Meanwhile, Roy Bittan’s playing piano just like I do, and everybody’s watching me. We brought the orchestra in for a three-hour live session–and I’m someone who’s oblivious to being able to do anything in the studio in a mere three hours! I knew they were gonna pack their little violin cases and walk away from me in no time.
So we got all the original vocalists together in New York and recorded it live. Lori later sent me a tape with beautiful voices on it, and Sharon and I tried to duplicate it, but we couldn’t. It began as a piano demo done in Lori’s husband Gordon Perry’s studio in Dallas. “Besides the fact that ‘Beauty and the Beast’ to me is a story of desperation (see the Jean Cocteau film) and besides the fact that ‘Beauty and the Beast’ surrounds me everywhere - everybody I know is either being the beauty or the beast - the experience of recording this song was so special. It also appears on the retrospectives Timespace: The Best of Stevie Nicks (1991) and The Enchanted Works of Stevie Nicks (1998). “Beauty and the Beast” is Track 10 on The Wild Heart, the album’s epic orchestral closer.
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