “If I can’t 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.Īs she started working on her own music outside of Fleetwood Mac, Nicks turned to everyone in Petty’s circle. Her calls to his management went unanswered, so she took on a different approach. When Nicks fell for Petty’s music in the 1970s, she was head over heels - going to extreme lengths to get in touch with her fellow artist. ![]() READ MORE: Fleetwood Mac: Behind the Drama, Divorce and Drugs That Fueled the Making of Rumours Nicks infiltrated Petty’s inner circle
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