I Need to Know (Tom Petty song)

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"I Need to Know" redirects here. For the Marc Anthony song, see I Need to Know (Marc Anthony song).
“I Need to Know”
“I Need to Know” cover
Single by Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
from the album You're Gonna Get It!
A-side "I Need to Know"
B-side "No Second Thoughts"
Released 1978
Format 7"
Recorded Shelter Studios, Hollywood
Genre Rock
Length 2:23
Label Shelter
Writer(s) Tom Petty
Producer Denny Cordell, Noah Shark, Tom Petty
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers singles chronology
Breakdown
(1977)
I Need to Know
(1978)
Listen To Her Heart
(1978)

"I Need to Know" is the first single from Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers' second album You're Gonna Get It!. It peaked at #41 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in 1978.


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Stevie Nicks (of Fleetwood Mac) has been covering "I Need to Know" live in concert since 1981.

In 1981 the Swedish band Gyllene Tider recorded a version of the song with Swedish lyics, written by singer Per Gessle (the male half of Roxette), named "Vill ha ett svar!"


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