Everybody Needs Somebody to Love

1964

Everybody Needs Somebody to Love is a rhythm and blues song, which was written in 1964 by Bert Berns, Solomon Burke and Jerry Wexler. The original version was recorded in 1964 by Solomon Burke for Atlantic Records (catalog number 2241 ).

In the original version of the song Solomon Burke calls, in the style of a preacher, according to people who have the power of love bezeugen.Dem song in its original version was granted a rather modest success. He stayed only 8 weeks in the charts, reaching as high placement space 58

More successful was the cover version of Wilson Pickett, the pop charts in the space reached 29 in 1967 and 19 in the R & B chart top spot

The Rolling Stones, the great admirer of Burke's works are, in 1965 a cover version took up and published it on the album The Rolling Stones, Now! (USA) and The Rolling Stones No. 2 (UK). A version was later included on their 2002 tour with Solomon Burke and published on "Live Licks ". New popularity reached the song in 1980 by its inclusion in the soundtrack by John Landis film "The Blues Brothers " where he was covered by Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi. In 1989, the song appeared once as a single in the UK (B-side: Think) and reached number 12 in the British singles charts. The Jerry Garcia band played the song regularly in live performance. The Shadows Of Knight who covered the song on their 1966 live album Raw 'n Alive At The Cellar, Chicago 1966, which was not published until 1992.

The song was listed by Rolling Stone magazine ranked 429 of their "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" and he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - recorded 500 songs did shaped rock and roll.