Stevie Nicks and Eddie Vedder joined forces Friday night time to carry out Nicks’ Tom Petty collaboration “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” throughout her headlining efficiency at Vedder’s Ohana Festival. You can see video of the efficiency under.
More than 40 years after its launch, the story of “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” has been nicely documented. Producer Jimmy Iovine reportedly did not assume Nicks’ 1981 solo debut, Bella Donna, had successful single. Iovine additionally labored with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, so he requested the bandleader to lend Nicks a music for her LP.
The gambit paid off, as “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” shot to No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and propelled Bella Donna to multiplatinum standing, whereas additionally solidifying a lifelong friendship between Nicks and Petty.
Nicks informed the viewers this story earlier than starting the music at Ohana Festival. “‘We recorded it, it’s ready to go, he will even sing it with you,'” she recalled a member of Petty’s crew (doubtless Iovine) telling her. “‘So he’s gonna give it to you, and he’s gonna sing it with you.’ And I said, ‘Yes!’ And that song kicked Bella Donna to No. 3 and then to No. 1 on the Billboard charts.”
Vedder strutted onstage throughout the first verse to waves of applause from the group and proceeded to sing Petty’s vocal components. “That was sneaky Mr. Eddie Vedder!” Nicks mentioned after the efficiency.
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Nicks launched a canopy of Buffalo Springfield’s legendary protest music “For What It’s Worth” final week. “I’m so excited to release my new song,” she mentioned in a press release. “It was written by Stephen Stills in 1966. It meant something to me then, and it means something to me now. I always wanted to interpret it through the eyes of a woman – and it seems like today, in the times that we live in, that it has a lot to say.”
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There have been greater than 40 of those exterior initiatives, which deepen and add to the band’s legacy.
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