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'''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 [[Face of the Band|the only constant members of]] [[wikipedia:Heart band#Members and former members|the band's ever-changing lineups.]] [[To Make a Long Story Short]]: they first got famous in [[The Seventies]], largely by sounding exactly like [[Led Zeppelin]], decreased in popularity by the middle of [[The Eighties]] but had a comeback in 1985, largely by moving away from Zeppelin-styled rock into [[Power Ballad|Power Ballads]] 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 [[Alice in Chains]], [[Nirvana]], [[Pearl Jam]] and [[Soundgarden]] and others like [[Neil Young]], [[Johnny Cash]] and [[REM]]. Ann Wilson also contributed vocals to the [[Alice in Chains]] EP ''Sap'' and later appeared at one of their tribute concerts.
They were also ranked #57 on [[VH-1]]'s "100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock".
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* [[Eighties Hair]]: They had this during their 80's period.▼
* [[Black Sheep Hit]]: "These Dreams", the first of their two #1 hits in the US. Particularly since the lead vocal was sung by Nancy instead of Ann.
▲* [[Eighties Hair]]: They had this during their 80's period.
* [[Fair Use]]: 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.
* [[Greatest Hits Album]]: ''The Essential Heart'', among others
* [[Incest Subtext]]: 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.
** 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.
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