She chats up the makeup artist and starts to sing when someone begins playing an early demo version of her hit, “Wild Heart.” This song went on to be the title track of her second solo album released two years later, but somehow, the simplicity, innocence, and pure magic of this demo was lost during the big studio production.
By October of 1981, just weeks after this footage was captured, and less than three months after its release, Bella Donna was awarded platinum status by the Recording Industry Association of America.īreaking from shooting during an on-set make-up session, a beautiful, young, hopeful, and excited Stevie Nicks delivers an impromptu live duet with her off-camera back-up singer. Her debut album as a solo artist, Bella Donna, had been released in July and by the time Stevie was sitting for Annie, the album had reached number one on the US Billboard. This vintage VHS footage captures the effortless talent and enduring charm of Stevie Nicks at her peak singing a demo version of a song she was working on for her next solo release titled, “Wild Heart.” It’s September of 1981 and Stevie Nicks is posing for the cover of Rolling Stone Magazine in the New York studio of photographer, Annie Leibovitz.
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