The Wild Heart is the second solo studio album by American singer and songwriter Stevie Nicks.

The album's final track, "Beauty and the Beast", features a full string section performing a score arranged and conducted by Paul Buckmaster.

The Wild Heart was certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in 1993, ten years after its release, denoting shipments in excess of two million copies in the United States.

It has also been certified silver by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) for shipments in excess of 60,000 in the United Kingdom.

After headlining the massive US Festival on May 30, 1983, in San Bernardino, California, the tour officially started in Knoxville, Tennessee, on June 21, 1983, and ended in Ames, Iowa, on November 20, 1983.

William Ruhlmann of AllMusic found that The Wild Heart "contained nothing that would disturb fans of her previous work and much that echoed it.

"[10] He observed that, as on her previous album, producer Jimmy Iovine took a "simpler, more conventional pop/rock approach to the arrangements" than Lindsey Buckingham did on Nicks' songs, making the music "more straightforward than her typically elliptical lyrics.