Tina Turner

Released: September 13, 1989

Songwriter: LeAnn White Tony Joe White

Producer: Dan Hartman

[Verse 1]
He was my lover, he was working undercover
Fella knew all of the moves
He really had me romping, we were bare foot stomping
He just kept igniting my fuse

[Chorus 1]
He was blinded by the blackness of my long silk stockings
He was rocking with an optical illusion
And this ain't how I thought it'd be
He just kept on keeping me in a state of total confusion

[Chorus 2]
He took me for a ride rattled me down to my shoes
But I found out he was an undercover agent for the blues, yeah

[Chorus 3]
He never really needed love from any direction, no
I was just an innocent bystander
He just kept getting kinkier, hook, line and sinker
Ju-ju-just too hot to handle

[Verse 2]
He took me by storm, must have been a season for the fools
So bad, he was an undercover agent for the blues

[Chorus 2]

[Chorus 3]

[Chorus 1]

[Chorus 2] [x2]

[Outro]
For the blues [x2]
Undercover agent
Undercover for the blues
For the blues
Undercover agent

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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