![]() It spent a whole year on the Billboard 200 from June 1983 to June 1984. The Wild Heart was certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in 1993, ten years after its release, denoting shipments in excess of two million copies in the United States. Nicks had recorded various other tracks prior to the album's release, including "Violet and Blue" which was featured on the movie soundtrack for Against All Odds, and later on Nicks' 3-disc retrospective box set Enchanted in 1998. The album's final track, " Beauty and the Beast", features a full string section performing a score arranged and conducted by Paul Buckmaster. Nicks also worked with friend Sandy Stewart, who wrote the music for three tracks on the album and performed on several (Stewart would go on to write the 1987 Fleetwood Mac hit " Seven Wonders"). Toto's Steve Lukather contributed some of the guitar work on what would become the album's biggest hit single, " Stand Back", which also features an uncredited contribution from Prince, who played the synthesizer track. Nicks' Fleetwood Mac bandmate, Mick Fleetwood, made an appearance on the track "Sable on Blonde". Tom Petty made a return to write " I Will Run to You", on which his bandmates from The Heartbreakers performed. ![]() The album is notable for its array of prominent guest musicians. The album has shipped 2 million copies in the US alone. It peaked at number five on the US Billboard 200 (for seven consecutive weeks) and achieved platinum status on September 12, 1983. After the death of her best friend, Robin Anderson, and with new appreciation for her life and career, Nicks recorded the album in only a few months and was released on June 10, 1983, a year after Fleetwood Mac's Mirage album. Recording began in late 1982, shortly after the end of Fleetwood Mac's Mirage Tour. Stevie Nicks: The Wild Heart.The Wild Heart is the second solo studio album by American singer and songwriter Stevie Nicks. by Sony/ATV Songs LLC (BMI) Musiciansīackground vocals: Sharon Celani & Lori Perry (Stevie Nicks) © 1982 Welsh Witch Music (BMI) / Admin. (Don’t blame it on my, don’t blame it on my)īaby, even in the darkest places of your mind ![]() (Blame it on my, blame it on my, blame it on my) (Are the children like hopelessly enchanted) Whoa, are the children are they hopelessly enchanted (Even in the darkest places of your mind) Well, even in the darkest places of your mind ![]() You say not even you can tear us apart, whoa Well, I run around like a spirit in flight Just one more chip off an already broken heart I wrote it about Heathcliff and Cathy, and the fact that they were one person, that they couldn’t be together and they couldn’t be separate, and about the power and the drama of the closing death bed scene… All those amazing things he says to her” (Nicks, 2016). ![]() And I wrote it completely and utterly about the movie Wuthering Heights. I remember singing it during a Rolling Stone cover shoot for Bella Donna. This was very much meant to be shared and given to people to have them just love the idea that they have wild hearts ’cause I love that - I love that” (Nicks, 1983). “And everybody’s heart is wild, so it’s not like I’ve got any kind of hold on it, ’cause this entire album was written for everybody and their wild heart. People will understand that, probably more than a lot of other things, because it definitely takes you through your nervous breakdown and through your recovery, and it takes you through your survival. There’s something about the vocal that just gives me shivers because it’s just so real. I think that people are gonna love ‘Wild Heart.’ It’s the one song that I go back to time to time again and listen to. There are some wild words in it that just sort of popped up. “It was born in New York, and it’s just intense. “Wild Heart” is the first track on The Wild Heart, preceding “If Anyone Falls.” An alternate version of “Wild Heart” appears on the deluxe edition of The Wild Heart (2016). ![]()
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