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Andy Jones

The worldwide Tina Turner smash hit that she thought was "throwaway pop", but ended up saving her career

Tina with Terry Britten.

Terry Britten is one of the best-selling songsmiths of our time, having written or co-written huge tracks for artists including Michael Jackson, Cliff Richard, Lenny Kravitz, Cathy Dennis, and Celine Dion. However, his songs for Tina Turner are not only his most successful, but they gave a huge boost to the late singer's career back in the mid 1980s.

Britten co-wrote What's Love Got to Do with It, which reached number one in the US in 1985 and won him a Grammy – see the picture of him collecting it with Tina above – and he then also had a hand in many other Turner songs including We Don't Need Another Hero for the film Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.

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