Tina Turner’s most unforgettable tracks

River Deep – Mountain High

“River Deep, Mountain High” is a song as seen as it is heard. For all the successful covers the track has spawned—and the fact that she released it alongside then-husband Ike Turner—the immediate image that the first notes bring to mind is Tina, shaggy-haired, unencumbered, and dancing in a swath of sequins. Come for “River Deep, Mountain High”’s rousing, choir-backed build and Turner’s formidable, flexible vocal; stay for songwriting that, top to bottom, captures the soaring, reverent, overwhelming feeling of being head over heels in love. How do you describe a romance so all-encompassing your whole world starts to revolve around it? It’s no easy question, but the way Turner answered it here—with her body, her voice, her spirit, and her characteristic undeniability—is a masterful example of no-holds-barred performance. [Hattie Lindert]