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"Strange Euphoria". CLICK TO PRE-ORDER with AMAZON.COM EXCLUSIVE 5th DISC

Update May 20th: NewburyComics ships autographed posters with their copies of “Strange Euphoria”!
Update May 18th: More previews of Strange Euphoria! (Though I think “Desire Walks On Beach Demo” is the normal album version?)

Update May 16th: Check out this interview with Ann about “Strange Euphoria” and here’s part 1 of the the Legacy Recordings Podcast! 
Update May 15th: Heart has shared audio! Like “Love Alive” and “Magic Man” demo! From Heart’s Facebook.

Update May 9th: UK and Dutch releasedate is June 4th. No extra tracks.
Update May 5th: International distribution will be done by Sony.
Update April 30th: 2 of the 5 tracks on the Amazon.com EXCLUSIVE 5th disc are previously unreleased. I think the 1st & the 3rd: Going to California, Battle Of Evermore, What Is And What Should Never Be, Immigrant Song & Misty Mountain Hop.
Update April 27th: PRESS RELEASE NEW YORK, April 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – Epic Records and Legacy Recordings proudly announce the release of Strange Euphoria, the first definitive career-spanning, multi-label boxed set retrospective chronicling the seminal American rock band Heart, personally curated by Ann Wilson and Nancy Wilson.

A carefully-considered anthology of biggest hits and best-loved songs set alongside deep catalog treasures, rarities, demos and live performances, Strange Euphoria, three compact discs and one DVD in a deluxe box, will be available everywhere Tuesday, June 5.

“In all the years we have been making music we have seen trends come and go,” said Ann Wilson.   “We have always felt that to try and chase the latest ‘it’ sound is pointless, and we have tried to remain true to ourselves as songwriters and musicians.  Sometimes we have had amazing success and heard ourselves on the radio… other times not so much, but the music is always playing in our house.  In this box we have included many things that until now have never seen the light of day.  Also here are our favorite deep tracks and live moments that really speak to who we are on the stage and the connection between us and the people who show up to rock.  Enjoy this collection.  It has many facets just like we do, but the spirit running through it is all Heart. “

Ann Wilson and her younger sister, Nancy Wilson, first showed the world that women can rock when their band Heart stormed the charts in the 1970s with hits like “Crazy on You,” “Magic Man,” “Barracuda,” ‘Straight On,” “Even It Up,” “Kick It Out,” and many more.  Not only did the Wilson sisters lead the band, they wrote the songs and played the instruments, making them the first women in rock to do so.  Heart continued topping the charts through the ’80s and into the ’90s with huge hits like “These Dreams,” “Alone,” “Never,” and a string of other hits that showcased the sisters’ enormous talents as both musicians and singers. Along the way, Heart sold more than 35 million records, had 21 top 40 hits, sold out arenas worldwide, and profoundly influenced the sound and direction of American rock music while inspiring women (and guys too!) around the world to rock out in bands of their own.

Heart were 2008 recipients of VH1 Rock Honors, received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Northwest Grammy Foundation,  and received ASCAP’s award for Excellence in Songwriting in 2009.

In August 2010, Red Velvet Car, the first new studio album in six years from Heart, entered the Billboard 200 best-selling album charts at #10, becoming the seventh Top 10 album of the group’s career.  The group’s first album for Legacy Recordings, Red Velvet Car marked the return of the group to the Sony Music Entertainment family, reaching #1 in sales on Amazon.com in September.

What’s made Heart endure across four decades and 13 studio albums, from Dreamboat Annie (1976) through Red Velvet Car (2010), is simply the quality of the music and the Wilsons’ ability to connect to the emotions and experiences of their audience.  Strange Euphoria represents the first time Ann and Nancy have personally curated a collection of their work and is the only time they’ve opened up their vaults for demos and rarities never heard by the public. The set includes song-by-song annotations, anecdotes, and commentary by the Wilson sisters.

Heart - Strange Euphoria - track listing

CD 1: 1. Through Eyes And Glass (by Ann Wilson & The Daybreaks) 2. Magic Man (demo)* 3. How Deep It Goes (demo)* 4. Crazy On You (demo)* 5. Dreamboat Annie (Fantasy Child) + Dreamboat Annie Reprise (edit)* 6. Love Alive 7. Sylvan Song 8. Dream Of The Archer 9. White Lightning And Wine (live at the Aquarius)* 10. Barracuda (live from BBC Radio Concert)* 11. Little Queen 12. Kick It Out 13. Here Song (demo)* 14. Heartless (demo)* 15. Dog & Butterfly (acoustic demo)* 16. Straight On 17. Nada One
CD 2: 1. Bebe le Strange 2. Silver Wheels II 3. Even It Up 4. Sweet Darlin’ 5. City’s Burning 6. Angels 7. Love Mistake 8. Lucky Day (demo)* 9. Never (live, with John Paul Jones)* 10. These Dreams 11. Nobody Home 12. Alone 13. Wait For An Answer 14. Unconditional Love (demo)* 15. High Romance (demo)* 16. Under The Sky (demo)* 17. Desire Walks On (“Beach demo” version)*
CD 3: 1. Kiss (by The Lovemongers) 2. Sand (live) (by The Lovemongers) 3. Everything (live) (by Nancy Wilson) 4. She Still Believes (live)* 5. Any Woman’s Blues (demo) (with the Seattle Blues Revue Horns)* 6. Strange Euphoria 7. Boppy’s Back (demo)* 8. Friend Meets Friend (live)  (by The Lovemongers)* 9. Love Or Madness (live) * 10. Skin To Skin* 11. Fallen Ones 12. Enough 13. Lost Angel (live) 14. Little Problems, Little Lies (by Ann Wilson) 15. Queen City 16. Hey You 17. Avalon (Reprise)
* previously unreleased
DVD: KWSU “The Second Ending – featuring Heart” program circa February-March 1976 1. Pre Show 2. Heartless 3. White Lightning & Wine 4. Dreamboat Annie 5. Silver Wheels 6. Crazy On You 7. Sing Child 8. Soul Of The Sea 9. Devil Delight 10. Magic Man

Close up. (Screengrab by TDHS)

Update April 26th: A close up of Ann & Nancy on the cover of “Strange Euphoria”. See above.
Update April 23rd: A bigger version of the cover art is here! (See above). And here’s the track list for DVD:  1 Intro 1:29 2 Pre Show 4:21 3 Heartless 5:05 4 White Lightning and Wine 6:35 5 Dreamboat Annie 2:27 6 Silver Wheels 0:32 7 Crazy On You 4:48 8 Sing Child 9:13 9 Soul of the Sea 7:02 10 Devil Delight 5:23 11 Magic Man 8:05 12 Credits 1:47

Box Set "Strange Euphoria" with Amazon.com exclusive "Zeppish" CD. Photo collage by TDHS

Update April 20th: Amazon has removed the picture. So the picture above will have to do.
Update April 19th: Management has confirmed that the ZEPP bonus disc (the 4th cd, but 5th disc in total) is an Amazon.com exclusive, named “Zeppish”. So make sure you pre-order the correct version on Amazon.com, as there are two. This will be the only Led Zeppelin exclusive. Also, the record company could work out other exclusives with other retailers, so you could consider waiting with your pre-order. I hope this does not mean too many difficult choices. And the artwork is revealed! GREAT! Looking at the size of the CD’s, the packaging looks huge! Wow! (Thanx to Michelle B. for the scoop!)
Update April 17th: Amazon has posted the tracklist for “Strange Euphoria”! CLICK HERE TO CHECK IT OUT  (thanx to Seattleboy!). The 5th disc might be an Amazon exclusive?
Update April 16th: from an Amazon email (thanx Seattleboy!): “Epic Records and Legacy Recordings proudly announce the release of Strange Euphoria, the first definitive career-spanning, multi-label boxed set retrospective chronicling the seminal American rock band Heart, personally curated by Ann Wilson and Nancy Wilson. A carefully-considered anthology of biggest hits and best-loved songs set alongside deep catalog treasures, rarities, demos and live performances. Strange Euphoria consists of three compact discs, one DVD, and a bonus CD of five Led Zeppelin cover tracks in a deluxe box.”
Update April 14th: based on the publicly accessible ASCAP database, I’m making a wild guess that the following tracks might be included on “Strange Euphoria” (this is all HIGHLY unconfirmed, based solely on their very recent registrations at ASCAP, which could very well have a very different reason): “Nothing But Love”, “High Romance”, “Friend meets Friend”, “Love or Madness”, “Lucky Day” (written with Lisa Dalbello), “Skin to Skin”, “Through Eyes and Glass” (Ann Wilson & The Daybreaks!), “Unconditional Love”, something from “Almost Famous”, “Avalon (reprise)” and “Any woman’s blues”.
Update April 13th: PRE-ORDER is now available on AMAZON.COM and AMAZON.CO.UK
Update March 24th: Sue Ennis twittered: “Just listened to the new Heart box set. Surprising. Deep. Rare. Grateful to producers for not caving to commercial pressure.”
Update March 20th: A nice summary of Heartlinker info on UltimateClassicRock :) Thanx for the link back! :)
Update March 15th: Heart just posted on their Facebook that “Strange Euphoria” will be out June 5th 2012!
Update March 11th: Sue Ennis posted a comment on heartlinker.nl: “Believe me, it IS too cool! So many unearthed rarities. A gold mine for Heartmongers who really know this band. I can’t wait”

March 10th: Thanx to heartmonger Bad Manimal all heartmongers can now see the flyer that was handed out at the second ’12 USA Heart show in Newkirk Oklahoma. It has lots of information about the upcoming career-spanning box set “Strange Euphoria”! The flyer lists the information as follows:

Heart
Strange Euphoria
HEART’s first-ever career-spanning box set!
4-disc, 50 song collection featuring:
-Previously unreleased demos and rarities
-Live performances & chart-topping hits
-New track-by-track commentary by Ann and Nancy Wilson
-DVD of the rare 1976 TV performance, DREAMBOAT ANNIE
AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE JUNE 2012
visit www.heart-newsletter.com for more information

Back of "Strange Euphoria" flyer (THANX to bad manimal)

Front of "Strange Euphoria" flyer (THANX to bad manimal)

Recorded LIVE in Oklahoma. FANATIC will be out October 2nd 2012.

Ann Wilson

A selection from the interview at RockChicago.Net:

Q: Which album that you’ve recorded means the most to you and why?

Ann: Well, of course, our brand new one that’s coming out in October, means the most to me at this point, because it’s brand new and it’s what we’re doing at the moment called Fanatic out on Sony on October 2^nd. If I had to choose an older album, which I think was what you really were asking, I think it would probably be Bebe le Strange, because that was the album where I got to play bass on a couple songs like “Even it Up” and I got to be actually more than a singer on that record, and we had more of a production voice on that one too, I think. That was a pretty cool punk album.

Q: On June 5^th, you release a brand new box-set Strange Euphoria. How did that come about?

Ann: Well, we’ve been wanting to do a box-set for years, you know, and not just a compilation of hits, but a real box-set that has all kinds of stuff you’ve never heard before, you can’t get anywhere else; demos, alternate versions, funny stuff, live versions; just creepy stuff, but just stuff from our personal archives. It took us a while to get it together, but we finally did! If I can only get it in my hand; it’s really awesome.

Q: What’s next for you and Heart?

Ann: Well, with the new box-set and the new book coming out this year; our first memoir coming out, and our new tour, there is so many stuff coming out this year that years spoken for, and probably most of next year. So that’s about far in advance as I can imagine.

Much more on RockChicago.Net

"Strange Euphoria"

From Suite 101:
Ann Discusses the Five Zeppelin Covers
In addition, if their collection is purchased from Amazon’s official website, listeners will get an exclusive bonus CD entitled Zeppish which features five Led Zeppelin songs that are performed by Heart. “That’s a CD that cannot be found anywhere else expect Amazon. It consists of five Zeppelin covers from different eras. We’ve always loved Zeppelin, and we’ve always paid homage and bowed down to them, and hopefully people will enjoy that!” “Zeppelin were one of our big influences. Most musicians really took a lot from what they did, since they took rock from one thing to another,” she adds

Read much more at Suite101

Kristian Attard (Photo by J. Diffner)

Today Heart informed us about the new path Kristian Attard has chosen! Thanks so much for your wonderful work with Heart Kristian!

“Many of you have noticed that Kristian has been on tv quite a bit lately…

yep – its true, Kristian (aka the Dingo) has left our family and has joined Jason Mraz. We love him dearly and wish him well.

Bass player auditions were held over the weekend and we now welcome Dan Rothchild to our family. Check him out at http://www.danrothchild.com“

See you on tour Dan!

Nancy & Geoff

Heart-music.com:  Just before the vows. Love was in the air last Saturday at the El Paseo gourmet restaurant owned by long time friend Sammy Hagar. Love rules! Nancy and Geoff

Update May 3rd: a new picture has surfaced. Thanx to yayaya for the find!
Nancy Wilson of Heart married 20th Century Fox TV music executive Geoff Bywater in a private ceremony at longtime friend Sammy Hagar’s restaurant in Mill Valley, California on Saturday, April 28th. The bride wore Monique Lhuiller.

Nancy & Geoff

Update May 15th: “Nancy in her Monique L’Heuillier wedding dress with her dashing husband, Geoff Bywater. They’ve returned from their honeymoon in Rome, Florence and London and are settling into their new lives in California.” (Heart’s Facebook)

The publisher HarperCollins has released the title for the upcoming biography/memoir!

Kicking and Dreaming: A Story of Heart, Soul, and Rock and Roll

T-Shirt

Heart is taking submissions from fans to create and design a t-shirt for Heart for our upcoming Fanatic summer tour! Design a T-shirt for chart-topping female-led rock group Heart! The multi-platinum band has just announced a series of live dates in support of their upcoming tour, Fanatic, and they want YOU to illustrate an epic rock tee that fans will go crazy to buy.

Suggested Theme & Style
What does it mean to you to be fanatic about music? Focus on the theme “Fanatic” and look at the band’s official clothing designs for inspiration. Be sure to include the band’s name and the word “Fanatic” in your design. Avoid using the likenesses of the band members.

Things You Need To Include
Focus on the theme of the tour, “Fanatic.” Required text: “Heart” and “Fanatic”. Original artwork and illustrations are preferred. The Heart design contest has special rules you must review and accept before uploading your design.

Things You Should Avoid
Don’t use photos or likenesses of the band. Respect copyright. DO NOT submit copyrighted work. DO NOT use stock images or clip art. You MUST be able to prove ownership of any photographic elements (even in a modified state). Please provide attribution in the description field.

DEADLINE: June 4, at 11:59pm PDT
Cash Award: $500.00
Additional prize: A Heart prize pack
To enter the contest and read all the requirements go to the Creative Allies website or click here.

Update April 15th: Heart’s management: Co-headliner for the new show is…..JOAN JETT!!

From Heart’s management on the official BBS:

The HEART concert scheduled for June 29, 2012 at the Myth in Maplewood has been cancelled. Heart will be moving this event to Mystic Lake Casino.

Tickets for HEART at Mystic Lake will be announced shortly. Heart fanclub presale will be announced on facebook and heart-music.com
For further information on shows at Mystic Lake Casino, visit www.mysticlake.com and sign up for their entertainment announcements.

Myth tickets will NOT be honored at the Mystic Lake Casino event. All current Myth ticket holders will be refunded.

Tickets will be refunded to purchasers credit card (including any service fees collected) if purchased via ticketweb.com. If tickets were purchased in cash at Myth Box office or via credit card, they must be returned to Myth Box Office for full refund.

(get your refunds heartmongers!)