"Need You Tonight" is the fourth song on INXS's 1987 album Kick as well as the first single from the album. It was also the only single of the band's to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100. It also peaked at number two on the UK singles chart. While it would arguably become the band's signature song, it was one of the last songs recorded for the album.

In INXS's Official Autobiography, INXS: Story to Story, Andrew Farriss said that the famous riff to the song appeared suddenly in his head while waiting for a cab to go to the airport to fly to Hong Kong. He asked the cab driver to wait a couple of minutes while he grabbed something from his motel room. In fact, he went up to record the riff and came back down an hour later with a tape to a very pissed-off driver. This riff was later described as sounding like a cross between Keith Richards and Prince.

On the Kick album, the song is linked to the next song, entitled either "Mediate" or "Meditate" depending on the pressing of the album. On some compilations, the two tunes appear together and on others, only "Need You Tonight" appears (rarely, if ever, has "Mediate" appeared on its own).

"Mediate" is a song by INXS from their 1987 album, Kick. The song is a segue from their big hit single, Need You Tonight. The song has the distinction of having almost every line rhyme with the word "ate" (as in "Mediate").

The song was never released as a single, but there was a video for it, which followed "Need You Tonight". Both the video and the song pay homage to Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues", as the members flip cue cards with words from the song on them, followed by Kirk Pengilly with a saxophone solo. (Thanks Wikipedia)