A lost song from Tina Turner’s 1984 album Private Dancer has been found. The track, “Hot for You, Baby,” premiered this morning on the BBC’s Radio 2 Breakfast Show, marking its first public play.
The new track, “Hot for You Baby,” was “thought to be lost to time” but has now been “unearthed from the vaults” in a “thrilling discovery,” her record company said in a blurb posted on Turner’s official YouTube channel.
Tina Turner's Grammy award-winning album "Private Dancer" is receiving its flowers once again — this time via a jam-packed 40th-anniversary edition containing a "lost" track, set to be released via Rhino Records on March 21.
A song originally recorded for Tina Turner’s hit 1980s album “Private Dancer” and thought to be lost has been rediscovered after four decades.
A previously lost Tina Turner song is set to be released for the first time, nearly two years after the legendary singer's death. Hot For You Baby, originally intended for Turner's breakthrough 1984 album Private Dancer,
The new song will appear in the 40th-anniversary edition release of her fifth studio album 'Private Dancer’, which will be released in March.
A song recorded for Tina Turner's blockbuster album Private Dancer, that was presumed lost, has been rediscovered and received its first play on BBC Radio 2. Hot For You, Baby, was cut at Capitol Studios in Hollywood and originally intended to be an album track.
A song written by Australians George Young and Harry Vanda and recorded for Tina Turner’s classic album, Private Dancer, has been found 40 years after it was presumably lost.
Listen to the previously unheard Hot For You Baby, which comes from the 40th anniversary edition of Tina Turner's classic Private Dancer album
The uptempo "Private Dancer" outtake will appear on the upcoming 40th anniversary edition of the late rock icon's career-peak album.
"A song which essentially expresses one idea — 'hot for you, baby'—was a little monochromatic for her," said Rolling Stone magazine contributing editor Anthony DeCurtis. "The rest of the stuff that's on Private Dancer is much more nuanced."
Recorded in 1984 for the late diva’s classic album, this newly unearthed lung-buster could pass for a particularly banal Billy Idol b-side