On the list Billboard Hot 100 ten titles have been performed by the Swiss-American singer Tina Turner, passed away today, May 24, at the age of 83. He had retired ten years earlier.

In the first place, of course, the worldwide success. What Does Love Have To Do With Itwhich debuted on May 19, 1984 and spent three weeks in the top by Billboard. She established herself as a solo artist after parting ways with Ike Turner. Before her, authors Terry Britten and Graham Lyle had offered her to Sir Cliff Richard, Donna Summer and Bucks Fizz.

Tina didn’t like it at first either, she thought it was too ‘light and pop’ for her, who was always attached to the stone. But he accepted it because he thought it would force his style, strong and emotional. She became the oldest woman to get a number-one single at the time, at the age of 44.

In second place I don’t want to fight, from the 1993 album he titled What Does Love Have To Do With It, which he released along with his biopic of the same name. In this, Angela Bassett played Tina and Lawrence Fishburne to the abusive Ike.

Tina Turner already had another record in 1984, private dancer, in which is Rather be good to me, in which she sings: Must I be broken by your lack of commitment? You better be good to me, that’s how it has to be now.”

By 1985, his career had expanded to Hollywood, as a theme One of the living was part of the film’s soundtrack Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, in which Tina was invited to play the villainous Tía Ama. She was the tormentor of Mel Gibson’s character throughout the film.

He is also from 85 Private dancer, in which he assures that “all men are equal”. The video also references the artist’s skills as a dancer. That was the year he won an MTV Award, two American Music Awards and four Grammys. was also invited by Michael Jackson to participate in the joint video We are the world of which he was one of the most prominent voices.

also from crazy max the song came up We don’t need another hero, which received Grammy and Golden Globe nominations, again from authors Britten and Lyle. Tina said she connected with Aunt Love because she was a strong and resilient character, an adversary who doesn’t die at the end, but also doesn’t kill the hero, instead leaving him to the desert to decide what to do with it doing. “She has lost a lot and been through so much to make men respect her.”, he then said. The song went to number two in the United States.

From 1986 and by the same composers Typical malewhich Tina sang again at her concert in Barcelona, ​​​​​​Spain, in 1990, and whose official recording is on the artist’s YouTube channel.

His eighth most successful song on Billboard is Let’s stay together (1984), ironically, after her split from Ike. According to his fans, this was one of the favorite wedding songs in the US in his time.

The ninth is a collaboration “with a man from Canada”, Bryan Adams. In It’s only love joined their voicesand one of the live performances, filmed in Birmingham, England, in 1985, for a special of HBO, is on the singer’s channel. The duet is included on Adams’ album reckless.

There are as many as four versions of it Best (1989) on Tina Turner’s channel: the studio, the official video, the concert in Barcelona and the one in Arnhem, in the Netherlands, in 2009, when the singer was already 60 years old and still had all her energy. How long would you go on doing shows and singing live, without resorting to play? “As long as I feel good,” he replied in an interview with the BBC. It went on like this for thirteen years.