BE TENDER WITH ME BABY
TINA TURNER
SONGWRITER: HOLLY KNIGHT
COUNTRY: U, S. A.
ALBUM: FOREIGN AFFAIR
LABEL: CAPITOL RECORDS
GENRE: POP ROCK
YEAR: 1989
Tina Turner(born Anna Mae Bullock; November
26, 1939) is an American-born Swiss singer and actress. Widely referred to as
the "Queen
of Rock 'n' Roll", she rose to prominence as
the lead singer of the Ike and Tina
Turner Revue before launching a successful career
as a solo performer.
Turner began her career with Ike Turner's Kings of Rhythm in 1957.
Under the
name Little Ann, she appeared on her first record, "Boxtop",
in 1958. In 1960, she was introduced as Tina Turner with the hit duet single
"A Fool in Love". The duo
Ike & Tina Turner became "one of the most formidable live acts in
history". They released hits such as "It's Gonna
Work Out Fine", "River Deep –
Mountain High", "Proud Mary",
and "Nutbush City
Limits" before disbanding in 1976.
In the 1980s, Turner launched "one of
the greatest comebacks in music history". Her 1984 multi-platinum album Private Dancer contained the hit song "What's
Love Got to Do with It", which won the Grammy Award
for Record of the Year and became her
first and only Nº1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
At age 44, she was the oldest female solo artist to top the Hot 100. Her chart
success continued with "Better Be
Good to Me", "Private
Dancer", "We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)",
"Typical Male",
"The Best",
"I Don't Wanna
Fight", and "GoldenEye".
During her Break Every
Rule World Tour in 1988, she set a then-Guinness
World Record for the largest
paying audience(180,000) for a solo performer. Turner
also acted in the films Tommy(1975), Mad Max
Beyond Thunderdome(1985), and Last Action Hero(1993). In
1993, What's Love Got to Do with It,
a biopic adapted from
her autobiography I, Tina: My Life Story, was released.
In 2009, Turner retired after completing her Tina!: 50th
Anniversary Tour, which is the 15th highest-grossing tour of the 2000s. In 2018, she became the subject of the jukebox musical
Tina.
Foreign Affair is the seventh solo studio
album by Tina Turner,
released on September 13, 1989, through Capitol Records.
It was Turner's third album release after her massively successful comeback
five years earlier with Private Dancer and her third and last album with the label. Although the album was
not a major success in Turner's native United States, it was a huge
international hit, especially in Europe. The album reached number one on the UK Albums Chart, her
first number one album there. Dan Hartman produced most of the tracks on the album, including the hit single
"The Best",
which has gone on to become one of Turner's signature songs.
You got the right to
tell me it's all over
It isn't like me to be begging you
Don't let go, don't let go
Just stay with me another day
When I'm not myself please understand me
I'm so confused I don't know what to do
But don't give up, don't give up
It just may take a little time
Be tender with me
baby
I'm so afraid you'll go away
Be tender with me baby
Always, for always
I know that you've
been patient with my weakness
And that you hate to see me cry
But I know, yes I know
I doesn't have to be this way
But I'm so lonely I could die
Be tender with me
baby
I'm so afraid you'll go away
Be tender with me baby
Always, for always
Why does my heart
keep hurting
Why do I feel like I do
I hope you see this is not really me
That it's just a phase that I'm going through.