1975 was a pivotal year for the band, who had established themselves as true hitmakers. Their previous album, "Holiday" (the first with Martin), delivered two Top 5 hits ("Tin Man" and "Lonely People"), and the follow-up, "Hearts," did not disappoint with three Top 40 hits, including the summer favorite "Sister Golden Hair," the band's first number 1 since their 1972 debut album, "AHorse With No Name." The collaboration with Martin proved crucial to the band's creative growth, as all three members (Beckley, Bunnell, and Dan Peek) contributed strong material; each of them landed hit singles. In a new interview for the album notes, Beckley recalls: “We learned an incredible amount from them (Martin and the famous Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick), which we immediately put into practice when working on ‘Hearts.’” The expanded 50th-anniversary edition of this top-five, gold-certified album includes six bonus tracks, featuring five previously unreleased alternate versions. Experience the wonderful harmonies in the vocal and string mix of “Daisy Jane,” an alternate acoustic mix of the plaintive “Old Virginia,” and the CD debut of the Spanish-language version of “Sister Golden Hair” (“Con Tu Pelo Tan Dorado”). As Gerry Buckley said, “Hearts was built to last,” and it remains as fresh and captivating as ever!