“Magic Man” by Heart

"Magic Man" is the slow-burning seduction at the heart of Dreamboat Annie, Heart's 1975 debut, written by Ann and Nancy Wilson. Ann sings it as a young girl falling under the spell of an older man while her mother frets, and years later she revealed the magic man was her own boyfriend at the time, the band's manager Michael Fisher. Guitarist Roger Fisher tuned his guitar to an odd EADGDG for the part, and the funky, sinuous groove lets Ann's voice coil around it.

On the album it stretches past five minutes, with a guitar solo and a Minimoog-fed instrumental break of over two minutes that the single chopped away. It came out first in Canada in June 1975, and in the US in the summer of 1976, where it gave Heart their first top-10 hit, reaching number nine on the Billboard Hot 100.

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