Ann Wilson of Heart Reflects on Her '80s Big Hair Era: 'Hair Spray and Shaving Cream' (Exclusive)

The iconic singer is headlining Women Who Rock's 6th annual benefit concert on Oct. 21 in Pittsburgh amid her ongoing tour

Ann Wilson of the band Heart is reflecting on her big hair days.

In an interview with PEOPLE ahead of her Women Who Rock benefit performance on Oct. 21, when asked about the multitude of hair spray cans that were likely in the band's dressing room, the rocker laughed over the memory.

"Totally. Hairspray and shaving cream!" Ann, 73, tells PEOPLE. "Everything went into the hair. So funny."

The legendary female-fronted group with Ann and her younger sister Nancy Wilson formed in 1973. They cranked out top hits in the '70s like "Magic Man," "Barracuda," "Crazy on You," and their 1987 song, "Alone," all of which still get constant airplay and millions of streams today.

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Discussing her new solo album Another Door and how it's been received so far while on tour, Ann says she is pleased with how much her fans love it.

"There's a song on our new record called This Is Now. And every night when we play that we get this really amazing audience reaction because it's just a simple message, That was then, this is now,' " she shares. "And people just, I don't know, the song ends and you kind of hear this sigh go up. They love it and it's a song they've never heard before."

"So yeah, we are enlarging our audience big time right now," Ann adds of her multi-generational listeners.

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Previously addressing Heart's '80s era, Ann's sister Nancy, 69, told PEOPLE in 2021, "It was a harder time to feel taken seriously because of the objectification in the videos and the corsets and the stilettos," she said.

"It was the ego-driven style of the cocaine era that we were in, which was not quite as hippie as where we had come from."

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Elsewhere in Ann's interview with PEOPLE, she commented on the style of some of the female rockers today, vocalizing her preference these days for a more downplayed look.

"I'm waiting for a lot of 'em to take off the leather pants and the skulls and all that kind of stuff and be themselves," she laughs.

Ann Wilson will rock Stage AE in Pittsburgh on Oct. 21 for Women Who Rock's 6th annual benefit concert, presented by Gibson Gives, in support of Magee-Womens Research Institute & Foundation

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