The long-lost “Hot For You Baby” is the harbinger of an anniversary edition of PRIVATE DANCER.
Two months before the second anniversary of the “Queen of Rock’n’Roll’s” death, a deluxe edition of Tina Turner’s (November 26, 1939 – May 24, 2023) most successful album, PRIVATE DANCER, will be released on March 21st to mark its 40th anniversary . In addition to lavish bonus material, it also contains: “Hot For You Baby”, a rock song that was originally intended for the record’s tracklist, but was then discarded and was considered lost for decades. Turner’s vocal performance is stunning.
You can listen to “Hot For You Baby” here:
PRIVATE DANCER is Tina Turner’s fifth solo album. It was released on May 29, 1984. After turbulent, financially unproductive years following her divorce from her abusive husband and musical partner Ike Turner, the record shot Turner to the top of the world and made her a superstar for decades. Thanks to hits like “What’s Love Got to Do With It”, numerous covers of classics by the Beatles (“Help!”), Al Green (“Let’s Stay Together”), David Bowie (“1984”) and Ann Peebles (“I Can’t Stand The Rain”), as well as the title track written especially for Turner by Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits), the album sold more than twelve million copies.
The anniversary edition of the record offers an extensive selection of previously unreleased pieces, live versions and film material. The 5CD+Blu-ray set includes the newly revised, 55-minute “Private Dancer Tour Show,” recorded at the NEC Convention Center in Birmingham on March 23 and 24, 1985, and featuring guest appearances by Bryan Adams and David Bowie appears. The Bowie duet “Tonight” recorded here, actually a song by Bowie and Iggy Pop, was subsequently released as a single and reached number 1 in the Netherlands.
Here is the complete tracklist:
Tracklist of the 5CD/Blu-ray edition
CD1 – Private Dancer (2015 Remaster)
I Might Have Been Queen
What’s Love Got To Do With It
Show Some Respect
I Can’t Stand The Rain
Private Dancers
Let’s Stay Together
Better Be Good To Me
Steel Claw
Help
1984
CD2 – B-Sides, Single Edits And Extended Versions
I Wrote A Letter
Rock ‘n’ Roll Widow
Don’t Rush the Good Things
When I Was Young
Keep Your Hands Off My Baby
Let’s Stay Together
Help
Better Be Good To Me
Private Dancers
What’s Love Got to Do With It
Better Be Good To Me
I Can’t Stand the Rain
Show Some Respect
CD3 – Previously Unreleased & Rare Tracks Plus Other Singles
Hot For You Baby*
Let’s Stay Together (Alternative Radio Mix, 1983)
Let’s Stay Together (TV Instrumental)*
What’s Love Got to Do With It (Dub Mix)*
Private Dancer (Sterling Version)
Total Control
Non-album singles:
Ball of Confusion (That’s What the World Is Today) (with BEF) – Remix
We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome) (Single Edit)
One of the Living (Single Remix)
We Don’t Need Another Hero (Extended Mix)
One of the Living (Special Club Mix)
We Don’t Need Another Hero (Dub Version)
One of the Living (Dub version)
CD4 – World Tour ’84 – Live At Park West, Chicago – August 2nd 1984*
Let’s Pretend We’re Married
Show Some Respect
I Might Have Been Queen
River Deep, Mountain High
Nutbush City Limits
What’s Love Got to Do With It
I Can’t Stand the Rain
Better Be Good to Me
Private Dancers
Let’s Stay Together
Help
Proud Mary
Legs
CD5 – Private Dancer Tour – Live From NEC, Birmingham 1984
Show Some Respect
I Might Have Been Queen
What’s Love Got To Do With It
I Can’t Stand The Rain
Better Be Good To Me
Private Dancers
Let’s Stay Together
Help
It’s Only Love (Feat. Bryan Adams)
Tonight (Feat. David Bowie)
Let’s Dance (Feat. David Bowie)
Blu-ray promo videos
Let’s Stay Together (Restored from original 16mm film)
Help
What’s Love Got to Do With It (Colour version)
What’s Love Got to Do With It (B/W version)
Better Be Good to Me
Private Dancer (Full-length version) (Restored from original 35mm film)
Private Dancer (Restored from original 35mm film)
Show Some Respect
*previously unreleased
PRIVATE DANCER (40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION) will also be available on 2CD, 1LP pearl vinyl and 1LP picture disc.