Heart

Released: April 19, 1977

Songwriter: Nancy Wilson (Heart) Ann Wilson

Producer: Mike Flicker

The doctor said come back again next week, I think that you need me
All she did was cry
She wanted to die
Doctor when can you see me?
There's a guy out there! seems like he's everywhere!
It just ain't fair!

Heartless-heartless! never never out of control
Heartless-heartless! you keep on sinin' in the name of rock and roll
Heartless-heartless! he thinks it's so cool to be cold
Never realize the way love dies when you crucify it's soul

Late night in the penthouse room, the fire is burning
Shadows are warm, laying in his arms she answers his yearning
Her eyes are filled with sand

Heartless-heartless! never out of control
Heartless-heartless! sin in the name of rock and roll
Heartless-heartless! he thinks it's so cool to be cold
Never realize the way love dies when you crucify it's soul

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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