Making Love Out of Nothing at All

Jim Steinman wrote the score for the 1980 film A Small Circle of Friends, and its main title theme became the foundation for "Making Love Out of Nothing at All", which he offered to Air Supply for their 1983 compilation Greatest Hits. He had also offered the song, along with "Total Eclipse of the Heart", to Meat Loaf for his Midnight at the Lost and Found album, but Meat Loaf's record company refused to pay Steinman for the material, so Meat Loaf wrote compositions for the album himself. By then Air Supply had changed much of their classic musician line-up in the studio and on tour, so Steinman, known for his lavish, rock-opera-ish productions, brought in Bruce Springsteen's E-Street Band members Roy Bittan on keyboards and Max Weinberg on drums. Rick Derringer, formerly the guitarist for the McCoys and Edgar Winter, played the electric guitar solo.

The single reached number two on the US Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks, held off the top spot by Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart", which gave Steinman two consecutive peaks. It reached number three in Canada and the top 30 in Ireland and New Zealand, though it stalled at No. 80 in the United Kingdom, their fourth highest charting single there. The B-side was "Late Again". Air Supply later recorded an acoustic version for their 2005 album The Singer and the Song.

Two music videos were produced. The first, filmed in Los Angeles with concert sequences at the Forum and airport scenes at Van Nuys Airport, followed a couple played by Graham Russell and his real-life spouse, actress Jodi Varble-Russell. The official version was set in 1960s New York City and involved a Marine and a young woman.