Test your knowledge of Tina Turner's biggest hits, deep cuts and iconic moments.
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Her biggest ones land from the first bars, from the slow build of 'Proud Mary' to the strut of 'What's Love Got to Do with It'. The twist is that most of them are covers she made unmistakably her own.
The stories behind the songs decide the close ones: a 'Proud Mary' that started with Creedence, a chart-topper other singers turned down, and a signature anthem Bonnie Tyler cut a year first.
The deeper you go, the trickier it gets. It opens on the anthems everyone knows, then the covers, then the writers who actually penned the hits, and finally the rare few, like 'Nutbush City Limits', she wrote herself.
These land from the first bars: the horn-punch of 'The Best', the slow build of 'Proud Mary', the strut of 'What's Love Got to Do with It'. Most players name them fast, so they are the easy opening points on any Tina Turner quiz, no matter who first recorded them.
Here is where the quiz sharpens. 'Proud Mary' started with Creedence Clearwater Revival, 'The Best' was a Bonnie Tyler single, and 'Let's Stay Together' is an Al Green classic. You may know every Tina Turner version by heart, but the trap is remembering she did not write them.
Deeper fans track the songwriting. 'What's Love Got to Do with It' came from Terry Britten and Graham Lyle, 'Private Dancer' from Dire Straits' Mark Knopfler, and 'GoldenEye' from Bono and The Edge. Knowing who handed her the song is what separates a good score from a great one.
The flip side is the handful she authored herself, led by 'Nutbush City Limits', named after her Tennessee hometown. Add the film work, 'We Don't Need Another Hero' from Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, and her hard-driving cover of the Beatles' 'Help!', and you have cleared the whole board.
Play a Tina Turner quiz on Songtrivia and find out. Guess the song from a short clip across the Ike & Tina years and her Private Dancer comeback. Naming the anthems is easy; the harder points come from knowing which ones she wrote and which she borrowed.
Many of them are. 'Proud Mary' came from Creedence Clearwater Revival, 'The Best' was a Bonnie Tyler single, and 'Let's Stay Together' is an Al Green song. Her raspy voice made each one feel like the original, which is exactly what the quiz tests.
'What's Love Got to Do with It', 'The Best', 'Proud Mary' and 'Private Dancer' are named fastest. 'We Don't Need Another Hero' from Mad Max comes up for the film fans.
The anthems are easy points, but most were written by other people, so the real challenge is provenance: which songs are covers, who wrote them, and which few, like 'Nutbush City Limits', she wrote herself.
She was born Anna Mae Bullock in Brownsville, Tennessee, in 1939, and grew up in nearby Nutbush. She performed as Tina Turner from her Ike & Tina days until her death in Switzerland in 2023.
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