Producer Mutt Lange originally wrote “All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You” in the 1970s, intending for Don Henley to sing it. Instead it was recorded by Dobie Gray, but went largely unnoticed.

Later he rewrote the lyrics to be from the female point of view, with a storyline that includes a twist-ending about impotency. Heart took the song to #2 in June 1990 in the US, and into the top 5 in several countries overseas as the lead single from their album Brigade. It is their last top 10 in the US, UK, Australia and New Zealand.

The Wilson sisters have said that the basic concept of the song is ‘hideous’.