What’s Love Got To Do With It is a pop song and Tina’s first number one hit in America. It was released as the first single to promote the album Private Dancer, while she was on tour with Lionel Richie. The single was reviewed in Billboard magazine in it’s issue from May 12, 1984 and was nominated for an American Music Award in 1985. The song won two Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. In 1993, it was used as the title for the biographical movie What’s Love Got To Do With It about Tina’s life story. In 2018, a special Symphonic Version was released digitally, and the Norwegian DJ Kygo released a remix as a digital single in 2020, which topped the iTunes charts in many countries.
The first music video was filmed totally in black and white in the S&A studios in Los Angeles. It is very artistically with an absolutely gorgeous looking Tina, but it is also a little bit melancholic. The second video is totally different and much more positive, filmed live in New York City with Tina in a black mini skirt and a jeans jacket. She is looking at the East River at a ferry and comes later from a tube station, walking down the streets and interacting with different people. At the end, she stops at a chalk drawing of the Private Dancer cover. This video features Pamela Springsteen, the sister of Bruce Springsteen as a street dancer. It won a MTV Video Music Award in the category 'Best Female Video' in 1985.
Writer: Terry Britten, Graham Lyle
Producer: Terry Britten
Photographer: Peter Ashworth, Brian Aris
Release: May '84 (USA) / June '84 (UK) / Juli '84 (Germany) / 2010 (Digital)
Format: 7“ Vinyl / 12“ Vinyl (Picture) / Digital
Charts: USA: #1 / Australia: #1 / Canada: #1 / UK: #3 / Germany: #7 / Europe: #9, #2 (Airplay)
Certifications: USA: 1x Gold / UK: 1x Silver
Grammy: Best Pop Vocal Performance Female / Record of the Year (1985)
American Music Award: Favorite Soul/R&B Single / Favorite Pop/Rock Single (Nominated 1985)
Music Video: 3:47 / Mark Robinson (Director), John Caldwell (Producer)
Music Video (b/w): 3:50 / Bud Schaetzle (Director)
Album: Private Dancer
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.
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.
is a North American annual music awards show, created by Dick Clark in 1973 for ABC when the network's contract to air the Grammy Awards expired. Until 2005, the nominations and winners were selected by members of the music industry, based on commercial performance. Since 2006, winners have been determined by a poll of the public, who can vote through the AMAs website. Tina Turner was twice guest at the ceremony. First in 1985, where she received two awards and once again in 1987, where she promoted her recent single What You Get Is What You See. Additionally, she won in 1986 in the category 'Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist
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is a special Grammy Award, presented by vote of the Recording Academy's National Trustees for specific recordings of lasting qualitative or historical significance that are at least 25 years old. Two songs from Ike & Tina Turner and one song from Tina Turner solo were inducted.
is a British photographer who began his career as a front line photographer in Northern Ireland, Lebanon, Africa and the Vietnam War. After 1976 he changed his direction and become a photographer of fashion and glamour models, as well as stars of the music industry for newspapers and magazines. He worked with all the big names in show business, among others with The Beatles, The Who, Rolling Stones, Madonna, David Bowie and Tina Turner. Aris also photographed nearly everybody from the Royal family, including Queen Elizabeth.
Brian photographed the American cover picture for Tina’s Private Dancer album in contrast to the European version, which was shoot by Peter Ashworth. For the compilation Queen of Rock 'N’ Roll, they used a picture for the cover from a later photo session (approximately 1986).
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.
