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"Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" is a song recorded by Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and released as the first single from Nicks' debut solo album Bella Donna (1981). The track is the album's only song that was neither written nor co-written by Nicks.
The Heartbreakers also recorded the hit "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" for Nicks' album Bella Donna around the time Hard Promises was recorded. This was the second Tom Petty album on the Backstreet Records label. The album's release was delayed while Petty and his distributor MCA Records argued about the list price.
The album spawned four hit singles during 1981 and 1982: the Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers-penned duet "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" (number 3), the Don Henley duet "Leather and Lace" (number 6), along with "Edge of Seventeen" (number 11) and the country-tinged "After the Glitter Fades" (number 32). [3]
In fact, the success of his Stevie Nicks duet “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” stole the thunder from the Heartbreakers’ “A Woman in Love (It’s Not Me),” which became the lowest ...
Campbell also wrote the music for hits like Don Henley's “The Boys of Summer” and perhaps Petty’s most iconic duet, “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” featuring Stevie Nicks — and they ...
Billy Joel and Stevie Nicks teamed up to deliver a stirring version of Nicks’ hit “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” when the pair opened up their tour March 10 at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood ...
In 1981, Petty and Campbell wrote the lyrics to "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around", which was intended as a Heartbreakers song. However, their producer Jimmy Iovine , who was also producing Stevie Nicks , suggested it be turned into a duet with her, and the band agreed, so the song ended up on her album Bella Donna . [ 20 ]
She later performed "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" with Petty as part of the Heartbreakers' set, [153] in what would turn out to be their final performance of the song together before Tom Petty's death in October 2017. In April 2018, Lindsey Buckingham was fired from Fleetwood Mac, following disagreements with Nicks and Mick Fleetwood.