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Sleeping Bag (song)
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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox song
| name = Sleeping Bag
| cover = Sleeping Bag cover.jpg
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = ZZ Top
| album = Afterburner
| B-side = Party on the Patio
| released = 1985
| recorded = 1985
| studio =
| venue =
| genre = Synth-rock
| length = 4:03
| label = Warner Bros.
| writer = Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill, Frank Beard
| producer = Bill Ham
| prev_title = Legs
| prev_year = 1984
| next_title = Stages
| next_year = 1985
| misc =
}}
"'Sleeping Bag'" is a song performed by the band ZZ Top from their 1985 album 'Afterburner'.
Reception
'Cash Box' said that the song is a "high tech workout which makes good use of drum machines and Fairlight effects as well as the 'lil ole band from Texas' innate soul."
The song was released as a single in 1985 and became their most successful single, reaching #8 on the 'Billboard' Hot 100 in the United States, equaling the peak of their previous single "Legs". However, unlike "Legs", it also reached No. 1 on the U.S. Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, a first for the band.
Track listing
7" single
# "Sleeping Bag" - 4:02# "Party on the Patio" - 2:48
12" maxi-single
# "Sleeping Bag (Extended Mix)" - 6:12# "Party on the Patio" - 2:48
Music video
A music video directed by Steve Barron was made to promote the song. In the form of a story narrative, two thieves break into a house to recover a sack of money, but are thwarted by a young woman living in the house who runs off with the sack, meeting a young man who accompanies her on the run. After being assisted in their escape by the band members, the ZZ Top video girls and the 'Eliminator' vehicle, the thieves are eventually arrested.
The video marks the end of the "Eliminator" vehicle featured in the videos from the 'Eliminator' album (although its supposed destruction happens off-screen) and introduces the space shuttle from 'Afterburner'.
Actors Heather Langenkamp ('A Nightmare on Elm Street') and John Dye ('Touched by an Angel') appear as the female and male leads.
Charts
Year-end charts
Personnel
*Billy Gibbons - guitar, vocals
*Dusty Hill - bass, keyboards
*Frank Beard - drums
References
Category:1985 singles
Category:ZZ Top songs
Category:Music videos directed by Steve Barron
Category:Songs written by Frank Beard (musician)
Category:Songs written by Dusty Hill
Category:Songs written by Billy Gibbons
Category:1985 songs
Category:Warner Records singles
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