Heart

Released: June 5, 1982

Songwriter: Nancy Wilson (Heart) Sue Ennis Ann Wilson

I got an appointment to keep, for seven nights I couldn't sleep
I'm in a state of disbelief
It's my big chance on magic street

I followed this fashion doll down the famous hall
"Ginger won't be long at all" She said "Take a number
You'll be called."

I said "I'm gonna show him what I can do now it's just between
Us two." In the grand tradition...Private audition

(Wish I knew then what I know now)

I don't know what I did wrong, I thought I really laid it on
When he called out for some more, I gave him my standard encore

I gave him the Swanee River, and the good ship Rockin' Rye
The Stars and Stripes Forever, and good ol' Pal O' Mine
But that ain't what he was on about
He was casting for his couch

(ahem)
He said, "Come on baby, show me what you can do
Now it's just between us two
In the great tradition...Private audition

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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Private Audition (1982)

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