General CommentI may be totally pulling this outta my %*$, but. I'm wondering shauncreaney, where did you get all that info about it being about a prostitute and her pimp, etc.? That's an amazing idea! I think they even had her painted gold, with big hair, etc. Nancy Wilson talks about how she was told that she had the good body and that Ann had the face and that's how they wanted to market them. They showed one of those newspapers on the show. Tabloids had this same pictured plastered on the cover with headlines like "Lesbian sisters." or something to that effect. Also, if you check out the album "Dreamboat Annie" it has the picture of them where it looks like they have no tops on. The show on them is fantastic! And what is so great is it is the actual musicians themselves talking so you know it's not just gossip! Keep an eye out for it in reruns, it is a great show especially if you like Heart and their music. The main one where I got quotes from about the origins of "Barracuda" and also about the way they were marketed, etc. I've seen it in a couple of different interviews with Ann Wilson and also Nancy Wilson on tv. General CommentIn response to "shauncreaney" who wrote me an email questioning where I got my info from here is my response: When you first heard the band Heart come on the radio, you heard the music, and you had no idea what they looked like did you? It's the same with all music you love, it transcends the physical and takes you to someplace deep inside yourself that it touches. Who can even remember the name or face of any of the GUYS in that band? Oh, except for the one guy that Nancy dumped, the former drummer I think, and we've seen him in interviews whining about it! It's probably not fair to those guys really that they didn't get any publicity while their management was always trying to push the image of the beautiful sisters. I think people can't handle women in power a lot of the time and try to ruin it by putting it all down to looks and physical traits when everyone knows they have so much more inside - no matter what the outside looks like - good or bad - and by whose standards of beauty anyway? Ann and Nancy ran that band and were the driving force creatively. Unfortunately, their physical attributes were always ever after brought into play instead of just the incredble music! Their handlers tried to exploit their good looks and then when Ann gained weight, that's all people could see even though she still had the same voice and musicianship she had before. And the jerk said, "No, I mean your sister, your lesbian lover." Of course Ann blew up and she immediately after wrote "Barracuda" as a response to the experience - probably not just of the jerk's insensitive comments, but the whole way their handlers were trying to package Heart, and the subsequent insaneness of the press's response to the album cover. She replied that Mike (her boyfriend at the time and also THE "Magic Man") was doing fine, etc. Later taboid headlines screamed crap like "Lesbian sisters! blah, blah." Anyway, at this party the jerk asked her how her lover was.
It has "Crazy on You" and "Dreamboat Annie" on it. I have the CD but can't think of the name just now.
Prior to her seeing him at a party, she and her sister Nancy had been talked into posing topless (only from the shoulders up), back to back to each other, for the cover of an album. General CommentI saw Ann Wilson interviewed and she said it was about this music industry guy, and idiot journalist, who she was pissed off at.
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