![]() And, 'So I went today, maybe I will go again tomorrow. And there was just real quiet music playing. ~Stevie Nicks, Rolling Stone, September 3, 1981Īnd my aunt's house, when my uncle died, was like, very pale yellow. 'I hear the call of the nightbird singing. The white-winged dove in the song is a spirit that is leaving a body, and I felt a great loss at how both Johns were taken. He was home and my aunt had some music softly playing, and it was a perfect place for the spirit to go away. tomorrow' refers to seeing him the day before he died. The line 'And the days go by like a strand in the wind' that's how fast those days were going by during my uncle's illness, and it was so upsetting to me. ~Stevie Nicks, Timespace Liner Notes, 1991 I did run out into the hallway, but no one was there. so 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. and I sat on his bedside, while John sat on the floor beside him, and we stayed there. and went to visit my uncle (who was very sick), not knowing that no one but his son, John, was there. A terrible sadness set in over the house, there was simply nothing I could say. ![]() ![]() Anyway, it was a real life fairy tale and I believed it. and I was entranced because I could not imagine these two together. Jimmy had told me many times about his incredible friendship with John Lennon how John had taken Jimmy in and taught him to record. I was ready to begin Bella Donna and it seemed like it would just never happen. I was also starting to feel very unimportant and very sorry for myself. He was coming to the end of Tom Petty's seemed I had waited a long time, and since no one really knew where I was, I was starting to get very edgy to do something. I had lived up in the hills with Jimmy for almost six months. ![]() That no one really ever heard fall at all She remained with her uncle and his family until his death.Well the music there, well it was hauntingly Soon after, Nicks flew home to Phoenix, Arizona to be with her uncle Jonathan, who was dying of cancer. Nicks' producer and friend Jimmy Iovine was a close friend of Lennon, and Nicks felt helpless to comfort him. The singer liked the sound of the phrase so much that she told Jane she would write a song for it and give her credit for the inspiration.Īlthough Nicks had originally planned to use the title for a song about Tom and Jane Petty, the deaths of her uncle Jonathan and former Beatle John Lennon during the same week of December 1980 inspired a new song for which Nicks used the title. Jane said they met "at the age of seventeen", but her strong Southern accent made it sound like "edge of seventeen" to Nicks. ![]() It gained a new younger audience when used in the movie School of Rock and its accompanying stage show.Īccording to Nicks, the title came from a conversation she had with Tom Petty's first wife Jane, about the couple's first meeting. The single peaked at #11 in the United States and Canada. It became her first hit single as a solo artist (the earlier Stop Draggin' My Heart Around had been a duet with Tom Petty.) Edge of Seventeen is a song written and recorded by Stevie Nicks for her 1981 solo debut Bella Donna. ![]()
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