Hot (I Need to Be Loved, Loved, Loved)
| "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 | |||
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| "Hot (I Need To Be Loved, Loved, Loved, Loved)" on YouTube | ||||
"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. It uses the main riff from the David Bowie song "Fame", released earlier the same year. 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." The song also appeared as the lead track on Brown's 1976 album Hot.