Rock and Roll All Nite

"Rock and Roll All Nite"
Single by Kiss
from the album Dressed to Kill and Alive!
ReleasedApril 2, 1975 (US),
October 14, 1975 (Live version)
RecordedElectric Lady Studios,
New York City: February 1975 (Studio version),
May 16, 1975 (Live version)
GenreHard rock[1][2]
Length2:49 (album version)
3:20 (7" live version)
2:34 (studio version)
LabelCasablanca NB-829 (US)
Songwriter(s)Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons
Producer(s)Neil Bogart & Kiss
Kiss singles chronology
"Let Me Go, Rock 'n' Roll" / "Hotter Than Hell"
(1974)
"Rock and Roll All Nite" / "Getaway"
(1975)
"C'mon and Love Me" / "Getaway"
(1975)

"C'mon and Love Me" / "Getaway"
(1975)

"Rock and Roll All Nite" (Live) / "Rock and Roll All Nite"
(1975)

"Shout It Out Loud" / "Sweet Pain"
(1976)

"I Love It Loud" (Live) / "Unholy" (Live)"
(1993)

"Rock and Roll All Nite" (Unplugged) / "Every Time I Look at You (Unplugged)"
(1996)

"Jungle" (Radio Edit) / "Jungle"
(1997)
Music video
"Rock & Roll All Nite" on YouTube

"Rock and Roll All Nite" is a song by American rock band Kiss, originally released on their 1975 album Dressed to Kill. It was released as the A-side of their fifth single, with the album track "Getaway". The studio version of the song peaked at No. 68 on the Billboard singles chart, besting the band's previous charting single, "Kissin' Time" (#89). A subsequent live version, released as a single in October 1975, eventually reached No. 12 in early 1976, the first of six Top 20 songs for Kiss in the 1970s.[3] "Rock and Roll All Nite" became Kiss's signature song and has served as the group's closing concert number in almost every concert since 1976.[4][5] In 2008, it was named the 16th greatest hard rock song of all time by VH1.[6]

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