"All You Zombies" is a song by The Hooters

The Hooters

The Hooters is an American rock band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. By combining a mix of rock and roll, reggae, ska and folk music, The Hooters first gained major commercial success in the United States in the mid 1980s due to heavy radio and MTV airplay of several songs including "All You...

. It was first recorded live and released as a single in 1982. It was subsequently included on the band's debut album Amore

Amore (The Hooters album)

Amore is the first studio album by American rock band The Hooters and was released in 1983.-Background:The Hooters got their start with their independently released album Amore...

(1983) and an extended version of the song was included on their second album Nervous Night

Nervous Night (album)

Nervous Night is the second studio album by the American rock band The Hooters, released in 1985 by Columbia Records and on CBS Records in Europe.-Background:...

(1985). This version was released as a single in 1985. The song reached #58 on the Billboard Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...

 in 1985.

Recording history

The Hooters first released a single of "All You Zombies" recorded live at the Emerald City nightclub on April 11, 1981.

A different version of the song later appeared on the Amore

Amore (The Hooters album)

Amore is the first studio album by American rock band The Hooters and was released in 1983.-Background:The Hooters got their start with their independently released album Amore...

album released independently in 1983. Hyman and Bazilian worked with Cyndi Lauper

Cyndi Lauper

Cynthia Ann Stephanie "Cyndi" Lauper is an American singer, songwriter, actress and LGBT rights activist. She achieved success in the mid-1980s with the release of the album She's So Unusual and became the first female singer to have four top-five singles released from one album...

 on the She's So Unusual

She's So Unusual

She's So Unusual is the debut studio album by American pop singer-songwriter Cyndi Lauper. Released in 1983 by Portrait Records, the album catapulted Lauper to stardom with such hits as "Girls Just Want to Have Fun", "Time After Time", "She Bop", "All Through the Night", and "Money Changes...

album leading to Columbia Records

Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...

 offering the band a contract. They released "All You Zombies" with additional instrumental sections making the song almost six minutes long. It became a hit reaching the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and top 10 in Australia.

The band performed the song at the Live Aid

Live Aid

Live Aid was a dual-venue concert that was held on 13 July 1985. The event was organized by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for relief of the ongoing Ethiopian famine. Billed as the "global jukebox", the event was held simultaneously in Wembley Stadium in London, England, United Kingdom ...

 benefit concert in Philadelphia, on July 13, 1985.

The song has been covered by German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 singer Sandra for her eighth studio album The Art of Love, and released as a promo single.

Track listing

7" live single (1982)

A side: "All You Zombies (Live)" (4:09)

B side: "Rescue Me" (4:03)

12" single (1985)

A side: "All You Zombies (Extended Version)" (5:58)

B side: "Where Do the Children Go" (5:29)

12" promo single (1985)

A side: "All You Zombies (Long)" (5:54)

B side: "All You Zombies (Short)" (3:52)

7" single (1985)

A side: "All You Zombies (Long)" (5:54)

B side: "Nervous Night" (3:57)