Awards and honors
* Four Grammy Award nominations* Seven albums in the top 10 of Billboard’s Billboard 200 chart* Eight gold-certified (500,000 sales) and nine platinum-certified (1 million or more sales) albums in the U.S.* 21 singles in the top 40 of Billboard’s Hot 100 chart* 35 million album sales worldwide* Awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2012* Inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2013* Performed “Stairway to Heaven” for President Barack Obama and members of Led Zeppelin* No. 57 on VH1’s 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock list
Heart’s biggest hits
› “Alone” (No. 1, 1987)› “These Dreams” (No. 1, 1986)› “All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You” (No. 2, 1990)› “Never” (No. 4, 1985)› “Who Will You Run To” (No. 7, 1987)› “Tell It Like It Is” (No. 8, 1981)› “Magic Man” (No. 9, 1976)› “Nothin’ At All” (No. 10, 1986)› “What About Love” (No. 10, 1985)
For Friends of the Festival’s talent and production coordinator Joe “Dixie” Fuller, tonight’s headlining performance by Heart at Riverbend is the culmination of more than five years of backroom bargaining and crossed fingers.
“We had made them offers in the past and they could never make up their mind,” Fuller says of the Seattle-based band, which was founded in the early 1970s with sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson, who still serve as lead vocalist and guitarist.
“It was always a real slow answer coming back,” Fuller adds. “We worked on it and worked on it. They weren’t sure what they were going to do.”