You Shook Me All Night Long

"You Shook Me All Night Long"
Single by AC/DC
from the album Back in Black
B-side	"Have a Drink on Me"
Released	August 1980
Format	7"
Recorded	1980
Genre	Hard rock
Length	3:32
Label	Atlantic
Producer	Robert John "Mutt" Lange
AC/DC singles chronology
"Touch Too Much" (1980) "You Shook Me All Night Long" (1980) "Back in Black" (1980)
Alternate cover
1986 re-release

"You Shook Me All Night Long" is one of AC/DC's signature songs from their most successful album, Back in Black. The song also reappeared on their later album Who Made Who. It is one of the band's top 40 singles, reaching number 35 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart in 1980. The single was re-released internationally in 1986 following the release of the album Who Made Who.

"You Shook Me All Night Long" placed at No. 10 on VH1's list of "The 100 Greatest Songs of the 80s". It was also No. 1 on VH1's "Top Ten AC/DC Songs". In the song, the lead singer Brian Johnson relates the story of a night with a beautiful woman. Guitar World placed "You Shook Me All Night Long" number 80 on their "100 Greatest Guitar Solos" list.

The re-released single in 1986 contains the B-side(s): B1. "She's Got Balls" (Live, Bondi Lifesaver '77); B2. "You Shook Me All Night Long" (Live '83 - 12" maxi-single only).

The song has also become a staple of AC/DC concerts, almost never being excluded from the setlist,^[1] and it has also been considered their signature song, competing with "Back in Black " and "Highway to Hell" for the title.

There are three live versions of this song that have been officially released. The first one on the 1986 maxi-single "You Shooke Me All Night Long", the second one from the band's album Live, the third one is on the soundtrack to the Howard Stern movie Private Parts.

Video clip

There are two versions to the music video. The first version, directed by Eric Dionysius and Eric Mistler^[2], is similar to the other Back in Black videos ("Back in Black", "Hells Bells", "What Do You Do for Your Money Honey", "Rock and Roll Ain't Noise Pollution", and "Let Me Put My Love Into You") and is only available on the special Back in Black, The Videos which could be obtained by purchasing a recent Back in Black album.

In the second version, directed by David Mallet^[3] and released six years after the song's original release, Angus and Malcolm Young follow Brian around, with Angus in his signature schoolboy outfit.This version of the video for "You Shook Me All Night Long" is perhaps one of the most controversial film clips AC/DC ever released. The video clip casts Corinne Russell, a former Hill's Angel and Page 3 Girl, along with other leather clad women with zippers at the groin region of their suits; however, a softer, censored alternative version exists without these shots.

It was revealed on the VH1 series "Pop-up Video" that during the shot with the mechanical bull, the woman playing Brian's lover accidentally jabbed herself with her spur twice. The roadie who came to her aid married her a year later; Angus gave them a mechanical bull for a wedding present as a joke. Also according to "Pop-up Video", when asked about the meaning of the video, the band said that its goal was to, quote, "be as politically incorrect as possible."

"You Shook Me All Night Long" was also the second song to be played by AC/DC on Saturday Night Live in 2000, following their performance of "Stiff Upper Lip."

Cover versions and parodies

• 1983 - US dance group Slingshot (featuring Kathy Kosins) recorded an electronic version, set to a sample of Kraftwerk's "Tour De France".^{[4] [5]}
• 2000 - Kid Rock and Phish covered the song in Las Vegas
• 2001 - Hayseed Dixie covered this song on the A Hillbilly Tribute to AC/DC album
• 2002 - Céline Dion and Anastacia covered this song on VH1 Divas Las Vegas concert. Although it wasn't released as a single, some radios started playing the track. It reached #16 on the Hungarian Radio chart, #22 on the Belgium Wallonie Airplay chart, #122 on the Belgium Flanders Airplay chart and #3 on VH1's Least Metal Moments.^[6]
• 2004 - Shania Twain (Mutt Lange's ex-wife) also covered the song on her Up! Close and Personal concert special DVD.
• Tori Amos has covered the song in live performance.
• The Christian parody band ApologetiX re-wrote the lyrics to be about Adam and Eve, and re-titled the song "You Booked Me".
• Moxy Fruvous frequently performed a polka version of the song in live performances.
• Melissa Etheridge covered this song live.
• Big & Rich recorded a neotraditionalist country-sounding cover of the song for their 2007 album Between Raising Hell and Amazing Grace. Their version entered the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart at #59 as an album cut.
• Kelly Clarkson covered this song twice during her European Hazel Eyes tour 2006, the song was played and known amongst fans as her staple intro before she came on stage during her Breakaway Tour 2004-2005, Hazel Eyes Tour US 2005, Hazel Eyes European Tour 2006, Addicted Tour US in Summer 2006, and her All I Ever Wanted Summer Fair Tour in 2009.
• Kenny Chesney sang the song as a duet with Gretchen Wilson as part of the encore for his Somewhere in the Sun Tour 2005.
• Harem Scarem did a metal cover on their Japanese release of "Overload".
• 2006 - Bonde Do Role did a mash-up of this song and "Funky Cold Medina" by Tone Loc, along with favela style rap.
• There is a version that can be found on LimeWire entitled Shook Me All Night Long (Dance Mix). The song contains clips from You Shook Me All Night Long, Sweet Child O'Mine and Welcome To The Jungle (both by Guns N' Roses), You Give Love a Bad Name by Bon Jovi, Photograph by Def Leppard, Jump by Van Halen, Enter Sandman by Metallica, and Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana.
• 2008 - Timo Räisänen covered this song on his album "...And Then There Was Timo". Timo makes a clean and vulnerable interpretation of this song.
• A remix version exists titled, "You Humped Me All Night Long" which mixes the song with The Black Eyed Peas song, My Humps.

Cultural References

• Veruca Salt named an album American Thighs after a lyric from the song.
• The song was featured in the first episode of the TV Series' "Supernatural" fourth season, during the recap featured in the beginning of that episode.

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