Passionworks
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Cover photography by Neal Preston
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| Studio album by Heart | ||||
| Released | August 20, 1983 | |||
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Studio 56, Los Angeles Wally Heider Studios, San Francisco, California, March–June 1983 |
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| Genre | Rock, hard rock | |||
| Length | 42:00 | |||
| Label | Epic | |||
| Producer | Keith Olsen | |||
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| Singles from Passionworks | ||||
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| Allmusic |   |
| Rolling Stone | |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide |  |
Passionworks is the seventh studio album, released by the hard rock band Heart, in 1983. The album marks a shift in musical direction from hard rock and folk to mainstream rock. This album spent 21 weeks on the U.S. Billboard 200 and reached No. 39. The single, "How Can I Refuse?" hit No. 44 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, and No. 1 on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart for 1 week.Passionworks was the band's final album with Epic Records before their comeback-fueled move to Capitol Records. It is the first Heart album to feature Denny Carmassi and Mark Andes, who had replaced longtime members Mike DeRosier and Steve Fossen. The album has sold almost 500,000 copies in the United States.
In 2009, Passionworks was re-released on the Beat Goes On label as a double CD with the band's previous album Private Audition.
The album did not do well when it was released, selling less than 500,000 copies and failing to reach the gold record status. A review in Rolling Stone gave the album two out of five stars and a poor review. The reviewer, Errol Somay, writes, “In short, Passionworks seems like the soundtrack to an off-Broadway show that closed after two nights.” The song, “How Can I Refuse?” was popular, hitting number one on the Mainstream Rock charts and number 44 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1983. The other singles off the album did not do as well.
Heart’s sixteenth studio album released in 2016, Beautiful Broken, contains two remastered tracks from the Passionworks album along with a few other remastered songs from their 80s era and a few new ones. These two tracks are “Johnny Moon” and “Language of Love.” In an interview with The Arizona Republic, Nancy Wilson talks about the idea to remaster the songs, “Like, ‘Wow, these songs were so misunderstood ‘production-wise.’ And I thought I would love a chance to redesign and reimagine them in the studio.” The new album reached the number nine spot on Billboard’s Rock Album Chart in 2016. Then, it reached number 30 on Billboard’s Top Selling Albums chart in the US. This album did much better than the earlier Passionworks album.
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