Bella Donna is 34!

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Today in 1981: Stevie Nicks releases her first solo album “Bella Donna”. The album reaches #1 on the charts and goes on to stay on the Billboard 200 for 3 years. The album sells over 4 million copies in the United States. “Bella Donna” Spawns 4 Top 40 hits in the U.S. “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” (U.S. #3), “Leather and Lace” (U.S. #6), “Edge of Seventeen” (U.S. #11), and “After the Glitter Fades” (U.S. #32). The album features many top-class musicians such as Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Don Henley and Don Felder of The Eagles, E-Street Band’s Roy Bittan, and top of the line session musicians Donald “Duck” Dunn, Bob Glaub, and Waddy Wachtel. The album is also the first feature backing vocalists Lori Nicks and Sharon Celani who still record and tour with Nicks today! Happy 34th birthday “Bella Donna”!