"Better Be Good to Me" is a song written by #MikeChapman and #HollyKnight and #NickyChinn, recorded by singer #TinaTurner for her solo studio album #PrivateDancer (1984) and released as a single in early September 1984. The song was originally recorded and released in 1981 by #Spider, a band from #NewYorkCity that featured co-writer Knight as a member. Turner's version peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US and No. 6 on the then- #HotBlackSingles charts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyU7BbQSm98
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"Love Is a Battlefield" is a song by American singer #PatBenatar, released on September 12, 1983, as a single from Benatar's live album #LiveFromEarth (1983), though the song itself was a studio recording. It was written by #HollyKnight and #MikeChapman. The song was ranked at number 30 in #VH1's list of the 100 Greatest Songs of the 1980s. #LoveIsABattlefield went on to sell over a million records.
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"Obsession" is a 1983 song by #HollyKnight and #MichaelDesBarres, written and recorded in 1983. This version was played in the romantic drama film #ANightInHeaven (1983), during a scene in which #ChristopherAtkins bumps and grinds in #LesleyAnnWarren's face in sync with the rhythm of the song. The song was featured on the film's soundtrack and was also featured in the theatrical trailer to the erotic romantic drama film #9½Weeks (1986), starring #MickeyRourke.
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"Obsession" is a 1983 song by #HollyKnight and #MichaelDesBarres, covered in 1984 by American #synthpop band #Animotion. The song hit number six in the United States, and number five in the United Kingdom in June 1985, helped by a distinctive music video that #MTV played frequently. "#Obsession" also hit the top 40 on the US dance chart, twice: once in 1984 (the single reached No. 35 the week ending November 24); then in 1986, as a double-sided hit.
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"Never" is a song by American rock band #Heart, released on August 29, 1985, as the second single from the band's eponymous eighth studio album (1985). It was written by #HollyKnight, Gene Bloch (from the band #Device) and "Connie" (a pseudonym for #AnnWilson, #NancyWilson, and #SueEnnis). "Never" is a #rockSong with an uplifting lyric to a person who has been discouraged by love. Like the preceding "#WhatAboutLove".
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"Love Is a Battlefield" is a song by American singer #PatBenatar, released on September 12, 1983, as a single from Benatar's live album #LiveFromEarth (1983), though the song itself was a studio recording. It was written by #HollyKnight and #MikeChapman. The song was ranked at number 30 in #VH1's list of the 100 Greatest Songs of the 1980s. "Love Is a Battlefield" went on to sell over a million records.
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"Obsession" is a 1983 song by #HollyKnight and #MichaelDesBarres, covered in 1984 by American #synthpop band #Animotion. The song hit number six in the United States, and number five in the United Kingdom in June 1985, helped by a distinctive music video that #MTV played frequently. "#Obsession" also hit the top 40 on the US dance chart, twice: once in 1984 (the single reached No. 35 the week ending November 24); then in 1986, as a double-sided hit.
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Ted Tocks Covers
Better Be Good to Me
Originally posted on May 24, 2024
Remembering Tina Turner!!
“A prisoner of your love
Entangled in your web
Hot whispers in the night
I'm captured by your spell (captured)
Oh, yes, I'm touched by this show of emotion
Should I be fractured by your lack of devotion?
Should I?”#spider #tinaturner #hollyknight #If #JoanneKelly #melissaetheridge #mikechapman #NickyChinn
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"It’s one of those weirdly chronically listenable things that just works, even though it’s both very much of it’s time and in many ways (for folks that aren’t #80s tune-nerds), somewhat non-descript. It could fit between #HollyKnight and #MissingPersons and The Motels and #MrMister and…"
https://zeruch.wordpress.com/2025/02/19/sounds-that-have-been-made-ep-138-blue-yonder-indigo/
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Tina Turner // #TinaTurner //
Better Be Good to Me
[album Private Dancer, 1984]//via // #CapitolRecords #EMIRecords #ParlophoneRecords //
#brandunbrand #youtube #music #TinaTurner #PrivateDancer #BetterBeGoodToMe #RupertHine #JamieWestOram #TrevorMorais #CyCurnin #MikeChapman
#HollyKnightlink youtube: https://youtu.be/qyU7BbQSm98
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"The Warrior" is a song by American rock band #Scandal featuring #PattySmyth, from their debut and sole studio album, #Warrior, written by #HollyKnight and #NickGilder. The song went to number seven in the United States and number one in Canada, as well as number one on the US #RockTopTracks chart, and won a #BMI Airplay Award in 1984. It was also a hit in Australia, where it peaked at number six, and in New Zealand and South Africa.
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Ted Tocks Covers - Year 7 - Day 45
Better Be Good to Me
Forty years ago today, Tina Turner released her acclaimed comeback album, ‘Private Dancer’. The album featured seven associated singles including the powerful statement ‘Better Be Good to Me’.
“A prisoner of your love
Entangled in your web
Hot whispers in the night
I'm captured by your spell”#Spider #TinaTurner #HollyKnight #MikeChapman #NickyChinn #JoanneKelly #MelissaEtheridge #IF
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In checking out the soundtrack for Vision Quest, the name #HollyKnight jumped out at me as familiar.
I knew her from her band Device, but I hadn't realized that she had written and co-written so many of my favorite tunes from the 1980s:
From her Wikipedia page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holly_Knight :
Holly Knight is an American songwriter, musician, and singer. She was a member of the 1980s pop rock groups Spider and Device, and wrote or co-wrote several hit singles for other artists, such as "Rag Doll", "Obsession", "Love Is a Battlefield", "The Best", "Invincible", "Better Be Good to Me", "The Warrior", and "Change".