Heart

Released: February 14, 1980

Songwriter: Roger Fisher Sue Ennis Nancy Wilson (Heart) Ann Wilson

Got to be you reading my letter
Not your hired hand
I don't know how to say it no better
I love you and the band
Never heard rockin' like you could
Or Howlin' like you can
It gets me thinking of 'Johnny B. Goode'
But you know you ain't no man

When I heard you play I knew your
Name should be changed
We're all dog panicked and you are to blame
Everybody ought to call you
Bebe Le Strange
You look so insane
We gave you a name
Bebe Le Strange

I wish I knew what you're really like
A touch so shy and fine
But the way you move with that guitar
Just gives me other signs
Here's my number give me a sign
Call me back if this gets through
I said Bebe, Bebe, Bebe, Bebe
I'd never say no to you

When I heard your song I knew your
Name should be changed
Everybody ought to call you
Bebe Le Strange
Under my skin you've got my mind rearranged
You're so insane, Bebe's so strange
Bebe Le Strange

Heart, lead by Ann and Nancy Wilson, is considered a — or the — Grand Dame of hard rock and heavy metal.

Not only do they have more hit singles and AOR tracks than most other bands (songs we’d go over in detail but they’re listed on this very page in order of popularity) but in some ways deeper respect than many, both for their own groundbreaking talent and appeal and some unusual recognition thereof, including having been picked to perform Stairway to Heaven for Led Zeppelin themselves at the Kennedy Center Honors in 2012, making Robert Plant and company actually cry. Not Rush, not Aerosmith, nor any of the other bands beloved rock/metal that — along with Ann and Nancy’s band — followed Zeppelin by one generation. Just Heart.

Starting in the mid seventies, Heart forged a unique and powerful sound outstanding in their field, and was unusual in topping the charts well into their own second decade in the late eighties, becoming a staple of MTV’s rotation, albeit sometimes crammed by the industry into music videos that the bandmates despised and comment on to this day.

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