In 1983, British songwriters Terry Britten and Graham Lyle had a problem. They had written a song called "What's Love Got to Do with It" — and nobody wanted it. Phyllis Hyman passed. Cliff Richard passed. Bucks Fizz went as far as recording a demo and still passed.
The song found its way to Roger Davies, Tina Turner's manager. He heard it immediately. Tina Turner did not want to record it. She was a rock singer. This was a pop song. She said no.
Roger Davies said: listen to it again.
She did. And then again. And something in the song found something in a woman who had spent sixteen years with Ike Turner and walked away with thirty-six cents — and knew, from the inside of her own life, exactly what love's got to do with it.
The song that three artists rejected became Tina Turner's only number-one hit. It won three Grammy Awards in 1985. It became the signature of the greatest comeback in the history of popular music.
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The song found its way to Roger Davies, Tina Turner's manager. He heard it immediately. Tina Turner did not want to record it. She was a rock singer. This was a pop song. She said no.
Roger Davies said: listen to it again.
She did. And then again. And something in the song found something in a woman who had spent sixteen years with Ike Turner and walked away with thirty-six cents — and knew, from the inside of her own life, exactly what love's got to do with it.
The song that three artists rejected became Tina Turner's only number-one hit. It won three Grammy Awards in 1985. It became the signature of the greatest comeback in the history of popular music.
Subscribe for more untold stories about the human beings behind music's greatest legends.
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