Tina Turner won Record of the Year at the 1985 Grammy Awards for What’s Love Got to Do with It.
The song was released in 1984 as part of Turner’s album Private Dancer. It became her first and only solo number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100 and was central to her comeback as a major solo star after her separation from Ike Turner.
At the 1985 Grammys, the recording won Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Record of the Year recognized the finished recording, while Song of the Year went to the songwriters Terry Britten and Graham Lyle.
The title is often written with different punctuation, including a question mark. Turner’s Grammy victory is sometimes conflated with her later acting career, particularly her role in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. The award itself was for the 1984 recording, before that film appeared.