Reach Out (Cheap Trick song)

"Reach Out"
Single by Cheap Trick
from the album Heavy Metal OST
B-side	"I Must Be Dreamin'"
Released	August 1981
Genre	Rock, power pop
Length	3:35
Label	Full Moon Records Asylum Records
Songwriter(s)	Bob James Pete Comita
Producer(s)	Roy Thomas Baker
Cheap Trick singles chronology
"World's Greatest Lover" (1981) "Reach Out" (1981) "If You Want My Love" (1982)

"Reach Out" is a song by American rock band Cheap Trick, released in 1981 as a single from the soundtrack of the 1981 film Heavy Metal. It was written by Bob James and Pete Comita, and produced by Roy Thomas Baker. Although the film's soundtrack album reached No. 12 on the Billboard 200, "Reach Out" was not a commercial success and failed to make a chart appearance.

The single is the only release from Cheap Trick to feature Pete Comita as bassist. Comita had replaced original bassist Tom Petersson in 1980; however, Comita would also leave the band a year later, following the completion of the 1980-81 World Tour to promote All Shook Up.

Speaking to Ultimate Guitar in 2009, Nielsen said of the song: "[Comita] wrote that song with a guy named Bob James. He originally told us he had written it, but we later found out, he didn't write it [alone]."^[1]