| Heat of the Night | |
| Cover: | Heat of the Night - Bryan Adams.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Bryan Adams |
| Album: | Into the Fire |
| B-Side: | Another Day |
| Released: | March 13, 1987 |
| Recorded: | September 12, 1986 |
| Genre: | Rock |
| Length: | 4:52 (album version) 6:25 (extended version) |
| Label: | A&M |
| Producer: | Bryan Adams, Bob Clearmountain |
| Prev Title: | Christmas Time |
| Prev Year: | 1985 |
| Next Title: | Hearts on Fire |
| Next Year: | 1987 |
"Heat of the Night" is a song written by Canadian rock musician Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance and performed by Adams. The song became the most successful song from Adams's album Into the Fire in 1987. It was released as the first single from Into the Fire and reached number 6 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and number 2 on the U.S. Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.
The song is also featured on Adams's 1988 live concert album Live! Live! Live! and his greatest hits albums So Far So Good and Anthology.
The song is very popular among Bryan Adams fans and it won Canadian Music Publisher's Association Rock Song Of The Year Award. According to Billboard magazine, it was the 84th most-listened-to song of the year.
It was also notable for being the first song to be released as a cassette single in North America. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-03-19-ca-13995-story.html
The song was partly inspired by the film noir classic The Third Man, starring the actor-director Orson Welles. The darkness of the lyrics was further influenced by a trip Bryan and Jim Vallance took to Berlin in March 1986, before the wall came down.[1]
The promo was directed by Wayne Isham and shot in black and white; it was also one of the rare songs/videos where Bryan himself plays lead guitar, instead of Keith Scott to whom he usually leaves the solo work.
A shot from recording sessions is used as the cover of Adams's album Into the Fire.
| Chart (1987) | Peak position | |
|---|---|---|
| Australia (ARIA) | 25 | |
| Canada RPM Top Singles | 7 | |
| Finland (Suomen virallinen lista)[2] | 20 | |
| UK Singles Chart (The Official Chart Company) | 50 | |
| US Billboard Hot 100[3] | 6 | |
| US Billboard Rock Tracks | 2 |
lead and rhythm guitar, keyboards, vocals, backing vocals
piano, percussion, drum programming
guitar harmonics, backing vocals
organ
bass
drums