An unheard track from Tina Turner is set to be released, 40 years after it was first recorded.
The track, titled Hot For You Baby, will be played for the first time on BBC Radio 2’s Breakfast Show on Thursday, and will also feature in a 40th-Anniversary edition of the singer’s breakthrough album Private Dancer.
Tina died of natural causes in May 2023 at the age of 83 at her home in Küsnach near Zurich, sparking a sea of tributes from stars throughout the music industry.
Hot For You, Baby, was originally cut at Capitol Studios in Hollywood and had been intended to be an album track.
The tape was recently rediscovered as the record label compiled the 40th anniversary re-release of Private Dancer.
The original album, which was nominated for Album of the Year at the 1985 Grammy Awards, included hits What’s Love Got To Do With It and Better Be Good To Me.
An unheard track by Tina Turner is set to be released, 40 years after it was first recorded (the singer is pictured in 2019)
The track, Hot For You Baby, will be played for the first time on BBC Radio 2 on Thursday, and will also feature in a 40th-Anniversary edition of the singer’s breakthrough album (pictured 1987)
Also set to feature on the anniversary reissue are unreleased tracks, live performances, and footage, including a 55-minute Private Dancer Tour show filmed over two nights at Birmingham’s NEC in March 1985.
The 5CD/Blu-ray package also features five enhanced music videos, with ‘Private Dancer’ fully restored to HD from its original 35mm film.
Insights from American songwriter Holly Knight, former Strictly Come Dancing judge Dame Arlene Phillips, and The Human League star Martyn Ware are also included in the liner cover.
Tina was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and won a total of 12 Grammy Awards, including a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018.
Her tumultuous marriage to Ike Turner took centre stage in the 1993 film What’s Love Got To Do With It, and earned Oscar nominations for its stars Laurence Fishburne and Angela Bassett.
In May 2023, Tina’s representatives confirmed to DailyMail.com that the Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll died from natural causes.
They announced the sad news of her death on May 24, saying: ‘With her the world loses a music legend and role model.’
Following her death, Turner’s memoir resurfaced – where she admitted she once considered assisted suicide in 2016 before her husband Erwin Bach donated his kidney to her.
She revealed in her memoir that she signed up to an assisted suicide organization as she mentally prepared herself for the possibility of dying.
Tina (pictured in 2009) died of natural causes in May 2023 at the age of 83 at her home in Küsnach near Zurich, sparking a sea tributes from stars throughout the music industry
The tape was recently rediscovered as the record label compiled the 40th anniversary re-release of Tina’s album Private Dancer (pictured in 1985)
Turner had discovered her unmanaged high blood pressure had accelerated her kidney damage – and if her body was going to shut down, she started making peace with the idea of death.
Her husband Bach stepped in to donate his kidney to her in 2017.
Tina Turner’s tragic death sent shockwaves across the world.
Turner was first diagnosed with high blood pressure in 1978, and in 2016 started her battle with intestinal cancer. At the same time, her kidneys were failing, which led to her transplant surgery in 2017.
On April 9 2023, in what are believed to be her final public remarks, she told The Guardian how she hoped the world would remember her – and how she did not fear death.
‘How would you like to be remembered?’ the Guardian asked.
‘As the Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll. As a woman who showed other women that it is OK to strive for success on their own terms.’
Asked what frightens her about getting older, she replied: ‘Nothing. This is life’s full adventure and I embrace and accept every day with what it brings.’
Turner is survived by two of her four sons – two preceded her in death – and her 67-year-old husband, Erwin Bach.
