TINA TURNER - BE TENDER WITH ME BABY

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.