Tina Turner: Private Dancer (Vinyl LP)
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Private Dancer is the fifth solo studio album by recording artist Tina Turner. Marking her debut with the record company, it was released by Capitol Records in May 1984. Recording sessions for the album took place at several studios in England and was overseen by four different production teams, including Rupert Hine, and Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh of Heaven 17. A radical departure from the rhythm and blues sound Turner had performed with her former husband and performing partner Ike Turner, the tracks in the album are a mixture of uptempos and ballads, which are basically inspired by pop and rock genres; it also features elements of smooth jazz and R&B.In 1984, a 45-year-old Tina Turner made one of the most amazing comebacks in the history of American popular music. A few years earlier, it was hard to imagine the veteran soul/rock belter reinventing herself and returning to the top of the pop charts, but she did exactly that with the outstanding Private Dancer. And Turner did so without sacrificing her musical integrity. To be sure, this pop/rock/R&B pearl is decidedly slicker than such raw, earthy, hard-edged Ike & Tina classics as ''Proud Mary,'' ''Sexy Ida,'' and ''I Wanna Take You Higher.'' But she still has a tough, throaty, passionate delivery that serves her beautifully on everything from the melancholy, reggae-influenced ''What's Love Got to Do With It'' to the gutsy ''Better Be Good to Me'' to heartfelt remakes of the Beatles' ''Help,'' Al Green's ''Let's Stay Together,'' and David Bowie's ''1984.'' A reflection on the emptiness of a stripper's life, the dusky title song is as poignant as it is depressing. Without question, this was Turner's finest hour as a solo artist.TRACKLISTA1 I Might Have Been Queen 4:08A2 What's Love Got To Do With It 3:49A3 Show Some Respect 3:19A4 I Can't Stand The Rain 3:40A5 Better Be Good To Me 5:14B1 Let's Stay Together 5:15B2 1984 3:10B3 Steel Claw 3:40B4 Private Dancer 7:16
Private Dancer is the fifth solo studio album by recording artist Tina Turner. Marking her debut with the record company, it was released by Capitol Records in May 1984. Recording sessions for the album took place at several studios in England and was overseen by four different production teams, including Rupert Hine, and Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh of Heaven 17. A radical departure from the rhythm and blues sound Turner had performed with her former husband and performing partner Ike Turner, the tracks in the album are a mixture of uptempos and ballads, which are basically inspired by pop and rock genres; it also features elements of smooth jazz and R&B.In 1984, a 45-year-old Tina Turner made one of the most amazing comebacks in the history of American popular music. A few years earlier, it was hard to imagine the veteran soul/rock belter reinventing herself and returning to the top of the pop charts, but she did exactly that with the outstanding Private Dancer. And Turner did so without sacrificing her musical integrity. To be sure, this pop/rock/R&B pearl is decidedly slicker than such raw, earthy, hard-edged Ike & Tina classics as ''Proud Mary,'' ''Sexy Ida,'' and ''I Wanna Take You Higher.'' But she still has a tough, throaty, passionate delivery that serves her beautifully on everything from the melancholy, reggae-influenced ''What's Love Got to Do With It'' to the gutsy ''Better Be Good to Me'' to heartfelt remakes of the Beatles' ''Help,'' Al Green's ''Let's Stay Together,'' and David Bowie's ''1984.'' A reflection on the emptiness of a stripper's life, the dusky title song is as poignant as it is depressing. Without question, this was Turner's finest hour as a solo artist.TRACKLISTA1 I Might Have Been Queen 4:08A2 What's Love Got To Do With It 3:49A3 Show Some Respect 3:19A4 I Can't Stand The Rain 3:40A5 Better Be Good To Me 5:14B1 Let's Stay Together 5:15B2 1984 3:10B3 Steel Claw 3:40B4 Private Dancer 7:16