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Podcast: Song Lyric Meanings
Episode: "What’s Love Got to Do With It" by Tina Turner
Description: Song Lyrics Meaning - What’s Love Got to Do With It by Tina Turner
"What's Love Got to Do with It" is a song written by Graham Lyle and Terry Britten, and recorded by American singer Tina Turner for her fifth studio album, Private Dancer (1984). Capitol Records released it as a single from Private Dancer in May 1984 and it eventually became Turner's biggest-selling single.
Although Turner had already scored a late-1983 top 30 hit with her rendition of Al Green's "Let's Stay Together", "What's Love Got to Do with It" became her first and only Bi...