{"id":540310,"date":"2026-03-23T10:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T10:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/540310\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T10:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T10:58:08","slug":"1986-rock-classic-was-a-legendary-bands-first-no-1-40-years-ago-today-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/540310\/","title":{"rendered":"1986 Rock Classic Was a Legendary Band\u2019s First No. 1 40 Years Ago Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four decades ago, a dreamy power ballad helped a now-legendary rock band score its first No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 music<\/a> chart.<\/p>\n

On March 22, 1986, Heart<\/a>‘s song “These Dreams,” a single on the group’s self-titled eighth studio album released the year before, soared to the top of the charts, becoming the group’s first certified hit.<\/p>\n

The exciting milestone actually came after Heart had already released some of the group’s most well-known hits, including “Barracuda” and “Magic Man,” but it wasn’t until years into the band’s tenure that the group got to the No. 1 spot.<\/p>\n

Along with “These Dreams,” the other singles on the Heart album, which came out on June 21, 1985, included “What About Love,” “Never,” “Nothin’ at All,” and “If Looks Could Kill.” All of the singles except for “If Looks Could Kill” reached the Top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100, while the album is Heart’s only record to top the Billboard Top 200.<\/p>\n

While Heart has undergone a few different lineup changes throughout the band’s long career, lead singer Ann Wilson<\/a> and singer and guitarist Nancy Wilson<\/a> remain the core members. At the time of Heart’s release, the band also included Howard Leese, Mark Andes, and Denny Carmassi.<\/p>\n

Related: Heart\u2019s Nancy Wilson Stuns in Rare Romantic Photo With Husband<\/a><\/p>\n

“These Dreams” is one of only two of the band’s singles to feature Nancy instead of Ann on lead vocals, and according to Nancy, the extreme success<\/a> of the song caused a little tension between the sisters.<\/p>\n

Speaking with Yahoo Entertainment\/SiriusXM Volume<\/a> in 2021, Nancy recalled, “When I was singing on the demo, the mock vocal, I had a cold that day, so my voice was really scratchy. And [the producers] said, \u2018That’s really a cool sound. We should keep that in the song.\u2019”<\/p>\n

“So, it just came about, like every which way, for that song to actually become the very first ever No. 1 single we ever had \u2014 and Ann was pissed!\u201d she went on.<\/p>\n

Luckily, Heart went on to have two more No. 1 tracks, with “Alone” in 1987 and “All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You” in 1990.<\/p>\n

Related: Legendary Rock Goddess, 75, Announces Special Tour<\/a><\/p>\n

This story was originally published by Parade<\/a> on Mar 22, 2026, where it first appeared in the News<\/a> section. Add Parade as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four decades ago, a dreamy power ballad helped a now-legendary rock band score its first No. 1 hit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[153192,144751,88,216,32657],"class_list":{"0":"post-540310","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-ann-wilson","9":"tag-billboard-hot-100","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music","12":"tag-nancy-wilson"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}