“She had been in my life since I was 14,” Nicks remembered in 1998. Robin Snyder Anderson was the dearest friend of Stevie Nicks. The backstory: “She was the one person that knew me for the person I really was” “For her brave, wild heart and the gypsies that remain.” The story of The Wild Heart is not one of songwriting, production and release it’s one of friendship, grief and the green shoots of emotional recovery. 'Nightbird', a track Nicks told MTV was her favorite on the album, was performed live on 'Solid Gold' and 'Saturday Night Live'.“This music is dedicated to Robin,” Stevie Nicks wrote on the back cover to her emotional second solo album, 1983’s The Wild Heart. The first two singles featured accompanying videos that went into heavy rotation on MTV.

The set produced three Top 40 singles in 'Stand Back' (#5), 'If Anyone Falls' (#14) and 'Nightbird' (#33).

The album's final track, 'Beauty and the Beast', features a full string section. Nicks also worked with friend Sandy Stewart, who wrote the music for three tracks on the album and performed on several (Stewart would go on to write the 1987 Fleetwood Mac hit 'Seven Wonders'). Toto's Steve Lukather contributed some of the guitar work on what would become the album's biggest hit single, 'Stand Back' (#5), which also features an uncredited contribution from Prince, who played the synthesizer track. Nicks' Fleetwood Mac bandmate, drummer Mick Fleetwood, made an appearance on the track 'Sable on Blond'. Tom Petty made a return to write 'I Will Run to You', on which his bandmates from the Heartbreakers performed. The album is notable for its array of prominent guest musicians. After the death of her best friend, Robin Anderson, and with a new appreciation of her life and career, the recording only took a few months and the album was released in June 1983, preceded by the single ' Stand Back,' to much critical acclaim. Recording began in late 1982, shortly after Fleetwood Mac's Mirage tour. It was also certified silver in UK for sales 60,000. It achieved double platinum status in 1993, ten years after its released, for shipping 2,000,000 copies in the U.S. Billboard 200 charts and achieved platinum status on September 12, 1983. Released on June 10, 1983, a year after Fleetwood Mac's #1 album, Mirage, it reached #5 on the U.S. The Wild Heart is an album by American Fleetwood Mac vocalist, Stevie Nicks.

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