The front and back cover of ‘Bebe Le Strange’.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Epic<\/span><\/p> As Nancy remembered, it wasn\u2019t just that Heart\u2019s male members were pushed to the back cover, but the manner in which it was done.<\/p>\n \u201c[The picture] was the back of our heads with the hair,\u201d she explained, \u201cand their pictures were inserted on top of the back, in our hair.” Nancy\u00a0then paraphrased her bandmates’ complaint: “So we were just the out of focus guys in the background, in your hair.\u201d<\/p>\n Nancy went on to note that despite each of Heart\u2019s lineups being \u201creally a family,\u201d having a true democracy never worked due to her and Ann\u2019s oversized roles.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat the public perception wants to focus on is something as simple as you at the center of it, or me and my sister at the center of Heart, you have to kind of relinquish the idea of complete democracy in many ways,\u201d Nancy explained. \u201cBecause you are the songwriter. You wrote the lyrics, right? You wrote those songs. That was your soul coming through that speaker that put your own melancholy into the world. And that’s what me and Ann were, the songwriters.\u201d<\/p>\nWhy Heart Had to ‘Relinquish’ Their Band Democracy<\/h3>\n