hey everyone. i recently found stevie nicks 'wild heart' album with the prince
assisted track 'stand back'. what do people think of this track? do you like it? does any body know how much imput prince had on it, it does sound very princey afterall. i know he contributed keyboards, did he contribute the little guitar bit at the end? did he? hmm.

gravelface said:

If memory serves, Stevie Nicks was inspired by Little Red Corvette and felt she had borrowed the melody of that song enough to give Prince co-writing credit. He is supposed to have contributed some keyboards only, as you say.

the song was #5 on the hot 100

on her timespace's cd (best of) there is a liner note that states he came in, played keyoards, and walked out, she never seen him since.

metalorange said:

that sounds like the story, it has been posted before. And yeah prince came in and did a synth and they say he came in played for anout 20 minites and left.

thanks, shame about the guitar bit at the end, i love that bit. don't you just hate it when you have a fave bit in a prince related track and you find out prince didn't actually have any involvement with it. whilst we're on the subject then, what exactly did prince do on the common star 69 track? i'd love it if he was responsible for all the strange vibes and stuff, thats a great track.

Prince came in and played the memorable keyboard riffs and left after 20 some odd minutes...Stevie ended up keeping the groove and thanked him for giving the track its signature sound...That's the man's contribution to "Stand Back..."

The story behind the song used to be on Stevie's website, but I didn't find it there today in order to copy the info to here.

PurpleRein said:

did you try amamzon? i think they had it posted there... of google it (try google groups i am sure it was posted on AMP ages ago) I know it was on one of her best of cd notes as well.

anyone else wonder if they did *it*?

bountyhunterseven2000 said:

I thought they knew each other better than that. I once heard a quote from Stevie where she said, "Me and Prince have a lot in common. We both like flouncing around the house in chiffon!"

metalorange said:

nah..they dont..but that doesnt mean hear statement is incorrect..

sosgemini said:

Is that a bait for me, sos?

Stevie and P knew each other awhile before he cut "Stand Back". He first met her in 78 while he was cutting his debut album. They hung out after a few shows on the 1999 tour as well. Stevie said that P drove her to one of her shows and said that P drove like a lunatic. She adored "Little Red Corvette" and wanted a cut like that. P played keys and also in my opinion, guitar.

The story was he came in, played the keyboard part using just 2 fingers, and left.

Stevie said on tour even with 2 keyboard players, her band can't recreate it theh way Prince did

GaryMF said:

I heard he didn't even use fingers, he used his elbow. And he insisted the keboard keys were made of gold...

blackguitaristz said:

I once heard that Stevie walked out of a screening of "Purple Rain".She left at the part where Prince slaps Apollonia.I guess the violence disturbed her?

metalorange said:

I wasn't joking. I read this in an interivew with her somewhere.