Slant Magazine listed the album at number 63 on its list of "Best Albums of the 1980s", saying, "Both a personal liberation and sonic redemption, Private Dancer established Turner not only as a genuine diva, but a bona fide force of nature". The only purple faced USA from Japan pressing I've heard did not fare well against the Japanese CP35-3148 Black Triangle pressing for me. After several challenging years of going solo after divorcing Ike Turner, Private Dancer propelled Turner into becoming a viable solo star, as well as one of the most marketable crossover singers in the recording industry.

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Not gonna be a demo quality LP but there are some great songs on here that sound great at top volume!The Daily Vault's Mark Millan wrote, "It's a sexy, dark track that gives the album an edge and also a chance for Turner's powerful sexuality to sparkle. Originally released in June 1984, Private Dancer features hits from the eight time Grammy® winning artist including "What's Love Got to Do With It," "Better Be Good To Me," "Private Dancer," and "Let's Stay Together.

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This version, although probably digitally recorded anyway, is very "open" sounding, and Tina's powerful vocals vibrate front and center. Oh, and feel free to open up the thread to posts on the actual music content; I'd love to hear everyone's opinion on that side too! Limited issue with heavy slip-case and thick booklet with the title 'EMI 100 1997 ・The First Centenary' featuring the history of EMI and also colour and black and white photographs of EMI artists such as The Beatles, Queen etc. Mark produced the song and sang it, and after he did it he felt that it was not a song for a man, so it was just sitting on the shelf… He gave me the track and I copied it with Dire Straits people – most of them. He said that "four different production teams" on the project was a "sign of desperation", despite the resulting "seamless authority" of the album.The success of the singles does a great job of illustrating the difference in pop/rock sensibilities on either side of the Atlantic from both public and record companies alike. In an era where a Deacon Blue album gets a 3 CD+DVD deluxe treatment and Universal Music explore Tears For Fears’ Songs From The Big Chair over six-discs (including the 5. In 2015, the 30th Anniversary edition of this album was released by the Parlophone Records unit of Warner Music Group which now controls this album.

Tina Turner – Private Dancer (2015, 30th Anniversary Edition

Perhaps the Canadian pressings you are considering have the same mastering as at least one of the Japanese pressings. It features Turner as a disillusioned taxi dancer, although the song has also been interpreted as being sung from the perspective of a prostitute. Private Dancer had enough diversity to appeal to the trucker making his way up the Alaska Highway and the housewife in the UK suburb doing the school run. I’m not claiming UK superiority here because the excellent Private Dancer was a top ten hit in America but didn’t even penetrate the UK top 20. And why no word from Tina Turner herself, for the album that relaunched her career so spectacularly?Arguably, with just eight tracks more then the 1997 expanded set, it doesn’t offer enough to justify another deluxe edition. Debby Miller, in a July 1984 Rolling Stone review, felt that the album was a powerful comeback, with Turner's voice "rasping but strong", and a range of songs that were all good in a "modern rock setting" that was "neither detached nor very fussy". anniversary edition of Private Dancer, the breakthrough solo album from Tina Turner, one of the world's most loved singers and performers.