Comment by Candy O on May 16, 2014 at 4:31pm

I read somewhere that "Magic Man" might be refer to Charles Manson!

Here are some interesting tidbits: http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=3703

Comment by BeatleBob on May 19, 2014 at 10:29am

Thanks for the Link Candy O!! Intersting!

I found these comments about that:

Although I am a huge Heart fan, and think Ann has the greatest voice of all time. I have been always turned off by the fact Magic Man was written about Charles Manson. After all these years am I hearing this was not true? What a fool I have been.

I've always heard "Magic Man" was about Mike Fisher, to include interviews with Ann Wilson, and never heard the Manson thing until a minute ago. Heart has had to endure a lot of bad and inaccurate press over the years and I guess that was just one more smear. It's always easier to think something bad about someone.

Just heard a discussion about this song on Mark & Brian (95.5 KLOS, Los Angeles) and they were commenting how Heart dispelled the Charles Manson rumor long ago and said the song was actually about the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson.

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