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“My first love was always acoustic guitar. That was the element that I brought, the idea of embracing electric and acoustic sounds”: Nancy Wilson says she felt pressured to ditch the acoustics as Heart went for the mainstream in 1985

The band’s self-titled eighth record saw them evolving into a mainstream superpower, but Wilson would clash with producer Ron Nevison over the use of acoustic guitars

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"We got escorted out of town the next day because the big lawnmower went into the swimming pool": Grunge may have burst the big-hair bubble, but it saved Heart

The Wilson sisters look back on hit records, death threats and a career like no other

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“Mick Ronson came to see one of the Springsteen shows, and he was just so proud of me. He had a classic rock ‘n’ roll existence, but I love him for all that”: Shane Fontayne on the kindness of Ronson, serving the Boss –and playing Stairway for Jimmy Page

His career highs include surprising Stevie Van Zandt with an improvised part, jamming with U2, and playing Stairway To Heaven with the Heart sisters while Jimmy Page was guest of honor

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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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Heart’s Nancy Wilson says it’s ‘embarrassing’ to be an American: ‘I hope I’m alive to see the next revolution’

Pioneering rock musician referenced notorious Trump scandal as she condemned ‘salacious billionaire culture’

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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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“We're sisters, so we're blood. Our love is blood love and as different as we are – which we really are - we just plough through.”: Nancy Wilson talks Heart to mark the band’s 50th anniversary

Together with her sister and lead vocalist Ann, the duo fronted one the the 80s biggest soft rock hit machines

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"He sang 'Squeeze My Lemon' and we're like, 'Oh, we must leave, we must leave the premises'": Heart's Wilson sisters once walked out of a Led Zeppelin show because Robert Plant was too suggestive

"We were scandalised, and we walked away"

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Pete Hegseth's church explains it all

Fringe denomination's leader argues that men "dream of being rapists" because women aren't submissive enough

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“The neighbors said, ‘Don’t let Nancy play guitar, it’ll ruin her fingernails.’ They were right, but I didn’t care about fingernails”: Nancy Wilson on ignoring the people that tried to stop her becoming a guitarist

Wilson talks about how crucial her parents' support was for her to make headway in her music career.

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“Grunge was a much-needed break from the corporate ’80s sound. It literally put electric guitar rock back on the map”: Nancy Wilson explains why Seattle has produced so many guitar heroes

The Heart legend looks back at the prolific musical legacy of her hometown in this exclusive excerpt from new book The Sound of Seattle

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"You're caught up in the tornado, and you see the cow fly by, and there goes the tractor": The Wilson sisters reflect on Heart's 50-year roller-coaster life

Heart's long and eventful career has taken the Wilson sisters to thin-air highs and crushing lows in a real rock’n’roll saga

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“Charley was the coolest rock litterati bookworm to ever be lucky enough to know.” Music writer Charles R. Cross, author of definitive Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix and Heart biographies, dead at 67

The death of US music writer Charles R. Cross was confirmed by his family on August 9

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Nancy Wilson, Lita Ford, Nita Strauss and more to head up women-only Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy Camp

Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy Camp announce their third annual female-only camp

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Nancy Wilson, Nita Strauss, Lita Ford and more to head up women-only Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy Camp

Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy Camp announce the details of their third annual women-only camp

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Watch previously unseen videos of Chris Cornell covering Tracy Chapman's Fast Car and the Rolling Stones' Wild Horses

Late Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell would have turned 60 on Saturday: Vicky Cornell and Nancy Wilson released videos to mark the occasion

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“Please know that I absolutely plan to be back on stage in 2025”: Heart postpone 2024 tour after Ann Wilson reveals she is undergoing cancer treatment

Ann Wilson is currently undergoing “a course of preventative chemotherapy” and hopes to be back on stage next year

Salon

Ann Wilson has cancer; Heart tour paused

Sister Nancy Wilson also shared her own comments about the tour

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Heart Lead Singer Ann Wilson Diagnosed With Cancer

Ann Wilson, lead singer of Heart, diagnosed with cancer, undergoes surgery, postpones tour. Determined to return to the stage.

The Independent UK

Heart cancels 2024 tour after Ann Wilson reveals cancer diagnosis

‘This is merely a pause. I have much more to sing,’ Wilson said

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“Met my guitar hero last night”: Grace Bowers finally meets Slash – whose Welcome to the Jungle solo inspired her to pick up guitar

The encounter served as a full-circle moment for Bowers, who started playing guitar after wanting to emulate Slash's effortless cool

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The new issue of Classic Rock is an AC/DC 50th Anniversary Collector's Edition

Also in this issue: Heart, Black Country Communion, Allman Brothers, Ian Hunter, Manic Street Preachers, ELP, Black Crowes, Anvil, Marcus King, Lindisfarne, Lemon Twigs, Mitch Ryder and more

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“Jimmy Page said, ‘Wow, I love the way you play that song.’ I was like, ‘God, I could die now’”: Heart’s Nancy Wilson on their long road to the top, grunge friends – and that cover of Stairway to Heaven

The band might have landed in the ’70s, but Nancy Wilson is inspiring more players than ever in 2024 –just glance at Instagram

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