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The most dynamic female soul singer in the history of the music, Tina Turner oozed sexuality from every pore in a performing career that began the moment she stepped onstage as lead singer of the Ike & Tina Turner Revue in the late '50s. Her gritty and growling performances beat down doors everywhere, looking back to the double-barrelled attack of gospel fervor and sexual abandon that had originally formed soul in the early '50s. Divorced from Ike in the mid-'70s, she recorded only occasionally later in the decade but resurfaced in the mid-'80s with a series of hit singles and movie appearances; her high-profile status was assured well into the '90s.

Born Annie Mae Bullock near Brownsville, Tennessee, she began singing as a teen, and joined Ike Turner's touring show as an 18-year-old backup vocalist. Just two years later, Tina was the star of the show, the attention-grabbing focal point for an incredibly smooth-running soul revue headed by Ike and his Kings of Rhythm. The couple began hitting the charts in 1960 with "A Fool in Love," and notched charting singles throughout the '60s, though the disappointing position of "River Deep-Mountain High" -- cited by Phil Spector as one of his best productions -- was very hard to take. All expectations were filled in 1971 with "Proud Mary," a number four hit which became the capstone of Ike & Tina's Revue. Frustrated by Ike's increasingly irrational behavior, though, Tina walked out just three years later.

She celebrated her new-found freedom in 1975 with a role in the film version of the Who's Tommy. Playing the Acid Queen, she delivered an outrageous, all-too-brief performance in an otherwise forgettable mistake of a movie. Several albums were recorded for United Artists during the late '70s but she appeared to be washed up by the turn of the decade. Surprisingly, Tina returned in 1983, first teaming with a Heaven 17 project named BEF on a remake of the Temptations' "Ball of Confusion." Tina's vocal was understandably apocalyptic, and she gained a solo deal with Capitol that same year. Her first single, a cover of Al Green's "Let's Stay Together," hit the Top 30 early in 1984. Second single "What's Love Got to Do with It" became one of the year's biggest hits, spending three weeks at number one. Her album Private Dancer included two more Top Ten singles, the title track and "Better Be Good to Me." With another movie role in 1985 (Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome), she found a number-two hit with its theme, "We Don't Need Another Hero." Her next big hit followed in 1986 ("Typical Male"), after which Tina began to decline, still charting occasionally and selling respectably with albums including 1989's Foreign Affair, 1996's Wildest Dreams and 2000's Twenty Four Seven. -- John Bush, All Music Guide

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What's Love Got To Do With It?


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The Country of Tina Turner1973
Acid Queen1975]
Rough1978
Love Explosion1979
Private Dancer1984
Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome1985
Break Every Rule1986]
Tina Live in Europe1988
Foreign Affair1989
Look Me in the Heart1990
What's Love Got to Do with It1993
Wildest Dreams1996
Simply the Best1999]
Dues Paid, Vol. 11999
Twenty Four Seven2000


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1973 The Country of Tina Turner



1975 Acid Queen

01. Under My Thumb
02. Let's Spend the Night Together
03. Acid Queen
04. I Can See for Miles
05. Whole Lotta Love
06. Baby - Get It On
07. Bootsey Whitelaw
08. Pick Me Tonight
09. Rockin' and Rollin'
10. I Know
11. Crazy 'Bout You Baby
12. I've Been Loving You Too Long


1978 Rough

01. Fruits of the Night
02. Bitch Is Back
03. Woman I'm Supposed to Be
04. Viva la Money
05. Funny How Time Slips Away
06. Earthquake & Hurricane
07. Root Toot Undisputable Rock 'n Roller
08. Fire Down Below
09. Sometimes When We Touch
10. Woman in a Man's World
11. Night Time Is the Right Time





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1979 Love Explosion

01. Love Explosion
02. Fool for Your Love
03. Sunset on Sunset
04. Music Keeps Me Dancin'
05. I See Home
06. Backstabbers
07. Just a Little Lovin'
08. You Got What I'm Gonna Get
09. On the Radio



1984 Private Dancer

01. I Might Have Been Queen
02. What's Love Got to Do with It
03. Show Some Respect
04. I Can't Stand the Rain
05. Private Dancer
06. Let's Stay Together
07. Better Be Good to Me
08. Steel Claw
09. Help
10. 1984




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1985 Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome

01. We Didn't Need Another Hero
02. One of the Living
03. We Don't Need Another Hero
04. Bartertown
05. Children
06. Coming Home


1986 Break Every Rule

01. Typical Male
02. What You Get Is What You See
03. Two People
04. Till the Right Man Comes Along
05. Afterglow
06. Girls
07. Back Where You Started
08. Break Every Rule
09. Overnight Sensation
10. Paradise Is Here
11. I'll Be Thunder





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1988 Tina Live in Europe

01. What You Get Is What You See
02. Break Every Rule
03. I Can't Stand the Rain
04. Two People
05. Girls
06. Typical Male
07. Back Where You Started
08. Better Be Good to Me
09. Addicted to Love
10. Private Dancer
11. We Don't Need Another Hero
12. What's Love Got to Do with It
13. Let's Stay Together
14. Show Some Respect
15. Land of 1000 Dances
16. In the Midnight Hour
17. 634-5789
18. Change Is Gonna Come
19. River Deep, Mountain High
20. Tearing Us Apart
21. Proud Mary
22. Help!
23. Tonight
24. Let's Dance
25. Overnight Sensation
26. It's Only Love
27. Nutbush City Limits
28. Paradise Is Here




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1989 Foreign Affair

01. Steamy Windows
02. Best
03. You Know Who (Is Doing You Know What
04. Undercover Agent for the Blues
05. Look Me in the Heart
06. Be Tender with Me Baby
07. You Can't Stop Me Loving You
08. Ask Me How I Feel
09. Falling Like Rain
10. I Don't Wanna Lose You
11. Not Enough Romance
12. Foreign Affair


1990 Look Me in the Heart



1993 What's Love Got to Do with It

01. I Don't Wanna Fight
02. Rock Me Baby
03. Disco Inferno
04. Why Must We Wait Until Tonight?
05. Nutbush City Limits
06. (Darlin') You Know I Love You
07. Proud Mary
08. Fool in Love
09. It's Gonna Work out Fine
10. Stay Awhile
11. I Might Have Been Queen
12. What's Love Got to Do with It




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1996 Wildest Dreams

01. Missing You
02. In Your Wildest Dreams
03. Whatever You Want
04. Do What You Do
05. Thief of Hearts
06. On Silent Wings
07. Something Beautiful Remains
08. Confidential
09. Difference Between Us
10. All Kinds of People
11. Unfinished Sympathy
12. Goldeneye
13. Dancing in My Dreams



1999 Simply the Best

01. The Best
02. Better Be Good To Me
03. I Can't Stand The Rain
04. What's Love Got To Do With It
05. I Don't Wanna Lose You
06. Nutbush City Limits
07. What You Get Is What You See
08. Let's Stay Together
09. River Deep-Mountain High
10. Steamy Windows
11. Typical Male
12. We Don't Need Another Hero
13. Private Dancer
14. Look Me In The Heart
15. It Takes Two
16. I Want You Near Me
17. Way Of The World
18. Love Thing




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1999 Dues Paid, Vol. 1

01. You Took a Trip
02. Put Some Time into It
03. I Had a Notion
04. Lean on Me
05. Stay with Me
06. Pick Me Up
07. Never Been to Spain
08. Stormy Weather
09. Trying to Find My Mind
10. It's Too Late
11. What's on a Woman's Mind
12. Woke up This Morning
13. I Don't Want Nobody
14. Why I Sing the Blues


2000 Twenty Four Seven

01. Whatever You Need
02. All the Woman
03. When the Heartache Is Over
04. Absolutely Nothing's Changed
05. Talk to My Heart
06. Don't Leave Me This Way
07. Go Ahead
08. Without You
09. Falling
10. I Will Be There
11. Twenty Four Seven





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