Английская Википедия:Heartless (Heart song)

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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".[1]

Background

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."[2]

"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.[3] Record World called it "straight-ahead, rather funky rock, with Ann Wilson's vocal the centerpiece."[4] Only five months passed before Heart released their next album, Dog and Butterfly.

Chart performance

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Weekly charts

Chart (1978) Peak
position
Canadian RPM Top Singles[5] 18
US Billboard Hot 100[6] 24
US Cash Box Top 100[7] 18

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Year-end charts

Chart (1978) Rank
Canada[8] 146
US (Joel Whitburn's Pop Annual)[9] 157

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References

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