The Truth About Tom Petty's Friendship With Stevie Nicks

The four-decade long friendship of mutual respect and admiration first began as a one-sided obsession, according to Nicks. Nicks spent a good deal of her 24 Karat Gold tour in 2016 recalling stories about Tom and how much she wanted to be in Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, per Ultimate Classic Rock.

"I just fell in love with his music and his band," Nicks said in Warren Zanes' Petty: The Biography. "I would laughingly say to anyone that if I ever got to know Tom Petty and could worm my way into his good graces, if he were ever to ask me to leave Fleetwood Mac and join Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, I'd probably do it — and that was before I even met him!"

Nicks never officially got the chance to be a Heartbreaker, but her passion for all things Petty eventually led her to his producer, Jimmy Iovine. The pair began dating and living together, which gave Nicks ample opportunity to build a Petty friendship.

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