"All She Wants To Do Is Dance" is a 1984 rock song. This song was recorded by Don Henley and became a Billboard Top 10 hit in March, 1985. Originaly released on Building the Perfect Beast. Kool & the Gang performed a version for their 1989 album, Sweat. The lyrics are a personal commentary, critical of Americans for being more concerned with self-gratification than with the domestic and foreign policies of their government. Donald Hugh Henley (born July 22, 1947 in Gilmer, Texas) is an American rock musician who is the drummer and one of the lead singers and songwriters of the band Eagles. He has since had a successful solo career and has played a founding role in several causes. Following the breakup of the Eagles, Henley embarked on a productive solo career, the most successful of any of the Eagles. His first solo release, 1982's I Can't Stand Still, was a moderate seller. The song "Dirty Laundry", a denunciation of local television news, received the most airplay. Henley and his once lover,Stevie Nicks, would duet on her Billboard Hot 100 #6 hit "Leather and Lace" that same year. This was followed in 1984 by Building the Perfect Beast, which featured layered synthesizers and was a marked departure from the Eagles' country-rock sound. A single release, "The Boys of Summer", reached #5 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song's haunting rhythms and lyrics of loss and aging, capped by seeing "a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac," immediately connected with a certain age group. The music video for the song was a striking, evocative, black-and-white, French New Wave-influenced masterpiece directed by Jean-Baptiste Mondino that won several MTV Video Music Awards including Best Video of the Year. Henley also won the Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance for the song. The album's "All She Wants to Do Is Dance", (#9 on Hot 100), "Sunset Grill", and "Not Enough Love in the World" also received considerable airplay. Henley's next album, 1989's The End of the Innocence, was even more successful. The title track, a collaboration with Bruce Hornsby, was a melancholy, piano-driven tale of finding bits of happiness in a corrupt world that reached #8 as a single. The hit follow-up, "The Heart of the Matter," was an emotive chance remembrance of a lost love. Both of these songs used the effective technique of varying the words in the chorus each time it is sung, to advance the song's narrative. The album's "The Last Worthless Evening" and "New York Minute" were among the other songs that gained radio airplay. Henley again won the Best Male Rock Vocal Performance Grammy for the album. In concert tours Henley would play drums and sing simultaneously only on certain Eagles songs; on his solo songs he would either play electric guitar and sing or just sing. Occasionally Eagles songs would get drastic rearrangements, such as "Hotel California" with four trombones. A long period without a new recording followed, as Henley waited out a dispute with his record company while also participating in a 1994 Eagles reunion tour and live album. During the hiatus, Henley did the background vocals for country star Trisha Yearwood's hit "Walkaway Joe" and dueted with first Patty Smyth on "Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough" and then Roger Waters on "Watching TV" on Roger's Amused to Death album, in 1992. Henley finally released another solo studio recording, Inside Job, in 2000 to a generally indifferent response, although its lead single "Taking You Home" received some airplay. As of 2005, Henley continues to tour with The Eagles. He has a new solo album due out after the Eagles' tour of Europe at the end of 2006. [Info courtesy: wikipedia.org] (less)