Tina Turner

Released: September 13, 1989

Songwriter: Holly Knight Albert Hammond

Producer: Dan Hartman

[Chorus 1]
You can run and you can hide
You can tell me you're untrue
You can play around with my feelings
Say you found somebody new
But there's one thing you can't do
You can't stop me loving you

[Verse 1]
You know I love you baby
Why do you treat me this way
I don't deserve this kind of treatment
And I'd have been so good like a lover should
And I'd have loved you anyway, yeah yeah
Yeah yeah

[Chorus 1]

[Verse 2]
You're going to drive me crazy honey
Why are you so blind?
Cool, and I think you are so cool now baby
But you just can't see
All the loving me when I give you all the time

[Chorus 1]

[Bridge]
Oh I know I am going to be fine
You ain't going to pull my chain
I ain't going to change my mind

[Verse 3]
How do you feel baby?
I bet you feel real tall
Why did you leave your man, huh honey?
When I give you love and its not enough
You try to make me look small

[Chorus 1]

[Chorus 2] [x3]
You can't stop me loving you [x2]
No matter what you do

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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