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Heart (Heart Album)
''Heart'' is the eighth studio album by American rock band Heart, released on June 21, 1985, by Capitol Records. The album continued the band's transition into mainstream rock, a genre that yielded the band its greatest commercial success. Marking the band's Capitol Records debut, it became Heart's only album to top the US ''Billboard'' 200 to date. The album was eventually certified quintuple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)—in contrast to Heart's previous two releases, ''Private Audition'' and ''Passionworks'', which remain uncertified—proving that adopting a glam metal direction helped resurrect the band. The album yielded the band's first number-one single, "These Dreams", along with four other singles: "What About Love", " Never", " Nothin' at All", and " If Looks Could Kill", with the first four singles reaching the top 10 of the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. In 1986, the album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heart (band)
Heart is an American rock band formed in 1967 in Seattle, Washington, as The Army. Two years later they changed their name to Hocus Pocus. The year following they changed their name to White Heart, and eventually changed the name a final time to Heart, in 1973. By the mid-1970s, original members Roger Fisher (guitar) and Steve Fossen (bass guitar) had been joined by sisters Ann Wilson (lead vocals and flute) and Nancy Wilson (rhythm guitar, vocals), Michael Derosier (drums), and Howard Leese (guitar, keyboards and backing vocals) to form the lineup for the band's initial mid- to late-1970s success period. These core members were included in the band's 2013 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Heart rose to fame with music influenced by hard rock and heavy metal, as well as folk music. The band underwent a major lineup change as the 1970s transitioned into the 1980s; by 1982 Fisher, Fossen, and Derosier had all left and were replaced by Mark Andes (bass) and Denny C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
