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"Honey I Need" is a song written by Dick Taylor and first performed by the rock band Pretty Things in 1965. It was first published in 1966 and registered at number 13 in the UK[2] Pretty Things guitarist Dick Taylor wrote the tune, along with a couple of friends who weren't in the band.[3]

"Honey I Need"
Single by Pretty Things
from the album Pretty Things
B-side	"I Can Never Say"
Released	3 March 1965
Genre	Rhythm and blues Garage rock
Length	2:02
Songwriter(s)	Dick Taylor[1]
Producer(s)	Bobby Graham
Pretty Things singles chronology
"Don't Bring Me Down" (1964) "Honey I Need" (1965) "Cry to Me" (1965)

Personnel

• Phil May – vocal
• Dick Taylor – lead guitar
• Brian Pendleton – guitar
• John Stax – bass guitar
• Viv Prince – drums

Influence

The poppiest element of the song, and most likely the one that got it to climb the British hit parade, is the insistent, uplifting chorus, which is followed by a typically verging-on-undisciplined, raw bluesy guitar solo. May slightly changes the melody of the verse when he returns after the break, adding a little more urgency to a song that was already plenty propulsive. It was those kinds of little clever attentions to subtleties that belied the Pretty Things' image as crude musical louts, lifting them above most of the standard raw British R&B-derived rock groups of the mid-'60s in originality.[3]

Chart performance

Chart (1965)	Peak position
UK Singles Chart[2]	13
Australia Kent Music Report	54

References

External links

• The Pretty Things - Honey I Need -3-4-1965 on YouTube

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