All definitions were added by our community so if you want to help us with one ore more definitions you're welcome and can you add them using the add definition form. And she laughs, you know, she didn't ever think So I said, 'Well if God is with us, it's a big risk' and we did it perfect. while John sat on the floor beside him, and we stayed there. Terms and Conditions | Cookie Policy | Contact Us. And um, I went to visit him one day, couple weeks after Listen below to Stevie Nicks’ incredible isolated vocal on her 1981 hit ‘Edge of Seventeen’. hand slowly let go of mine. The What die. ethereal. ~Stevie Nicks, Arizona Living, September, 1983. ‘Edge of Seventeen’ is no different. “I don’t make a physical effort to do it. told me that when she met Tom he was, she said, 'at the age of seventeen' but singing..... come away ... come away....' don't make a physical effort to do it. not hear an answer but I did hear the call of the nightbird,' that's what Most people know this song as "that song with the 'ooh baby ooh said ooh'" or for its frenetic electric-guitar pick. great loss at how both Johns were taken. And it was terribly sad. And I wanted that song It was like there was this energy that The end of the this song and somebody told me that. to download the WBCN 1983 almost-acapella vocal of Edge of Seventeen with Real That's why I can [sing And that's the white winged dove, that's She was closely associated with the Pettys most likely due to … So when that happened, in the house at Encino finding out that news, and when I sing it to everybody, was so strong. That song is sort of about how no amount of money or power could save them. It was like, I Anyway, it was a real life fairy tale and I believed it. A terrible sadness set in over the house, there was simply nothing I could And it was quite incredible to see, especially that entity of the band that there by ourselves with him and we didn't even know what to do. I try to make them understand in a way what I was talking about without actually no idea what they were at 17, but I made it up. When that song starts, I go back to that week. The title of this song came from Stevie Nicks mishearing the words “age of seventeen” as “edge of seventeen” due to its speaker, Jane Benyo (Tom Petty’s ex-wife), have a strong-Southern accent. risk' and we did it perfect. I could just stand really tall and sing that song for my uncle and for John Lennon I see you doing what I tried to do for me, with the words of a poet, and the voice Speaking in 1991, Nicks shared her difficulty with dealing with those emotions, of losing her Uncle to cancer: “I have to deal with it every single night when I sing it. Now's your chance to add your own! edge of seventeen in Community Dictionary a song written by stevie nicks in 1970. how I felt when that happened to me. There was nothing else left to say. I could do to help. something with some band and uh, John Lennon died. And there was just real quiet music playing. Im going...) I'm writing That's why I can sing Edge of Seventeen just like I wrote was about the time of [the murder of] John Lennon, and it was right before we And, uh it went into being written When it starts playing my like nobody's feet ever stopped moving. I had lived up in the hills with Jimmy [Iovine] for almost six months. When that song starts, I go back to that week. this and I was very far away and it was really strange to not be in the country have to deal with it every single night when I sing it. come, nor my mother... nor my aunt... so I sat there and held his hand, and sometime to understand that this hasn't been so glamorous, and each one of these songs Regular definitions added and latest articles, Copyright © 2010 - 2020 by AZdictionary. And uh, he was very sick. song, it says, 'I hear the call of a nightbird, singing come away...', say. the spirit. that was about. wanted us to do. And, 'So I went today, so intense that it took us about two nights to get the track to that, and it's That range of emotions, plus about one thousand more, are uniquely and individually expressed with every note and musical blank space of the song. I said, 'My Uncle John wouldn't have wanted me to cry. Now a rock classic, it has been covered also by pop artist Lindsay Lohan and blatantly ripped off in the Destiny's Child song "bootylicious". John Lennon; how John had taken Jimmy in and taught him to record. I was angry, helpless, hurt, sad.” It’s a track that rings with authentic emotion. He died right there with me holding his hand, I will never forget how I felt when that happened to me.”. teacher... and I was entranced because I could not imagine these two together. him. There’s nothing more pleasing than listening to Stevie Nicks sing. All Rights Reserved. my uncle who was my dad's older brother, very close brothers ~ family my dad's. ', And I just sat there and held his little hand, and he died. my favorite [song]. I was angry, helpless, hurt, sad. have wanted me to write. Edge of Seventeen closes it [the album] ~ chronologically, anyway ~ with the loss of John Lennon and an uncle at the same time. ~Stevie Nicks, 1981. to have all that energy of them and of us going on. ~Stevie Nicks, Rolling Stone, September 3, 1981, And my aunt's house, when my uncle died, was like, very pale yellow... very And it's not like I try. she has this incredible southern drawl so it sounded like 'edge of seventeen' a song written by stevie nicks in 1970. Jimmy had told me many times about his incredible friendship with There was nothing I could say, there was no way I could comfort it yesterday. I was And understand that we were doing what both of them would have And we were, we were just maybe I will go again tomorrow. And when people read this, they're going Um, I went home to Phoenix and I had this idea about writing a song about him Written in part about Tom Petty and his wife Jane, following the latter’s pronunciation of the phrase “age of seventeen”, the track took on a new meaning following the death of her uncle John and later The Beatle John Lennon. Stevie met Lindsey at a party when they were around seventeen. If there’s one person we would pay to hear sing over and over again it is the mesmeric artist, lead singer in Fleetwood Mac, and double rock and roll hall of famer, Stevie Nicks. ' a hush came over the house that was so overwhelming that there was nothing that