Heart (Heart album)

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Heart
Studio album by Heart
Released	6 July 1985
Recorded	January - April 1985 at The Record Plant, Los Angeles and The Record Plant, Sausalito, CA
Genre	Hard Rock
Length	39:11
Label	Capitol Records
Producer	Ron Nevison
Professional reviews
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Heart chronology
"Passionworks" (1983) "Heart" (1985) "Bad Animals" (1987)

Heart is the self-titled 8th album released by Heart, in 1985. The album completed the band's transition into a pop group, a genre that yielded the band its greatest success by far, as demonstrated in this album. The album marked the band's Capitol Records debut, and it spent 92 weeks on the U.S. Billboard 200 and became the first and only album of the band's to hit number one. Sales reached quintuple platinum, and the band was officially back in business after a lull in sales. This album also yielded the first number-one single for the band: "These Dreams". There were also four other hit singles on the album: "If Looks Could Kill", "What About Love", "Never", and "Nothin' at All". The latter 3 also made the U.S. top ten.

Contents 1 "Never" and "Nothin' At All" 2 Track listing 3 Chart positions 4 Performers

[edit] "Never" and "Nothin' At All"

The tracks "Never" and "Nothin' At All" both have alternate mixes (as on their music videos), and these mixes had also been pressed onto some release runs of this album, be it on LP, CD or cassette. One may get a copy with both songs in their original mixes, both in their alternate mixes, or one song in a different mix. Copies with serial No. SL-12410, for example, features the alternate mix for "Never," but the original mix for "Nothin' At All." (Similar treatment to its fellow 1985 smash, Whitney Houston (album))

[edit] Track listing

1. "If Looks Could Kill" (Jack Conrad, Beau Garrett) – 3:42
2. "What About Love" (Brian Allen, Sheron Alton, Jim Vallance) – 3:41
3. "Never" (Ann Wilson, Nancy Wilson, Gene Black, Holly Knight) – 4:07
4. "These Dreams" (Martin Page, Bernie Taupin) – 4:15
5. "The Wolf" (A. Wilson, N. Wilson, Howard Leese, Mark Andes, Denny Carmassi, Sue Ennis) – 4:03
6. "All Eyes" (A. Wilson, N. Wilson, Black, Knight) – 3:55
7. "Nobody Home" (A. Wilson, N. Wilson, Ennis) – 4:07
8. "Nothin' at All" (Mark Mueller) – 4:13
9. "What He Don't Know" (A. Wilson, N. Wilson, Ennis) – 3:41
10. "Shell Shock" (A. Wilson, N. Wilson, Leese, Andes, Carmassi, Ennis) – 3:42

[edit] Chart positions

Year	Chart	Position
1985	Billboard 200	1

[edit] Performers

• Ann Wilson – lead vocals, backing vocals
• Nancy Wilson – lead vocals, backing vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, mandolin
• Howard Leese – electric guitar, keyboards, mandolin, backing vocals
• Mark Andes – bass guitar
• Denny Carmassi – drums

with

• Peter Wolf – piano, synthesizer
• Mickey Thomas – backing vocals
• Johnny Colla – backing vocals
• Grace Slick – backing vocals
• Lynn Wilson Keagle – backing vocals
• Holly Knight – keyboards
• Frankie Sullivan – electric guitar

Preceded by Miami Vice I by Various artists

Billboard 200 number-one album December 21 - December 27, 1985

Succeeded by The Broadway Album by Barbra Streisand

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