We've been opening for a band called Nazareth in Europe and also for Queen. In a March 2019 interview with Gear Factor, Nancy Wilson revealed that the guitar riff for 'Barracuda' was inspired by the riff from Nazareth's cover of the Joni Mitchell song ' This Flight Tonight'. It was born out of that whole experience.' Music Barracuda could be anyone from the local promotion man to the president of a record company. As Flicker put it, ''Barracuda' was created conceptually out of a lot of this record business bullshit. Producer Mike Flicker added that Mushroom Records was so obtuse in the contract negotiations that Heart decided to discard the album they were working on, Magazine-which the label still released in an unfinished form-and instead sign with the newly formed Portrait Records to make another record, Little Queen. After he revealed he was talking about her sister Nancy, Ann became outraged, went back to her hotel room, and wrote the original lyrics of the song. She initially thought he was talking about her boyfriend, band manager Michael Fisher. The song particularly focuses on Ann's rage towards a male radio promoter who came up to her after a concert asking how her 'lover' was. The song was included on the compilation albums Greatest Hits/Live (1980), These Dreams: Greatest Hits (1997), Greatest Hits (1998), The Essential Heart (2002), Love Alive (2005), Playlist: The Very Best of Heart (2008) and Strange Euphoria (2012), and on the live albums Rock the House Live! (1991), The Road Home (1995), Alive in Seattle (2003) and Live in Atlantic City (2019).Īnn Wilson revealed in interviews that the song was about Heart's anger towards Mushroom Records, who as a publicity stunt released a made-up story of an incestuous affair involving Ann and her sister Nancy Wilson. In 2009, 'Barracuda' was named the 34th Best Hard Rock Song of All Time by VH1. The song peaked at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100.

' Barracuda' is a song by American rock band Heart, released in 1977 on their third studio album, Little Queen, and was released as the album's lead single.

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