Heartless (Heart song)

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"Heartless"
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Single by Heart
from the album Magazine [1]
B-side "Just the Wine"
ReleasedMarch 1978 (US) [2]
Recorded1976
Genre Hard rock
Length3:54 (Promo Version)
5:00 (Album/Single Version)
Label Mushroom Records
Songwriter(s) Ann Wilson
Nancy Wilson
Producer(s) Mike Flicker
Heart singles chronology
"Kick It Out"
(1977)		"Heartless"
(1978)		"Straight On"
(1978)

"Heartless" is a song written and recorded by the rock band Heart in 1976 for their album Magazine . Issues with the band's previous record label Mushroom caused a delay in the album's release and "Heartless" was released as a single two years later, after the re-issue of their first single "Crazy on You". [3]

Contents

Background

The song is an aggressive hard rock number that opens with a slower synthesizer based interlude before opening up into a full hard rock tune. The lyrics involve a scorned lover who apparently can't get away from the grasp of her heartless partner. "The doctor said come back again next week / I think that you need me / All she did was cry / She wanted to die doctor when can you see me / There's a guy out there / Seems like he's everywhere / It just ain't fair." [4]

"Heartless" and "Without You" were the only singles released from Magazine, with "Heartless" peaking at number twenty-four on the US Billboard Hot 100. Cash Box particularly praised the vocals and bass guitar playing. [5] Record World called it "straight-ahead, rather funky rock, with Ann Wilson's vocal the centerpiece." [6] Only five months passed before Heart released their next album, Dog and Butterfly .

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of the 1978 revised version of Magazine . [7]

Chart performance

References

  1. ↑ "Heart - Magazine review". allmusic.com. Retrieved June 15, 2023.
  2. ↑ "Heart singles". dutchcharts.nl.
  3. ↑ Sorscher, Zach. "Sound Advice: Heart's 'unauthorized' album is the real deal". Goldmine Magazine.
  4. ↑ "Heartless". lyrictalk.net.
  5. ↑ "CashBox Singles Reviews" (PDF). Cash Box. April 8, 1978. p. 16. Retrieved 2022-01-01.
  6. ↑ "Record World Single Picks" (PDF). Record World. April 8, 1978. p. 14. Retrieved 2023-02-15.
  7. ↑ Magazine (liner notes). Heart. Mushroom Records. 1978. R 143366.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  8. ↑ "Item Display – RPM – Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved 2012-01-06.
  9. ↑ "Heart Album & Song Chart History". Billboard.com. Retrieved 9 January 2013.
  10. ↑ "Cash Box Year-End Charts: Top 100 Pop Singles, June 24, 1978". Archived from the original on September 29, 2018. Retrieved January 2, 2019.
  11. ↑ "Image : RPM Weekly". Library and Archives Canada. 17 July 2013. Retrieved 2016-10-13.
  12. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (1999). Pop Annual. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Inc. ISBN   0-89820-142-X.


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