Who is Heart’s “Magic Man” Thousands wanted to be the magic man, it was actually inspired by the guy Ann Wilson was with when the song was written. The song came out in 1976 on the album Dreamboat Annie. The first single from Heart’s debut album flopped, but the follow-up, “Magic Man,” reached number-nine on the Billboard Hot 100. Who was the real magic man? In a 1980s interview Ann Wilson explained:
“There are so many magic men all over the country, it’s really amazing. Like, onstage, whenever we do that song, this line of guys pushes up to the very front and points at themselves like, ‘Me, me, I’m the magic man! Me!’ So there probably are about 30,000 of them across the country. But the original magic man was the man I was with at the time the song was written, who was indeed a magical person.”
Ok she didn’t really say but I will, it was Mike Fisher. He was the original guitarist for heart and when he went to Canada to avoid getting drafted to Viet nam she followed him. He returned to manage the band.
