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To celebrate 50 years since the start of Tina Turners iconic solo career, Queen of Rock n Roll is a huge compilation of 55 tracks that compiles an incredible anthology of Tinas legendary solo career through her singles. From her cover of Whole Lotta Love all the way up to the Kygo remix of Whats Love Got to Do With It in 2020, this is the first time her whole singles collection has been released as one set. Released on 24 November 2023. To celebrate the legacy of the undeniable and inimitable Queen of Rock n Roll, this collection also features a new version of Something Beautiful Remains retitled to simply Something Beautiful. The track has been reworked by legendary producer and longtime collaborator of Tina, Terry Britten, and is an emotive and fitting final tribute to the power of her legacy that Terry made shortly after her passing, he said Dear Tina, the experience of working with you could never be repeated, but in my heart something beautiful remains. Love, Terry .Tinas first release as a solo artist was the 1974 album Tina Turns The Country On whilst still touring and releasing albums as duo Ike amp Tina Turner Revue. The album spawned no singles but in 1975 upon the release of her second album Acid Queen her cover of Led Zeppelins Whole Lotta Love was released which kicks off this set which goes on to including duets with other legendary performers like David Bowie, Bryan Adams, Eric Clapton and Rod Stewart as well as some of the most unforgettable and celebrated pop and rock singles of all time such as Whats Love Got To Do With It, Private Dancer, We Dont Need Another Hero, The Best, Steamy Windows, I Dont Wanna Lose You, Disco Inferno to name but a few. Tina has sold over 200 million records and has had ten UK top ten hit singles and nine UK top 10 albums and was the first female artist to have a top 40 hit in six consecutive decades in the UK. Her albums combined are 20x platinum in the UK and 9x platinum in the US whilst also achieving huge sales throughout the rest of the world. She has won eight Grammy Awards and been nominated for 25. She was inducted into the Rock amp Roll Hall of Fame in 1991, has stars on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame and St. Louis Walk of Fame. Her 1988 Break Every Rule tour, broke the world record for the largest paying audience at a solo concert, with 184,000 at the Maracanatilde in Rio de Janeiro and Rolling Stone Magazine named her 17 in 100 Greatest Singers of All Time and 63 in 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. Tina Turner Bundle is available for home delivery from Vinyl Records London, only £47 +P&P