Lovin' Every Minute of It (song)

"Lovin' Every Minute of It"
Single by Loverboy
from the album Lovin' Every Minute of It
B-side"Bullet in the Chamber"
ReleasedAugust 1985
Recorded1985
GenreHard rock
Length3:32
LabelColumbia
Songwriter(s)Robert John "Mutt" Lange
Producer(s)
Loverboy singles chronology
"Queen of the Broken Hearts"
(1983) 		"Lovin' Every Minute of It"
(1985) 		"Dangerous"
(1985)

"Lovin' Every Minute of It" is a song released in 1985 on the Canadian rock band Loverboy's album of the same title. The song reached #9 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 becoming their first US Top 10 hit, when released as a single later that year.[1] It was written by Robert John "Mutt" Lange.[2] In Canada, the song peaked at #11.

Background

Loverboy were almost done writing songs for their upcoming album, but they felt they needed one more song — preferably a big hit — to round out the record. However, everyone in the band was out of ideas. They begged their manager, Mike Shipley, to find someone who could write one more song. Shipley called legendary producer Mutt Lange, who agreed and wrote "Lovin' Every Minute of It" in two or three days. However, Lange was in England while Loverboy were in Canada, and the band needed to know how the song sounded.[3] Singer Mike Reno said,

There were no cellphones and there was no way to get the stuff here. There was no magic email — that wasn’t even created yet. So what happened was that he held the phone up to the speakers, played the song from England and we recorded it from the telephone line by holding a little recorder up to the phone. We said 'thanks,' and then we hung up and we proceeded to pick this song apart and give it our best try from what we picked up off the phone. A lot of it probably wasn’t very well heard, so we had to make a lot of it up. That was kind of an interesting way of doing things, right?[3]

Charts

Chart (1985–86) Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[4] 77
Canada RPM Top Singles 11
US Billboard Hot 100[5] 9
US Album Rock Tracks (Billboard)[6] 3

References

  1. ^ "Hot 100". Billboard.
  2. ^ LP liner notes.
  3. ^ a b Wardlaw, Matt (August 18, 2015). "30 Years Ago: Loverboy Release 'Lovin' Every Minute of It'". Ultimate Classic Rock. Retrieved August 1, 2021.
  4. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 182. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  5. ^ "Loverboy Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved January 14, 2016.
  6. ^ "Loverboy - Chart history". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved January 14, 2016.


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