AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long (2012 Version)

She was a fast machine
She kept her motor clean
She was the best damn woman I had ever seen
She had the sightless eyes
Telling me no lies
Knockin' me out with those American thighs
Taking more than her share
Had me fighting for air
She told me to come but I was already there
'Cause the walls start shaking
The earth was quaking
My mind was aching
And we were making it and you

Shook me all night long
Yeah you shook me all night long

Working double time
On the seduction line
She was one of a kind, she's just mine all mine
Wanted no applause
Just another course
Made a meal out of me and came back for more
Had to cool me down
To take another round
Now I'm back in the ring to take another swing
'Cause the walls were shaking
The earth was quaking
My mind was aching
And we were making it and you

Shook me all night long
Yeah you shook me all night long

And knocked me out and then you
Shook me all night long
You had me shakin' and you
Shook me all night long
Yeah you shook me
Well you took me

You really took me and you
Shook me all night long
Ooooh you
Shook me all night long
Yeah, yeah, you
Shook me all night long
You really took me and you
Yeah you shook me, yeah you shook me
All night long

Songwriters
Brian Johnson, Angys Young, Malcolm Young

"You Shook Me All Night Long"
Single by AC/DC
from the album Back in Black
B-side	"Have a Drink on Me"
Released	19 August 1980
Format	7 inch
Recorded	1980
Genre	Hard rock
Length	3:32
Label	Atlantic
Producer(s)	Robert John "Mutt" Lange
AC/DC singles chronology
"Touch Too Much" (1980) "You Shook Me All Night Long" (1980) "Hells Bells" (1980)
Alternative cover 1986 re-release

"You Shook Me All Night Long" is a song by Australian hard rock band AC/DC, from the album Back in Black. The song also reappeared on their later album Who Made Who. It is AC/DC's first single to feature Brian Johnson as the lead singer and reached number 35 on the USA's Hot 100 pop singles chart in 1980. The single was re-released internationally in 1986, following the release of the albumWho Made Who. The re-released single in 1986 contains the B-side(s): B1. "She's Got Balls" (Live, Bondi Lifesaver '77); B2. "You Shook Me All Night Long" (Live '83 – 12-inch maxi-single only).

"You Shook Me All Night Long" placed at number 10 on VH1's list of "The 100 Greatest Songs of the 80s". It was also number 1 on VH1's "Top Ten AC/DC Songs". Guitar World placed "You Shook Me All Night Long" at number 80 on their "100 Greatest Guitar Solos" list.

Live versions

The song has also become a staple of AC/DC concerts, and is rarely excluded from the setlist.

Four live versions of the song were officially released. The first one appeared on the 1986 maxi-single "You Shook Me All Night Long"; the second one was included on the band's album Live; the third version is on the soundtrack to the Howard Stern movie Private Parts, and also appears on the AC/DC box set Backtracks; and the fourth one is on the band's live album, Live at River Plate.

"You Shook Me All Night Long" was also the second song to be played by AC/DC on Saturday Night Live in 2000, following their performance of "Stiff Upper Lip." When AC/DC was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003 by Steven Tyler of Aerosmith, they performed this song with Tyler.

Johnson performed the song with Billy Joel at Madison Square Garden in New York, US in March 2014. The Salon publication stated on the following morning in its introduction to the video footage of the performance: "This will either be your favorite video today, or a total musical nightmare!"^[

Composition

The song is in the key G major. The main verse and riff follows a G–C–D chord progression.

Music video

Two versions of the music video exist. The first version, directed by Eric Dionysius and Eric Mistler, is similar to the other Back in Black videos ("Back in Black", "Hells Bells", "What Do You Do For Money Honey", "Rock and Roll Ain't Noise Pollution" and "Let Me Put My Love Into You") and is available on the special Back in Black, The Videos. It is also included on the Backtracks box set.

In the second version, directed by David Mallet and released six years after the song's original release, Angus and Malcolm Young follow Johnson around the English town of Huddersfield, with Angus Young wearing his signature schoolboy outfit. The video clip casts the English glamour model Corinne Russell, a former Hill's Angel and Page 3 Girl—along with other leather clad women wearing suits with zips at the groin region—pedaling bicycles like machines in the background.

The VH1 series Pop-Up Video revealed that, during the scene with the mechanical bull, the woman playing Johnson's lover accidentally jabbed herself with her spur twice. The roadie who came to her aid married her a year later, and Angus Young gave them a mechanical bull for a wedding present as a joke. The original 1980 video features drummer Phil Rudd, while the 1986 video features drummer Simon Wright, who replaced Rudd in 1983. Rudd returned to AC/DC in 1994.

Charts and certifications

Weekly charts

Chart (1980)	Peak position
Australian Kent Music Report	8
French Singles Chart	5
German Singles Chart	29
Irish Singles Chart[	19
UK Singles Chart	38
US Billboard Hot 100	35

Year-end charts

Chart (1980)	Position
Australian Kent Music Report	42

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/Sales
Australia (ARIA)	Platinum	70,000^
Italy (FIMI)	Gold	25,000*
United States (RIAA) (Mastertone)	Platinum	1,000,000^
*sales figures based on certification alone ^shipments figures based on certification alone

In popular culture

• The song was released as a vinyl single by the band Slingshot, featuring singer Kathy Kosins, in 1983—the single was distributed only in the United States, Germany, Canada and Italy.
• The song appears in the 2001 movie A Knight's Tale, starring Heath Ledger.
• 1986 horror film Maximum Overdrive's ending played this song throughout the credits.
• Celine Dion and Anastacia performed a live duet of the song at the 2002 VH1 Divas Las Vegas concert.
• Shania Twain covered "You Shook Me All Night Long" in her "Up! Close and Personal" television special in 2003.
• American country music duo Big & Rich covered "You Shook Me All Night Long" for their 2007 album, Between Raising Hell and Amazing Grace.
• The song is played in season 7, episode 13 of Supernatural, "Slice Girls".^[20] It is also used in "The Road So Far" sequence of the season 4 premier "Lazarus Rising."
• The song is heard in the television series New Girl.
• The song is played in season 1, episode 16 of Mike and Molly.