“Stop Draggin' My Heart Around” by Stevie Nicks with The Heartbreakers, Tom Petty and Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

"Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" kicked off Stevie Nicks' solo career in July 1981 as the first single from her debut album, Bella Donna, and it's the one song on the record she had no hand in writing. Tom Petty and Mike Campbell wrote it as a Heartbreakers song, and Jimmy Iovine, who was working with Nicks too, got her onto the track. Petty sings alongside her on the chorus and bridge, and his band does the playing, with Campbell and Petty on guitars, Benmont Tench on organ and Stan Lynch on drums; Donald "Duck" Dunn filled in for Ron Blair on bass. Iovine and Petty produced.

It sat at number three on the Billboard Hot 100 for six straight weeks, Nicks' biggest solo hit and the Heartbreakers' biggest too, and a studio performance became the video, the 25th clip MTV aired on its launch day.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.