“Stand Back” by Stevie Nicks

"Stand Back" led the charge for The Wild Heart, Stevie Nicks's second solo album, landing in May 1983, and it runs on a hard, clipped synthesizer throb. Prince shares the writing credit with Nicks and turns up on keyboards, Jimmy Iovine produced, and a crew including Steve Lukather and Waddy Wachtel on guitar, Russ Kunkel on drums and Sandy Stewart and David Bluefield on synths gives her a stomping, glossy backdrop to prowl across.

Nicks wrote the words and sings them with shivering, witchy authority. She premiered it at the US Festival before the album was even out, and it has held its place in her shows ever since; Fleetwood Mac folded it into their own sets from 1987. In Britain it was her first 12-inch single.

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