| Hot (I Need to Be Loved, Loved, Loved, Loved) | |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | James Brown |
| Album: | Hot |
| B-Side: | Superbad, Superslick Part I |
| Recorded: | September–October 1975, Sound Ideas, New York, NY |
| Genre: | Funk, disco |
| Label: | Polydor 14301 |
| Producer: | James Brown |
| Chronology: | James Brown charting |
| Prev Title: | Superbad, Superslick Part I |
| Prev Year: | 1975 |
| Next Title: | (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons |
| Next Year: | 1976 |
"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.[1] [2] It uses the main riff from the David Bowie song "Fame", released earlier the same year.[3] 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."[4] The song also appeared as the lead track on Brown's 1976 album Hot.