January 30, 1988 –
INXS‘ single from their fourth album Kick, Need You Tonight, reached No. 1 on the Billboard Charts on this date. It is the only INXS single to reach No. 1.
The song segues seamlessly into the next track on the album, a poem Andrew Farriss wrote and put to music called Mediate. Both tracks are in the same tempo and based on the same drum machine groove, so they flow together very well. When the band heard how well they stitched together, they decided to segue them, à la Queen with We Will Rock You into We Are The Champions. Many radio stations play the songs together, which is how they appear in the video.
