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"All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You"
Single by Heart
from the album Brigade
B-side(s)	"Call of the Wild"
Released	1990
Genre	Rock/Pop
Label	Capitol Records
Writer(s)	Robert John "Mutt" Lange
Producer(s)	Richie Zito
Chart positions
#2 (U.S.) #1 (4 weeks) (Australia) #8 (UK)
Heart singles chronology
"I Want You So Bad" (1988)	"All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You" (1990)	"I Didn't Want to Need You" (1990)

"All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You" is a song recorded by American 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.

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 reason to become pregnant. The lyrics explain later, when Wilson 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 and peaking at number eight in the UK Singles Chart. 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 it off 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 is the final time that Heart hit the U.S. Pop top ten. (The band did manage one more top ten AC hit afterward, with the follow-up, "Stranded"; "Stranded" and 1994's "Will You Be There (In The Morning)" were also top 10 Album Rock hits.)

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

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