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"Burnin' for You" is a song by American hard rock band Blue Öyster Cult. It was released as the lead single from the band's eighth studio album, Fire of Unknown Origin, released in July 1981, where it was the album's second track. The song was co-written by guitarist Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser and rock critic songwriter Richard Meltzer, who wrote lyrics for several of the band's songs.[1] Roeser sang lead vocals on the song (as he also did on the band's biggest chart hit, 1976's "(Don't Fear) The Reaper") in lieu of Blue Öyster Cult's usual lead vocalist Eric Bloom.[2]

"Burnin' for You"
Single by Blue Öyster Cult
from the album Fire of Unknown Origin
Released	July 1981
Recorded	1981
Genre	Hard rock
Length	3:45 (single edit) 4:29 (album version)
Label	Columbia
Songwriter(s)	Donald Roeser Richard Meltzer
Producer(s)	Martin Birch
Blue Öyster Cult singles chronology
"Deadline" (1980) "Burnin' for You" (1981) "Roadhouse Blues" (1982)
Music video
Burnin' for You on YouTube

The song hit No. 1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart, and the single spent three weeks in the Top 40 (peaking at No. 40) on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It was aided by a popular early MTV music video.[3]

Composition

"Burnin' for You" was written by Blue Öyster Cult lead guitarist Buck Dharma and rock critic Richard Meltzer. Meltzer wrote numerous songs for the band, with many in conjunction with Roeser. Dharma wrote his parts of the song in his garage studio.[4]

Richard would write on a typewriter and we’d have sheets of lyrics and on the page and it would look just look like poetry with a lot of lower case and free form, free association. I don’t know how long I’d had his lyric but it was about 1980 and we’d moved to Connecticut ... I wrote it in my garage studio. I’m quite proud of it. It’s one of Richard’s more sentimental lyrics, something he’s not known for.

— Buck Dharma

Dharma originally planned to keep the song for release on his 1982 solo debut album Flat Out. However, Blue Öyster Cult's manager Sandy Pearlman convinced him to give the song to the band.[4]

Reception

The song reached No. 40 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the band's second and final top 40 hit after "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" reached No. 12 on the Hot 100 in 1976. It was Blue Öyster Cult's third song to ever chart on the Hot 100 and it would be their second to last after "Shooting Shark" peaked at No. 83 in 1984.

"Burnin' for You" also became Blue Öyster Cult's first song to chart on Billboard's newly-created Top Tracks chart (now known as Mainstream Rock Songs). It reached No. 1 on the chart dated the week of August 22, 1981, in its eighth week on the chart.[5] It was the seventh song to ever reach No. 1 on the chart, and it stayed at No. 1 for two weeks. "Burnin' for You" remains Blue Öyster Cult's only number-one hit on the rock charts, and one of two top ten hits ("Dancin' in the Ruins" reached No. 9 in 1986). The song stayed on the chart for 23 weeks.[6]

Personnel

• Eric Bloom – backing vocals
• Donald 'Buck Dharma' Roeser – lead guitar, lead vocals
• Allen Lanier – keyboards
• Joe Bouchard – bass guitar, backing vocals
• Albert Bouchard – drums, backing vocals

Chart performance

Chart (1981)	Peak position
Canada Top Singles (RPM)[7]	47
UK Singles (OCC)[8]	76
US (Billboard Hot 100)[9]	40
US (Billboard Mainstream Rock)[10]	1

See also

• List of Billboard Mainstream Rock number-one songs of the 1980s

References

На других языках

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- [en] Burnin' for You

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[ru] Burnin’ for You

«Burnin’ for You» — хит-песня американской хард-рок-группы Blue Öyster Cult с платинового альбома Fire of Unknown Origin, выпущенного в июле 1981 года.

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