Heart band biography book
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Kicking & Dreaming: A Story of Heart, Soul, and Rock and Roll (Paperback)
By Ann Wilson, Nancy Wilson, Charles R. Cross
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The story of Heart is a story of heart and soul and rock &#;n&#; roll. Since finding their love of music and performing as teenagers in Seattle, Washington, Ann Wilson and Nancy Wilson, have been part of the American rock music landscape. From 70s classics like &#;Magic Man&#; and &#;Barracuda&#; to chart- topping 80s ballads like &#;Alone,&#;&#;and all the way up to , when they will release their latest studio album, Fanatic, Heart has been thrilling their fans and producing hit after hit. In Kicking and Dreaming, the Wilsons recount their story as two sisters who have a shared over three decades on the stage, as songwriters, as musicians, and as the leaders of one of our most beloved rock bands. An intimate, honest, and a uniquely female take on the rock and roll life, readers of bestselling music memoirs like Life by Keith Richards and Steven Tyler&#;s Does the Noise in My Head Bother You? will love this quintessential music story finally told from a female perspective.
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Ann & Nancy Wilson are the leaders of the rock band Heart, whose albums have
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Stevie Nicks and John Mellencamp are not pleased with the way they are portrayed in a new tell-all autobiography by the band Heart.
In the book “Kicking & Dreaming,” Heart — performing Friday at Green Valley Ranch — wrote about the time the band tried to keep up with Nicks’ drug appetite while partying in the s.
“Stevie Nicks was really pissed off” about the book, Heart singer Ann Wilson tells me. “She didn’t like being outed as a person who would attend a rock party.”
And Mellencamp wasn’t very happy that the book details this moment: Back when he was opening for Heart with his hit “Jack & Diane,” he told them, “Seeing as your album is a turkey and mine is a hit, care to swap places?”
I tell Wilson that story is striking to me because Mellencamp has always been so nice to me.
“He is a nice guy, and wants to be a nice guy, and wants to make sure everybody else knows he’s a good guy,” Wilson says.
“So when something gets said in a book that frames him as not that nice of a guy, of course it’s going to make him mad. He’s worked on his image a lot since the early ’80s.”
On the other hand, Alex and Eddie Van Halen have no problem with the