Pop Song 239 of 300 'The Best' Bonnie Tyler 1988 cover version by Tina Turner aka Simply the Best

Pop Song 239 of 300 'The Best' Bonnie Tyler 1988 cover version by Tina Turner aka Simply the Best

In 1989, American singer and songwriter Tina Turner recorded a cover version of "The Best" for her seventh solo studio album, Foreign Affair (1989), with a saxophone solo played by Edgar Winter. Prior to recording the song, Tina Turner approached the songwriter Holly Knight and requested some changes: the addition of a bridge, which Turner felt was missing, and a key change.

The song title is often colloquially mis-cited as "Simply the Best", reflecting a phrase in the chorus. This became so commonplace that the bracketed word 'Simply' was included in the titles for releases of some subsequent versions, and in the track listing for some Tina Turner compilation albums.