Nancy Wilson Admits Heart Was ‘So Jealous’ of Fleetwood Mac

Nancy
Wilson
has
looked
back
on
the
early
days
of

Heart,
admitting
her
band
was
“so
jealous”
of

Fleetwood
Mac.

During
an
appearance
on
the

Broken
Record
podcast,
Wilson
recalled
watching
Fleetwood
Mac’s
monumental
success
in
the
‘70s.

“They
were
happening
right
before
us,
kind
of
as
Heart
was
just
starting
to
tiptoe
into
the
scene,
and
they
already
had


Rumours
out
there,”
the
guitarist
remembered.
“We
were
just
trying
so
hard
to
make
an
album
and
get
out
there
and
get
a
tour
or
whatever,
and
they
were
all
over
the
radio.”

As
Wilson
explained,
her
envy
wasn’t
just
about
commercial
success.
She
also
believed
Fleetwood
Mac’s
popularity
could
hinder
Heart’s
chances.

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“I
felt
so
jealous
of
that
band
because
there
was
two
women
in
it
that
sounded
so
good
together,
and
they
had
the
acoustic
guitar
kind
of
thing
that
I
felt
like
I
was
bringing
a
lot
of
into
our
band,”
she
noted.
“They
kind
of
had
it
already,
you
know,
like
something
we
were
trying
to
capture.
They
had
already
captured
it.
So
I
was
really
like,
‘Damn
it!
What
makes
us
so
different
now?’”

‘Lucky
for
Us,
We
Had
Ann’

As
history
shows,
Wilson’s
fears
were
unnecessary.
Heart
forged
its
own
path,
and
despite
having
two
women,
was
rarely
compared
to
Fleetwood
Mac.
The
guitarist
believes
her
sister,
vocalist

Ann
Wilson,
helped
set
them
apart.

“We
did
sound
very
different,”
Nancy noted.
“A
lot
of
it’s
Ann’s
voice,
you
know,
very
signature.
The
muscle
and
the
power
that
she
possesses
and
the
way
she
sings
is
completely
its
own
thing.
So
lucky
for
us,
we
had
Ann.”

According
to
Nancy,
Ann’s
distinctive
vocals
allowed
Heart
to
create
a
more
varied
sound.

“Not
just soft
rock.
We
had
hard
rock,
so
we
could
rock
very
hard
and
as
quietly
as
well.
So
we
probably
had
a
lot
more
versatility
or
something.”