History Music / HeartBand

They were also ranked #57 on VH1's "100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock".

* DeathGlare: In "If Looks Could Kill".

* [[UnPerson UnPersons]] Mike and Roger Fisher, after a very bitter and public fall-out with the Wilson sisters. Ann and Nancy at first did not want them anywhere near the band's induction into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame, but grudgingly relented when told the award wasn't just to the Wilsons, it was to the whole of the band's classic line-up. Mike and Roger were allowed to play one song with the group to honour this[[note]]''Barracuda'', an anthem about unpleasant people in the music biz[[/note]], but were bundled quickly off stage after the contract was honoured, and replaced with anonymous sessions musicians, just to rub it in.

Heart is a rock band technically formed in {{Vancouver}}, Canada but with all its members originating from UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}}, 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 [[FaceOfTheBand 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 sounding exactly like Music/LedZeppelin, decreased in popularity by the middle of TheEighties but had a comeback in 1985, largely by moving away from Zeppelin-styled rock into {{Power Ballad}}s and reliance on synthesizers.

** This story lingers. To the extent that a music writer for the London Guardian 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.

* [[UnPerson UnPersons]] Mike and Roger Fisher, after a very bitter and public fall-out with the Wilson sisters. Ann and Nancy at first did not want them anywhere near the band's induction into the rock And roll Hall of Fame, but grudgingly relented when told the award wasn't just to the Wilsons, it was to the whole of the band's classic line-up. Mike and Roger were allowed to play one song with the group to honour this[[note]]''Barracuda'', an anthem about unpleasant people in the music biz[[/note]], but were bundled quickly off stage after the contract was honoured, and replaced with anonymous sessions musicians, just to rub it in.

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 NeilYoung, JohnnyCash and {{REM}}. Ann Wilson also contributed vocals to the Alice in Chains EP ''Sap'' and later appeared at one of their tribute concerts.

* OlderAndWiser: The Wilson sisters are largely responsible for cultivating the Seattle grunge scene by opening their studios to a few then-unknown bands: PearlJam, {{Soundgarden}}, and {{Music/Nirvana}}.

* OlderAndWiser: The Wilson sisters are largely responsible for cultivating the Seattle grunge scene by opening their studios to a few then-unknown bands: PearlJam, {{Soundgarden}}, and {{Nirvana}}.

* BlackSheepHit: "These Dreams", the first of their two #1 hits in the US. Particularly since the lead vocal was sung by Nancy instead of Ann.

* OldShame: The group is not fond of their song "All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You", with Ann stating 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."

* OlderAndWiser: The Wilson sisters are largely responsible for cultivating the Seattle grunge scene by opening their studios to indie going by the names of PearlJam, {{Soundgarden}}, and {{Nirvana}}.

* 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.

Heart is a rock band technically formed in {{Vancouver}}, Canada but with all its members originating from UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}}, 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 [[FaceOfTheBand the only constant members of]] [[en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_(band)#Members the band's ever-changing lineups.]] ToMakeALongStoryShort: they first got famous in TheSeventies, largely by sounding exactly like Music/LedZeppelin, decreased in popularity by the middle of TheEighties but had a comeback in 1985, largely by moving away from Zeppelin-styled rock into {{Power Ballad}}s and reliance on synthesizers.

Heart is a rock band technically formed in {{Vancouver}}, Canada but with all its members originating from UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}}, 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 [[FaceOfTheBand the only constant members of]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_band#Members_and_former_members the band's ever-changing lineups.]] ToMakeALongStoryShort: they first got famous in TheSeventies, largely by sounding exactly like Music/LedZeppelin, decreased in popularity by the middle of TheEighties but had a comeback in 1985, largely by moving away from Zeppelin-styled rock into {{Power Ballad}}s and reliance on synthesizers.

* FairUse: Averted. Political Opponent Sarah Palin used Ann and Nancy's song "Barracuda" during her political campaign (largely due to her nickname being "Sarah Barracuda.") They were ''not'' pleased.

* EightiesHair: They had this during their 80's period.

* 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.

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* FairUse: Averted, ''hard''. Political Opponent Sarah Palin used Ann and Nancy's song "Barracuda" during her political campaign (largely due to her nickname being "Sarah Barracuda.") They were ''not'' pleased.

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 NeilYoung, JohnnyCash and {{REM}}. Ann Wilson also contributed vocals to the Music/AliceInChains EP ''Sap'' and later appeared at one of their tribute concerts.

* FairUse: Averted, ''hard''. Political Opponent Sarah Palin used Ann and Nancy's song 'Barracuda' during her political campaign (largely due to her nickname being "Sarah Barracuda.") They were ''not'' pleased.
* GreatestHitsAlbum: The Essential Heart, among others

Heart is a rock band technically formed in {{Vancouver}}, Canada but with all its members originating from {{Seattle}}, 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 [[FaceOfTheBand the only constant members of]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_band#Members_and_former_members the band's ever-changing lineups.]] ToMakeALongStoryShort: they first got famous in TheSeventies, largely by sounding exactly like Music/LedZeppelin, decreased in popularity by the middle of TheEighties but had a comeback in 1985, largely by moving away from Zeppelin-styled rock into {{Power Ballad}}s and reliance on synthesizers.

The Wilson sisters also played an important part in the {{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 NeilYoung, JohnnyCash and {{REM}}. Ann Wilson also contributed vocals to the Music/AliceInChains EP ''Sap'' and later appeared at one of their tribute concerts.

* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Both Ann and Nancy.