Not exactly. The weight gain began on earnest between the album Private Audition (1982, highly underrated, City is Burning is an all time favorite) and the album Passionworks (1983). I know this because I was at the very first date of the Passionworks tour in Jacksonville, FL in 1983, where they co- headlined with Kansas. MTV News was there and did a live report about the unique co-headlining format, the story goes that they flipped a coin to decide who would open each night. The MTV segment was shot right in front of me and my college roommate swears you could see me plainly, but I never saw it myself. Anyway, it was my first time seeing Heart, Kansas opened that night. Not having seen so much as a photo of Ann in the preceding year or so (I owned the Passionworks album but she was not shown clearly in any pictures) I was over the moon about seeing this woman with whom I was SOOOO in love with. I waited for hours outside the venue and dashed to the stage so I could be down front and see her for myself. Finally it was time!!!! The lights went down, the keyboards started to play, I was ready to express my love...... then this hulking figure approached the mic only a few feet away and I thought "must be a problem with the mic and they sent a roadie out to switch it...." .............and then the lights came on............and it was Ann!!!!!! Looking more like Roseanne! 




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