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Gary Graff

"We would go in there and eat the turkeys and whatever else we found": Heart kept themselves from starving in their early days by stealing Bachman Turner Overdrive's food

Heart's Ann and Nancy Wilson in 1977, and (inset) a turkey.

After nearly five decades as a headliner, Heart haven't worried about backstage catering for quite some time. But that was not the case early in their career.

One of the bands opening for the Wilson sisters' Royal Flush Tour this year is Bachman-Turner Overdrive featuring Randy Bachman, who Heart opened for in Canada during the mid-70s. at the very start of their career. And BTO unwittingly helped keep the then-fledgling group from Seattle fed during those hungry years.

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