TINA Turner’s brief to her manager Roger Davies and producers was that she wanted strong, empowering material written by the likes of Prince and David Bowie for this, her post-Ike “make or break" album.

She was initially less than impressed with the song submitted by Terry Britten: a song previously recorded by Bucks Fizz. As it turns out, Britten’s What’s Love Got To Do With It won the Grammy Award for the Song of the Year 1985, and became an iconic song in the Tina Turner songbook.

At last, three decades on, the Prince song (Let’s Pretend We’re Married) Turner used to open her pre-Private Dancer UK concerts is included on this handsome expanded two-disc collection.

Bowie’s 1984 made the original release, augmented with a live duet of Tonight with the great man himself.

The original album, although played to death in ’85, still sounds fresh and exciting, and in places touches pure genius. The Mark Knopfler title track in particular still makes the hairs on the back of the neck quiver with excitement.

The bonus 15-track disc will be of greatest interest to fans, desperate for digital versions of long lost 12” cuts, and Terry Britten’s second mega hit with Miss Turner, We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome).