Heart

   
Artist: Heart

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   Rock: Pop-Rock
   Pop: Pop-Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Jupiter's Darling

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 18


   
 The Road Home

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 15


   
 Alive In Seattle (CD 2)

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 9


   
 Alive In Seattle (CD 1)

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 10


   
 The Essential Heart Disc 2

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 19


   
 The Essential Heart Disc 1

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 18


   
 These Dreams: Greatest Hits

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 17


   
 Desire Walks On

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 13


   
 Brigade

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 13


   
 Heart

   Year: 1985   
Tracks: 10


   
 Magazine

   Year:    
Tracks: 8


   
 Bad Animals

   Year:    
Tracks: 10

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Sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson ar the originative sparkle in arrears Heart, a hard rock music radical wHO initially establish success in the mid-'70s, but to reach greater heights after technology a major comeback a tenner later. The daughters of a Marine Corps chieftain, Ann (born June 19, 1950) and Nancy (born March 16, 1954) grew up in both Southern California and Taiwan in front the Wilson family settled in Seattle, WA. Throughout their shaping years, both were interested in folks and pop euphony; piece Ann never took whatsoever formal medicine lessons as a shaver (she later learned to act as various instruments), Nancy took up guitar and fluting. After both sisters spent some meter at college, they distinct to try their hand as professional musicians, and patch Nancy began playing as a folksinger, Ann united the all-male vocal group Heart.


Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Heart was really formed in 1963 by bassist Steve Fossen and brothers Roger Fisher and Mike Fisher; ab initio dubbed the Army, they later became White Heart before subsiding on plainly Heart at the start of the '70s. After her reaching in the mathematical group, Ann became romantically involved with guitarist Mike Fisher; when Nancy united in 1974, she in turn began a kinship with guitarist Roger Fisher. Soon later Nancy's reaching, Mike Fisher retired from active acting to become the band's good railroad engineer. After gaining a undermentioned in Vancouver, Heart was approached by Shelly Siegel, the proprietor of the Canadian label Mushroom; augmented by keyboardist Howard Leese and drummer Michael Derosier, they recorded their debut album, Dreamboat Annie, in 1975.


Later merchandising more than 30,000 copies north of the border, Mushroom issued the LP in the U.S., where it quickly achieved pt condition on the strength of the hit singles "Half-baked on You" and "Thaumaturgy Man." In 1977, Heart jumped ship to the CBS affiliate Portrait, resulting in a drawn-out sound conflict with Siegel, wHO in 1978 released the unfinished LP Mag on Mushroom shortly later the isthmus issued its true follow-up, Short Queen, on Portrait. The single "Barracuda" was another massive hit, and like its forerunner, Short Queen sold o'er a million copies.


Subsequently 1978's Frump & Butterfly, both of the Wilson/Fisher romances concluded and Roger Fisher left the mathematical group. In 1980, Heart issued Bebe le Strange; undermentioned a protracted U.S. circuit, both Fossen and Derosier exited and were replaced by ex-Spirit and Firefall bassist Mark Andes and former Gamma drummer Denny Carmassi. After 1982's Private Audition and 1983's Passionworks slumped, the grouping was mostly scripted off by industry watchers, and stirred to Capitol Records.


In 1985, yet, Heart emerged with a self-titled attempt that at long last sold more than phoebe trillion copies on its way to unveiling tetrad Top Ten hits: "What About Love?," "Ne'er," the chart-topping "These Dreams," and "Nothin' at All." 1987's Sorry Animals continued their retort achiever; "Alone" was another number one hit, and both "WHO Will You Run To" and "There's the Girl" achieved considerable airplay as well. Brigade, issued in 1990, featured the number deuce dash "All I Want to Do Is Make Love to You," as considerably as the Top 25 hits "I Didn't Want to Need You" and "Marooned." In the early '90s, the Wilson sisters took a brief hiatus from Heart to bod the Lovemongers, an acoustic quadruple fleshed extinct by Sue Ennis and Frank Cox; in 1992, they issued a four-song EP that included a cover of Led Zeppelin's "The Battle of Evermore." Heart returned in 1993 with Desire Walks On, on which Andes and Carmassi were replaced with bassist Fernando Saunders and drummer Denny Fongheiser. With 1995's The Road Home, Heart enlisted old Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones to raise a springy, acoustic sic reprising hits like "Dreamboat Annie," "Wild on You," and "Barracuda."


Heart went on foramen by the late '90s, as the Wilson sisters concentrated on the Lovemongers, issuance a partner off of albums: 1997's Whirlygig and 1998's Here Is Christmas. But Heart wasn't completely mum: they were the discipline of one of the better episodes of VH1's Behind the Music; a twin of best-of sets were issued (1998's Superlative Hits covered their early classics, spell their later age were spotlighted on 2000's Sterling Hits: 1985-1995); and their music continued to start up in motion-picture show soundtracks (2000's The Virgin Suicides, among others). In 1999, Nancy released her number 1 solo album, Live at McCabe's Guitar Shop, and a class by and by penned the score to her married man Cameron Crowe's hit movement picture Most Famous, spell Ann continued to play with others -- in the summer of 2001, she participated in the A Walk Down Abbey Road: A Tribute to the Beatles tour, which besides featured Todd Rundgren, John Entwistle (the Who), and Alan Parsons (the Alan Parsons Project). Heart returned to active recording for Jupiters Darling, released on Sovereign Artists in 2004, and issued Dreamboat Annie Live (a live performance of tracks from the band's debut album, recorded in Los Angeles in 2007) trey years later.





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