Every Time I Look at You

"Every Time I Look at You"
"Every Time I Look at You"
Single by Kiss
from the album Revenge
B-side	"Partners in Crime"; "I Just Wanna" (CD maxi single);
Released	1992
Genre	Glam metal[1]
Length	4:38
Label	Mercury (USA)
Songwriter(s)	Paul Stanley, Bob Ezrin
Producer(s)	Bob Ezrin
Kiss singles chronology
Music video
	"Every Time I Look at You" on YouTube

"Every Time I Look at You" is a song by the American rock band Kiss from their 1992 studio album Revenge.[2] It became the album's final single.

Background and writing

It was the ninth track on the band's 1992 studio album Revenge.[2]

The song was written by Paul Stanley and Bob Ezrin,

Composition

Brett Weiss' Encyclopedia of KISS notes that the song "Every Time I Look at You" "is further proof" to the fact that "with songs like 'Beth' and 'Forever' KISS can do powerballads with the best of them."[2]

According to the same Encyclopedia of KISS, Dick Wagner, a "prolific musician", "who worked with such legendary acts as Lou Reed and Billy Joel, plays guitar on the song. It wasn't the first and only time he played on a Kiss recording, among other Kiss songs he played guitar on were "Beth", "Flaming Youth" and "Sweet Pain"[3] (from the 1976 album Destroyer).

Personnel

Paul Stanley – lead and backing vocals, 12-string acoustic guitar
Bruce Kulick – electric guitar, bass
Eric Singer – drums, percussion

with

Dick Wagner – guitar solo
Bob Ezrin – keyboards, strings & horn arrangement

Charts

Chart (1992)	Peak position
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[4]	31

References

McPadden 8/7/2015, Mike. "5 Hair Metal Ballads Inspired By/Ripped Off From Extreme's "More Than Words"". VH1 News. Retrieved 2021-03-02.
Brett Weiss (2017-07-24). Encyclopedia of KISS: Music, Personnel, Events and Related Subjects. McFarland. pp. 60–. ISBN 978-1-4766-2540-9.
Brett Weiss (2017-07-24). Encyclopedia of KISS: Music, Personnel, Events and Related Subjects. McFarland. pp. 202–. ISBN 978-1-4766-2540-9.
"Kiss – Every Time I Look at You". Singles Top 100.

External links

"Every Time I Look at You" at Discogs

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[1] McPadden 8/7/2015, Mike. "5 Hair Metal Ballads Inspired By/Ripped Off From Extreme's "More Than Words"". VH1 News. Retrieved 2021-03-02.

[Weiss2017_(p._60)-2] Brett Weiss (2017-07-24). Encyclopedia of KISS: Music, Personnel, Events and Related Subjects. McFarland. pp. 60–. ISBN 978-1-4766-2540-9.

[Weiss2017_(p._202)-3] Brett Weiss (2017-07-24). Encyclopedia of KISS: Music, Personnel, Events and Related Subjects. McFarland. pp. 202–. ISBN 978-1-4766-2540-9.

[sc_Sweden_Kiss-4] "Kiss – Every Time I Look at You". Singles Top 100.