"Making Love Out of Nothing at All" is a power ballad written and composed by Jim Steinman and first released by the British/Australian soft rock duo Air Supply for their 1983 compilation album Greatest Hits.

Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks (behind "Total Eclipse of the Heart" by Bonnie Tyler, giving Steinman a consecutive peak of two songs).

The song is a reworking of the main title theme from the 1980 film A Small Circle of Friends, for which Jim Steinman wrote the score.

But Steinman, known for his lavish, rock-opera-ish type productions, used Bruce Springsteen's E-Street Band members Roy Bittan on keyboards and Max Weinberg on drums, to musically underscore the recording with like energies.

Rick Derringer, who was previously the guitarist for the McCoys and Johnny Winter, provided the electric guitar solo.

It begins with a couple driving to an airport; the man (Graham Russell) is "leaving for a tour" and tries to convince the woman (played by Graham Russell's real-life spouse, actress Jodi Varble-Russell) to join him: Exterior house Man: So, won't you reconsider?

The subsequent official version is set in 1960s New York City and involves a Marine and a young woman and the various challenges they encounter in their relationship, interspersed with scenes of the band singing the song.

[21] In 1995, Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler covered "Making Love (Out of Nothing at All)" on her eleventh studio album, Free Spirit.

The track was co-produced by Steinman and Steven Rinkoff, and features samples of Tyler's mother, Elsie Hopkins, singing "Un bel dì vedremo" from Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly.