Look Me In The Heart (1990)

Look Me In The Heart is a pop song, taken from the album Foreign Affair. It’s the third single release in America and the fourth one in Europe, including remixed versions from Bryan 'Chuck' New. As a special bonus, the 12“ maxi single contains a giant poster and the gatefold CD includes the „Tina Turner Montage Mix“ with songs from her previously released albums. Tina promoted the song on French TV and performed it live only at the opening night of her Foreign Affair Tour in Antwerp. The single was not released in Germany, but was issued digitally worldwide in 2020.

Writer: Tom Kelly, Billy Steinberg
Producer: Dan Hartman
Release: February 1990 (USA) / July 1990 (UK) / 2020 (digital)
Label: Capitol / EMI
Format: 7“ Vinyl / 12“ Vinyl /  5“ CD / Cassette / Digital
Charts: USA: #8 (a/c), UK: #31
Album: Foreign Affair

7“ Vinyl / Cassette (UK)

7“ Vinyl / Cassette (USA, Australia)

12“ Vinyl

CD / Digital

CD Gatefold

The music video is very colorful with Tina wearing a purple suit, dancing around together with some people in crazy costumes. The clip was originally released on the Foreign Affair EP on VHS and in 1991 on the Simply The Best video collection on DVD. It’s also available on Tina’s official YouTube channel.

Director: Paula Walker
Producer: Line Postmyr
Home Video: Foreign Affair EP / Simply The Best
Time: 3:38

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Interview

Roger got this and he said "Listen to this song". I thought "Oh no Roger…It’s another one of those 'Oh no Rogers!'“ I said "It’s not right. It’s much too pop for me. It’s just not right". He says "Yes, but I have a feeling this song is something like 'Let’s Stay Together’“. I said "I don’t know how you hear that, I don’t". I got in the studio, neither did Dan Hartman. All of us felt like Oh God, here we go with that song today. And finally I said "Alright, listen we got to do it because Roger wants it done, just to see if we can get it". I said "get me a tape of 'Let’s Stay Together‘ and see if we can do it". We had one of those whizz kid keyboard players and he did a programme and it started to happen. We all started to become excited. Roger should have co-production on that one because it was his fault that we dug into it to try to make it happen because he believed in it. That’s what it takes sometimes. If someone believes in it. And I respect him enough to say "OK, if he believes in this song, I’m gonna do it"! because you never know. It’s one of my favorites now. They didn’t mind me changing it. We did change the melody. It was quite pop but we couldn’t get it to happen. It’s different when you get a demo of the record, and we couldn’t make it a record. So finally we took a little bit from old Al Green and there it was.