The Aussie connection to Tina Turner’s new anniversary album
Jeff Jenkins
STACK Writer
A Tina Turner rarity has been uncovered… and it has a link to Australia. The 40th anniversary edition of Tina Turner’s classic 'Private Dancer' album features a song written by Aussie legends Harry Vanda and George Young.
The American superstar recorded Hot for You Baby for the 1984 album that resurrected her career. The song didn’t make the final album and was thought to be lost. But it has now appeared on the two-CD 40th Anniversary Expanded Edition.
After finding fame in The Easybeats, Vanda and Young became AC/DC’s producers, and also wrote chart-topping hits for John Paul Young, Stevie Wright, and William Shakespeare. They were inaugural inductees into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 1988.
Hot for You Baby is track one on the second CD, which also features B-sides, a live version of Nutbush City Limits, and extended mixes of What’s Love Got to Do with It, Better Be Good to Me, I Can’t Stand the Rain and Show Some Respect.
Fun fact: What’s Love Got to Do with It was co-written by another Aussie, Terry Britten, who was the guitarist in The Twilights, Glenn Shorrock’s band before Little River Band.
The original 1984 edition of Private Dancer sold 12 million copies worldwide and won four Grammys.
40 years of Private Dancer
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