I need to watch this show with you.” Shania and I watched Tom’s show and sang at the top of our lungs. She said, “I’m going to be greedy right now. After I came off stage from my set, she came backstage. It was interesting because Shania Twain had come to see me and to watch Tom. We didn’t know it as well as we thought we did. It was funny – you play a wrong chord, and everybody’s eyes go straight up. Ron Blair dragged out a bass but didn’t play it very loud because it wasn’t plugged in. ![]() We stood there and rehearsed it with Steve Ferrone beating on the couch, everybody sort of humming their parts. When I went into the dressing room before the Hyde Park show, it was me, the Heartbreakers, the Webb Sisters, some other friends. We hadn’t played “Stop Draggin'” since MusiCares. Here, in this unpublished excerpt from our interview, Nicks recalls her deep friendship with Petty and that day in Hyde Park. She reprised “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” with Petty and the Heartbreakers in July, when she opened for them with her solo band at London’s Hyde Park. Nicks performed both songs with Petty and the Heartbreakers last February at the MusiCares charity event honoring Petty as their Person of the Year. The two met in 1978, Nicks said, and first performed together on record in 1981 – on “Insider,” from his album, Hard Promises, and on Nicks’ Top Five solo single “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around,” written by Petty and Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell. Nicks was speaking to me a week after Petty’s death for Rolling Stone‘s feature tribute to the Heartbreakers’ founding leader. But he got down the river.“They were always taking a step up,” Fleetwood Mac singer Stevie Nicks said of her close friend Tom Petty, his loyal band the Heartbreakers and their constant, determined ascent in ambition and popularity over four rock & roll decades. So, God bless him, he finished his tour at the Hollywood Bowl - three shows - and one week later he died. But not Tom, he was gonna go down that river. He fought his way through that tour - he should have canceled and gone home and gone to the hospital. And maybe he was talking about it because he was ill. ![]() ![]() He last year and he spent a lot of time after that night talking to me a lot about how much important it was to him. “He was not only a good man to go down the river with, as Johnny Cash said, he was a great father and a great friend - he was one of my best friends. “The loss of Tom Petty has just about broken my heart,” she said, gesturing to his daughter Adriana, who was in the audience. Petty died of an accidental drug overdose in September. Nicks has spoken many times of when she felt herself at a creative dead end in the 1990s and asked him to write songs with her - he gently refused, reminding her that she is a songwriter and she just needed to do it herself. Petty not only launched her solo career by essentially giving her their duet, “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around,” but he was also there for her on many occasions later. She talked warmly about her relationship with the group’s fans, getting older and more, but after speaking for several minutes, she paused poignantly, and then launched into a tribute to her longtime friend and collaborator, Tom Petty. The Grammys charitable organization MusiCares honored Fleetwood Mac for its annual pre-Grammys fundraising concert, and as expected Stevie Nicks’ acceptance speech was one of the most entertaining moments of the evening.
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