The album had three hit singles, with the title track "Tonight I'm Yours (Don't Hurt Me)" (US Billboard No.

Tonight I'm Yours saw Rod Stewart further adopting current musical trends, after some disco-influenced songs on Blondes Have More Fun and Foolish Behaviour, by adding elements of synth-pop and new wave to a couple of songs (the title track, and "Young Turks"), while mostly keeping to his rock traditions elsewhere.

The song "Never Give Up on a Dream" was dedicated to Canadian athlete Terry Fox, who ran 3,339 miles with one prosthetic leg in the Marathon of Hope to raise money for cancer research.

The music video for "Tonight I'm Yours" was shot by Australian film director, Russell Mulcahy.

The album was mostly well received, being given four out of five stars in both Rolling Stone's contemporary review[7] and in a retrospective from AllMusic.