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Tina Turner Is In Fine Voice In Posthumous Release

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A 40th anniversary edition of Tina Turner's era defining Private Dancer album includes a song with a direct connection to AC/DC.

Hot For You, Baby, was cut at Capitol Studios in Hollywood and originally intended to be an album track.

It was written by Henry Vanda and George Young, the pair who produced AC/DC's first few albums and the live classic If You Want Blood You've Got It.

But it was ultimately jettisoned in favour of era-defining pop hits such What's Love Got To Do With It, Better Be Good To Me and the album's title track.

George Young, of course, was Angus and Malcolm Young's older brother, and also produced AC/DC's 2000 album Stiff Upper Lip.

The song was originally written for another Vanda & Young production, the 1979 album Heaven Sent by Australian singer John Paul Young (most famous for the Vanda & Young composition, Love Is In The Air).

It was released as a 7" single the same year on the pair's Albert Productions label but failed to chart.

Now it's back, as a previously unheard bonus track on the multi-disc 40th anniversary edition of Turner's 1984 album.

The America icon had to endure several lean years after her divorce from Ike Tunrer before the late David Bowie told Capitol Records that she was his favourite singer.

A version of Al Green’s Let’s Stay Together followed. Produced by the electropoppers Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh from Heaven 17, the track went to No 6 in the UK, then cracked the US Top 30 the following year.

Turner cemented the upturn in her fortunes with Private Dancer with the huge hit What’s Love Got to Do With It? (her first American No 1).

The album became a phenomenon, lodging itself in the American Top 10 for nine months and going on to sell more than 10m copies.

Suddenly Turner was one of the biggest acts in an era of stadium superstars such as Michael Jackson, Dire Straits and Phil Collins.

The 40th anniversary 5 CD/Blu-ray edition of Private Dancer will be released in March and includes previously unreleased tracks, live performances, and restored live footage from Turner's celebrated shows in 1985, when David Bowie and Bryan Adams joined Turner onstage and the iconic video for It’s Only Love was filmed.

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