Heartless (Heart song)
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| "Heartless" | ||||
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| Single by Heart | ||||
| from the album Magazine[1] | ||||
| B-side | "Just the Wine" | |||
| Released | March 1978 (US) [2] | |||
| Recorded | 1976 | |||
| Genre | Hard rock | |||
| Length | 3:54 (Promo Version) 5:00 (Album/Single Version) | |||
| Label | Mushroom Records | |||
| Songwriters | Ann Wilson Nancy Wilson | |||
| Producer | Mike Flicker | |||
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"Heartless" is a song written and recorded by the rock band Heart in 1976 for their album Magazine. Issues with the band's previous record label Mushroom caused a delay in the album's release and "Heartless" was released as a single two years later, after the re-issue of their first single "Crazy on You".[3]
The song is an aggressive hard rock number that opens with a slower synthesizer based interlude before opening up into a full hard rock tune. The lyrics involve a scorned lover who apparently can't get away from the grasp of her heartless partner. "The doctor said come back again next week / I think that you need me / All she did was cry / She wanted to die/Doctor when can you see me / There's a guy out there / Seems like he's everywhere / It just ain't fair."[4]
"Heartless" and "Without You" were the only singles released from Magazine, with "Heartless" peaking at number twenty-four on the US Billboard Hot 100. Cash Box particularly praised the vocals and bass guitar playing.[5] Record World called it "straight-ahead, rather funky rock, with Ann Wilson's vocal the centerpiece."[6] Only five months passed before Heart released their next album, Dog and Butterfly.
