You Give Love a Bad Name
| "You Give Love a Bad Name" | ||||
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U.S. vinyl single picture sleeve (also used for the Slippery When Wet album) | ||||
| Single by Bon Jovi | ||||
| from the album Slippery When Wet | ||||
| B-side | "Raise Your Hands" | |||
| Released | July 23, 1986 | |||
| Studio | Little Mountain (Vancouver, Canada) | |||
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| Length | 3:42 | |||
| Label | Mercury | |||
| Songwriter(s) | ||||
| Producer(s) | Bruce Fairbairn | |||
| Bon Jovi singles chronology | ||||
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| Music video | ||||
| "You Give Love a Bad Name" on YouTube | ||||
| Alternative cover | ||||
"You Give Love a Bad Name" is a song by American rock band Bon Jovi, released as the first single from their 1986 album Slippery When Wet. Written by Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora, and Desmond Child about a woman who has jilted her lover, the song reached No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 on November 29, 1986, and became the band's first number-one hit. In 2007, the song re-entered the charts at No. 29 after Blake Lewis performed it on American Idol. Despite the lyrics of the chorus, the song should not be confused with "Shot Through the Heart", an unrelated song from Bon Jovi's 1984 self-titled debut album.