Bella donna
by Stevie Nicks
- Type: Album
- Released: 27 July 1981
- Label: Modern
- Country: United States
- Length: 42:05
- Community rating: 3.91/5 from 5 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Stevie Nicks effortlessly translated her ethereal Fleetwood Mac persona into massive solo success with 'Bella donna'. The album perfectly balances her trademark mystical, heavily romantic aesthetic with incredibly polished, melodic soft rock production, delivering deeply passionate, highly sentimental pop-rock anthems that cemented her status as a global superstar.
Genres
Descriptors: melodic, female-vocals, ballad, polished, radio
Tracklist
- Bella Donna (5:22)
- Kind of Woman (3:12)
- Stop Draggin' My Heart Around (with Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers) (4:04)
- Think About It (3:36)
- After the Glitter Fades (3:30)
- Edge of Seventeen (5:29)
- How Still My Love (3:55)
- Leather and Lace (3:45)
- Outside the Rain (4:19)
- The Highwayman (4:50)
Credits
- Stevie Nicks - primary artist, design concept [cover concept], lead vocals, written-by, music by, words by
- Herbert Wheeler Worthington III - art direction, photography by, design, design concept [cover concept]
- Cathie Rice - coordinator [production assistance]
- Debbie Alsbury - coordinator [production assistance]
- Janet Weber - coordinator [production coordinator]
- Margi Kent - costume designer [clothes]
- Christopher Nicks - design concept [cover concept]
- Don Smith - engineer [additional engineering], engineer [mixing engineers]
- Thom Panunzio - engineer [additional engineering]
- Dana Latham - engineer [assistant engineers]
- James A. Ball - engineer [assistant engineers]
- Niko Bolas - engineer [assistant engineers]
- Tori Swenson - engineer [assistant engineers]
- Shelly Yakus - engineer [engineered by], engineer [mixing engineers]
- Sabienne Poilievre - hair [front cover hair design]
- Beverlee Vance - hair [hair design]
- Danton Thompson - hair [hair design]
- Richard Bremer - hair [hair design]
- Stephen Marcussen - lacquer cut by, mastered by
- Michael Curtis - layout, design, lighting [back cover and inside lighting]
- Richard Hall - lighting [front cover lighting]
- Michael Manoogian - logo [logo design]
- Liza Gonzales - make-up
- Front Line Management - management
- Irving Azoff - management
- Benmont Tench - music director [musical director], organ, music by, organ, piano
- Jimmy Iovine - producer [produced by]
- Kathryn Greenbaum - stylist [hands]
- Lori Perry - vocals [ladies vocals], vocal
- Sharon Celani - vocals [ladies vocals], vocal
- Davey Johnstone - acoustic guitar
- Gordon Perry - arranged by
- Bob Glaub - bass
- Russ Kunkel - drums
- Waddy Wachtel - guitar
- Bobbye Hall - percussion
- Bill Elliott - piano
- David Adelstein - synthesizer
- Roy Bittan - piano, music by, arranged by
- Donald "Duck" Dunn - bass
- Stan Lynch - drums, additional membranophone
- Mike Campbell - guitar, written-by
- Tom Petty - guitar, vocals, producer [produced by], written-by
- Phil Jones - percussion
- Bill Payne - piano
- Dan Dugmore - pedal steel guitar
- Don Henley - vocals, drums, backing vocals
- Tom Moncrieff - bass
- Richard Bowden - bass
- Don Felder - guitar
- Herbert Worthington - art direction, photography