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Mesmerising: Stevie Nicks’ impromptu performance of Wild Heart during prep for Rolling Stone photo-shoot

Published on August 19, 2011

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I’m agnostic about Steve Nicks (though I have been to The Night Of 1,0000 Stevies), but this is mesmerising.

Mrs G turned me onto this. It seems Nicks was listening to a backing track of then-new composition Wild Heart as she was being made-up for a Rolling Stone photoshoot.

The title song of her first solo album, it was hit in 1983. Don’t bother with that version – it’s buffed and polished into formulaic AoR.

This is something else; Nicks and a backing singer/friend launch into the chorus again and again like there’s no tomorrow. The make-up artist eventually gives up her job and looks on in awe. As do we decades later.

3 Comments

Mrs Gorman

August 19, 2011 at 4:53 pm

WHAT a fox. Makes me want to pop on a shawl and nestle down in a Peacock chair with a couple of lines of coke…

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Paul Gorman Author

August 19, 2011 at 5:23 pm

How did you know? That’s exactly where I’m at…

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Will Birch

August 19, 2011 at 9:51 pm

All I see is an instinctively major vocal talent warming up. A privileged view.

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