| "Wild Heart" | |
|---|---|
| Single by Stevie Nicks | |
| from the album The Wild Heart | |
| Released | 1983 |
| Recorded | 1983 |
| Genre | Rock |
| Length | 6:08 |
| Label | Modern |
| Songwriter | Stevie Nicks |
| Producers | |
"Wild Heart" is a 1983 song by the American singer-songwriter Stevie Nicks. It was the third single from her second solo album, The Wild Heart .
In an interview with Jim Ladd in 1983, Nicks said of the song, "The song the Wild Heart is kind of an abstract song, that was written in Long Island, New York. I mean at the same time that Enchanted was written. A long, long time ago, right at the same time that Bella Donna came out." [1]
Nicks wrote the music of "Wild Heart" for the album version of the song which gave her full writing credits for the song. [2] She made several changes to the lyrics of the song, such as an introduction dedicated to her then recently deceased friend, Robin Anderson. When Nicks played the song to her friend Tom Petty he said it was "epic" [3] The song is over six minutes long.
A now-famous video of Stevie singing an early version of this song at a Rolling Stone photo shoot surfaced in 2008 on Youtube, attracting over a million views. [4] [5] This early version shows Stevie singing the lyrics of Wild Heart over an early demo of Can't Go Back (Fleetwood Mac song) called "Suma’s Walk aka Can’t Go Back (Outtake)" that was released on a 2016 deluxe version of Mirage . [6]
Video personnel
Album version personnel