"Because the Night" is a song from 1977 written by Bruce Springsteen and Patti Smith which appears on the 1978 Patti Smith Group album Easter. On March 2, 1978, the song was released as a single, and was commercially successful, reaching No. 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and No. 5 in the United Kingdom, which helped propel Easter to mainstream success.
The song has been recorded by several singers. In 1993, a live acoustic version was recorded by 10,000 Maniacs for MTV Unplugged. This versio...
