The Song Tina Turner Almost Rejected Won the Biggest Grammy

In 1983, Tina Turner heard "What's Love Got to Do with It" for the first time and called it terrible. She didn't want to record it. A producer convinced her to try anyway — and suggested she jog in place at the microphone to find the rhythm her voice kept missing. Eighteen months later, she stood at the Grammy podium holding the Record of the Year award for that exact song, paused for three seconds, and said: "I've been waiting for this opportunity for such a long time." This is the story of those three seconds — and everything that was inside them.