“Need nothing, want you…“, in a few notes, you have the title in your head for hours. Everyone knows this title and has already sung it at the top of their lungs in the evening. This legendary Sloane hit celebrates its 40th anniversary this year.
On July 23, the 45 rpm record celebrated its fortieth anniversary. At the time, it sold 1.7 million copies. A real phenomenon. On this occasion, the singer, aged 67, spoke in the columns of Le Parisien this Monday, November 4 and discussed her many future projects.
In 2025, Sloane will release an autobiographical book “to tell women not to give up on their dreams” she said in the columns of the daily. And in 2026, the singer has also planned a Celtic show on William the Conqueror.
Sloane: at the top, 40 years later
Among his new projects, a new album released today, entitled: 40 years of success, need nothing want you. In this new disc, Sloane offers the public four new versions of this hit that she herself composed at the time, with electro, gypsy and even gospel sounds. But not only that. Sloane also resumes Travel, travel by Desirless and Macumba by Jean-Pierre Mader. “Titles chosen out of love. I called my friends and asked them if they wanted me to record them” she explained in the RTL morning show. Nostalgia for the 80s. “I'm completely 80, I get up in the morning 80, until the evening. (…) You have to live in your time, but I admit that I was lucky enough to be from the 80s and it was easier. But I like to live in my time too, the proof, I also relay all that.” declared the artist.
This November 4, 2024 also marks the 40th anniversary of Top 50. Need nothing, want you had been number 1 from the launch of the show and remained at the top of the ranking for fourteen weeks. Even more, the title did not leave the Top 50 for eight months. This song has become essential, even 40 years later, Sloane did it in “twenty minutes“, this is what she revealed in RTL Matin facing Thomas Sotto and Amandine Bégot. “They told me: 'There's a slow song on side A, you do a rhythmic track on side B. You have two hours.' I took my guitar (…) and then I play, I close my eyes and I said: 'I have to quickly send me a melody up there, and presto, everything fell“Sloane recalled.
