Ann and Nancy Wilson comment on the Magic Man demo.
NANCY WILSON: This demo is the concept, the story, and the melody of “Magic Man,” but before the “rock” had been kicked into it. It is like a folk song in its infancy. Folk music was a side the band always had, even in those early club days. Ann sounds like she’s about ten-years-old on this version.
ANN WILSON: This was with Howard Leese at the controls, at Can-Base Studios in Vancouver, British Columbia, before Mike Flicker had been brought in to produce us. Howard was a staff producer in those days, and it wasn’t until a year later that Howard joined the band. This was a very rough demo we did so we could get approved to do a “real” demo for Mushroom Records, which was a tiny label in Canada in that day. This is my singing without anyone coaching me in any way; I sang it like a girl in a choir would sing it. The song’s lyrics, though, were straight out of my life — I had written them just a week before. The feelings I was expressing were happening at that moment. When I listen to this now, I can hear a young girl who is nervous, but also one who is deadly serious about what the song is about. This may be one of the most unselfconscious things we ever recorded.
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