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band the Human League, released as the second single from their fifth studio album, ''

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'' (1986). The song was written by

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, Terry Lewis,

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, Langston Richey, Danny Williams and Herman Davis ( Randy Ran).

Background

As were many other tracks from the album, "I Need Your Loving" was aimed towards the US market, where the first single from ''Crash'', "

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", had reached number one. The single was recorded at the Flyte Time studios Minneapolis under the production of Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis while the Human League had been in residence from February until April 1986. In the UK it was promoted with a cheaply and badly filmed music video and it became the band's worst showing in the UK charts ever, only reaching number 72. The song was savaged by critics at the time and has now been largely disowned by the band since.

Music video

The

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for "I Need Your Loving" was recorded on a very limited budget compared to previous Human League videos. It was directed by Andy Morahan, who had done the previous video for "

". In many ways the video is a rehash of the video for

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, being filmed at a fake concert/studio appearance to an audience of extras. The camera swings wildly around the band as they play the song, and continually focuses in and out in time with the music, which caused some viewers to complain it made them feel motion sick.

Track listing

; 7" vinyl (Virgin VS900) # "I Need Your Loving" – 3:43 # "I Need Your Loving (Instrumental Version)" – 3:40 ; 12" vinyl (Virgin VS900-12) # "I Need Your Loving (Extended Version)" – 7:12 # "I Need Your Loving (Acapella Version)" – 3:40 # "I Need Your Loving (Dub Version)" – 6:40 # "I Need Your Loving (Instrumental Version)" – 3:40

Charts

References

External links

THE HUMAN LEAGUE
1986 songs 1986 singles The Human League songs Music videos directed by Andy Morahan Songs written by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis Song recordings produced by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis Virgin Records singles {{1980s-UK-single-stub