That's What Friends Are For is a song written by Burt Bacharach and Carole Bayer Sager as the theme for the 1982 movie Night Shift. It was performed on the movie soundtrack by Rod Stewart.

The song is far better-known for its cover version by Dionne and Friends, a one-off collaboration between Dionne Warwick, Stevie Wonder, Gladys Knight, and Elton John. This version, released as a charity single in the UK in 1985 and the US in 1986, was recorded as a benefit for American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmFAR),[1] and raised millions for that cause.