It Takes Two (Marvin Gaye and Kim Weston song) "Billboard" Pop charts and #4 on "Billboard"′s Soul Singles chart in January 1967. "It Takes Two" was also Gaye's first major hit in the UK, where it peaked at #16 on the British singles charts in the spring of that same year. In 1990 "It Takes Two" was covered by Rod Stewart and Tina Turner and featured in a television advertising campaign for Pepsi. It was released as the lead single from Stewart's album "Vagabond Heart", produced by Bernard Edwards and released in late 1990. The duet was a European hit, peaking at #5 in the UK, and becoming a
What It Takes (Aerosmith song) What It Takes (Aerosmith song) "What It Takes" is a power ballad by American hard rock band Aerosmith. Written by Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, and Desmond Child, it was released in 1989 as the third single from the critically and commercially successful 1989 album "Pump". "I'll put some ballads on an album," Tyler remarked, "if that's what it takes so that some young kid can get to hear a 'Young Lust' or 'F.I.N.E.*'." In the video "The Making of Pump", A&R man John Kalodner described the song as "a fuckin’ masterpiece". During live performances, Tyler sings the first verse a