Private Audition

Private Audition
Studio album by
Heart
ReleasedMay 20, 1982 (1982-05-20)[1]
RecordedOctober 1981 – March 1982
Studio
Genre
Length40:19
LabelEpic
Producer
Heart chronology
Greatest Hits/Live
(1980) 		Private Audition
(1982) 		Passionworks
(1983)
Singles from Private Audition
  1. "This Man Is Mine"
    Released: May 1982
  2. "Bright Light Girl"
    Released: September 1982[2]
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
Rolling Stone[4]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[5]

Private Audition is the sixth studio album by American rock band Heart, released on May 20, 1982, by Epic Records. The album reached number 25 on the US Billboard 200, spending 14 weeks on the chart.[6] It spawned the single "This Man Is Mine", which peaked at number 33 on the Billboard Hot 100. 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.

In 2009, Private Audition was re-released by BGO Records as a double CD with the band's subsequent album, Passionworks (1983). Prior to this, Private Audition had been out of print for a number of years and was Heart's most difficult CD to obtain.[7][8]

  1. ^ "New Releases" (PDF). FMQB. May 7, 1982. p. 40. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
  2. ^ Strong, Martin Charles (1995). The Great Rock Discography. p. 374. ISBN 9780862415419.
  3. ^ Smith, Jim. "Private Audition – Heart". AllMusic. Retrieved June 2, 2014.
  4. ^ Connelly, Christopher. "Album Reviews: Heart – Private Audition". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on May 18, 2007. Retrieved June 2, 2014.
  5. ^ Coleman, Mark; Berger, Arion (2004). "Heart". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 372. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference bb200 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ "Private Audition / Passionworks". Amazon. United Kingdom. Retrieved June 19, 2020.
  8. ^ "Private Audition/Passionworks – Heart". AllMusic. Retrieved June 19, 2020.


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