Air Supply • Making Love Out Of Nothing At All || Jennifer Connelly • Of Love And Shadow

“Making Love Out of Nothing at All“ is a power ballad written and composed by Jim Steinman and first released by Australian soft rock band Air Supply for their 1983 compilation album Greatest Hits. It reached number 2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks (behind “Total Eclipse of the Heart“ by Bonnie Tyler, giving Steinman a consecutive peak of two songs). The song has been covered by other artists. The song is a reworking of the main title theme from the 1980 film A Small Circle of Friends, for which Jim Steinman wrote the score. It was first recorded by Air Supply, giving them a number two hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in the U.S. for three weeks. It was held off from the top spot by another Steinman production, Bonnie Tyler’s recording of “Total Eclipse of the Heart“. This is the group’s last top ten hit in the United States. The song was subsequently released as a new track from their 1983 greatest hits album. The B-side of the single is “Late Again“. They have included the song on their numerous greatest hits and live albums, and recorded an acoustic version for their 2005 album The Singer and the Song. Steinman offered the song, along with “Total Eclipse of the Heart“, to Meat Loaf for his Midnight at the Lost and Found album; however, Meat Loaf’s record company refused to pay Steinman for the material so Meat Loaf ended up writing compositions for the album himself. Steinman’s songs were then offered to Bonnie Tyler and Air Supply. However, in an interview with journalist Mick Wall shortly after the release of Meat Loaf’s 2006 album Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose, Steinman stated: “I didn’t write [Total Eclipse of the Heart] for anyone but Bonnie.“ Steinman believed that CBS were expecting him to write something similar to “It’s a Heartache“, but he had different ideas. By 1983, Air Supply had changed much of its classic musician line-up, both in the recording studio and on tour. But Steinman, known for his lavish, rock-opera-ish type productions, used Bruce Springsteen’s E-Street Band members Roy Bittan on keyboards and Max Weinberg on drums, to musically underscore the recording with like energies. Rick Derringer, who was previously the guitarist for the McCoys and Johnny Winter, provided the electric guitar solo that made the sound of “Making Love Out of Nothing at All“ stand so drastically apart from most other Air Supply songs. In an interview, Hitchcock and Russell confirmed Hitchcock did his vocals in one take. When Steinman asked “What do we do next?“ Russell replied “We go home“. Lyrics: I know just how to whisper And I know just how to cry I know just where to find the answers And I know just how to lie I know just how to fake it And I know just how to scheme I know just when to face the truth And then I know just when to dream And I know just where to touch you And I know just what to prove I know when to pull you closer And I know when to let you loose And I know the night is fading And I know the time’s gonna fly And I’m never gonna tell you everything I’ve gotta tell you But I know I’ve gotta give it a try And I know the roads to riches And I know the ways to fame I know all the rules and then I know how to break ’em And I always know the name of the game But I don’t know how to leave you And I’ll never let you fall And I don’t know how you do it Making love out of nothing at all Out of nothing at all, out of nothing at all Out of nothing at all, out of nothing at all Out of nothing at all Making love out of nothing at all Everytime I see you all the rays of the sun are Streaming through the waves in your hair And every star in the sky is taking aim at Your eyes like a spotlight The beating of my heart is a drum, and it’s lost And it’s looking for a rhythm like you You can take the darkness at the pit of the night And turn into a beacon burning endlessly bright I’ve gotta follow it ’cause everything I know Well, it’s nothing ’til I give it to you I can make the runner stumble I can make the final block I can make every tackle at the sound of the whistle I can make all the stadiums rock I can make tonight forever Or I can make it disappear by the dawn I can make you every promise that has ever been made And I can make all your demons be gone But I’m never gonna make it without you Do you really want to see me crawl And I’m never gonna make it like you do Making love out of nothing at all Out of nothing at all, out of nothing at all Out of nothing at all, out of nothing at all Out of nothing at all, out of nothing at all Out of nothing at all, out of nothing at all Out of nothing at all, out of nothing at all Out of nothing at all, out of nothing at all Out of nothing at all, out of nothing at all Out of nothing at all Out of nothing at all, out of nothing at all Out of nothing at all, out of nothing at all