If Anyone Falls
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| "If Anyone Falls" | ||||
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| Single by Stevie Nicks | ||||
| from the album The Wild Heart | ||||
| B-side | "Wild Heart" | |||
| Released | September 3, 1983 | |||
| Recorded | 1983 | |||
| Genre | Rock[1] | |||
| Length | 4:07 | |||
| Label | Modern | |||
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| Producer | Jimmy Iovine | |||
| Stevie Nicks singles chronology | ||||
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"If Anyone Falls" is a song by American singer-songwriter Stevie Nicks. It was the second single from her second solo studio album The Wild Heart (1983). The song peaked at number 14 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and reached number eight on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart.
The song is based on an instrumental synthesizer track called "The Last American," written by singer-songwriter Sandy Stewart. Dallas studio owner and producer Gordon Perry sent the track to Nicks. "The next thing I know, I’m on the phone and Gordon’s saying, 'You can’t have it back. They want to use it on Stevie's next album," Stewart told Record magazine in 1984.[2]
Critical reception
Reviewing the song for Music Week Tony Jasper commented on Nicks vocals, saying that she "rides along attractively with some vocal fire, but even multi-tracked, the full potential is not realised."[3] Cash Box said that the song "manages to be familiar and sure-footed without being predictable."[4]
Personnel
- Stevie Nicks – vocals
- Waddy Wachtel – guitar
- Sandy Stewart – synthesizer
- Bob Glaub – bass
- Roy Bittan – synthesizer, piano
- Russ Kunkel – drum overdubs
- Bobbye Hall – percussion
- Sharon Celani – background vocals
- Lori Perry-Nicks – background vocals
- Carolyn Brooks – background vocals