Magazine Songwriting Credits by Heart

Magazine is a studio album by the American rock band Heart, tied to one of the most contested releases in the band's history. It grew out of sessions for what was meant to be Heart's second album on Mushroom Records, but the band's relationship with the label collapsed after a December 1976 Rolling Stone ad, styled like a tabloid front page, that pictured Ann and Nancy Wilson bare-shouldered with suggestive copy implying the sisters were lovers. When Mushroom refused to raise the band's royalty rate, Heart argued the label had breached its contract by failing to secure producer Mike Flicker and signed with Portrait Records instead. In spring 1977 Mushroom struck back by pressing an unauthorized version of Magazine, assembled from unfinished studio takes and live recordings and remixed with no band members present; Heart won a court injunction and roughly 50,000 copies were pulled and mostly destroyed. A settlement then forced the band to complete the record, so in March 1978 Ann Wilson re-cut lead vocals and the group re-mixed and re-edited the tracks for an authorized release that April, giving the album its US top-twenty run and the hit single 'Heartless.'