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Title: A Solid Solo Debut
Review: "Bella Donna" is arguably Stevie's best solo album and her biggest selling album to date. Much of the material here could have recorded for a Fleetwood Mac album had there not been time contraints on each record that limited Stevie to 2 or 3 songs per album. Producer Jimmy Iovine gave Stevie a tougher, more lyrically mature direction for "Bella Donna" and that discipline shows. All the songs are at least good but a couple, "Edge of Seventeen," "Think About It," and "Bella Donna" in particular are superb. The only weak song on the album is "How Still My Love." After "Bella Donna", Stevie's solo albums began to slip - some rather badly - but she returned to top form in 2001 with "trouble in Shangri-La."
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