Private Audition

Infobox Album
Name = Private Audition
Type = album
Artist = Heart


Released = 5 June 1982
Recorded = 1981-82
Genre = Hard rock, folk rock
Length = 39:07
Label = Sony
Producer = Connie & Howie, Howard Leese, Nancy Wilson, Ann Wilson
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|2|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:im2zefykhgf1~T0 link]
Last album = "Greatest Hits Live"
(1980)
This album = "Private Audition"
(1982)
Next album = "Passionworks"
(1983)

"Private Audition" is the sixth studio album released by the hard rock band Heart, released in 1982. The album was on the U.S. Billboard 200 for fourteen weeks, peaking at number twenty-five. It contained the hit single This Man Is Mine. It is the last Heart album to feature longtime members Mike DeRosier and Steve Fossen, who left after the recording of the album and were replaced by Denny Carmassi and Mark Andes.

Track listing

#"City's Burning" (Ann Wilson, Nancy Wilson, Sue Ennis) - 4:25
#"Bright Light Girl" (A. Wilson, N. Wilson, Ennis) - 3:22
#"Perfect Stranger" (A. Wilson, Ennis) - 3:52
#"Private Audition" (A. Wilson, N. Wilson, Ennis) - 3:21
#"Angels" (A. Wilson, Ennis) - 2:59
#"This Man Is Mine" (A. Wilson, N. Wilson, Ennis) - 3:02
#"The Situation" (N. Wilson, Michael Derosier) - 4:17
#"Hey Darlin' Darlin'" (A. Wilson, Ennis) - 4:00
#"One Word" (N. Wilson) - 4:32
#"Fast Times" (A. Wilson, N. Wilson, Ennis) - 4:03
#"America" (A. Wilson, Ennis) - 2:34

Performers

*Ann Wilson – lead vocals, background vocals, piano, flute, bass guitar
*Nancy Wilson – lead vocals, background vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, electric piano, piano, bass guitar, pedal steel guitar
*Howard Leese – background vocals, electric guitar, synthesizer, acoustic guitar, bells, piano, Moog bass, Moog drum, clavioline, bass guitar, alto recorder, Hammond organ, cymbal
*Steve Fossen – bass guitar
*Michael DeRosier – drums

with

*Sue Ennis – piano
*Lynn Wilson – background vocals