`` Lotta Love '' is a song written and recorded by Neil Young and released on his 1978 Comes a Time album . `` Lotta Love '' was also covered by Nicolette Larson in 1978 . Larson 's version reached No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and No. 8 on the Cash Box Top 100 in February 1979 . It also hit No. 1 on the Easy Listening chart and was a hit in Australia ( No. 11 ) and New Zealand ( No. 22 ) .

Question: who wrote it's gonna take a lot of love
Answer: Neil Young