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"Rock and Roll All Nite" is a song by KISS, originally released on their 1975 album Dressed to Kill. It was released as the A-side of their fifth single, with the album track "Getaway." The studio version of the song peaked at "Rock and Roll All Nite" was written by Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons while KISS was still in Los Angeles, as part of their Hotter Than Hell tour. The tour ended early (February 1975), when Casablanca Records founder and president Neil Bogart ordered KISS to return to the studio to record a followup to Hotter Than Hell, which had stalled on the charts and failed to meet Casablanca's sales expectations. One of Bogart's instructions to the band was to compose an anthem, something he felt the band needed. The song itself was inspired by the Slade song Cum on Feel the Noize, and is often referred to (for example, in the KISS MTV Unplugged DVD) by Stanley as "the rock and roll national anthem." Stanley wrote the chorus, and Simmons wrote the verses, borrowing parts of a song he had previously written, entitled "Drive Me Wild." The song was one of two the group recorded toward the end of the Hotter Than Hell tour, prior to returning to Electric Lady Studios for the proper Dressed to Kill recording sessions. For the choruses, the band and Bogart brought in a large group of outside contributors to sing and clap, including members of the KISS road crew, studio musicians, and Peter Criss's wife Lydia. Some of the road crew used their jacket zippers to create sound. While "Rock and Roll All Nite" would eventually become a fixture in KISS's live performances, it was not inserted into the band's setlist immediately. Nor did it immediately replace "Let Me Go, Rock 'N Roll" as the closing number. The chorus of the Alive! version of the song is played at the beginning of "Detroit Rock City," from 1976's Destroyer. The song has been covered, among others, by Toad The Wet Sprocket for the KISS My Ass album, and by Poison for the Less Than Zero soundtrack.
Appearances "Rock and Roll All Nite" has appeared on the following KISS albums: Sample | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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