| Tonight | |
| Border: | yes |
| Artist: | Iggy Pop |
| Album: | Lust for Life |
| Genre: | Rock |
| Label: | RCA |
| Producer: | David Bowie |
"Tonight" is a song written by David Bowie and Iggy Pop for the latter's second solo studio album, Lust for Life (1977). The song was later made into the title-track for Bowie's own album Tonight (1984).
| Tonight | |
| Cover: | David bowie - tonight 12 inch single cover.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | David Bowie |
| Album: | Tonight |
| B-Side: | Tumble and Twirl |
| Released: | [1] |
| Recorded: | May 1984 |
| Studio: | Le Studio, Morin-Heights, Quebec, Canada |
| Length: | 3:43 |
| Label: | EMI – |
| Prev Title: | Blue Jean |
| Prev Year: | 1984 |
| Next Title: | This Is Not America |
| Next Year: | 1985 |
Bowie covered the song with guest singer Tina Turner in 1984 for his sixteenth studio album of the same name. One of three Iggy Pop covers on the album, it was recorded as a duet with Turner, but the single release was only credited to Bowie. The original spoken-word introduction to the 1977 version, establishing that the lyric is addressed to a lover dying of a heroin overdose, was excised from Bowie's version because Bowie regarded it as an "idiosyncrasy" of Iggy Pop that did not match his own personal vocabulary. Bowie also stated that he didn't want to "inflict" that part of the song on Tina Turner, either. The reggae-style song, which features a repeated sample from Aretha Franklin's version of "Spanish Harlem",[2] [3] reached No. 53 on both the UK Singles Chart and the Billboard Hot 100.
Production
| Chart (1984–1985) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australia (Kent Music Report)[4] | 70 |
| US Mainstream Rock (Billboard)[5] | 32 |
| Tonight (Live) | |
| Cover: | Tina turner david bowie-tonight s 1-1-.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Tina Turner duet with David Bowie |
| Album: | Tina Live in Europe |
| B-Side: | "River Deep – Mountain High" (Live) |
| Released: | 28 November 1988 (EU)[6] |
| Venue: | National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham |
| Label: | Capitol |
| Producer: | Terry Britten |
David Bowie would perform the song live with Tina Turner at the latter's 23 March 1985 concert at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham. This version was included on Turner's live album Tina Live in Europe three years later, and also released as a single in late 1988, then becoming a number-one hit in the Netherlands.
| Chart (1988–1989) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Europe (European Hot 100 Singles)[7] | 70 |
| Germany (Official German Charts)[8] | 39 |
| Chart (1989) | Position | |
|---|---|---|
| Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[9] | 18 | |
| Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[10] | 5 | |
| Netherlands (Single Top 100)[11] | 11 |