Gypsy Heartbreakers

Lisa McCormick as Stevie Nicks, delivers a pitch perfect, high energy performance with beautiful Victorian costumes and storytelling that is undeniably Stevie. Stevie Nicks had a large catalog of songs that would never make their way into Fleetwood Mac albums because there were three song writers in the group. When Stevie visited Atlantic Records and made her pitch for a record to then-president Doug Morris, she said "So listen, what I'd really like to do is be in the Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' band. He says 'No. That's not going to happen. You obviously haven't heard Tom Petty's mantra:......

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Erich Schneider as Tom Petty, transports you back to a real Tom Petty concert with his spot-on vocals and musicianship on guitar and harmonica. Tom Petty first met Stevie Nicks in 1978 and they began to meet regularly and collaborate for four decades. In 1979 Stevie set to work on some rough sketches of new songs with Tom. Among them were “Starshine,” “Outside the Rain,” and an early version of “Gypsy,” written in Tom's basement in 1980 and rehearsed with The Heartbreakers.  Originally written with Stevie in mind, “Insider” became their first duet. Stevie told him, “I can’t take this,......

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