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
Ike & Tina Turner series of rehearsals, one-nighters at the chitlin' circuit, and Tina's confusing relationship with Ike began to take a toll. Tina complained to Turner that she wanted to leave. Ike responded by hitting her in the head with a wooden shoe stretcher, starting a period of domestic abuse that would endure for nearly two decades. Ike and Tina later married in 1962 in Tijuana, Mexico. After the duo's follow-up, "I'm Jealous", performed horribly, the duo scored another top five R&B hit with "I Idolize You". All three songs were part of the first Ike and Tina album, "The Soul of Ike