Nancy Wilson said she hopes to record one more Heart album and take a “victory lap” to celebrate the band’s 50-year legacy with her sister and bandmate, Ann Wilson.
The guitarist and singer discussed her desire to follow up Heart’s most recent album, 2016’s “Beautiful Broken,” during a recent interview on Andy Frasco’s World Saving Podcast.
“I go through these phases. Right now I’m in a phase of really feeling like creating some new songs. And I’ve got songs going on,” Wilson said. “But I feel like this is the perfect time for Heart — this year, next year — to make a victory lap out of our legacy. So I figure we need to make one more Heart album.”
Wilson praised Heart’s current lineup, which includes members of Ann Wilson’s solo band, Tripsitter.
“Especially with these players that we have in the lineup right now in this band, we’re just really excited to play together, and there’s no limits on what we could pull off as musicians,” she said. “So I’ve got a few songs, and Ann’s working with those guys in her side band right now writing other songs. But I think I’m gonna want to make the last Heart album and do the victory lap and make 2027 mainly about the Heart film, the Heart documentary.”
A Heart biopic, reportedly in development for several years, is now close to fruition, according to Wilson. She said the project has some notable names attached.
“We’ve got a big movie, and we’ve got a final draft soon to read that Carrie Brownstein — who did ‘Portlandia’ and is known for her work with Sleater-Kinney — is working on,” Wilson said. “And we’ve been working mainly with her. And it’s so weird too, because you kind of have to go, well, OK, who would be the actor that plays you?”
Wilson suggested Elle Fanning as a candidate to portray her and said Florence Pugh could play Ann Wilson.
Despite her enthusiasm for making new music, Wilson said touring has become “entirely exhausting.” Heart is scheduled to launch the 2026 leg of its Royal Flush tour on Sunday.
When asked whether the idea of a “victory lap” felt strange, Wilson responded, “Kind of, but then as the grandchildren start arriving? Not as crazy to think about doing less of the big rock tour. I mean, it’s entirely exhausting to do that travel. And when you’re not quite as young and rubbery as you always were, going through almost 50 years of doing that, you really get paid for the travel on those rock tours.
“The show itself is the thrill — the million thrills and the glory and that magic thing,” Wilson said. “I would do that for free, and I probably will end up doing music somehow for as long as I can live. But the tour part, it’s really rough on you.”
