Tina Turner’s Lost Song ‘Hot for You Baby’ Released Nearly 2 Years After Music Icon’s Death

Mar. 15, 2025

Tina Turner performs onstage at the Poplar Creek Music Theater, Hoffman Estates, Illinois, September 12, 1987.Photo:Paul Natkin/Getty

Paul Natkin/Getty

Tina Turner’s music is back!

The new song will appear in the 40th anniversary edition release of her fifth studio albumPrivate Danceralongside other never-before-released tracks, live performances and music videos that defined that era for the “Proud Mary” singer, according to the outlets.

Tina Turner performs on stage at the Gelredome on March 21st, 2009 in Arnhem, Netherlands.Rob Verhorst/Redferns

Rob Verhorst/Redferns

Turner’s albumPrivate Dancernotably produced one of the iconic singer’s greatest hits, “What’s Love Got to Do With It,” which hit No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 after its release, per AP. The album as a whole peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard 200.

The album sold 10 million copies, and aside from album sales, earned several accolades, including three Grammys — one of which was record of the year for “What’s Love Got To Do With It,” according toBBC.

A photo of Tina Turner via Getty.DENIZE alain/Sygma via Getty

DENIZE alain/Sygma via Getty

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Turner died in May atage of 83at her home near Zurich in Switzerland after a long illness, her teampreviously announced.

A few months after her death, a55-song compilationmade up of her greatest hits was released to celebrate 50 years since the start of her solo career after her divorce fromIke Turner. The album contained her 1975 cover of Led Zepplin’s “Whole Lotta Love” along with several other hits.

Tina Turner ‘Tina: The Tina Turner Musical’ press night, Aldwych Theatre, London, UK in 2018.Richard Young/Shutterstock

Richard Young/Shutterstock

“From obscurity to the stages of the U.K. and Europe, I credit Tina for changing the course of my life and I’m so grateful to have had some of her precious time,” wroteBryan Adams, her longtime friend and collaborator. “She was a force of nature, no one had her energy or her voice, I suppose it’s fitting to say, it’s only love, and that’s all.”

The “River Deep Mountain” singer isn’t the only musician that has had a track previously recorded released posthumously. Queen’s previously unreleased song with the lateFreddie Mercurycalled“Face It Alone”was included in the reissue of the band’s 1989’sThe Miracle.

The 40th anniversary edition release ofPrivate Dancerwill be released on March 21.

source: people.com