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"Need You Tonight" is a song by the Australian rock band INXS, released as the first single from their 1987 album, Kick, as well as the fourth song on the album. It is the only INXS single to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 .
The song was never released as a single, but there was a video for it, which followed "Need You Tonight". Both the video and the song pay homage to the promotional film clip for Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues", as the members flip cue cards with words from the song on them, followed by Kirk Pengilly with a Soprano saxophone solo.
VH1 placed the album's biggest single "Need You Tonight" at number 16 on its list of "Top 100 songs of the 80's". LA Weekly also listed the song at number 5 on their list of "20 Sexiest Songs of All Time". [58] In December 2021, the album was listed at number two in Rolling Stone Australia’s ‘200 Greatest Albums of All Time’ countdown. [59]
In September 1988, the band swept the MTV Video Music Awards with the video for "Need You Tonight/Mediate" winning in 5 categories. [43] Kick was, by far, INXS's best-selling album of all time. During 1989, Hutchence collaborated with Ian "Ollie" Olsen on a side project, Max Q , [ 4 ] the two had previously worked together on Lowenstein's film ...
"Need You Tonight" Film: Crocodile Dundee "Different World" Film: Face/Off "Don't Lose Your Head" Film: Hysterical Blindness "What You Need" Film: In the Land of Women "Beautiful Girl" Film: Mystery Date "Disappear" Film: Mystery Date "On My Way" Film: Mystery Date "Suicide Blonde" Film: Pretty in Pink "Do Wot You Do" Film: Shattered Glass "New ...
Two songs that did not make the final cut of the album were included on the Bang the Drum EP (2004). The album's title is from Hutchence, with the single itself trying to recapture the magic and groove of the Kick album, particularly the single, "Need You Tonight". All three Farriss brothers dedicated the album to their mother, Jill, who died ...
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Farriss co-executive produced the 2010 tribute album Original Sin which features covers of INXS songs, with each song using a guest singer. Farriss said, "A lot of artists have covered INXS music, the likes of Tom Jones, Joe Cocker, Snow Patrol, countless others, and we thought, 'Why don't we do that?'