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''Bella Donna'' is the debut studio album by American singer, songwriter and Fleetwood Mac vocalist Stevie Nicks. Released on July 27, 1981, the album reached number one on the U.S. ''Billboard'' charts in September of that year. ''Bella Donna'' was awarded Platinum status by the RIAA on October 7, 1981, less than three months after its release, and has since been certified quadruple-platinum. 'Bella Donna' spent nearly three years on the ''Billboard'' 200 from July 1981 to June 1984. The album has sold over 15 million copies worldwide, including more than 4 million copies in the US alone with approximately a million copies since 1991 in the US according to Nielsen Soundscan. It is Nicks' best selling solo album to date. The album spawned four substantial hit singles during 1981 and 1982: the Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers-penned duet "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" (#3), the Don Henley duet "Leather and Lace" (#6), the iconic "Edge of Seventeen" (#11), and country-tinged "After the Glitter Fades" (#32). ''Bella Donna'' would mark the beginning of Nicks' trend of calling upon her many musician friends and connections to fully realize her sparse demo recordings. Along with friends Tom Petty and Don Henley, Nicks brought in famed session musician Waddy Wachtel, Bruce Springsteen's E-Street Band pianist Roy Bittan, and Stax session man Donald "Duck" Dunn of Booker T. & the MGs. Though ''Bella Donnas personnel list includes some 20 musicians, the album is very much Nicks' own work, with all but one of the songs on the record written by her. The album also marked the first recording featuring Nicks' backing vocalists, Sharon Celani and Lori Perry, who still record and tour with Nicks today. ==History== Nicks began work on ''Bella Donna'' in 1979, in between sessions for her third album as part of Fleetwood Mac, ''Tusk'', released in October that year. Nicks recorded various demo versions of songs early and mid-1980 but these recordings were not used on the album. Following the end of the Tusk tour on September 1, 1980, work with a full band of other musicians commenced, under producer Jimmy Iovine.〔Howe, Zoë. ''Stevie Nicks: Visions Dreams & Rumours'', page 206.〕 Among the earliest songs recorded during the autumn 1980 sessions were "Blue Lamp", "Outside the Rain", and "How Still My Love." Recording sessions continued until the spring of 1981 when the final songs for the album were completed: "Edge of Seventeen" and "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around". The 10-song, 42-minute album ''Bella Donna'' was released in the summer of 1981. A number of finished songs did not make it on the album, including "Blue Lamp", which was released instead on the ''Heavy Metal'' soundtrack later in 1981, and "Sleeping Angel", released on the ''Fast Times at Ridgemont High'' soundtrack in 1982. These two songs were included on Nicks' ''Enchanted'' boxed set in 1998, along with another unused ''Bella Donna'' session song, "Gold and Braid". Three more songs from these sessions, "If You Were My Love", "Belle Fleur" and "The Dealer," were finally released on Nicks' 2014 album 24 Karat Gold: Songs from the Vault. On her ''Enchanted'' boxed set release in 1998, remastered versions of some ''Bella Donna'' tracks ran noticeably longer in some instances, notably "Leather And Lace". Video footage of the album sessions can be found on the DVD portion of Nicks' 2007 retrospective release ''Crystal Visions – The Very Best of Stevie Nicks''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bella Donna (album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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