| "Any Way You Want It" | ||||
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| Single by Journey | ||||
| from the album Departure | ||||
| B-side |
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| Released | February 22, 1980 | |||
| Recorded | November 1979 | |||
| Studio | The Automatt, San Francisco, California | |||
| Genre | Hard rock[1][2] | |||
| Length | 3:24 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Steve Perry Neal Schon | |||
| Producer(s) | Geoff Workman Kevin Elson | |||
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| Music video | ||||
| "Any Way You Want It" on YouTube | ||||
"Any Way You Want It" is a song by American rock band Journey, released in February 1980 as the lead single from the band's sixth album Departure (1980). Written by lead singer Steve Perry and guitarist Neal Schon, it peaked at number 23 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart.[3]
The song also appears on all four of the band's live albums Captured, Greatest Hits Live, Live in Houston 1981: The Escape Tour, and Revelation on DVD. It remains a live staple for the band as well as a heavily rotated song on classic rock radio and a signature song for the band.[4] The song appears briefly in the film Caddyshack, is featured as a multi-language acapella cover in Pitch Perfect 2, it is performed in a mash-up with "Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin' for the season one finale of Glee, and it is featured briefly in "Fun and Games", an episode of the sixth season of Better Call Saul.
The song has additionally been used in promotional material for the action-comedy film The Fall Guy (which came out in May 2024), with Collider.com describing it as "classic rock" mixed in with "explosive action setpieces".[5]
- ^ Brandon Stosuy (5 January 2009). "VH1's 100 Greatest Hard Rock Songs". Stereogum. Retrieved July 22, 2018.
- ^ Christian James Hand. "Any Way You Want It - PS Audio". www.psaudio.com. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
- ^ "Journey". Billboard. Retrieved 2022-02-17.
- ^ Whitaker, Sterling. "Top 10 Journey Songs". Ultimate Classic Rock. Retrieved 2022-02-17.
- ^ Bagchi, Soham (May 2, 2024). "'The Fall Guy': Release Date, Cast, Plot, and Everything We Know About the Ryan Gosling Movie". Collider.com. Retrieved May 12, 2024.