Tina Turner – Private Dancer – 40th Anniversary Edition Release

March 17, 2025
UK Music News
by Desh Kapur UK-Editor/Photographer

TINA TURNER

TINA TURNER’S 5X PLATINUM RECORD PRIVATE DANCER CELEBRATES

40TH ANNIVERSARY

5CD/BLU-RAY INCLUDES PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED TRACKS, LIVE PERFORMANCES, AND UPGRADED MUSIC VIDEOS

2CD, 1LP PEARL VINYL, AND 1LP PICTURE DISC EDITIONS ALSO AVAILABLE

MARCH 21, 2025

PRE-ORDER HERE

BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show with Mark Goodier unveiled a surprise treasure from Tina Turner’s vaults: the previously unheard track “Hot For You Baby.” Written by Australian musicians George Young and Harry Vanda and produced by John Carter, the track was recorded at Capitol Studios in Hollywood and was originally intended to be an album track. It was thought to be lost to time, but this thrilling discovery introduces a fresh chapter in the Private Dancer story.

Listen to “Hot For You Baby” HERE.

The single forms part of a 40th Anniversary Edition of Turner’s iconic GRAMMY® award-winning breakthrough album, Private Dancer. Set to be released on March 21, 2025, this special anniversary edition offers a stunning array of previously unreleased tracks, live performances, and footage, honoring the legacy of an artist whose music transformed the world. Private Dancer (40th Anniversary Edition) will be available as a 5CD/Blu-ray, 2CD, a 1LP Pearl vinyl, and a 1LP picture disc. Pre-order HERE.

The centerpiece of this release is the 5CD/Blu-ray set, which includes the newly upgraded 55-minute Private Dancer Tour show filmed at the NEC in Birmingham between two historic nights, March 23 and 24, 1985. Directed by David Mallet and featuring unforgettable performances with David Bowie and Bryan Adams, this landmark concert has been meticulously restored, offering a front-row experience of Turner at her electrifying best. Alongside the live performance, the set includes five upgraded music videos, with the “Private Dancer” fully restored to HD from its original 35mm film.

Additional formats include a 2CDedition, a striking 1LPpicture disc featuring the official UK/EU cover on one side and the US cover on the other, and a limited-edition 1LP pearl vinyl with a 12×12 art card of the US album artwork. Jason Draper has written the liner notes for the 5CD/BR set with insights from Paul Cox, Holly Knight, Arlene Phillips and Martyn Ware.

Released in May 1984, Private Dancer marked Turner’s triumphant comeback, becoming a cultural phenomenon. Dubbed by American Songwriter as “one of the most charismatic comebacks of modern rock” and AllMusic as “without question,… Turner’s finest hour as a solo artist.” The 5x platinum record peaked at [#2 on the UK Albums Chart] #3 and #1 on the Billboard 200 and Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts. Turner would later bring home four GRAMMY® Award wins for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance for “Better Be Good To Me” and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, Record of the Year, and Song of the Year for the top Billboard Hot 100 track, “What’s Love Got To Do With It?”

Tina Turner

Private Dancer (40th Anniversary Edition)

Tracklisting

5CD/Blu-ray

CD1 – Private Dancer (2015 Remaster)

1. I Might Have Been Queen

2. What’s Love Got To Do With It

3. Show Some Respect

4. I Can’t Stand The Rain

5. Private Dancer

6. Let’s Stay Together

7. Better Be Good To Me

8. Steel Claw

9. Help

10. 1984

CD2 – B-Sides, Single Edits And Extended Versions

B-sides:

1. I Wrote A Letter

2. Rock ‘n’ Roll Widow

3. Don’t Rush the Good Things

4. When I Was Young

5. Keep Your Hands Off My Baby

Single edits:

6. Let’s Stay Together

7. Help

8. Better Be Good To Me

9. Private Dancer

Extended versions:

10. What’s Love Got to Do With It

11. Better Be Good To Me

12. I Can’t Stand the Rain

13. Show Some Respect

CD3 – Previously Unreleased & Rare Tracks Plus Other Singles

Previously unreleased & Rare Tracks:

1. Hot For You Baby*

2. Let’s Stay Together (Alternative Radio Mix, 1983)

3. Let’s Stay Together (TV Instrumental)*

4. What’s Love Got to Do With It (Dub Mix)*

5. Private Dancer (Sterling Version)

6. Total Control

Non-Album singles:

7. Ball of Confusion (That’s What the World Is Today) (with B.E.F.) – Remix

8. We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)

9. One of the Living (Single Remix)

10. We Don’t Need Another Hero (Extended Mix)

11. One of the Living (Special Club Mix)

12. We Don’t Need Another Hero (Instrumental Version)

13. One of the Living (Dub version)

CD4 – World Tour ‘84 – Live At Park West, Chicago – August 2nd 1984*

1. Let’s Pretend We’re Married

2. Show Some Respect

3. I Might Have Been Queen

4. River Deep, Mountain High

5. Nutbush City Limits

6. What’s Love Got to Do With It

7. I Can’t Stand the Rain

8. Better Be Good to Me

9. Private Dancer

10. Let’s Stay Together

11. Help

12. Proud Mary

13. Legs

CD5 – Private Dancer Tour – Live From Nec, Birmingham 1984

1. Show Some Respect

2. I Might Have Been Queen

3. What’s Love Got To Do With It

4. I Can’t Stand The Rain

5. Better Be Good To Me

6. Private Dancer

7. Let’s Stay Together

8. Help

9. It’s Only Love (Feat. Bryan Adams)

10. Tonight (Feat. David Bowie)

11. Let’s Dance – Version I (Feat. David Bowie)

12. Let’s Dance – Version II (Feat. David Bowie)

Blu-ray – Promo videos

1. Let’s Stay Together

2. What’s Love Got to Do With It (Colour version)

3. What’s Love Got to Do With It (B/W version)

4. Better Be Good to Me

5. Private Dancer (Full-length version) (Restored from original 35mm film)

6. Private Dancer (Restored from original 35mm film)

7. Show Some Respect

*previously unreleased

2CD

CD1 – Private Dancer (2015 Remaster)

1. I Might Have Been Queen

2. What’s Love Got To Do With It

3. Show Some Respect

4. I Can’t Stand The Rain

5. Private Dancer

6. Let’s Stay Together

7. Better Be Good To Me

8. Steel Claw

9. Help

10. 1984

CD2 – Unreleased, B-Sides, Single Edits And Extended Versions

Unreleased:

1. Hot For You Baby

B-sides:

2. I Wrote A Letter

3. Rock ‘n’ Roll Widow

4. Don’t Rush the Good Things

5. When I Was Young

6. Keep Your Hands Off My Baby

7. Nutbush City Limits (Live)

8. Let’s Pretend We’re Married (Live)

Single edits:

9. Let’s Stay Together

10. Help

11. Better Be Good To Me

12. Private Dancer

Extended versions:

13. What’s Love Got to Do With It

14. Better Be Good To Me

15. I Can’t Stand the Rain

16. Show Some Respect

1LP

Private Dancer (2015 Remaster)

Side 1

1. I Might Have Been Queen

2. What’s Love Got To Do With It

3. Show Some Respect

4. I Can’t Stand The Rain

5. Private Dancer

Side 2

1. Let’s Stay Together

2. Better Be Good To Me

3. Steel Claw

4. Help

5. 1984

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Desh Kapur UK-Editor/Photographer

My life is a soundtrack, i track my life through music, photography is my passion, my escape, my expression. Without both i have pieces missing, thankfully i’m blessed and get to combine both.
Born in Manchester, lived in Australia for 22 years where i was heavily involved in the Australian Music Industry, firstly in bands (Singer) and then managing bands (all original), I moved back to the UK, Wales specifically 10 years ago

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