"Stop Draggin' My Heart Around," "Leather and Lace" - duets with Petty and Henley, respectively - and the blistering "Edge of Seventeen" were all Top 20 hits, helping launch the album to the top of the Billboard charts. With the help of producer Jimmy Iovine and a murderer's row of session players - drummer Russ Kunkel, guitarists Waddy Wachtel and Davey Johnstone, Bruce Springsteen's pianist Roy Bittan, and guest appearances from Don Henley of the Eagles and all of Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers - Bella Donna was a certified smash. With Nicks in demand thanks to Fleetwood Mac hits like "Rhiannon," the chart-topping "Dreams" and "Sara," plus treasured album cuts like the moving "Landslide," she was keen to offload some of her own song ideas (after the sprawling Mac album Tusk (1979), masterminded mostly by bandmate and ex-boyfriend Lindsey Buckingham) into a record of her own.
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