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Heart have finished recording their first album in a decade. "It's what we were born to do, and do together"

Nancy Wilson says Heart are working on an album, a world tour, a documentary and a live-action feature film

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"She stormed away from the room and went up to the hotel room and just wrote the words in their entirety." How a sleazy record company man inspired Heart's classic feminist anthem Barracuda

Prompted by a suggestive advert and a "sleazeball with a satin jacket", the furious Barracuda still resonates

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"It was presented like you can do this or you can just say bye-bye." Heart's Ann Wilson on the "devil's bargains" her band were forced to accept in order to survive the '80s

Ann Wilson on how Heart had to sell a little bit of their souls to survive

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Heart's Ann Wilson and Tripsitter announce second album Consecrated Ground, share powerful psych-rock single I Will Not Be Coming Back

The follow-up to 2023's Another Door will arrive this summer

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"To my shock, as I was singing Stairway to Heaven, Led Zeppelin walked into the club." The story behind the night that Led Zeppelin watched Heart play a Led Zeppelin set

The Wilson sisters once walked out of a Led Zeppelin gig. But six years later, Led Zeppelin walked in to a Heart gig to find the sisters playing Led Zeppelin songs

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"Men could make you feel like you were really silly for even trying." Heart's Ann Wilson recalls the sexism of the '70s rock scene

Ann Wilson speaks out against sexism as her new documentary, Ann Wilson - In My Voice, is screened in the US

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"When we go up there on stage I'd almost liken it to a sexual experience." Ann and Nancy Wilson on love, sobriety, politics and the changing face of Heart

They play soft stuff, hard stuff… and even some in-between stuff. But whatever you do, don't dismiss Heart as ‘that ballad band'

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"It's not a whitewash... and we don't try and hide anything." Heart's Ann Wilson confirms In My Voice documentary and screening tour

In My Voice traces Ann Wilson's journey from childhood to stardom with Heart, drawing from her personal archive of home movies, photographs and journals

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“I would sneak off with her guitar. She’d get really p***ed off at me”: Nancy Wilson’s first guitar was unplayable – so she kept stealing her sister’s

Wilson needed to play a six-string that was better than the $30 rental guitar she had herself

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"It sounds very pure and sweet. It's beautiful, like a flower child of an album": Heart's Ann and Nancy Wilson look back on the album that changed their lives

Fifty years ago, Heart’s Ann and Nancy Wilsongatecrashed the male-dominated, payola-fuelled rock scene

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Heart's Nancy Wilson: 'The Beatles drove us to our calling'

Heart were inspired by The Beatles to pursue a career in music.

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"The 80s were our most successful period, but soulless, shallower, and less musically rewarding": How Heart made their rock'n'roll dreams come true and the price they paid

How "Little Led Zeppelin" became global stars and carved out a place for women in rock along the way

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"I sent Rob Halford some eight-inch spiky high heels for Christmas": Lzzy Hale's wild tales of Ronnie James Dio, Alice Cooper, Skid Row and more

She’s shared stages with Slash, Skid Row and Tom Keifer, and bonded with Ann Wilson and Amy Lee. She’s Lzzy Hale, and these are her stories

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“They understood the sentimentality of these instruments and worked incredibly hard to bring them home”: Heart's stolen instruments have been recovered by the police – with a little help from the public

Nancy Wilson’s custom-built baritone and Paul Moak’s 1966 Gibson mandolin were stolen from the stage in Atlantic City last month, resulting in a city-wide search

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"The radio reported a terrible tragedy in which we all died": Heart's Ann Wilson on the show at which everyone thought her band had been killed

Completely false rumours about the premature death of rock stars circulated long before the internet

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“Barracuda is a powerful piece of music that was never intended for political use”: Nancy Wilson speaks out after Donald Trump uses a Heart classic without permission

Wilson joins a growing list of artists whose music has been used by Trump

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"Barracuda is a powerful piece of music that was never intended for political use." Heart's Nancy Wilson hits out at Trump administration over use of their 1977 hit single during Washington DC military parade

"Barracuda was played without permission or authorization from us"

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“The perpetrator is in custody now”: Nancy Wilson confirms a man has been arrested for the theft of “one-of-a-kind” Heart instruments – but the instruments are nowhere to be found

The instruments were stolen before the band’s show at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Atlantic City last week, and the police have issued a plea for their return

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Watch pop superstar Chappell Roan absolutely kill it with a brilliant cover of Heart’s Barracuda

Chappell Roan delivered a faithful version of Heart’s 1977 hit Barracuda at Barcelona’s Primavera Sound festival

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“We’re heartbroken, and we’re asking for their safe return”: Nancy Wilson says two “irreplaceable” instruments have been stolen ahead of Heart’s tour

A custom-made baritone Tele and a vintage Gibson mandolin have been taken from the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Atlantic City –and the Heart camp is offering a reward for their return

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"It obviously didn't work!": Ann Wilson says Paula Abdul was hired to teach Heart choreographed dance moves "like Prince and the Revolution"

Record companies, eh?

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"Don't worry, it's not the worst. It's not what you think": Nancy Wilson reassures fans concerned about Ann Wilson's onstage wheelchair

As Heart resume their Royal Flush tour, Ann Wilson reveals she's been writing songs and is pushing for the band to record a new album

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Heart’s Nancy Wilson told Chappell Roan that she’ll be her "rock and roll auntie if you ever need any advice,” and she also co-wrote and recorded her favourite song

"Zeppelin was kind of our influence, and the Beatles and Elton John," says Wilson. “These girls have us and Sheryl Crow and others”

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"It's embarrassing to be American now." Heart's Nancy Wilson hits out at America's "salacious billionaire culture" and says it's embarrassing to be an American in 2025

"There'll be another renaissance in the arts to push back against the oppression of the cranky old rich white guys"

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“We went down the sheep-dip in the 80s. They douse you with pesticide, and then you’re lucky to make it out alive”: The rollercoaster story of Heart, the 70s rock icons who survived MTV, grunge and each other

Ann and Nancy Wilson look back over the rise, fall and resurrection of Heart

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