"Hot (I Need to Be Loved, Loved, Loved, Loved)" is a funk song by James Brown. Released as a single in December 1975, it reached #31 on the R&B chart.[1][2] It uses the main riff from the David Bowie song "Fame", released earlier the same year.[3] Guitarist Carlos Alomar, who created the borrowed riff and was a co-writer on "Fame", was briefly in Brown's band in the late 1960s. Alomar said, "[Bowie] was extremely flattered that James Brown would take one of his songs."[4] The song also appeared as the lead track on Brown's 1976 album Hot.
"Hot (I Need to Be Loved, Loved, Loved, Loved)" | ||||
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Single by James Brown | ||||
from the album Hot | ||||
B-side | "Superbad, Superslick Part I" | |||
Released | December 1975 | |||
Recorded | September–October 1975, Sound Ideas, New York, NY | |||
Genre | Funk, disco | |||
Length | 6:03 | |||
Label | Polydor 14301 | |||
Songwriter(s) | James Brown | |||
Producer(s) | James Brown | |||
James Brown charting singles chronology | ||||
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