B-side "Rock It (Prime Jive)" Recorded 1980 Length 2:49 | Format Vinyl record (7") Genre Rock, hard rock | |
Released November 1980 (USA, Japan) | ||
"Need Your Loving Tonight" is a song by the rock band Queen and written by bass guitarist John Deacon. It is the fourth track on the first side of their 1980 album The Game and the second song on the album by Deacon (the other being Another One Bites the Dust).
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Reception
It was released as a single in November 1980 and peaked at #44 in the United States. Allmusic critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine felt that the band sounded like Boston on the song. Ultimate Classic Rock critic Eduardo Rivadavia described the song as "infectuous power pop." Rolling Stone Magazine critic Steve Pond regarded "Need Your Loving Tonight" as the best rock 'n' roll song on The Game, but compained that it "keeps tripping over its sluggish power chords."
Live performances
It was played only scarcely during The Game Tour during the early 1980s; it only lasted this one tour. Also during live performances of the song, Brian May and Roger Taylor sang backing vocals and Freddie Mercury played piano during Brian's guitar solo (both of which were absent in the studio version).