"What's Love Got to Do with It" is the second single
released from Tina Turner's breakthrough solo debut album,
Private Dancer. In the UK and Continental Europe it was
the third single, following Turner's cover of The Beatles'
"Help!". The song is widely credited for the huge success of
the
Private Danceralbum itself. "What's Love Got to Do With
It" is arguably Tina Turner's most popular and successful
single, becoming her first number-one hit in the United States
and establishing Tina Turner as a mainstream Pop and Rock
artist, while also reaching number one in Australia and number
three in the UK. In 1993, the song's name was used as the title
for
What's Love Got to Do With It, a biographical film about
Turner's life leading up to the actual release of the song. The
music video was directed by Mark Robinson. It is ranked #309 on
the
Rolling Stonemagazine's list of "The 500 Greatest Songs
of All Time". It also ranked #38 on Songs of the Century. It
was the 17th best-selling single of 1984 in the UK. The song
was originally recorded by UK pop group Bucks Fizz, but
unreleased until 2000.
Tina Turner had not had a top twenty single in thirteen
years, and Capitol Records did not expect the song to turn out
to be the hit it became. The song was originally written for
the R&B singer Phyllis Hyman. "What's Love Got to Do With
It" went straight to number one on the Billboard Hot 100, and
remained there for three weeks, becoming Turner's first number
one hit. Billboard ranked it as the number two single of 1984.
Tina Turner's first single ("A Fool in Love" with her
then-husband Ike) had charted in 1960, and she achieved her
first number-one single on September 1, 1984, which set a new
record from the longest span between an artist's first charted
record and first number-one single (a difference of 24 years,
to the exact week). It also established another record, as
Turner was 45-years-old when the song went to number one,
making her the oldest female artist to place a number-one
single on the Hot 100, until Grace Slick (with Starship) broke
the record twice (in 1985) with "We Built This City" and 1987
with "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now"). Cher later broke Slick's
record in 1999.
The video features Turner walking down the street, intercut
with scenes when she's singing directly to the viewers. The
video was shot in New York City.
The song was honored with several awards welcoming Turner's
comeback, including the Grammy Awards of 1985. The music video
for the song also claimed a prize at the MTV Video Music Awards
in 1985, as the "Best Female Video".
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Roses" ·
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Ipanema" ·
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Night" ·
"Up, Up and
Away" ·
"Mrs. Robinson"
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In" ·
"Bridge over Troubled
Water" ·
"It's Too
Late" ·
"The First Time Ever I Saw
Your Face" ·
"Killing Me Softly with His
Song" ·
"I Honestly Love
You" ·
"Love Will Keep Us
Together" ·
"This
Masquerade" ·
"Hotel
California" ·
"Just the Way You
Are"
"What a Fool
Believes" ·
"Sailing" ·
"Bette Davis
Eyes" ·
"Rosanna" ·
"Beat It" ·
"
What's Love Got to Do with It
" ·
"We Are the
World" ·
"Higher Love" ·
"Graceland" ·
"Don't Worry, Be
Happy"
"Wind Beneath My
Wings" ·
"Another Day in
Paradise" ·
"Unforgettable" ·
"Tears in
Heaven" ·
"I Will Always Love
You" ·
"All I Wanna
Do" ·
"Kiss from a
Rose" ·
"Change the
World" ·
"Sunny Came
Home" ·
"My Heart Will Go On"
"Smooth" ·
"Beautiful
Day" ·
"Walk On" ·
"Don't Know
Why" ·
"Clocks" ·
"Here We Go
Again" ·
"Boulevard of Broken
Dreams" ·
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Nice" ·
"Rehab" ·
"Please Read the
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"Use Somebody"
