Heart

Oh my love, my darling
I've hungered for your touch a long lonely time
And time goes by so slowly
And time can do so much
Are you still mine?
I need your love
God speed your love to me
Lonely rivers flow to the sea
To the open arms of the sea lonely rivers sigh
Wait for me
I'll be coming home
Wait for me

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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The Essential Heart

From the album

The Essential Heart (2002)

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Unchained Melody (live)Heart

Heart

The Essential Heart