Tina Turner

Songwriter: Leo Sayer Michael Omartian

What do you want, baby
One last piece of my heart
What do you need, baby
We could make a new start

I'm not scared
All the nights alone
Lying there crying with the television on
Watching those scoops about love and happiness
Wonder what I ever did to deserve a fate like this

I don't wanna be around
For that famous final scene
I just can't help myself
I'm a fool for your love

Leave me alone, please
My heart can't take any more
You left me going crazy
It started just like a phone

You're the number one
You're the only one I need
If you don't want my love
Then set me free

I don't wanna be around
For that famous final scene
I can't help myself
I'm a fool for your love

Don't come closer
You know I'm easy to phone
You don't love me
Any fool can see
I'm telling you goodbye
Bye, bye

Leave me alone, please
My heart can't take anymore
Leave me alone, please
Let me walk out that door
Leave me alone, leave me alone, leave me alone

I don't wanna be around
For that famous final scene
I just can't help myself
I'm a fool for your love

I'm a fool for your love
I'm a fool for your love
Leave me alone, leave me alone, leave me alone
A fool for your love

I'm a fool for your love
Leave me alone, please
My heart can't take it no more
Leave me alone, leave me alone

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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