All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You

Single infobox
Name = All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You


Artist = Heart
from Album = Brigade
B-side = "Call of the Wild"
"Cruel Tears" (non-LP)
Released = March 1990
Genre = Rock/Pop
Length =
Label = Capitol Records
Producer = Richie Zito
Writer = Robert John "Mutt" Lange
Last single = "I Want You So Bad"
(1988)
This single = "All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You"
(1990)
Next single = "I Didn't Want to Need You'"
(1990)"All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You" is a song recorded by Canadian rock band Heart. It was composed by veteran songwriter and producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange and released as the first single from the band's tenth studio album "Brigade", as well as their first hit single of the 1990s.

The song is a mid-tempo pop/rock number which caused a minor controversy because of its lyrics. In the track, singer Ann Wilson sings of a one-night stand with a man, only to reveal later in the song that her intent all along was to use the encounter as a way to become pregnant. The lyrics explain later, when she reunites with the one-time lover, that her child is the result of their tryst and she did it only because the man she really loves is not able to give her children.

Regardless of the controversy, "All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You" was a success, spending two weeks at number two on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number eight in the UK Singles Chart, and reaching #1 in Canada and Australia. It was also nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Group Pop Vocal Performance, and is the only one of Heart's singles to have been certified Gold by the RIAA. On the Adult Contemporary chart, the song climbed to number six, becoming the third of Heart's four top-ten AC hits (after "These Dreams" and "Alone").

In the liner notes of Heart's album "The Road Home", Ann Wilson commented on the band's dislike for the song, stating, "Actually we had sworn off it because it kind of stood for everything we wanted to get away from. It was a song by 'Mutt' Lange, who we liked, and it was originally written for Don Henley, but there was a lot of pressure on us to do the song at the time."¹

The single was Heart's last pop chart top ten hit. The band had one more top ten Adult Contemporary chart hit with the follow-up, "Stranded"; "Stranded" and 1994's "Will You Be There (In The Morning)" were also top 10 Album Rock hits.

ources

¹ Feldman, Christopher G., "The Billboard Book of No. 2 Singles", ISBN 0-8230-7695-4.