All Out of Love

Graham Russell and Clive Davis are credited as writers, and the album page also lists Robie Porter. It was released on February 7, 1980 on Arista, produced by Porter, 4:04 on the song's article and 3:59 on the album's, with Marcy Levy on backing vocals in the bridge. Russell says it was a hit in Australia in 1978 with a couple of different lines. In the original hook the word was arrest, meaning to capture someone's attention; Davis thought it too weird and that Americans would read it as a police arrest, and proposed new lines about being lost without the listener and admitting she had been right, earning a co-writing credit. Russell said that without the change it maybe would not have been the colossal landmark hit it was, and that Davis got credit quite rightly because it was his line.

American Songwriter reports that Russell wrote it in his Sydney apartment on a piano delivered for writing, and that Hitchcock persuaded him to sing the verses while Hitchcock took the choruses; Wikipedia credits Hitchcock with second lead vocals, and we leave who sings what unresolved. Hitchcock holds the final note for 16.2 seconds, said to be the longest held by a male pop singer until Freddy Curci held 19.4 seconds in 1983. It reached 2 on the Hot 100, held from number one by Diana Ross's "Upside Down" and Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust", number one on Record World, 2 in Canada, 11 in the UK and 9 on the Kent chart in Australia, and went two-times platinum in the US. Cash Box predicted hit status from its dynamite chorus and swelling crescendo.

Andru Donalds covered it in 1999, reaching 3 in Austria, Germany and Switzerland, OTT in 1997, Westlife with Delta Goodrem in 2006 and Inigo Pascual in 2021; it has appeared in Van Wilder, The Office and Brooklyn Nine-Nine. We found no setlist.fm count, and cannot say whether our upload is the studio version.