Sulamith Wulfing – album cover inspiration.Stevie Nicks – album cover concept, handtinting.Worthington – art direction, design, album cover concept, photography Tom "Gordo" Gondolf – additional engineer (1, 3).Greg Edwards – additional engineer, mixing (2, 4–10).Lori Perry-Nicks – mixing (1, 3), handtinting.Shelly Yakus – engineer, mixing (2, 4–10).Harry Cykman, Peter Dimitriades, Regis Eandiorio, Lewis Eley, Max Ellen, Paul Gershman, Harry Glickman, Raymond Kunicki, Marvin Morgenstern, John Pintavalle, Matthew Raimondi, Herbert Sorkin, Ruth Waterman and Paul Winter – violin.Julien Barber, Theodore Israel, Jesse Levine and Harry Zaratzian – viola.Jon Abramowitz, Seymour Barab, Jesse Levy and Frederick Zlotkin – cello.Kenneth Whitfield – string arrangements.Paul Buckmaster – string arrangements and conductor.Carolyn Brooks – backing vocals (2, 10).Russ Kunkel – drums (2, 4, 8), drum overdubs (6).Brad Smith – drums (1, 3), percussion (3).Tom Petty – guitars (7), lead and backing vocals (7). David Bluefield – Oberheim OB-Xa programming (6), Oberheim DMX drum machine (6).Benmont Tench – organ (3, 4, 5), keyboards (7).Roy Bittan – synthesizers (2), acoustic piano (4, 8, 9, 10).Sandy Stewart – synthesizers (1, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9), keyboards (3), acoustic piano solo (5), lead vocals (5), additional backing vocals (5)."All the Beautiful Worlds (Unreleased Version)" "I Sing for the Things (Unreleased Version)" "Violet and Blue (From Against All Odds Soundtrack)" "Nightbird", a track that Nicks has said was her favorite on the album, was performed live on Solid Gold and Saturday Night Live. "Stand Back" and "If Anyone Falls" featured accompanying music videos that went into heavy rotation on MTV. Three singles were released from the album: " Stand Back", which charted at number five " If Anyone Falls", which charted at number 14 and " Nightbird", which charted at number 33. It has also been certified silver by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) for shipments in excess of 60,000 in the United Kingdom. It spent a whole year on the Billboard 200 from June 1983 to June 1984. The Wild Heart was certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in 1993, ten years after its release, denoting shipments in excess of two million copies in the United States. Nicks had recorded various other tracks prior to the album's release, including "Violet and Blue" which was featured on the movie soundtrack for Against All Odds, and later on Nicks' 3-disc retrospective box set Enchanted in 1998. The album's final track, " Beauty and the Beast", features a full string section performing a score arranged and conducted by Paul Buckmaster. Nicks also worked with friend Sandy Stewart, who wrote the music for three tracks on the album and performed on several (Stewart would go on to write the 1987 Fleetwood Mac hit " Seven Wonders"). Toto's Steve Lukather contributed some of the guitar work on what would become the album's biggest hit single, " Stand Back", which also features an uncredited contribution from Prince, who played the synthesizer track. Nicks' Fleetwood Mac bandmate, Mick Fleetwood, made an appearance on the track "Sable on Blonde". Tom Petty made a return to write " I Will Run to You", on which his bandmates from The Heartbreakers performed. The album is notable for its array of prominent guest musicians. The album has shipped 2 million copies in the US alone. It peaked at number five on the US Billboard 200 (for seven consecutive weeks) and achieved platinum status on September 12, 1983. After the death of her best friend, Robin Anderson, and with new appreciation for her life and career, Nicks recorded the album in only a few months and was released on June 10, 1983, a year after Fleetwood Mac's Mirage album. Recording began in late 1982, shortly after the end of Fleetwood Mac's Mirage Tour. The Wild Heart is the second solo studio album by American singer and songwriter Stevie Nicks.
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