Waterman was keen to complete the album and considered it to be the very first full Hi-NRG album - a genre normally limited to singles and 12" remixes.
American Heart Association | Purple Heart | Heart | Sacred Heart | Heart of Darkness | Heart (band) | Heart of Midlothian F.C. | Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun | heart failure | British Heart Foundation | The Heart of Midlothian | Wild at Heart | The Ponder Heart | The Heart Throbs | Sacred Heart Church | Owner of a Lonely Heart | National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute | Immaculate Heart of Mary | I Cross My Heart | heart | Crazy Heart | A Heart in Winter | Achy Breaky Heart | You're My Heart, You're My Soul | Total Eclipse of the Heart | The Young in Heart | The Tell-Tale Heart | The Normal Heart | The Naked Heart | The Hellbound Heart |
"In Time," one of four original songs on Heart First, was initially released as a digital single to benefit the Japanese Red Cross in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami of 2011 that devastated Japan.
The quote "a man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened" (credited to the French-Algerian writer Albert Camus) appears on the back of the sleeve of the album.