Yeah, you’re hanging out with Mount Rushmore. But I remember we cut "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" and I’ll never forget that, because that was a day we spent with “Duck” Dunn. She fit right in, smoking cigarettes and making jokes. She was a cool rock chick, not a drag at all. I think Jimmy probably invited her to the session and she was there. I remember hearing that Jimmy and Stevie were a thing, and that was good fodder. I think she showed up at a session when we were cutting with Jimmy Iovine. What do you recall about meeting Stevie Nicks for the first time? Watch the Video for Stevie Nicks' 'Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around' Petty ultimately agreed: “I realized it’s really a very different song when I sing it,” he said in the liner notes for 1995’s Playback box set.įormer Heartbreakers drummer Stan Lynch sat down with UCR to discuss this intriguing early period of collaboration, discussing their initial worries and how Nicks ultimately found her place.
There's an electricity and punch that’s missing from the original take. Still, it’s hard to deny the results of Iovine’s vision: “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” became the blockbuster first single from Nicks' Bella Donna in 1981, and the realized version with Nicks and Petty sharing the microphone is stunning when compared to the Heartbreakers demo. He said he felt "depressed" about the trade as the band completed "Insider," despite the fact that he wrote the song with Nicks in mind. Regret set in before the albums even hit store shelves, Petty confirmed in Conversations. He negotiated a deal so that "Draggin'" went to Nicks while she joined the Heartbreakers for "Insider" on Hard Promises. Iovine eventually decided that the song might work as a Petty duet with Nicks.
The Heartbreakers had been working on “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” but hit a stalemate. Producer Jimmy Iovine was working on concurrent projects with Petty and Nicks and felt they didn’t yet have the definitive hit single for her pending solo debut. 3 hit was originally in contention for the Petty album that became 1981’s Hard Promises. “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” is not that song. “It was her mission in life that I should write her a song,” Petty said, noting that she remained “adamant” about it for years. Petty said he first met Nicks in 1978 and could immediately tell she was a major fan.
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