I Like to Rock (song)

"I Like to Rock"
Single by April Wine
from the album Harder ... Faster
B-side"Ladies Man"
Released1980
RecordedLe Studio
GenreHard rock
Length4:23
LabelAquarius, Capitol
Songwriter(s)Myles Goodwyn
Producer(s)Myles Goodwyn, Mike Stone, Brian Greenway
April Wine singles chronology
"Say Hello"
(1980)
"I Like to Rock"
(1980)
"Just Between You and Me"
(1981)
Music video
"I Like to Rock" on YouTube

"I Like to Rock" is a song by Canadian rock band April Wine written by primary lead singer and songwriter Myles Goodwyn. The song appears on the band's eight studio album Harder ... Faster (1979) as the second single. The song features Myles Goodwyn's rough-and-ready vocals over the band's well known combination of hard rock and blues rock.

The song was a moderate success when released in 1980, reaching #75 in Canada,[1] #86 on the Billboard Hot 100, and #41 on the UK Singles Chart, their highest peak in the UK. It has gained substantial popularity internationally since the 1980s, becoming a mainstay of April Wine's setlist. The song is arguably the band's signature song, and has become a staple of classic rock and album-oriented rock radio stations in both the US and Canada[2][3]

  1. ^ "RPM Top 100 Singles - April 19, 1980" (PDF).
  2. ^ "April Wine singles at the CHUM Chart (Toronto, Canada) archives". 1050CHUM.com. Retrieved 2008-03-25.
  3. ^ "Canadian Top-30 Music Chart #1262 for Saturday, March 21, 1981". WebFitz.com. Archived from the original on 2008-01-29. Retrieved 2008-03-25.