ZZ Top – Gimme All Your Lovin’
About The Song
“Gimme All Your Lovin’” is a song by American rock band ZZ Top from their 1983 album Eliminator. It was released as the album’s first single in early 1983.
When ZZ Top released “Gimme All You Lovin’” as a single in April 1983, it loudly announced the band’s foray into synth-rock, a transition that was inspired by a different legendary act.
A year before Eliminator made ZZ Top one of the biggest bands on the planet, Billy Gibbons and the group were on tour in Europe. The frontman wandered into a local nightclub and was surprised to see people dancing to the Rolling Stones’ 1980 single “Emotional Rescue.”
“[Gibbons is] extremely philosophical, a deep thinker and musically very aware,” ZZ Top’s longtime engineer Terry Manning explained years later. “He started to analyze why ZZ didn’t get played in dance clubs and concluded that they were not up to the required rhythmic capabilities. He asked me what we could do. I started going to clubs and studying beats.”
The idea to infuse electronic elements, synthesizers and dance rhythms with ZZ Top’s traditional blues rock sound eventually became the driving force of Eliminator. Nowhere was that more evident than on the album’s first single, “Gimme All Your Lovin.’”
The single peaked at No. 37 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and reached No. 10 in the U.K. Its presence was felt even more strongly on MTV, where the “Gimme All Your Lovin'” music video earned heavy rotation, sparking ZZ Top’s unexpected ascent to video stardom.
