Heart

Released: August 20, 1983

Songwriter: Nancy Wilson (Heart) Denny Carmassi Mark Andes Howard Leese Sue Ennis Ann Wilson

Producer: Keith Olsen

Young girl feeling pretty wild
Young girl in the band
Rolling into another town
Living the best they can

Across the street, a music store
She gotta find a brand new axe
And there he was, that blue guitar
He was staring her right back
Staring her right back

She held him close and he felt just fine
He warmed her up - she know he was just right
Together they cut right through the night

She made herself a local scene
And man that axe
Could sing and scream
Crying for that big breakthrough
Only small time local news

Just about to pack it in
Mr. money biz rolled in
Paid the way - broke the band
A living one night stand
A living one night stand

She held him close and he felt just fine
He warmed her up - she know he was just right
Together they cut right through the night
Like touching fire
Like holding desire
Like touching fire
Like holding desire

Take this platinum, take this gold
Burn too hot, it turns you cold
Nothin' left to hold on to
But that guitar was always true
That man was always true

She held him close and he felt just fine
He warmed her up - she know he was just right
Together they cut right through the night
Like touching fire
Like holding desire
Like touching fire
Like holding desire

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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