It was like, well, we have to keep going now. And so with the slow graceful flow of age, I went forth with an age old desire to please. I cried in the middle of the bridge thing, about the sea never expects it when it rains, but the sea changes color, but the sea does not change. "It was like there was this energy that was so strong. "The energy that was written into that song was so intense that it took us about two nights to get the track to that, and it's like nobody's feet ever stopped moving," Nicks told Vox magazine in 1992. Featuring an all-star cast of musicians including Benmont Tench of Tom Petty's Heartbreakers and Roy Bittan of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, the song's recording sessions were heavy and emotional affairs. "Edge of Seventeen" would be the third single from Nicks' debut solo album, Bella Donna.
I did run out into the hallway, but no one was there. Returning to her hometown in Phoenix, Nicks would sit with her ailing uncle, and was at his bedside when he died: "I sat there and held his hand, and sometime right about sunset, he turned his head slightly to John, and then to me, and his hand slowly let go of mine. Jimmy would have to go this one alone," Nicks shared in the liner notes of 1991 hits collection, Timespace. A terrible sadness set in over the house, there was simply nothing I could say. "Then one grey day, the fairy tale ended. Iovine, who was close with the former Beatle, was devastated. with music exec Jimmy Iovine when they got the news that Lennon had been killed. The song's other big inspirations: John Lennon and Nicks' own uncle, both of whom passed away within a week of one another. So it started out about Tom and Jane basically, who I have no idea what they were at 17, but I made it up." "I said, 'Jane, I'm writing a song called Edge of Seventeen.' And she laughs, you know, she didn't ever think I was ever serious. "She told me that when she met Tom he was, she said, 'at the age of seventeen' but she has this incredible southern drawl so it sounded like 'edge of seventeen,' Nicks revealed in a 1981 interview.
One of Stevie Nicks' most famous and enduring songs was inspired by none less than Jane Petty, wife of the late rock legend Tom Petty.
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