1980, Shaun Cassidy covered "It's My Life" on his Todd Rundgren-produced LP Wasp. The song next cropped up as the closing part of ex-New York Dolls singer David Johansen's Animals medley from his 1982 live album Live It Up. It attracted album oriented rock airplay and considerable MTV video play at the time. In 1986 American hard rock band Alcatrazz recorded the song on their last studio album Dangerous Games. It failed to chart. In 1989, the New York hardcore band Madball released a freely inspired, one-minute-long rendition of this song, which became one of their anthems. It can be found in their debut EP Ball of Destruction and album Droppin' Many Suckers. In 1992, Bon Jovi performed their own Animals medley for an MTV show later released on video as Keep the Faith: An Evening with Bon Jovi; they led off with "It's My Life". In 1995, they performed the medley live with Eric Burdon. (Note however that Bon Jovi's 2000 hit "It's My Life" is a different song.) In 1997, during a scene in Central Park in Disney's Jungle 2 Jungle, Tim Allen and Sam Huntington dance to a version sung by Dana Hutson of the group, Pele Juju. Burdon performed the song live with Roseanne Barr on her The Roseanne Show in 2000. References 1965 singles The Animals songs Song recordings produced by Mickie Most Bruce Springsteen songs 1965 songs Columbia Graphophone Company singles MGM Records singles Songs written by Roger Atkins