"Burning in the Heat of Love" is a song by the British rock band Slade, released in 1977 as a non-album single. It was written by lead vocalist Noddy Holder and bassist Jim Lea, and produced by Chas Chandler. The song failed to make an appearance in the UK charts.

Having returned to the UK from the United States in 1976, Slade found themselves out-of-favour at the time of the UK's Punk rock explosion. The band's 1977 album Whatever Happened to Slade proved a commercial failure while their tour that spring had shown that they could no longer fill large venues. Slade's waning success soon led to the band playing small gigs after that, including universities and clubs. "Burning in the Heat of Love" was released as a non-album single in April 1977, less than a month after Whatever Happened to Slade. It had been recorded in March, and was released prior to the band's upcoming UK tour in May. "Burning in the Heat of Love" failed to chart.

"Burning in the Heat of Love" was released on 7" vinyl by Barn Records in the UK, France, Germany, Belgium and Italy. The B-side, "Ready Steady Kids", was exclusive to the single and would later appear on the band's 2007 compilation B-Sides.

In Germany, the band performed the song on the TV show Szene 77. The song also appeared in the band's set-list around the time and a version appear on the band's 1978 live album Slade Alive, Vol. 2.

Upon release, Record Mirror gave the single three out of five stars for what they described as the ""You Really Got Me" guitar riff." In a review of one of the band's 1977 live concerts, Sheila Prophet of Record Mirror said the song was a "reasonable number", but "not a patch on their old stuff".

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