Heart

Released: February 14, 1980

Songwriter: Sue Ennis Nancy Wilson (Heart) Ann Wilson

Step into the light
Your on
Hook into the night
That look from eye to eye
A flash gets passed around
A band of wild angels
Rockin heaven down

Roll, roll, roll
Roll out the soul
You get that feel
And everybody knows
You're moving their minds
Moving their minds around
Rockin heaven
Rockin heaven down

You step into the night
On your way back home
What a scene it was tonight
I'm so glad I'm not alone

That look in your eye
Makes me come unwound
Come on baby let's go
Rockin heaven down

Roll, roll, roll
Roll out the soul
You get that feel
And everybody knows

You're moving their minds
Moving around
Rockin heaven down
Rockin heaven down

Rock me home
Rock me home

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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