What's Love Got to Do with It
Tina Turner
1984
Annual listening-list association, not an original-release-date field. Original release year reconciled with reviewed recording-specific Artist Essentials evidence in v3.6.
Release: 1984
Release: 1984Source checked
V3.6 reconciles the original release year with the reviewed Artist Essentials entry for this exact retained recording ID. Year precision is used; an album-first release is not silently replaced by a later single, reissue or annual-list year. The original recording is documented in the 1984 release history of Private Dancer. Only year precision is assigned; later singles, charts, remasters and live versions do not establish its first release.
The large badge identifies this listening list, not a newly issued recording. Later reissues and renewed chart popularity do not replace an original release date. How years are assigned.
Owner-supplied release annotations
Reported dates in 1984.html. Not independently established; neighboring dates can reflect album/single or regional differences.
Private Dancer - original album and earlier Let's Stay Together
The original 1984 album program identifies the full Private Dancer and Better Be Good to Me recordings, plus What's Love Got to Do with It and I Can't Stand the Rain. Let's Stay Together retains its earlier 1983 song date. The 2015 remaster does not establish first release.
Rhino - original Tina Turner solo singles history
The label's chronological single program dates Whole Lotta Love to 1975, Let's Stay Together to 1983, We Don't Need Another Hero to 1985, I Don't Wanna Fight to 1993 and GoldenEye to 1995. Its later single-campaign years do not override earlier parent albums for Acid Queen, I Can't Stand the Rain, Break Every Rule, Foreign Affair or Whatever You Need. It explicitly distinguishes the 2023 Something Beautiful reworking from the original 1996 Something Beautiful Remains.
Inspiration and background
Supplied note - not independently verified
This note came with the supplied collection and has not been independently verified.
The song was originally written by Terry Britten and Graham Lyle and was inspired by the concept of love as a second-hand emotion.
Evidence scope: Source-provided note, not an established account of the songwriter's intent
Sources for this information
Owner-supplied 1984.html, song-list position 2
Supplied annotation reproduced with attribution; underlying historical claims have NOT been independently verified.
Other appearances and versions
catalog version unspecified
Textual identity reconciliation, not audio-fingerprint or exact-pressing verification. Version labels are catalog safeguards.
An annual chart year and an original release date are different. Similar titles may be covers or different masters; no audio fingerprint has been performed.
Sources and scope
Source-backed annual association (secondary source; not a complete discographic review)
Editorial artist-repertoire classification
Billboard year-end 1984 table (Wikipedia transcription)
Secondary chart transcription reviewed for title, artist and annual association. Not proof of release date, genre or inspiration.
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