What’s Love Got To Do With It is the eighth studio album from Tina Turner and the soundtrack for the same named movie about her life story. It’s also the first album for her new record company Virgin in America. It features re-recorded Ike & Tina Turner songs and five new tracks, including the theme for the movie and hit single I Don't Wanna Fight, which became a top 10 hit in both the UK and US.
It also includes Tina's version of The Trammps' Disco Inferno, a song she performed live in concert in the late seventies but never previously recorded in studio. The song „I Might Have Been Queen,“ originally from the album Private Dancer, is a remixed and little bit longer version and includes the additional and never before released vers „I Look Up To The Stars Till I Find My Destiny“.
Some of the pictures from the booklet were photographed at a beach in Malibu. The album was reviewed from Billboard magazine in it’s issue from July 3, 1993. The American version is missing two songs.
In 2024, it was reissued as a 30th Anniversary Edition, featuring the original album fully remastered, a collection of edits, remixes and acapellas, the concert from the Blockbuster Pavillion in San Bernardino and all music videos.
Producer: Chris Lord-Alge, Tina Turner, Roger Davies
Photographer: Herb Ritts / Peter Lindbergh
Makeup: Kevyn Aucoin
Release: June 15, 1993 / 2024 (Anniversary Edition)
Label: Parlophone (Europe) / Virgin (USA)
Format: Vinyl / CD (Picture) / MiniDisc / Cassette / Digital
Charts: UK: #1 / Europe: #4 / Germany: #8 / USA: #17 / Australia: #30
Certifications: UK: 1x Platinum / USA: 1x Platinum / Germany: 1x Gold
Tracks
- I Don’t Wanna Fight 6:09
- Rock Me Baby 3:59
- Disco Inferno 4:06
- Why Must We Wait Until Tonight? 5:55
- Stay Awhile 4:52
- Nutbush City Limits 3:20
- (Darlin’) You Know I Love You 4:29
- Proud Mary 5:27
- A Fool In Love 2:56
- It’s Gonna Work Out Fine 2:51
- Shake A Tail Feather 2:34
- I Might Have Been Queen (Remix) 4:22
- What’s Love Got To Do With It 3:51
- Tina’s Wish 3:08
Promotion
EMI Records released two Cassette Sampler with selected tracks from the album and in Germany, a Promo Disc from Touchstone Pictures features interviews, selected spoken scenes and music from the movie. Capitol Records released the sampler Play This In Store with selected tracks and some of Tina’s biggest hits from her previously released LP’s.
Additionally, Tina Turner was three days in Monaco together with her manager Roger Davis, her publicist Bernard Doherty, her later husband Erwin Bach, her makeup artist Kevyn Aucoin and Angela Bassett to promote the movie, the associated soundtrack album and tour.
On May 11 & 12 she gave a Press Conference with a photo shooting (on a motorbike), numerous interviews for newspapers and magazines from all around the world like Cosmopolitan and she recorded the music special The Hits for the music channel MTV at the hotel Hermitage. Also the performance for the show Top of the Pops was broadcasted live from Monte Carlo.
On May 13, Tina received the legend award at the World Music Awards ceremony at the Salle des Etoiles, presented to her by Michael Douglas after she performed her new single I Don’t Wanna Fight live on stage in front of an audience with Michael Jackson, Linda Evans, Rod Stewart, Ron Wood and many other celebrities.
For the home video release in 1994, the documentary and Tears to Triumph features interviews with Tina, Roger Davies and a look behind the scenes and features also an alternate video for the hit single I Don’t Wanna Fight, produced and directed by John Pattyson. Capitol Records released also a Tina hip-hop tribute from the D.J. Shero, featuring megamixes with spoken vocal samples from Tina and others talking about her. It comes without a picture cover and all tracks are untitled.
- Angela Basset 1:25
- Laurence Fishburne 1:47
- Brian Gibson 1:07
- Tina Turner 1:03
- Roger Davis 0:37
- A Fool In Love 2:57
- Cake Scene In The Restaurant 1:32
- Proud Mary 5:28
- I Want My Name 0:55
- I Don't Wanna Fight 6:06
- I Don't Wanna Fight 6:09
- Why Must We Wait Until Tonight? 5:55
- I Don't Wanna Fight 6:09
- Proud Mary 5:25
- Fool In Love 2:56
- What’s Love Got To Do With It 3:48
- Let’s Stay Together (Edit) 3:39
- It’s Only Love (Tina & Bryan Adams) 3:31
- Better Be Good To Me (Edit) 3:38
- Private Dancer (Edit) 4:00
- We Don’t Need Another Hero 4:14
- One Of The Living 4:12
- Typical Male 4:18
- Two People 4:12
- Proud Mary (Live) 4:40
- The Best (Edit) 4:10
- Steamy Windows 4:03
- Tearing Us Apart (Live with Eric Clapton) 4:13
- Look Me In The Heart 3:43
- Love Thing 4:27
- Nutbush City Limits (Live) 3:23
- Behind The Scenes - Up Close with Tina Turner!
- Tina Rocks!
- Sizzling Preview!
- Shero Mix 2:03
- Shero Mix 4:05
- Shero Mix 4:31
- Shero Mix 2:34
- Shero Mix 4:36
- Shero Mix 4:06
- Shero Mix 5:49
- Shero Mix 4:06
- Shero Mix 5:36
CBC News / Dateline / Top of the Pops / Grammy Awards
TV-Appearances
USA: Grammy Awards (February 24, 1993) / Late Show: I Don’t Wanna Fight, Interview (April 30, 1993) / Tonight Show: What’s Love Got To Do With It, Interview (May 14, 1993) / Dateline NBC: Interview (1993) / Entertainment Tonight: Interview (1993) / MTV The Hits: Interview (1993) Canada: CBC News: Interview (April 14, 1993) / Much Music: Interview (1993) UK: Top of the Pops: I Don’t Wanna Fight (May 13, 1993 Monaco: World Music Awards: I Don’t Wanna Fight (May 13, 1993) Australia: 60 Minutes: Special (1993) / A Current Affair: Special (1993) / Hey Hey It’s Saturday: I Don’t Wanna Fight (1993)