I Was Made For Lovin’ You
About The Song
“I Was Made for Lovin’ You” is a song by American hard rock band Kiss, originally released on their 1979 album, Dynasty. It was released as the A-side of their first single from the album, with “Hard Times” as the B-side.
This song was the band’s second Gold single, selling over 1 million copies. The single was certified Gold in the U.S. on August 16, 1979, and in Canada on August 1, 1979. This reached No. 11 on the U.S. Billboard singles chart and No. 1 in the Canadian RPM National singles chart (the band’s second chart-topping single in that country, following “Shout It Out Loud”).
This is the song that made it acceptable for rock bands to get help from professional songwriters, and it was also Desmond Child’s first hit as a writer. He became one of the most successful songwriters of all time; his hits include “Livin’ La Vida Loca,” “Inside Your Heaven,” and “I Hate Myself For Loving You.” In our 2012 interview with Desmond Child, he explained, “In 1979, I co-wrote ‘I Was Made for Loving You’ with Paul Stanley of Kiss. This is a band that didn’t do that much outside writing. But Paul and Gene wrote songs together, then on their own they wrote songs, and then they put those songs together, and that would be Kiss. So Paul asked me to co-write a song with him, and that song turned out to be a ginormous hit, and to this day still earns a lot of income performance wise and also within the compilations of Kiss’ greatest hits. And it’s used often and in commercials and movies and things like that.
So when I did that with KISS, it opened the door for other bands to try it. The next band that I worked with was Bon Jovi, and the very first day we got together we wrote ‘You Give Love A Bad Name.’ Then a few weeks later we wrote ‘Livin’ On A Prayer.'”
