In ainterview with Rolling Stone, Nicks recalled performing with Petty and The Heartbreakers in July at London’s Hyde Park before sitting with Shania Twain to watch Petty own the stage.
“Shania and I watched Tom’s show from the side of the stage and sang at the top of our lungs,” the legendary singer told the publication. “I look back on that and what a magical moment that was: Shania got to stand there with me and watch my boys.”
“When I went into the dressing room before the Hyde Park show, it was me, the Heartbreakers, the Webb Sisters Petty’s backup singers for his 2017 tour], some other friends,” Nicks recalled.
“We stood there and rehearsed it with drummer Steve Ferrone beating on the couch, everybody sort of humming their parts.”
She added to Rolling Stone: “It was funny — you play a wrong chord, and everybody’s eyes go straight up. We didn’t know it as well as we thought we did.”
Despite their rusty rehearsal, the crowd was pleased — the audience roared. While on stage, Nicks shouted out, “You know that Tom Petty is my favorite rock star!” and said she’d remember the night “for the rest of my life,”
Tom Petty and Stevie Nicks sang their huge 1981 hit “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” together on July 9, 2017, when they last shared the stage.
The concert, at London’s Hyde Park, was announced in December, 2016. It was reportedly only the Heartbreakers second U.K. visit in the past 18 years and their only 2017 European or U.K. date.
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers were celebrating their 40th anniversary on a lengthy tour which began several months earlier, on April 20. The tour was extended several times and concluded with three shows in Los Angeles at the Hollywood Bowl in September.
