Heart

Released: October 7, 1978

Songwriter: Sue Ennis Nancy Wilson (Heart) Ann Wilson

Producer: Michael Fisher Mike Flicker Heart

Fire eye flashin' bright
Come again into my dream tonight
Don't fade away when the mornin' comes
Fadin' in the sun
Nada one, nada one

Moonshone silver in your eye
Shown on my midnight blues from the sky
Paint the night with love till the burnin' sun
See the colors run
Nada one, nada one

Mornin' come down on me
Wanderin' through the endless street
Nobody seein' where I've been
Nobody feels what I've done
Nada one, nada one

Look inside I find
Your song flows around my mind
You are as real as I feel
You are the moon in my sun
Nada one, nada one

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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Dog & Butterfly

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Dog & Butterfly (1978)

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Dog & Butterfly