Stevie Nicks is defining his song repertoire for the upcoming tour that he will perform alone, but one of the insured is his success of the year 1983, "Stand Back", in which he covered Prince.
This song was written as a compliment. Now it will serve as a tribute.
The well-known singer of Fleetwood Mac heard "Little Red Corvette" by Prince and he liked it so much that he decided to compose a song in response, the result was “Stand Back ”. But since Prince died in April, he hasn't played it.
In the words of the same singer: "I will sing it for the first time without Prince being on the planet. That will be horrible, but it doesn't mean I don't want to pay tribute to my friend from 'Little Red Corvette'. I think I will always sing it, from now on ”.
The sense of "Stand Back ” is the memory of having attracted Prince to the recording studio to play the keyboard of the song that he himself inspired. Nicks claimed that one of her biggest regrets is that she never had him join her on stage for a live version of this song.
Let us remember that although Nicks and Prince were friends, they didn't spend much time together. They did not think alike on all issues, and one of those who disagreed was the issue of drugs. As Nicks recalls, “He hated them, and he hated me taking drugs, so maybe that's why we didn't hang out anymore. He was afraid that I was going to die from an accidental overdose and what makes me sad is that he died from an accidental overdose«.
Prince was such a prolific composer that his demos or B-sides of his works have become well-known hits by other artists. One such example is When You Were Mine, "a heartbreaking love song originally on the back of Prince's single" Controversy, "which Cyndi Lauper and Mitch Ryder recorded.