All You Zombies (song)
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"All You Zombies" is a song by The Hooters on their second album Nervous Night released in 1985. The song reached the top 40 of the US charts in 1985. [1]
[edit] Meaning
The song stems from the stories of Moses receiving the Ten Commandments and Noah's Ark in the Old Testament of the Bible, and the fact that in both stories the people had rejected higher guidance. Some suggest that the song is a religious allegory on the unenlightened, warning them of what is to come if they do not accept the word of God, while others believe that the tune was written first and the lyrics only added because they fit. The song was written in one night by bandmembers Rob Hyman and Eric Bazilian. [2]
The song has essentially the same title as a science fiction story by Robert A. Heinlein. Although a member of the group had read the story as a teenager, the connection appears to be essentially a coincidence. [3]
[edit] Recording history
The song originally appeared on the Amore album released independently in 1983. Hyman and Bazilian worked with Cyndi Lauper on the She's So Unusual album leading to Columbia Records offering the band a contract.
They released All You Zombies with additional instrumental sections making the song almost six minutes long. [4]. It became a hit reaching top 40 on the US Billboard charts and reached the top 10 in Australia.
The song was performed by the band at the Live Aid concert in Philadelphia, on July 13, 1985.
