Songbird stevie nicks12/9/2023 ![]() ![]() Directed by choreographer Jeffrey Hornaday, it features Nicks performing the song behind a microphone in a spotlight-filled room surrounded by glass walls and mirrors, interspersed with shots of choreographed dance sequences. This version can now be found (with Nicks' commentary) on the DVD supplement of her 2007 collection Crystal Visions – The Very Best of Stevie Nicks.Īs an alternative, a second video was made on a much lower budget than the original. Upon seeing the completed video, Nicks rejected it as, according to Grant, she felt she looked fat. The first, which was never aired and is referred to as the "Scarlett Version", was a lavish production directed by Brian Grant and features Nicks in a Gone with the Wind type scenario. Two music videos were filmed for the single. Reception Ĭash Box said it represents "both familiar and challenging listening," combining Nicks' traditional "vamp posture" with dance music. The song follows a chord progression of A/G – G – D/A – A – D/A – G/B – Bm – A/B – B/D – G, and Nicks’ vocals span from A 3 to B 4. “Stand Back” is performed in the key of B minor with a tempo of 116 beats per minute in common time. ![]() There is a further "polished" version of the track, with crisper percussion and louder foreground synth, featured on Nicks' 1991 compilation album Timespace: The Best of Stevie Nicks, remixed by Chris Lord-Alge with a run time of 4:59. Acoustic drums were given a more backseat role on "Stand Back". ![]() Differences between the two are somewhat subtle, but the single version tends to have more of a "collapsed" or "mono" sound to it and the electronic drum programs are mixed rather dry and flattened, especially in the song's intro bars whereas the drum tracks on the album version are accentuated by a generous amount of reverb effect and harder compression. There were two mixes made of the song: the generally more well-known album version (4:48) and the edited single version (4:18). Prince, however, remarked a different story in regards to the song's drum programming and creation: "When I got there, her and Jimmy Iovine couldn't figure out how to work the drum machine.because people were using live drums at that point.so I went down there and programmed it for them and pretty much played most of the song there in about twenty or thirty minutes". It's possible that Prince played other synth parts that didn't make the final mix. Synth player Dave Bluefield (who also programmed the song's rhythm on a drum machine) revealed that while he played the main chords on the song (using an Oberheim OB-Xa synthesizer), Prince did the "8th note up beats" in the upper octaves during the choruses (first heard at the 0:54 mark - supposedly played with just two fingers). Then, she says, "he just got up and left as if the whole thing happened in a dream." He and Nicks did agree however to split the publishing royalties on the song 50-50. On the night of February 8, 1983, Prince came to the studio and played synthesizers on it, although his contribution is uncredited on the album. Later, when Nicks went into the studio to record the song, she called Prince and told him the story of how she wrote the song to his melody. The couple stopped and got a tape recorder and Nicks recorded the demo in the honeymoon suite that night. Nicks started humming along to the melody, especially inspired by the lush synthesizers on the song, and "Stand Back" was born. The newlyweds were driving up to San Ysidro Ranch in Santa Barbara when Prince's song " Little Red Corvette" came on the radio. She wrote it on the day of her marriage to Kim Anderson on January 29, 1983. Nicks has often told the story of how she wrote "Stand Back". A 12" promotional single was also released to United States radio stations in 1983, featuring a full-colour sleeve, but playing the standard album version (in mono and stereo) on both sides. In the United Kingdom, the single was Nicks' first 12" release, featuring a different glossy picture sleeve and the inclusion of a third track, "Wild Heart". "Stand Back" has been a staple in Nicks' live shows since its pre-album debut at the 1983 US Festival, and it has also been included in the Fleetwood Mac tour set lists since 1987. The song was released as the lead single from the album in May 1983 and reached number five on the Billboard Hot 100 and number two on the Top Mainstream Rock Tracks chart in August of that year. " Stand Back" is a song by American singer-songwriter Stevie Nicks from her second solo studio album The Wild Heart (1983). ![]() For other uses, see Stand Back (disambiguation). This article is about the Stevie Nicks song. ![]()
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