8 Rock Bands Who Didn't Write Their Biggest Hits
1. Kiss - I Was Made For Loving You
Oh here we go: The never-ending debate over how a song is credited. Does coming up with the tambourine part give you a full credit? Can you get a credit just by demanding one as some sort of payment? Probably, but it depends on how a band functions.
There can be a lot of debate over the specifics when it comes to the Kiss mega-hit I Was Made For Loving You. At some point in the 70s, it was unfathomable for die-hard Kiss fans and rock fans in general that a band like Kiss would ever, ever add disco elements to their music.
The entire Kiss gimmick is based on the concept that liking them makes you part of a big nerd club standing in defiance against the hoard of permed disco hairdos and thick non-Kiss makeup of the pretty kids. So why, oh why would they do it?
The fact that the band merchandised toilet paper and coffins should give you a strong hint, but the band claimed otherwise at the time. The story goes that Paul Stanley wanted to prove how easy it was to write a disco hit, so he penned it. Why then enlist noted song doctors Desmond Child and Vini Poncia then if it was so easy to write a hit?
Child, of course, became the ultimate song fixer from the 80s onwards with hits like Bon Jovi's Livin' On A Prayer and You Give Love a Bad Name as well as Aerosmith's Dude (Looks Like A Lady) to his name. Oh, and Ricky Martin's Livin' La Vida Loca. It's likely that Stanley had a big hand in writing the song unlike most others on the list, but it's also likely that many Kiss fans would welcome blaming it on someone else.
Despite fans' backlash, the song was huge and sold over a million copies, reaching number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 and ensuring Kiss never live la vida broca.