Line #10 Music/HeartBand


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:Ann and Nancy Wilson, "Crazy On You" era]]
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4	->'''Til now, I always got by on my own\
5	I never really cared until I met you\
6	And now it chills me to the bone\
7	How do I get you alone?\
8	How do I get you alone?''
9	-->--'''"Alone"'''
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11	Heart is a rock band technically formed in UsefulNotes/{{Vancouver}}, UsefulNotes/{{Canada}} but with all its members originating from UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}}, UsefulNotes/{{Washington}} - one of their founding members was dodging the draft, everybody else followed, and later they moved back to Seattle once the whole thing blew over. While previous incarnations date from around 1967, the band itself was led by Ann and Nancy Wilson, who have also remained [[IAmTheBand the only constant members of]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_(band)#Members the band's ever-changing lineups.]] ToMakeALongStoryShort: they first got famous in TheSeventies, largely by alternating folk with hard rock of an extremely similar character to Music/LedZeppelin, decreased in popularity early in TheEighties due to the loss of numerous original members (including lead guitarist Roger Fisher and bassist Steve Fossen) but had a comeback in 1985, largely by moving away from Zeppelin-styled rock into hair metal-tinged pop and synth-laden {{Power Ballad}}s (most notably the global hit "Alone").
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13	The Wilson sisters also played an important part in the UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}} music scene through their ownership of the Bad Animals Studio, used by key {{Grunge}} bands such as Music/AliceInChains, Music/{{Nirvana}}, Music/PearlJam and Music/{{Soundgarden}} and others like Music/NeilYoung, Music/JohnnyCash and Music/{{REM}}. Ann Wilson also contributed vocals to the Alice in Chains EP ''Sap'' and later appeared at one of their tribute concerts.
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15	They were also ranked #57 on Creator/VH1's "100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock".
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18	!!Discography:
19	* ''Dreamboat Annie'' (1975)
20	* ''Magazine'' (1977)
21	* ''Little Queen'' (1977)
22	* ''Dog and Butterfly'' (1978)
23	* ''Bébé le Strange'' (1980)
24	* ''Private Audition'' (1982)
25	* ''Passionworks'' (1983)
26	* ''[[Music/HeartAlbum Heart]]'' (1985)
27	* ''Bad Animals'' (1987)
28	* ''Brigade'' (1990)
29	* ''Desire Walks On'' (1993)
30	* ''Heart Presents a Lovemongers' Christmas'' (2001)
31	* ''Jupiters Darling'' (2004)
32	* ''Red Velvet Car'' (2010)
33	* ''Fanatic'' (2012)
34	* ''Beautiful Broken'' (2016)
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37	!!Tropes related to the band:
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39	* EightiesHair: They had this during their 80's period. They were hit quite hard by TheEighties.
40	* AloneInACrowd: "Dreamboat Annie":
41	-->''Going down the city sidewalk, alone in the crowd''\
42	''No one knows the lonely one, whose head's in the clouds''
43	* CastingCouch: The subject of the song "Private Audition".
44	* CoverSong: "Alone", originally performed by I-Ten.
45	* DeathGlare: In "If Looks Could Kill", with the singer fantasizing that ''her'' death glare is intense enough to double as an AgonyBeam.
46	-->''If looks could kill''\
47	''You'd be lying on the floor''\
48	''You'd be begging me please, please''\
49	''Baby don't hurt me no more''
50	* DraftDodging: The original founders of this group were Mike and Roger Fisher who ran to Canada to evade UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar draft. Ann and Nancy were dating them at that time and followed them to Canada. The group returned to the US only after UsefulNotes/JimmyCarter issued a blanket pardon to all Vietnam War draft dodgers.
51	* GreatestHitsAlbum: ''The Essential Heart'', among others.
52	* IAmTheBand: Ann and Nancy are the only constant members of the band and are the ones responsible for the band's the core sound. Ever since the attrition of the classic '70s lineup, the Wilson sisters are typically the only members shown in publicity photos.
53	* IncestSubtext: In a rather bizarre invoking of this trope, Ann and Nancy Wilson were rumoured early in their career to have been lesbian lovers. The rumour was started by their first record label, Mushroom Records, through innuendo and juxtaposition including the use of a suggestive photo and caption for the artwork of their first album, ''Dreamboat Annie'', in an attempt to garner publicity and boost album sales. The Wilson sisters were unaware of the rumour campaign being fueled by their recording company. Once they discovered it, due to comments made by a reporter during an interview, they were very unhappy with their representation, and indirectly attacked those responsible in their next album. Ann was so enraged by the reporter that she wrote "Barracuda" the same night.
54	** This story lingers. To the extent that an English music writer could sneeringly say, in the early 2000's, that Heart's music remains ''unaccountably popular among lesbians''. Another innuendo published in the same paper was that an unfailing sign of a woman being lesbian is that she owns all Heart's albums plus concert bootlegs.
55	* IntercourseWithYou: "All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You" is actually a strange variation. It tell the story of a one night stand between a man and a woman with the TwistEnding that the woman took part in it to get pregnant because her husband is infertile.
56	* LongRunnerLineUp: Despite being famous as a revolving door band, the 80s lineup of the Wilson sisters, keyboardist-turned lead guitarist Howard Leese, bassist Mark Andes, and drummer Denny Carmassi lasted a full ten years, from 1982 to 1992.
57	* MilitaryBrat: The Wilson sisters' father was a Marine officer, and the family had moved around military bases all over the country and the world before settling in Seattle.
58	* MsFanservice: Nancy was this during the mid-to-late 80's, with the camera focusing on her rather than Ann.
59	* OneNightStandPregnancy: "All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You" is sung from the viewpoint of a woman who [[spoiler:invoked this trope, because her sterile husband couldn't give her the baby she wanted.]]
60	* PopStarComposer: Nancy did soundtrack work on then-husband Cameron Crowe's movies.
61	* PowerBallad: Many of their songs from the mid-to-late Eighties, the most famous one being "Alone".
62	* RealLifeWritesThePlot: In "All I Want to Do is Make Love to You", the singer is looking for a man as a surrogate father in the place of her infertile husband. Ann would adopt two children in TheNineties, and Nancy would have twin sons with then-husband Creator/CameronCrowe via surrogacy in 2000.
63	* RevisitingTheRoots: In the mid-nineties, Ann and Nancy formed The Lovemongers partially for benefit concerts, partially to reclaim artistic control. [[{{Irony}} ...yet the Lovemongers' output is very heavy on covers.]]
64	* RevolvingDoorBand: The band has had six guitarists, eight bassists, five drummers, and six keyboardists. Not even Nancy has been in the band consistently. Keyboardist-turned guitarist Howard Leese was the last original non-Wilson member to depart the band, lasting from 1975 to the band's initial disbandment in 1998. Leese was not asked to return when the band resumed in 2002.
65	* RockersSmashGuitars: Guitarist Roger Fisher smashed his guitar and walked off stage during a concert in UsefulNotes/{{Portland}}, UsefulNotes/{{Oregon}}. According to the Wilsons he also threw another guitar at the wall afterward.
66	* ShouldersUpNudity: The front cover of ''Dreamboat Annie'' and associated publicity shots.
67	* StepUpToTheMicrophone: Nancy sings lead on some songs, notably "These Dreams". In any other band she'd be a shoo-in for lead vocalist but Ann's power and range is legendary - not for nothing has she been dubbed "the female Music/RobertPlant".
68	* StopAndGo: "Magic Man".
69	* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Several of their songs seem to just be copied from Music/LedZeppelin - one of the more obvious cases would be "Dream of the Archer" compared to "The Battle of Evermore". This is probably because they were originally a Led Zeppelin tribute band. Appropiately enough, Heart were selected to perform "Stairway to Heaven" when Led Zeppelin were honored by the Kennedy Center.
70	* TakeThat: Ann wrote "Barracuda" as an attack at their record label for starting the rumour that she and her sister were lovers.
71	* [[ThoseTwoGuys Those Two Ladies]]
72	* TruckDriversGearChange: "Will You Be There (In The Morning)" does this, though this is atypical of their work, probably because this is a "Mutt" Lange song they felt pressured into recording as he was producing their album at the time.
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Context Music / HeartBand