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Get Back (Ike & Tina Turner album)

1985 greatest hits album by Ike & Tina Turner

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ85763325 ↗
Source-derived summary

Get Back is a compilation album of Ike & Tina Turner's hits songs released by Liberty Records in March 1985.

Content and release

The album features songs the duo released as singles with the exception of "Let's Spend the Night Together" by the Rolling Stones which was released on Tina Turner's 1975 solo album Acid Queen.

Get Back was released nearly a year after Tina's critically acclaimed Private Dancer album. It reached at number 189 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart.

Critical reception

Cash Box (April 6, 1985): In the wake of Tina Turner's massive comeback success, this reissue of the duo's greatest hits should do well.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Get Back (Ike & Tina Turner album)” as 1985 greatest hits album by Ike & Tina Turner. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1985, 1975—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Back, Tina and Turner can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 1985 greatest hits album by Ike & Tina Turner. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q85763325. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1985 and 1975.

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This entry incorporates text from “Get Back (Ike & Tina Turner album)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.