Heart - Break

What this video is

Released in 1980 on Bébé le Strange (Epic Records), 'Break' captures Heart at a pivotal artistic crossroads. The album was the band's first without founding guitarist Roger Fisher and was recorded amid significant personal upheaval for the Wilson sisters. The track, penned by Ann Wilson, is among the album's most viscerally hard-rocking moments, reflecting the band's stripped-down, Telecaster-driven brashness on…

Why it matters

Heart's 'Break' represents the female-fronted hard rock vanguard at the cusp of the 1980s, bridging the classic rock era of the 1970s and the impending arena rock and MTV era. The Bébé le Strange album is widely regarded as the closing chapter of Heart's 'classic' period, and this promotional clip…

The director

Paul Smith (b. January 16, 1947, Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a British producer and director who began his career as a trainee projectionist with the BBC in 1966, rising to director of children's and light entertainment by 1973. He directed multiple early…