Pointer Sisters Version
| "Fire" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single by the Pointer Sisters | ||||
| from the album Energy | ||||
| B-side | "Love Is Like a Rolling Stone" | |||
| Released | October 1978 | |||
| Format | 7" single | |||
| Recorded | 1978 | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 3:41 | |||
| Label | Planet | |||
| Writer(s) | Bruce Springsteen | |||
| Producer | Richard Perry | |||
| Certification | Gold | |||
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The Pointer Sisters recorded "Fire" for their 1978 album, Energy, with the track, featuring Anita Pointer on lead, being issued as lead single. The inaugural single by the Pointer Sisters as the trio of Anita, June and Ruth Pointer, "Fire" brought the Pointer Sisters to a new level of success marking the group's Top Ten debut: rising as high as #2 on the Hot 100 in Billboard magazine in February 1979, behind Rod Stewart's "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?". "Fire" would eventually be tied by "Slow Hand" as the Pointer Sister's highest-charting single. A hit on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Adult Contemporary charts at respectively #14 and #22, "Fire" would also afford the Pointer Sisters an international chart hit, reaching #1 in Belgium, the Netherlands, South Africa and New Zealand, and charting in Australia (#7), Austria (#10), Canada (#3), Germany (#35) and the UK (#34).
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