Tina Turner

Released: September 13, 1989

[Verse 1]
Really brings me down, I don't know how
That you can say you're not my kind
Couldn't find a cloud for miles around
Why do you change your story line
It all goes gray again
Sometimes I don't know when
To come out of the storm
It feels like forty days
And forty nights I've been
Beating on your door

[Chorus 1]
Hey I'm falling like rain
Oh I, I love you, love you, love you
Falling like rain
Oh I, I'm coming down around you
I will always think about you

[Verse 2]
My sentimental ways
Don't seem to phase
You know I don't ever
Want to force your hand
If you met me one time
Just half the way
I could meet you where you are
Just meet me where I am
'Cause every now and then
You've got to drive right in
Deeper than deep
You take a chance and then
You give the wheel a spin
Anyone can see

[Chorus 1]

[Bridge]
Falling like rain
It feels like forty days
And forty nights I've been
Beating on your door

[Chorus 1]

[Chorus 2] [x2]
I love you, love you, love you
Falling like rain
Oh I, I'm only giving love you
I will always think about you
Oh you, love you, love you, love you

Often dubbed the Queen of Rock & Roll, Tina Turner is arguably among the most iconic of female divas in history, with her prolific career and memorable personality as a performer and a public figure. Hailing from a small town in Tennessee, and born Anna Mae Bullock, Turner has cemented herself as one of music’s greatest entertainers.

Turner’s career in music arose from her frequenting of nightclubs near St. Louis, where she would meet her soon-to-be husband Ike Turner, who would also give her the alias “Tina”. With Ike, she would form the famous Ike And Tina Turner Revue. A dynamic, explosive R&B ensemble, the two became the definition of the genre in the late 60s and early 70s, where R&B/Soul had only tiptoed into the realms of the mainstream. A particularly influential act in popularizing the genre, the Revue went on to release some of music’s most memorable and iconic tracks – a cover of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Proud Mary”, the Phil Spector-penned “River Deep – Mountain High”, and the electric “Nutbush City Limits”. After a host of drug and abuse problems on Ike’s part, with the male Turner eventually engaging in a violent altercation with his wife, Tina decided to leave her husband for the solo life – and it worked.

As a solo artist, with the help of fellow artists like glam rocker David Bowie, Turner tumbled into mainstream success in the 80s with the only number-one hit of her career – the unconquerable love ballad “What’s Love Got To Do With It” as part of her debut solo album, Private Dancer.

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