WATCH: Very Sexy Stevie Nicks Performs ‘Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around’ LIVE – 1983

A bare shouldered Stevie rambles a bit before the song and says she is overwhelmed… and probably a little high too. Still performs admirably under the circumstances and hey, she looks great in that black dress, am I right?

Here’s more about “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” from Wikipedia:

“Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” was the first single from Stevie Nicks’ debut solo album, Bella Donna (1981). The track is the album’s only song that was neither written nor co-written by Nicks. Written by Tom Petty and Mike Campbell as a Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers song, Jimmy Iovine, who was also working for Stevie Nicks at the time, arranged for her to sing on it. Petty sang with Nicks in the chorus and bridge, while his entire band (save Ron Blair, whose bass track was played by Donald “Duck” Dunn instead) played on the song.

A performance of the song in the studio was used as the promotional video. The video was the 25th video to be played on MTV’s launch date on August 1, 1981. Petty and Nicks also sang together on the songs “Insider” (from Petty’s 1981 album, Hard Promises) and “I Will Run to You” (from Nicks’ 1983 album, The Wild Heart), and frequently performed impromptu live versions of these and 1960s classic “Needles and Pins” in many shows throughout the 1980s.  As of 2017, “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” remains a mainstay of Stevie Nicks’s solo performances, and on July 9, 2017, Nicks performed the song together with Petty and the Heartbreakers at the British Summer Time festival at Hyde Park in London, in what turned out to be their final performance of the song together before Petty’s death in October 2017.

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