“She was the one person that knew me for the person I really was and not for the famous Stevie, and it was good to have someone who knew the real you besides just your mom and dad.” “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. Menomonee Falls, WI: Record Research, Inc.“This music is dedicated to Robin,” Stevie Nicks wrote on the back cover to her emotional second solo album, 1983’s The Wild Heart. Joel Whitburn presents rock tracks 1981-2008. Recorded at Record Plant, New York Billboard charts Synthesizer, vocals, and piano solo: Sandy Stewartīackground vocals: Sharon Celani & Lori Perry by Sony/ATV Songs LLC (BMI) / Sweet Talk Music/Three Hearts Music (ASCAP) Musicians (Stevie Nicks/Sandy Stewart) © 1982 Welsh Witch Music (BMI) / Admin. Pulls back the net and it’s hard to see her face With their capes pulled around them tight Stevie has only performed “Nightbird” twice onstage first on Saturday Night Live () and then on Solid Gold (). Because when you really look at life, all the money, material things and dreams we all search after could not save one small girl.” Wearing boots all summer long is like always being ready for a flood or avalanche to happen, for the worst to happen. Shares lyrics with “Edge of Seventeen” (1981).Inspired by Stevie’s childhood friend Robin Snyder Anderson.“It’s about the difficulties of female rock ‘n’ roll singers, it’s about my friend Robin, it’s about death, it’s a spirit calling.

“This song does extend from ‘Edge of Seventeen,’ Stevie explained in 1983.

“Nightbird” reflects on the death of Stevie’s childhood friend Robin Snyder Anderson. “Nightbird” is Track 5 on The Wild Heart, following “Enchanted” and preceding “Stand Back.” It was the third and final single from The Wild Heart, reaching No.

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