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Australian singles chart:
I Need a Lover entered the Kent Music Report on 19 June 1978 and peaked at #5. The song was #42 on the Top 100 of 1978.
Album:
The song is on A Biography which entered the Kent Music Report album charts on 12 June 1978 and peaked at #19.
Songwriter:
John Mellencamp
Producer:
John Punter
Record label of Australian release:
Warner Bros
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Wikipedia:
I Need a Lover is the debut single by John Mellencamp, first released in 1978 under the stage name “Johnny Cougar”.
The song appeared on his 1978 album A Biography, which was not released in the United States. After becoming a top 10 hit in Australia, the song was later included on his 1979 follow-up album John Cougar to introduce it to US audiences, and was released there as a single.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Need_a_Lover
This song is also on our Spotify playlists Bang a Gong – the 70s and Bang a Gong – rockin’ the 60s & 70s
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I Need a Lover by Pat Benatar
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