Despite the album being seemingly complete, Eddie Van Halen came up with the riff at 2 in the morning and went down to his then-neighbor Sammy Hagar to show it.

[4][page needed][5] In the song, Eddie recorded his guitar part on a Fender Stratocaster plugged direct into the studio mixing console.

[citation needed] The official music video for the song was directed by Andy Morahan.

[6] It features the band playing against a plain white background with quick cuts to women dancing.

The song was later used as theme music for the short-lived 1990 sitcom Sydney, which starred Eddie Van Halen's then-wife, Valerie Bertinelli.