Better Be Good To Me is a rock cover from the band Spider, released as the fourth single from the album Private Dancer. For her vocal performance on this song, Tina received her third solo Grammy Award in 1985. The single was reviewed in Billboard magazine in it’s issue from August 8, 1984.
The music video was filmed in June 1984 at the Beverly Theater in Los Angeles, which was packed with fans, invited by advertisements on local radio. It shows Tina with a black leather jacket and trousers together with her band (including guitarist Jamie West-Oram from the The Fixx) on stage. Cy Curnin dances the part of Turner's mendacious lover, which was choreographed by Toni Basil. The video was nominated in 1985 for a MTV Video Music Award in the category 'Best Stage Performance'.
Writer: Holly Knight, Mike Chapman
Producer: Rupert Hine
Photographer: Peter Ashworth
Release: August ’84 (USA) / September '84 (UK) / January '85 (Germany)
Format: 7“ Vinyl (Picture) / 12“ Vinyl / Cassette
Charts: USA: #5 / UK: #45 / Germany: #52 / Australia: #28
Grammy: Best Rock Vocal Performance (1985) / Best Rock Vocal Performance (Nomination 1988)
Music Video: 4:03 / Brian Grant (Director), Adrian Irving (Producer)
Album: Private Dancer
are presented from MTV to honor the best music videos, since 1984. Tina received her first award in 1985 for her #1 hit single What’s Love Got To Do With It and together with Bryan Adams in 1986 a common award for It’s Only Love, where she also promoted her recent single Typical Male.
are presented since 1952 by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize achievements in the music industry. Tina Turner won her first Grammy in 1971 as part of the Ike & Tina Turner Revue for Proud Mary and her first solo Grammy in 1985 for What’s Love Got To To With It. In total she won 8 Grammys from 25 nominations and received also 3 Hall of Fame Awards and a Lifetime Achievement Award. Ike Turner solo won his first Grammy in 2007 for the album Risin’ With The Blues, after he was first nominated in 1970 for the album A Black Man’s Soul.
is an English photographer, initially specialized in music photography between 1979 and 2000. His work came to prominence in the 1980s when he worked with artists and bands such as Depeche Mode, Eurythmics, The Cult and Tina Turner. The two-day photo session for Tina’s Private Dancer album took place in March 1984 at Bagley’s Warehouse in London, using a Hasselblad with a 150mm lens. The well-known cover picture with the cat from the European cover is only one of many shots from this session.