In 1984, Tina Turner pulled off one of the most remarkable comebacks in music history with a song she initially didn’t even want to record.
“What’s Love Got to Do with It,” written by Terry Britten and Graham Lyle, became Turner’s first and only solo No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. The song spent three weeks on top in late August/early September 1984.
Turner was 44 when the song reached No. 1, making her, at the time, the oldest solo female artist ever to top the Hot 100.
The achievement was even more extraordinary considering how long Turner had been waiting for it.
Her first Hot 100 appearance came 24 years earlier, when Ike & Tina Turner’s “A Fool in Love” debuted in August 1960. By the time “What’s Love Got to Do with It” reached the top, Turner had endured the collapse of her marriage and musical partnership with Ike Turner and spent years struggling to establish herself as a solo artist.
Then came Private Dancer.
Released in May 1984 as a single from Private Dancer, “What’s Love Got to Do with It” became Turner’s biggest-selling single and eventually sold more than 2 million copies worldwide. It also finished as the No. 2 song of 1984 on Billboard’s year-end Hot 100, behind only Prince’s “When Doves Cry.”
The song also earned extraordinary critical acclaim.
In “The Heart of Rock & Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made,” music critic Dave Marsh ranked “What’s Love Got to Do with It” at No. 708 and offered a striking assessment of Turner’s career.
“This is the best record Tina ever made,” Marsh wrote.
He praised the way Turner brought her own experiences to the recording, finding power in its mixture of pain, frustration and defiance.
The following year, Grammy voters agreed that Turner had made something special. “What’s Love Got to Do with It” won Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the 1985 Grammy Awards.
Its legacy only grew. The song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2012, and Rolling Stone later placed it at No. 134 on its updated list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, praising the way Turner “infused every word of the song with heartache and pain drawn from her real life.”
Perhaps most importantly, “What’s Love Got to Do with It” changed the trajectory of Turner’s career.
Two years later, Rolling Stone would famously crown her the “Queen of Rock & Roll,” describing Private Dancer as the culmination of her climb “back to the top of the rock & roll heap.”
At 44, after more than two decades in the music business, Turner wasn’t simply back. For three weeks in 1984, she was No. 1.
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