How a song from Tom Petty’s reject pile launched Stevie Nicks' solo career

In late 1980, while Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers were recording what would become their album Hard Promises, Petty became increasingly aware of a certain famous fan trying to crash the line-up of ...
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Tom Petty Admitted He Did Something ‘Dumb’ While Writing a Song for Stevie Nicks

Tom Petty and Stevie Nicks were some of the biggest artists of their generation. They were also big fans of one another. Nicks, in particular, was a massive fan of Petty and the Heartbreakers, and she ...
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Tom Petty’s Bandmates Were Irritated With Him Over a Stevie Nicks Song on Their Album

In 1981, Tom Petty and Stevie Nicks released duets with one another on their respective albums. Nicks had long wanted Petty to write her a song and, to her delight, he wrote two duets for them. Petty ...
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Tom Petty and Mike Campbell on the song they couldn’t give Stevie Nicks — and the one they did that became a hit

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