Something Beautiful Remains

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"Something Beautiful Remains"
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Single by Tina Turner
from the album Wildest Dreams
B-side "Addicted to Love (Live)"
ReleasedOctober 19, 1996
Length4:22
Label Parlophone Records
Songwriter(s) Terry Britten & Graham Lyle
Producer(s) Terry Britten
Tina Turner singles chronology
"Missing You"
(1996)
"Something Beautiful Remains"
(1996)
"In Your Wildest Dreams"
(1996)
Music video
"Something Beautiful Remains" on YouTube

"Something Beautiful Remains" is a single released by Grammy Award-winning singer Tina Turner in 1996 on Tina's Wildest Dreams album.

Contents

This single was released exclusively in Europe and the version used was the Joe Urban Remix Edit, a slightly different edit was later included as a hidden track on the U.S. edition of the Wildest Dreams album.

As shown in the promo video, on certain dates of the 1996/1997 Wildest Dreams Tour , the track was played as the final encore. In 2004, the original Wildest Dreams album version of the song was the closing track on the hits compilation All the Best .

In 2023, the song was remixed by producer Terry Britten, a long-time collaborator of Turner, and got the bit shorter title "Something Beautiful". It appears on the greatest hits compilation Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll . [1]

Versions

Chart performance

Chart performance for "Something Beautiful Remains"
Chart (1996–1997)Peak
position
Belgium (Ultratip Bubbling Under Flanders) [3] 15
Europe (European Hot 100 Singles) [4] 86
Scotland (OCC) [5] 21
UK Singles (OCC) [6] 27

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