Burnin' for You

"Burnin' for You"
Single by Blue Öyster Cult
from the album Fire of Unknown Origin
Released July 1981
Format 7" single
Recorded 1981
Genre Hard rock
Length 3:45 (single edit)
4:29 (album version)
Label Columbia
Writer(s) Donald Roeser, Richard Meltzer
Producer(s) Martin Birch
Blue Öyster Cult singles chronology
"In Thee"
(1979)
"Burnin' for You"
(1981)
"Joan Crawford"
(1983)

"Burnin' for You" is a hit song by American hard rock band Blue Öyster Cult, from their Platinum Fire of Unknown Origin album, released in 1981.

It hit #1 on the Billboard Top Tracks chart, and the single spent three weeks in the Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It was aided by a popular early MTV music video.[1] The song, like BOC's other hit songs "Godzilla" and "(Don't Fear) The Reaper", was sung by guitarist Buck Dharma, who also co-wrote the song.

The song was on the 2001 Clear Channel memorandum list of deemed "lyrically questionable" songs after 9/11.

Covers

Chart positions

Chart (1981) Peak
position
Canada (RPM)[4] 47
US Billboard Hot 100 40
US Billboard Rock Tracks 1
UK Singles Chart 76

References

  1. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 8th Edition (Billboard Publications), page 69.
  2. allmusic Tribute to the Gods > Overview
  3. Guilt by Association Vol. 1
  4. Canadian peak
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