The album that unquestionably coronated Tina Turner as the Queen of Rock and Roll will be celebrated with a new deluxe box set this spring: 1984's blockbuster Private Dancer.

Available March 14, the album - featuring the hits "What's Love Got to Do with It," "Better Be Good to Me," the scintillating title track and more - will be reissued as a 5CD/Blu-ray deluxe box packed with rare B-sides, remixes, additional studio material from the Private Dancer era (including the unreleased "Hot for You Baby," which you can hear below), selections from two concerts and restored live footage and music videos. A 2CD package will include the remastered album and an expanded version of the disc of the main single edits, B-sides and remixes, adding "Hot for You Baby" and two of the live tracks originally released as B-sides. (It's all differently curated from a similar reissue from 2015, albeit utilizing the same mastering on the material from that set). Two vinyl variants will be available: the original album pressed on picture disc and pearl colored vinyl. (Both feature the album's now-standard U.K. cover art, while an art card with the pearl set offers the portrait of Tina seen on American pressings.)

In a year jam-packed with stellar pop stars and their dizzying achievements, Tina Turner's comeback story stands out as one of 1984's greatest. Though several years liberated from her abusive ex-husband and musical partner Ike Turner, her attempts at solo success had fizzled, and despite some high-profile appearances, including a 1981 turn on Saturday Night Live opposite Rod Stewart and an opening slot for The Rolling Stones that same year, Turner was trapped somewhere between novelty and nostalgia. That's when the B.E.F. (British Electronic Foundation) came calling. The side project of ex-Human League (and current Heaven 17) members Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh collaborated with Tina on a spirited cover of The Temptations "Ball of Confusion (That's What the World is Today)" that appeared on the B.E.F. collection Music of Quality and Distinction (Volume One) in 1982. Alongside other synth-driven covers sung by Heaven 17 frontman Glenn Gregory, pop tunesmith Sandie Shaw, TV presenter Paula Yates and others, it was the compilation's stand-out track. Capitol Records agreed, offering her a record deal and released another B.E.F. team-up: a take on Al Green's "Let's Stay Together" that reached No. 6 on the U.K. charts.

But that was just the beginning. Private Dancer came together in just a few short weeks, offering pop-friendly crossover material and covers from a quartet of mostly British production teams. "Let's Stay Together" and another cover, David Bowie's "1984," were B.E.F. collaborations, while Rupert Hine oversaw the album's opener "I Might Have Been Queen" and the bubbly original "Better Be Good to Me," written by the journeyman team of Mike Chapman, Nicky Chinn and Holly Knight. John Carter (one-half of the songwriting duo behind Herman's Hermits' hit "Can't You Hear My Heartbeat") helmed two tracks including the title song, co-written by Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits and featuring a guitar solo by Jeff Beck. American soul session icons Leon "Ndugu" Chancler, Joe Sample and Wilton Felder (the latter two members of The Crusaders) contributed a unique cover of The Beatles' "Help!" that only made British pressings of the album, while Terry Britten produced the rest, including a song he co-wrote with partner Graham Lyle that was nearly a Bucks Fizz track until Turner claimed it as her own: "What's Love Got to Do with It."

"What's Love" lit the fuse for Turner as a bona fide global sensation, topping the Billboard Hot 100 and reaching No. 3 in the U.K.; "Better Be Good to Me" and "Private Dancer" reached the Top 10 in America, while the LP reached the Top 5 on both sides of the Atlantic (selling more than 5 million copies in the States alone). The following year, "What's Love" took home three Grammy Awards for Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Pop Female Vocal Performance, while "Better Be Good to Me" netted a trophy for Best Rock Female Vocal Performance. Turner also extended her chart reign into 1985, recording the worldwide Top 5 hit "We Don't Need Another Hero" and the U.S. Top 20 "One of the Living" for the George Miller action film Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome - a film she'd also star in opposite Mel Gibson as the wily Aunty Entity. (The set's third disc features all the single versions and mixes of the Mad Max material, along with rare and unreleased oddities including the outtake "Total Control," released on the charity album We Are the World; an unheard dub version of "What's Love"; and a rare U.K. single version of "Private Dancer" that legally overdubs a line referencing American Express with one about British pounds sterling for listeners in that country.

Turner hadn't lost a step as a live performer in this (or any) period, a point borne out on the box's remaining contents. The first live concert CD is a completely unreleased theater set at Chicago's Park West, offering the cream of Private Dancer plus covers of Prince ("Let's Pretend We're Married") and ZZ Top ("Legs") as well as her Ike & Tina favorites "Proud Mary," "River Deep, Mountain High" and "Nutbush City Limits." The second captures the Private Dancer tour in its overseas arena phase, coming to the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham in 1985 with key tracks from the album and a few choice surprise performances: duets of "It's Only Love" with Bryan Adams - the duo took the track to the U.S. Top 20 on Adams' Reckless - and "Tonight," a duet with David Bowie from his 1984 album of the same name. (The pair also did Bowie's blockbuster "Let's Dance," heard here in two versions.) The restored Birmingham audio paired with a home video release that makes up part of the box's Blu-ray Disc, alongside eight dramatically music videos in high-definition, including a new transfer of "Let's Stay Together" restored from original 16 millimeter elements, and two edits of the "Private Dancer" clip remastered from new 35 millimeter scans. (There has been some confusion from the original press solicitation and pre-order link information, but we can definitively confirm from a Rhino team member who watched the disc to confirm, that the Private Dancer Tour video release is included on the Blu-ray.)

Pre-order links for all versions of the Private Dancer reissue are below; it'll be available March 14. (As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.)

Tina Turner, Private Dancer (40th Anniversary Edition) (Parlophone/Rhino, 2025)

5CD/1BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
Pearl LP with art card: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
Picture Disc: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada

* Previously unreleased ** previously unreleased on CD

CD 1: Original Album (2015 Remaster) (released as Capitol TINA 1 (U.K.)/ST-12330 (U.S.), 1984)

1. I Might Have Been Queen
2. What's Love Got to Do with It
3. Show Some Respect
4. I Can't Stand the Rain
5. Private Dancer
6. Let's Stay Together
7. Better Be Good to Me
8. Steel Claw
9. Help
10. 1984

CD 2: B-Sides, Single Edits and Extended Remixes (also included on 2CD set with additional tracks marked + below)

1. I Wrote a Letter
2. Rock 'N' Roll Widow
3. Don't Rush the Good Things
4. When I Was Young
5. Keep Your Hands Off My Baby
6. Let's Stay Together (Single Edit)
7. Help (Single Edit)
8. Better Be Good to Me (Single Edit)
9. Private Dancer (Single Edit)
10. What's Love Got to Do with It (Extended 12" Remix)
11. Better Be Good to Me (Extended 12" Remix)
12. I Can't Stand the Rain (Extended 12" Remix)
13. Show Some Respect (Extended 12" Remix)

Tracks 1 and 6 released as Capitol U.K. single CL 316, 1983
Tracks 2 and 7 released as Capitol U.K. single CL 325, 1984
Tracks 3 and 10 released as Capitol U.K. 12" 12CL 334, 1984
Tracks 4 and 8 released as Capitol U.K. single CL 338, 1984
Tracks 5 and 9 released as Capitol U.K. single 1A 006-20 0317 7, 1984
Track 11 released on Capitol U.K. 12" 12CL 338, 1984
Track 12 released on Capitol U.K. 12" 12CL 352, 1985
Track 13 released on Capitiol U.S. 12" V-8635, 1985

CD 3: Unreleased & Rare Tracks plus Other Singles

1. Hot for You Baby * +
2. Let's Stay Together (Alternative Radio Mix, 1983)
3. Let's Stay Together (TV Instrumental) *
4. What's Love Got to Do with It (Dub Mix) *
5. Private Dancer (Sterling Version)
6. Total Control
7. Ball of Confusion (That's What the World is Today) (with B.E.F.) (Remix)
8. We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome) (Single Edit)
9. One of the Living (Single Remix)
10. We Don't Need Another Hero (Extended Mix)
11. One of the Living (Special Club Mix)
12. We Don't Need Another Hero (Dub Version)
13. One of the Living (Dub Version)

Track 2 released on Capitol U.K. promo single PSR 466, 1983
Track 5 released on Capitol U.K. promo single CLDJ 343, 1984
Track 6 released on We Are the World - Columbia USA 40043, 1985
Track 7 released on The Collected Recordings (Sixties to Nineties) - Capitol CDEST 2240 (U.K.)/CDP 72438 29724 2 6 (U.S.), 1994. Original mix from Music of Quality and Distinction (Volume One) - Virgin V2219 (U.K.), 1982
Original versions of Tracks 8-13 released on Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - Capitol EJ 24 0380 1 (U.K.)/SWAV-12429 (U.S.), 1985

• Track 8 released on Capitol U.K. single CL 364, 1985
• Tracks 9 and 13 released as Capitol U.K. single CL 376, 1985
• Tracks 10 and 12 released as Capitol U.K. 12" 12CL 364, 1985
• Track 11 released on Capitol U.K. 12" 12CL 376, 1985

CD 4: World Tour '84 - Live at Park West, Chicago, IL - 8/2/1984

1. Let's Pretend We're Married +
2. Show Some Respect *
3. I Might Have Been Queen *
4. River Deep, Mountain High *
5. Nutbush City Limits +
6. What's Love Got to Do with It *
7. I Can't Stand the Rain *
8. Better Be Good to Me *
9. Private Dancer *
10. Let's Stay Together *
11. Help *
12. Proud Mary *
13. Legs *

Track 1 released on "I Can't Stand the Rain" U.K. single - Capitol CL 352, 1984
Track 5 released on "Private Dancer" U.K. single - Capitol CL 343, 1984

CD 5: Private Dancer Tour - Live from NEC Arena, Birmingham, England - 3/23-24/1985

1. Show Some Respect **
2. I Might Have Been Queen **
3. What's Love Got to Do with It **
4. I Can't Stand the Rain **
5. Better Be Good to Me **
6. Private Dancer **
7. Let's Stay Together **
8. Help **
9. It's Only Love (feat. Bryan Adams)
10. Tonight (feat. David Bowie)
11. Let's Dance (Version I - feat. David Bowie)
12. Let's Dance (Version II - feat. David Bowie) **

Tracks 9-11 released on Tina Live in Europe - Capitol ESTD 1 (U.K.)/C1 90126 (U.S.), 1988

Blu-ray: Private Dancer Tour - Live from NEC Arena, Birmingham, England - 3/23-24/1985 (same track list as above - released on laserdisc as Picture Music International MLP 99 1085 1 (U.K.)/Pioneer Arts PA-85 140 (U.S.), 1985) and Promo videos

* restored from original 16mm footage ** restored from original 35 mm footage

• Let's Stay Together *
• Help
• What's Love Got to Do with It (Colour Version)
• What's Love Got to Do with It (Black & White Version)
• Better Be Good to Me
• Private Dancer (Full-Length Version) **
• Private Dancer (Edited Version) **
• Show Some Respect