Tina Turner hated 'What's Love Obtained to Do With It?' however her supervisor insisted she file it. She devoted a Grammy to him after the tune gained 3.

• Tina Turner initially hated her hit tune “What’s Love Obtained To Do With It?” 
• She solely recorded it after her producer, Roger Davies, made her meet with the tune’s producer. 
• Turner later devoted a Grammy she gained for that tune to Davies. 

Queen of Rock Tina Turner initially hated “What’s Love Obtained To Do With It?” and solely recorded her hit tune after her supervisor insisted she did so.

“I believed ‘What’s Love’ … it might be an enormous tune,” Turner’s supervisor Roger Davies stated within the 2021 HBO Documentary in regards to the star’s life, “Tina.” 

He continued: “Tina by no means actually favored it.” 

Turner, who died on Wednesday, agreed within the documentary, laughing and calling the tune “horrible.”

“I used to be rock and roll. I used to be not … that was a pop tune,” she stated. 

Davies satisfied Turner to satisfy the producer, Terry Britten, who recalled Turner telling him that she did not just like the tune and that she solely confirmed up as a result of Davies informed her to. 

Turner and Britten ultimately reworked the tune to suit her repertoire, with Britten saying he was “surprised after the session” with Turner. 

“I transformed it and made it my very own,” Turner stated of the 1984 hit. 

The tune ultimately hit primary on the Billboard chart and earned three Grammys — Document of the 12 months, Music of the 12 months, and Finest Feminine Pop Efficiency. Turner devoted her Document of the 12 months award to Davies. 

“I would prefer to take this award and provides it to somebody who’s been great to me as a pal and in enterprise and in lots of, some ways, my supervisor, Roger Davies,” Turner stated in her acceptance speech. “It has been a beautiful 12 months.” 

Turner “died peacefully” in Switzerland on Wednesday after a “lengthy sickness,” her household stated in an announcement shared with Rolling Stone. She was 83.

“Immediately we are saying goodbye to a pricey pal who leaves us all her best work: her music. All our heartfelt compassion goes out to her household. Tina, we are going to miss you dearly,” learn a publish on her Instagram web page.