Tina Turner

Released: March 1, 1979

Songwriter: Molly Ann Leikin Chris Bennett

Producer: Alec R. Costandinos

Did you know
Fire is my middle name
Did you know
You’re the flame
Feel it grow
Oh baby

You’ve got what I’m gonna get
You’ve got what I’m gonna get
I’m hot oh and you can bet
I’m gonna get my way

One thought flashes through my mind
I’m not leaving you behind
You got what I have to find
Get ready and get set
You got what I’m gonna get
Oh, you got what I’m gonna get

When we touch
Lord I shiver through and through
I could die from wanting you
Stay with me
Oh baby

You’ve got what I’m gonna get
You’ve got what I’m gonna get
I’m hot oh and you can bet
I’m gonna get my way

And let me tell you that one thought flashes through my mind
I’m not leaving you behind
You got what I have to find
Get ready and get set
You got what I’m gonna get

Would you turn your back on thunder
I wouldn’t turn away from you
Just between us don’t you wonder
Oh what the heck my love can do
'Cause

You’ve got what I’m gonna get
You’ve got what I’m gonna get
I’m hot oh and you can bet
I’m gonna get my way, ye, ye, ye

One thought flashes through my mind
I’m not leaving you behind
You got what I have to find
So get ready and get set
Hey baby

You got what I’m gonna get...

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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