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Released
  
June 5, 1982

Private Audition (1982)
  
Passionworks (1983)

Release date
  
5 June 1982

Genres
  
Hard rock, Folk rock

Length
  
39:07

Artist
  
Heart

Label
  
Epic/Sony Records

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Recorded
  
October 1981–March 1982

Studio
  
Studio 56, Los Angeles, Wally Heider Studios, San Francisco, California, Kaye Smith Studios, Seattle, Washington

Producer
  
Connie & Howie (Nancy Wilson, Ann Wilson, Sue Ennis, Howard Leese)

Similar
  
Heart albums, Other albums

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Private Audition is the sixth studio album, released by 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. The album has sold around 400,000 copies in the United States.

Contents

In 2009, Private Audition was re-released on the Beat Goes On label as a double CD with their subsequent album Passionworks. Prior to this, Private Audition had been out of print for a number of years and was the most difficult of Heart's CDs to obtain.

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Heart

  • Ann Wilson – lead and backing vocals, piano on track 3, producer
  • Nancy Wilson – guitars (acoustic, electric and pedal steel), blues harp, pianos (electric and acoustic) on tracks 2 and 4, bass on tracks 2 and 6, lead vocals on tracks 7 and 9, backing vocals, producer
  • Howard Leese – guitars (electric and acoustic), synthesizer, bass on tracks 7 and 8, Moog bass, Moog drum, clavioline, alto recorder, Hammond organ, bells, cymbal, backing vocals, strings arrangements and conductor, producer
  • Steve Fossen – bass guitar
  • Michael DeRosier – drums
  • Additional musicians

  • Sue Ennis – piano on track 11, producer
  • Lynn Wilson – background vocals
  • Production

  • Shelly Yakus – engineer
  • Dave Thoener – engineer, mixing at Record Plant NY, mastering assistant
  • Rob Perkins – assistant engineer
  • Brian Foraker – assistant engineer and mixing
  • Steve Marcantonio – mixing
  • Greg Calbi – mastering at Sterling Sound
  • Songs

    1City's Burning4:26
    2Bright Light Girl3:23
    3Perfect Stranger3:53

    References

    Private Audition Wikipedia