- Writers: Ann and Nancy Wilson, Roger Fisher, and Michael Derosier
- Producers: Mike Flicker
- Recorded: Spring 1977
- Released: May 1977 (album and single)
- Players:
Ann Wilson — vocals
Nancy Wilson — guitar, vocals
Howard Leese — guitar, synthesizer
Roger Fisher — guitar
Michael Derosier — drums
Steve Fossen — bass - Album: Little Queen (Portrait, 1977)
- Also On:
Greatest Hits/Live (Epic, 1980)
Rock The House Live! (Capitol, 1991)
The Road Home (Capitol, 1995)
Alive In Seattle (Epic/Legacy, 2003) - The collaborative effort it took the members of Heart to write “Barracuda” paid off, with the song reaching Number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
- Although Little Queen was the group’s second album, it was Heart’s debut for the CBS-distributed Portrait Records.
- Heart’s mixture of folk and hard rock was massively successful in the late ’70s. Little Queen was the group’s second million-selling album, reaching Number Nine on the Billboard 200.
- In conjunction with Heart’s success, there came considerable criticism that the band borrowed a bit too heavily from Led Zeppelin, who were an acknowledged influence.
- Capitol Records released a live version of “Barracuda” as the B-side to “Alone,” a Number One single in July 1987.
FAST FORWARD:
- Heart enjoyed a second wind with power ballads like “These Dreams.”
- In addition to Heart, Ann and Nancy Wilson also have a side band called the Lovemongers, who contributed a note-for-note replica of Zeppelin’s “Battle Of Evermore” to the 1992 Cameron Crowe film Singles. Crowe, incidentally, is married to Nancy Wilson.
- The Lovemongers continue to exist and perform, mostly at benefit concerts.
- Heart performed “Battle Of Evermore” and “Love Hurts” at the Concert For the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at Cleveland Stadium in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1995.
- Nancy Wilson released an instructional guitar video in 1997.
