Trivia / Heart

• Ashcan Copy: Due to a contract dispute, the band's original label, Mushroom Records, released Magazine without their involvement in 1977. The band obtained an injunction and were able to re-record and remix it after the court found that they owed Mushroom a second album in 1978.
• Black Sheep Hit: "These Dreams", the first of their two #1 hits in the US is a lush adult alternative sounding ballad contrasting their more Hard Rocking songs and Power Ballads at the time. Particularly since the lead vocal was sung by Nancy instead of Ann.
• Chart Displacement: The band had 8 top ten hits... yet "Barracuda" was only #11, and it wasn't even their biggest hit of the 70s ("Magic Man" reached #9).
• Creator Backlash: The group is not fond of their song "All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You", with Ann stating, "Actually we had sworn off it because it kind of stood for everything we wanted to get away from. It was a song by "Mutt" Lange, who we liked, and it was originally written for Don Henley, but there was a lot of pressure on us to do the song at the time."
• Executive Meddling: After they signed on with Capitol Records. Their last two records (Private Audition and Passionworks) had sold poorly, so Capitol revamped them to give them a "glam-metal" look and "arena-rock" sound, downplaying the folk and acoustic elements of some of their earlier music, as well as using outside writers to write songs for them. In a rare case that the Executive Meddling turned out for the best, the moves worked, and the band scored a major comeback in 1985, as their self-titled record had five hit singles (four made the top 10) and sold very well.