BELLA DONNA (1981)

Bella Donna is Stevie Nicks’ 1981 solo recording debut. It features the hit singles “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around,” “Leather and Lace,” and “Edge of Seventeen.”

Track List

1. Bella Donna
2. Kind of Woman
3. Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around (Duet with Tom Petty)
4. Think About It
5. After the Glitter Fades
6. Edge of Seventeen (Just Like the White Winged Dove)
7. How Still My Love
8. Leather and Lace (Duet with Don Henley)
9. Outside the Rain
10. The Highwayman

Background

In the late 1970s, Stevie Nicks launched Modern Records with record executives Danny Goldberg and Paul Fishkin as a vehicle for the backlog of unrecorded material that Stevie had amassed over the years. With help of producer Jimmy Iovine and high-profile acts, such as Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers and Eagles member Don Henley, Bella Donna became a critical and commercial success. Stevie later earned a Grammy Award nomination for Best Female Rock Performance for “Edge of Seventeen.”

Release

Modern Records released Bella Donna on Monday, July 27, 1981. It reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 200 Albums chart and produced the Top 40 singles “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around,” “Leather and Lace,” “Edge of Seventeen,” and “After the Glitter Fades.”

In 2004, the RIAA certified the album 5X platinum for the shipment of five million units to retailers. Bella Donna remains Stevie Nicks’ best selling album to date.

Charts

Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around (Duet with Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers)

Leather and Lace (Duet with Don Henley)

Edge of Seventeen (Just Like the White Winged Dove)

After the Glitter Fades

Promotional Videos

Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around

Leather and Lace

Edge of Seventeen

After the Glitter Fades

News & Coverage

• Mac’s Stevie Nicks first to be pacted by modern September 29, 1979 - This article is not available. D. Hall / Billboard (September 29, 1979, Vol. 91, p4) More
• Random Notes June 26, 1980 - This article is not available. Rolling Stone (Issue 320, p31-32. 2p) / June 26, 1980 More
• Stevie Nicks gets serious, down to business on Bella Donna March 1, 1981 - "Look, enough with these heavy interviews," the guys upstairs told us. "Szasz, Anton Wilson, Leary, Turner, Bukowski. Give ‘em a… More
• REVIEW: Bella Donna August 2, 1981 - Rickie Lee Jones' Pirates and Stevie Nicks' Bella Donna are both such long-awaited albums that you could all but hear… More
• Diversity marks Stevie Nicks’ solo August 9, 1981 - Fleetwood Mac singer borrows some hard-edged help from Petty. Pop Album Reviews: STEVIE NICKS, Bella Donna, Modern Records. MR38-139. What’s… More
• Fleetwood Mac’s siren soars with her first solo album Bella Donna August 11, 1981 - The view from the living room of Stevie Nicks' Marina del Rey condominium is spectacular. As far as the eye… More
• Stevie Nicks solos September 1, 1981 - This article is not available. S. Simels / Stereo Review (Oct 1981, Vol. 46, p94) More
• Stevie Nicks soars with Bella Donna September 20, 1981 - A fearsome Kabuki doll grimaces malevolently from atop an antique upright piano into a pastel pink room, where porcelain flamingos… More
• Stevie Nicks: Going solo October 5, 1981 - Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks tries on a new hat When Stevie Nicks was cutting her first solo album, the just-released… More
• Sara (Live in Los Angeles 1981) December 13, 1981 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0Murf9x8U0 More

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