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The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan

Nancy Wilson of Heart | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan

The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan

Billy Corgan

Music, Arts, Performing Arts

4.6731 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2026

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

In this candid conversation with Billy Corgan, legendary Heart co-founder Nancy Wilson reflects on a nomadic childhood shaped by military life, seeing The Beatles on Ed Sullivan, and falling in love with the guitar. She revisits the Vancouver club grind, the rare alchemy of sibling harmony, and earning credibility in a male-dominated rock world. Nancy also looks back on the 80s era of big hair, outside songwriters, and creative compromise, before turning personal around Ann—her once-in-a-generation gift, what it demands, and the isolation that comes when identity is inseparable from the stage. It’s a sharp, unsentimental look at what it takes to build something that survives trends, egos, and time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Nobody knows where they're going at the beginning of their life like that.

0:04.0

I feel like way too lucky.

0:07.0

You were really accepted by a rock audience wholeheartedly.

0:12.0

When the sisters sing together, there's this thing that happened.

0:16.0

There's something magical about when siblings can put their voices together.

0:20.0

It's a God-given kind of spookiness.

0:21.6

It is kind of spooky.

0:23.6

Yeah.

0:24.6

It's like beauty, charisma, sass, fire, a voice, not just a voice, a voice that means something to people.

0:34.6

It sounds great on the radio.

0:42.6

And you just want to roll down your window, you know, and chew gum or something.

0:46.2

Nancy, thank you for being here.

0:47.6

I'm happy to be here.

0:53.5

It's such a big story, so I'm going to start in a very obvious spot.

1:01.6

I'll try to avoid all the obvious, but it seems such a watershed moment when the Beatles start appearing at Ed Sullivan.

1:05.7

How many musicians they inspired to say, I want to do that?

1:06.6

Completely.

1:09.7

And you and your sister kind of had that moment. That was the same lightning bolt that hit the planet, you know, hit us as well as musicians.

1:17.7

Yeah. And we were like, we became the zombies for guitars, you know.

1:23.0

Were you already playing?

1:24.2

Or did it was that?

1:25.2

Well, musical family. Yeah.

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