A lost Tina Turner track has been unearthed from the vaults after four decades – but critics say it is simply not The Best.
The previously unreleased record Hot For You, Baby was originally intended for her 1984 album Private Dancer.
Recorded at Hollywood’s Capitol Studios, the song was instead shelved in favour of her chart-topping hits such as What’s Love Got To Do With It and Better Be Good To Me.
Instead, the single made its debut on Thursday on the BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show with Mark Goodier, two years after the singer’s death aged 83.
Critics have called the late Ms Turner’s track ‘banal’ and have said they ‘understand why it didn’t make the final cut of the album’.
One reviewer Alexis Petridis wrote: ‘It isn’t, by any stretch of the imagination, a lost classic’.
The unearthed rock track was produced by John Grant, the record executive who masterminded her mid-career comeback.
Written by Australian musicians George Young and Harry Vanda, it had already been recorded once by Scottish-Australian singer John Paul Young, the voice behind disco classic Love Is In The Air.
Fan reaction to the newly discovered single has also been mixed.
While one hailed the Proud Mary singer to have ‘helped me survive’, others have been less enthusiastic.
Disappointed fans said their day was ‘ruined’ by hearing it on BBC Radio 2.
One fan shared: ‘A lot of her released stuff was very average, so stuff she didn’t want released ain’t gonna be good. And now I’ve heard the song, I was right.’
