A lost Tina Turner track has been unearthed from the vaults after four decades – but critics say it is simply not The Best. The previously unreleased record Hot For You, Baby was originally intended for her 1984 album Private Dancer. Recorded at Hollywood’s Capitol Studios, the song was instead shelved in favour of her chart-topping hits such as What’s Love Got To Do With It and Better Be Good To Me.
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Instead, the single made its debut on Thursday on the BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show with Mark Goodier, two years after the singer’s death aged 83. Critics have called the late Ms Turner’s track ‘banal’ and have said they ‘understand why it didn’t make the final cut of the album’.
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One reviewer Alexis Petridis wrote: ‘It isn’t, by any stretch of the imagination, a lost classic’. A lost Tina Turner track has been unearthed from the vaults after four decades – but critics say it is simply not The Best (the singer is pictured in 2019).
The unearthed rock track was produced by John Grant, the record executive who masterminded her mid-career comeback. Written by Australian musicians George Young and Harry Vanda, it had already been recorded once by Scottish-Australian singer John Paul Young, the voice behind disco classic Love Is In The Air.
