Listen to Tina Turner’s never-before-heard new song ‘Hot For You Baby’

A new, never-before-heard Tina Turner single has been released – listen to ‘Hot For You Baby’ below.

The song was premiered on the BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show this morning (January 23). Recorded at Capitol Studios in Hollywood, it was originally intended to be an album track on Turner’s fifth record ‘Private Dancer’ (1984).

‘Hot For You Baby’ was believed to be lost, but the recent unearthing of the tune “introduces a fresh chapter in the ‘Private Dancer’ story”, per a press release.

Written by Australian musicians George Young and Harry Vanda, and produced by John Carter, the new song will appear on a 40th anniversary edition of Turner’s Grammy-winning breakthrough LP.

‘Private Dancer (40th Anniversary Edition)’ is due for release on March 21. A description notes that the collection boasts “a stunning array of previously unreleased tracks, live performances, and footage, honouring the legacy of an artist whose music transformed the world”.

Fans will be able to own the expanded album on 5CD/Blu-ray, 2CD, 1LP pearl vinyl, and 1LP picture disc. You can pre-order it here, and listen to ‘Hot For You Baby’ here:

The centrepiece of the upcoming release is the 5CD/Blu-ray set, which includes the newly upgraded 55-minute Private Dancer Tour show, filmed at the NEC in Birmingham over two nights in March 1985.

Directed by David Mallet, the movie features performances with David Bowie and Bryan Adams from Turner’s landmark concert. The film has been “meticulously restored by Mallet, offering a front-row experience of Turner at her electrifying best”.

The set also contains five upgraded music videos, with ‘Private Dancer’ fully restored to HD from its original 35mm film.

‘Private Dancer’ peaked at Number One on the Billboard 200 in the US, and Number Two on the UK albums chart. The 5x platinum record earned Turner four Grammys: Best Female Rock Vocal Performance (‘Better Be Good To Me’), Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, Record Of The Year, and Song Of The Year (‘What’s Love Got To Do With It?’).

The full tracklist for Tina Turner’s ‘Private Dancer (40th Anniversary Edition)’ is:

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 RespectCD3 – 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. 1. Let’s Stay Together
   2. Better Be Good To Me
   3. Steel Claw
   4. Help
   5. 1984

Tina Turner died in May 2023 following a long illness. She was 83 years old. The likes of Elton John, Mick Jagger, Ronnie Wood, Debbie Harry, Karen O, Beyoncé and Mariah Carey shared tributes to the legendary singer online.

In early 2024, the late icon was honoured at the Grammys with a tribute featuring Oprah Winfrey and The Colour Purple’s Fantasia Barrino. “She is our forever goddess of rock ‘n’ roll, who inspired millions, a moving symbol of grace and grit, soul and power,” said Winfrey.