Songfacts®:

• An early hit for Bad Company, "Feel Like Makin' Love" sounds like a Southern rock song, at least in the verses, but they're a British band fronted by Paul Rodgers, who was part of a revamped Queen lineup from 2004-2009.
  
  The song starts smooth and mellow, with Rodgers clearing a path to the bedroom with some poetry:
  
  I would wrap you in the heaven
  'Til I'm dyin' on the way
  
  But then in the chorus, he makes his intentions very clear as the song rocks out:
  
  Feel like makin' love!
  
  It was part of the band's second album, Straight Shooter, released as the second single, following "Good Lovin' Gone Bad."
• Vocalist Paul Rodgers began writing the song when he was touring with his band Free in 1968 in San Francisco. He recalled to Uncut:
  
  "The inspiration was somebody I had met at the time. Life experiences. I traveled, hitchhiking, up to Rio Nido and camped out in the woods with some people I had met. I was gone for days. It was a wonderful experience to be young and free in America in the '60s."
• Several years after Rodgers wrote the song, he played it to Bad Company guitarist Mick Ralphs, who came up with some big chords for the chorus. Ralphs recalled:
  
  "I came up with the riff, and I suggested we put the two together to create a song. I think that's the feel of the song, the verses are very appealing to the ladies, probably more than the men; and then the riff comes in which is all bloody macho. It's a big chorus and it worked out really well."
• In a Songfacts interview, Bad Company drummer Simon Kirke explained how this song came together musically: "'Feel Like Making Love' came out of two songs. I'm not sure of the order, but Mick had the original D to G, D to G, little country: [sings] 'Darling when I think about you, I think about love.'
  
  And then Paul had a song which just had that [sings riff]. And I said, 'Well, why don't you combine the two so that you have the chorus as that heavy riff and then the verse is Mick's verse.' And I forget exactly how it all came about but I know all three of us were in the room and I came up with this descending thing in D. But the original song came out of two different ideas."
• A 1993 dance version by Pauline Henry, former singer of The Chimes, peaked at #12 in the UK.
• Simon Kirke recorded a ukulele version for his 2017 solo album All Because Of You.
• In The Office episode "Ben Franklin" (2007), a stripper Michael hires for a bachelor party uses the song for her striptease. It was also used in these TV shows:
  
  Criminal Minds ("Mr. & Mrs. Anderson" - 2014)
  King Of The Hill ("New Cowboy On The Block" - 2003, "Arrow Head" - 1997)
  The Simpsons ("Skinner's Sense Of Snow" - 2000)
  Malcolm In The Middle ("Vegas" - 2003)
  
  And in these movies:
  
  Lymelife (2008)
  Management (2008)
  Scotland, Pa. (2001)
  G.I. Jane (1997)
• In 1974, a year before this song was released, Roberta Flack had a #1 hit with the exact same title, including "makin'" instead of "making." Her song is light and fun, popular in the realms of R&B and Adult Contemporary, so the songs didn't compete.