Fire (Ohio Players song)

"Fire" is a hit song by R&B/funk band The Ohio Players. The song was released in late 1974 and it is the opening track from the album of the same name and peaked at the top of both the pop and soul charts. It spent one week at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and five weeks at the top of the Hot Soul Singles chart in early 1975.^[1] "Fire" was the Ohio Players only entry on the new disco/dance chart, where it peaked at number ten.^[2] The song is today considered one of their signature songs.

The song was recorded at Mercury Record's Chicago-based studio. While performing it in California, the band let Stevie Wonder hear the basic track for the song and he predicted that it would become a big hit.

A cover of the song was released by Canadian New Wave band Platinum Blonde on their third album Contact in 1987. Another cover, also from 1987, is featured on the album Rhythm Killers by Sly and Robbie, produced by Bill Laswell.

It is currently used as the theme song to the FOX reality series Hell's Kitchen.

The guitar solo break was sampled for Da Lench Mob's rap "You and Your Heroes" from Guerillas in tha Mist, and was also referenced in the song "Sweet Revenge" by the Japanese pop group Dreams Come True.

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• Song review