Before Private Dancer, Turner had extricated herself from a troubled relationship with husband and longtime musical partner Ike Turner and put out four mostly forgotten solo records, now out of print. But Private Dancer vaulted Turner back to stardom; it also captured the zeitgeist of the Me Deca... 

 Through the Eighties she built up an enormous reservoir of goodwill with fans and critics who saw in her struggle a genuine triumph over forces that would overwhelm less hardy souls. She toured incessantly after Private Dancer broke big, so it was unsurprising that the similarly-styled followup, ... 

 . Foreign Affair was closer to the bone. Featuring a number of songs by the redoubtable swamp rocker Tony Joe White (who also contributed some suitably grungy guitar licks), the album had more of a blues edge than anything Turner had done since leaving Ike, even though its sound is grounded in co... 

 Simply the Best kicked off a new decade by summarizing Turner’s Eighties work, but also takes a broader overview by including the towering Ike and Tina single, “River Deep, Mountain High,” remastered by original producer Phil Spector, as well as the “’90s Version” of Ike and Tina’s ... 

 But it’s not as if she had disappeared: Virgin’s What’s Love Got to Do With It and Capitol’s multidisc The Collected Recordings–Sixties to Nineties remind anyone who hears these CDs of the serious work she had done in her long career. What’s Love Got to Do With It is the soundtrack to... 

 But it's not as if she had disappeared: Virgin's What's Love Got to Do With It and Capitol's multidisc The Collected Recordings—Sixties to Nineties remind anyone who hears these CDs of the serious work she had done in her long career. What's Love Got to Do With It i... 

 But the Nineties proved to be the time when Tina stopped and smelled the roses. She didn’t release a new studio album until 1996’s Wildest Dreams, a feisty set of tunes and performances highlighted by a suggestive duet with Barry White on the title cut.  

 By 2000, she was billing herself solely as “Tina” and promoting a new studio album, Twenty Four Seven. Changing producers, she teamed up with Brian Rawling and Mark Taylor (who had masterminded Cher’s comeback hit, “Believe”) for a result that was more rock than soul, and way overproduc... 

 Turner kept performing throughout the decade, and Tina Live presents a gig in the Netherlands, part of her 50th Anniversary Tour.