Need You Tonight

"Need You Tonight"
"Need You Tonight"
Single by INXS
from the album Kick
B-side	"I'm Coming (Home)"; "Mediate" (music video);
Released	21 September 1987
Genre	Funk rock; dance-rock;
Length	3:00
Label	WEA
Songwriter(s)	Andrew Farriss; Michael Hutchence;
Producer(s)	Chris Thomas
INXS singles chronology
Music video
	"Need You Tonight" on YouTube

"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. It also achieved their highest charting position in the United Kingdom, where the song reached number two on the UK Singles Chart; however, this peak was only reached after a re-release of the single in November 1988. On its first run on the UK charts in October 1987, it stalled at No. 58. It was one of the last songs recorded for the album, yet it would arguably become the band's signature song.

In February 2014, after the Channel 7 screening of the INXS: Never Tear Us Apart mini-series, "Need You Tonight" charted again in Australia via download sales. It peaked at No. 28 on the ARIA Singles Chart.^[3] In January 2018, as part of Triple M's "Ozzest 100", the 'most Australian' songs of all time, "Need You Tonight" was ranked number 69.^[4]

^ Britt, Bruce (19 March 1988). "Australian Funk-rockers INXS Get a Kick Out of Taking Risks". The Morning Call. Retrieved 18 June 2014. One of the best examples of the funk-rock sound of "Kick" is the disc's send-off single, "Need You Tonight"
^ Strong, Martin (10 October 2006). "INXS". The Essential Rock Discography. Canongate Books. pp. 526–529. ISBN 1-84195-860-3.
^ Cite error: The named reference AUS was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ "Here Are the Songs That Made Triple M's 'Ozzest 100'". Music Feeds. 27 January 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2020.

[1] Britt, Bruce (19 March 1988). "Australian Funk-rockers INXS Get a Kick Out of Taking Risks". The Morning Call. Retrieved 18 June 2014. One of the best examples of the funk-rock sound of "Kick" is the disc's send-off single, "Need You Tonight"

[Strong_2006-2] Strong, Martin (10 October 2006). "INXS". The Essential Rock Discography. Canongate Books. pp. 526–529. ISBN 1-84195-860-3.

[AUS-3] Cite error: The named reference AUS was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[4] "Here Are the Songs That Made Triple M's 'Ozzest 100'". Music Feeds. 27 January 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2020.

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