Stevie Nicks Reveals a 'Horrible Wrench' Was Thrown into Her 1983 SNL Set.

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I think she meant to say Sandy wrote Nightbird (with her). Lori sang live in Dec 1983 and again on Solid Gold 2 months later. Lori singing these parts left a false impression she sang the parts on the album. But it was Sandy.
The SNL version is so superior to the album track mostly because of the real drums and it grooves better. Solid Gold had live vocals but they were sung to the album track.

While the SNL performance was good, Stevie is so embellishing that it "kicked her solo career up." Nightbird was a bad choice of a single and no SNL performance was going to save it. Wild Heart was sinking and Nightbird sort of drove the stake into it. If anything, it dragged her solo career down. She never performed the song live ever again. She never included it in her Enchanted Box Set nor Timespace even though it was a low top 40 hit.

Total rubbish