There were very few acts that appeared at both the 1982 and 1983 US Festivals. In fact, there were only two: Oingo Boingo and the English Beat. But one might count Nicks as a third, because she performed at the 1982 festival as part of Fleetwood Mac, and then in 1983 as a solo act. In 1982, Fleetwood Mac was touring to support their "Mirage" album released that year. Nicks returned in 1983 because she wanted to promote her new solo album, "The Wild Heart."
"The Wild Heart" album actually wouldn't be released until a couple of weeks after the US Festival. At the time of the festival, only the lead single, "Stand Back," had been released. As a result, she didn't play any of the songs from it except for "Stand Back."
This concert was a bit unusual for her since it was taking place a month before her tour to support her new album was scheduled to begin. So she did just one concert two days before it, in order to warm up. Apparently, her "Wild Heart" concert was a very wild one in terms of her personal behavior, especially drug use. She started dating Joe Walsh at the time (who had the time spot right before her at this festival), and they went on tour together. Walsh was heavily using drugs and alcohol at the time, and Nicks got caught up in taking part in that too to the point that it was negatively impacting her performances and her health. (She would go clean in early 1986, after a doctor warned her that he cocaine addiction had gotten so bad that she could die soon.) Luckily for our purposes though, since this concert took place before the tour got started, the drug use didn't negatively impact her voice and performance much yet, though people in the audience claimed she looked to be high on something.
Aside from the one "The Wild Heart" song, the songs were generally a split between songs from her first solo album "Bella Donna" and Fleetwood Mac classics that she wrote, plus a cover of Tom Petty's "I Need to Know."
This album is an hour and 16 minutes long.
094 talk (Stevie Nicks)
095 Gold Dust Woman (Stevie Nicks)
096 talk (Stevie Nicks)
097 Outside the Rain (Stevie Nicks)
098 Dreams (Stevie Nicks)
099 talk (Stevie Nicks)
100 Gold and Braid (Stevie Nicks)
101 I Need to Know (Stevie Nicks)
102 talk (Stevie Nicks)
103 Gypsy (Stevie Nicks)
104 talk (Stevie Nicks)
105 Angel (Stevie Nicks)
106 talk (Stevie Nicks)
107 Leather and Lace (Stevie Nicks)
108 talk (Stevie Nicks)
109 Stand Back (Stevie Nicks)
110 talk (Stevie Nicks)
111 How Still My Love (Stevie Nicks)
112 talk (Stevie Nicks)
113 Stop Draggin' My Heart Around (Stevie Nicks)
114 The Edge of Seventeen (Stevie Nicks)
115 talk (Stevie Nicks)
116 Rhiannon (Stevie Nicks)
117 talk (Stevie Nicks)
https://www.upload.ee/files/17039579/VA-1983USFstvlDay0308StviNcks_atse.zip.html
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The cover photo is from this exact concert.
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