American Songwriter

I Bet You Forgot About the Song That Started Tina Turner’s Comeback (and It Was Also Her First-Ever US Hit)

Tina Turner covered an Al Green song in late 1983. That song delivered her first US Top 40 hit and started her comeback.

The story of the mongrel mix that became the original rock’n’roll anthem

Perkins’s close friend Elvis Presley recorded it himself soon after, taking it to the American masses via sensational TV ...