Who sang with Tom Petty on “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” from the album “Bella Donna”? Stevie Nicks sang with him. The 1981 song was released as the lead single from Nicks’s debut solo album, Bella Donna, with Petty and the Heartbreakers supplying major musical support.
Although the track is often described as a duet, its credited performers are Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Petty sings co-lead vocals and plays guitar, while Nicks provides the central vocal perspective. Petty and guitarist Mike Campbell wrote the song, and producer Jimmy Iovine helped bring it to Nicks after it was initially considered for a Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers project.
The recording became Nicks’s biggest solo hit and reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. It also helped make Bella Donna a strong debut. A common mistake is to identify Petty as merely a guest singer: his band’s instrumentation is fundamental to the record, making it a genuine collaboration rather than a standard solo feature.