Girls (Tina Turner song)

"Girls"
Single by Tina Turner
from the album Break Every Rule
B-side	"Take Me to the River"
Released	February 1987
Format	7" 12"
Genre	Pop rock
Length	4:56
Label	Capitol
Writer(s)	David Bowie Erdal Kizilcay
Producer(s)	Terry Britten
Tina Turner singles chronology
"Two People" (1986) "Girls" (1986) "What You Get Is What You See" (1986)

"Girls" is a song by recording artist Tina Turner, from her 1986 album Break Every Rule. It was written by David Bowie and Erdal Kizilcay and produced by Terry Britten. Phil Collins plays drums on the recording. Upon its single released, it became a top 20 hit on the Dutch Singles Chart.

Bowie later recorded two different versions of the song himself during the Never Let Me Down sessions, one with vocals in English and another with vocals in Japanese. Both versions appeared as B-sides for different formats of the "Time Will Crawl" single in 1987.

Other releases

• A live version by Tina Turner was released on the album Tina Live in Europe in 1988.
• An "extended edit" of Bowie's English-language version appeared as a bonus track on the 1995 Virgin Records reissue of Never Let Me Down.

Cover versions

• Kill the Audience – The Dark Side of David Bowie: A Tribute to David Bowie (1997)

Charts

Chart (1987)	Peak position
scope="row"	Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[1]	16

References

1. "Nederlandse Top 40 – week 12, 1987" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40 Retrieved September 23, 2015.

External links

• Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics