Private Dancer

For the song by Danny Fernandes, see Private Dancer (Danny Fernandes song). Private Dancer Studio album by Tina Turner Released 29 May 1984 Recorded 1983-1984 Genre Pop, pop rock, rock, New Wave, R&B Length 44:02 Label Capitol Producer Terry Britten, John Carter, Leon "Ndugu" Chancler, Wilton Felder, Rupert Hine, Joe Sample, Greg Walsh, Martyn Ware Tina Turner chronology Love Explosion, (1979) Private Dancer, (1984) Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, (1985) Alternative cover Original U.S. cover art Singles from Private Dancer "Let's Stay Together", Released: 19 November 1983, "Help", Released: 25 February 1984, "What's Love Got to Do with It", Released: 16 June 1984, "Better Be Good to Me", Released: 15 September 1984, "Private Dancer", Released: 17 February 1985, "I Can't Stand the Rain", Released: 2 March 1985, "Show Some Respect", Released: 4 May 1985, Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating Allmusic Private Dancer is the fifth solo album by Tina Turner, released on Capitol Records in 1984. The album was Turner's breakthrough after several challenging years of going solo after divorcing husband and performing partner Ike Turner. It is her best-selling album both in the U.S. and internationally and was responsible for making her globally famous. It was produced in England with four different production teams including Rupert Hine, and Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh of Heaven 17. The album produced seven singles, including "What's Love Got to Do with It", "Better Be Good To Me, "Private Dancer", and "Let's Stay Together". Positively received by critics on release for Turner's ability to give energy and raw emotion to slickly produced professional pop/rock songs; its long term legacy is that the softening of her raw Southern soul style produced a "landmark" in the "evolution of pop-soul music". The album was promoted throughout 1985 in a 177 date worldwide tour called the Private Dancer Tour. Background edit: A&R man John Carter of Capitol Records is credited with relaunching the career of Tina Turner in the 1980s. In 1983, despite opposition from within Capitol, he signed her and A&Red her first album for the label, Private Dancer. Production edit: The album was produced in England using several different producers. "Let's Stay Together" was produced by Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh of British band Heaven 17. Terry Britten produced the reggae-tinged "What's Love Got to Do with It". John Carter produced "Private Dancer", which was written by Mark Knopfler and has a guitar solo by Jeff Beck. Rupert Hine produced "Better Be Good to Me", which had been written by Holly Knight, Mike Chapman, and Nicky Chinn, and most of the other songs. "Ball of Confusion", a cover of The Temptations song which was Turner's first collaboration with the B.E.F. (British Electric Foundation)/Heaven 17 production team and part of their collaborative 1982 album Music of Quality and Distinction Volume One was not included on the Private Dancer album. A recording of Sam Cooke's "A Change Is Gonna Come" from the same sessions would re-appear in remixed form on B.E.F.'s Music of Quality and Distinction Volume Two in 1991. "Help" was recorded with The Crusaders. Release edit: The album was released on 29 May 1984 and became an outstanding commercial success. Private Dancer has been certified 5 × Platinum (5 million) in the United States and sold around 250,000 each week for 2 months. Worldwide the album has been estimated to have sold over 20 million copies. The album produced a number of highly successful singles including "What's Love Got to Do with It" which went to number one and stayed there for three weeks. At the 1985 Grammy Awards, Private Dancer won four of the six awards for which it was nominated. No less than seven of the album's ten tracks (nine in the U.S.) were released as singles: "Let's Stay Together", which was a UK Top 10 hit and a US Top 20 hit; "Help"; "What's Love Got to Do with It"; "Better Be Good to Me"; "Private Dancer";, "I Can't Stand the Rain" and "Show Some Respect" (1985). Centenary Edition edit: In 1997, EMI, the parent label of Capitol Records, released a digitally remastered Centenary Edition of the Private Dancer album on CD, then including four additional demo tracks recorded in late 1983 and early 1984 with the producer John Carter, first released as B-sides to some of the Private Dancer singles, as well as three extended 12" remixes. The album remains the only Tina Turner studio album to have been re-issued in digitally remastered form. Critical response edit: The critical reviews of the album were positive. The Los Angeles Times reviewer felt that her voice "melts vinyl". 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".Robert Christgau felt that she was able to deliver with honesty the "middlebrow angst of contemporary professional songwriting" and remain in control of an album with four different production teams to give it a "seamless authority". Tour edit: Main article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Dancer_Tour A 177 date tour to promote the album took place from February 8, 1985 to December 28, 1985. Called the Private Dancer Tour, there were 60 shows in Europe, 105 in North America, 10 in Australia, and 2 in Japan. Opening acts in North America included Glenn Frey and Mr. Mister. As well as songs from the album, Turner performed the hits from her time with Ike & Tina, such as "River Deep - Mountain High", "Nutbush City Limits", and "Proud Mary". Legacy edit: Alex Henderson, in a retrospective Allmusic review, says that the album was slicker than her R&B classics recorded with Ike & Tina, but she was still able to sing with a throaty passion to deliver her finest solo production.Stephen Holden has written in The New York Times that by using her English producers to soften her raw Southern soul style, discarding the "blaring horns, frenzied percussion and gospel calls and responses", the album became a "landmark" in the "evolution of pop-soul music". Michael Lydon, in Robert Dimery's 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, says that the album's lyrical themes embodied her persona of a "tough, sexy woman schooled in a tough world", and that her vocal delivery overcomes the slick production, with her "indomitable soul" unifying the multiple producers. In 1989, the album was ranked #46 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 100 Greatest Albums of the '80s. In 2003, the TV network VH1 named Private Dancer the 95th greatest album of all time. Slant Magazine listed the album at #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". Track listing edit: No. Title Writer(s) Length 1. "I Might Have Been Queen" Jeanette Obstoj, Rupert Hine, Jamie West-Oram 4:10 2. "What's Love Got to Do with It" Terry Britten, Graham Lyle 3:49 3. "Show Some Respect" Britten, Sue Shifrin 3:18 4. "I Can't Stand the Rain" Ann Peebles, Don Bryant, Bernard Miller 3:41 5. "Private Dancer" Mark Knopfler 7:11 6. "Let's Stay Together" Willie Mitchell, Al Green, Al Jackson, Jr. 5:16 7. "Better Be Good to Me" Holly Knight, Nicky Chinn, Mike Chapman 5:10 8. "Steel Claw" Paul Brady 3:48 9. "Help!" John Lennon, Paul McCartney 4:30 10. "1984" David Bowie 3:09 Centenary Edition bonus tracks No. Title Writer(s) Length 11. "I Wrote a Letter" Inga Rumpf 3:24 12. "Rock 'n Roll Widow" Tom Snow 4:45 13. "Don't Rush the Good Things" Neil Gammack 3:46 14. "When I Was Young" Eric Burdon, Victor Briggs, John Weider, Danny McCulloch 3:11 15. "What's Love Got to Do with It" (Extended 12" Remix) Britten, Lyle 5:48 16. "Better Be Good to Me" (Extended 12" Remix) (edit) Knight, Chinn, Chapman 7:03 17. "I Can't Stand the Rain" (Extended 12" Remix) Peebles, Bryant, Miller 5:45 Original U.S. version No. Title Writer(s) Length 1. "I Might Have Been Queen" Hine, Obstoj 4:10 2. "What's Love Got to Do with It" Britten, Lyle 3:49 3. "Show Some Respect" Britten, Shifrin 3:18 4. "I Can't Stand the Rain" Bryant, Miller, Peebles 3:41 5. "Better Be Good to Me" Chapman, Chinn, Knight 5:10 6. "Let's Stay Together" Green, Jackson, Mitchell 5:16 7. "1984" Bowie 3:09 8. "Steel Claw" Brady 3:48 9. "Private Dancer" Knopfler 7:11 Personnel edit: Musicians Tina Turner - vocals, background vocals, Gary Barnacle - saxophone, Jeff Beck - guitar, Terry Britten - guitar, vocals, background vocals, Graham Broad - drums, Alan Clark - percussion, keyboards, Mel Collins - saxophone, Cy Curnin - vocals, background vocals, David Ervin - synthesizer, Wilton Felder - bass, saxophone, Nick Glennie-Smith - keyboards, Glenn Gregory - vocals, background vocals, Rupert Hine - bass, percussion, keyboards, vocals, background vocals, John Illsley - bass, Hal Lindes - guitar, Billy Livsey - keyboards, Tessa Niles - vocals, background vocals, Frank Ricotti - percussion, Joe Sample - synthesizer, piano, David T. Walker - guitar, Martyn Ware - synthesizer, vocals, background vocals, Terry Williams - drums, Production Producers: Terry Britten, John Carter, Leon "Ndugu" Chancler, Wilton Felder, Rupert Hine, Joe Sample, Greg Walsh, Martyn Ware, Engineers: F. Byron Clark, John Hudson, Walter Samuel, Greg Walsh, Stephen W Tayler, Mixing: John Hudson, Stephen W Tayler, Remixing: Humberto Gatica, Mastering: Alan Yoshida, Programming: David Ervin, Rupert Hine, Greg Walsh, Drum programming: Martyn Ware, String arrangements: David Cullen, Arrangers: Greg Walsh, Martyn Ware, Compilation producer: Akira Taguchi, Creative director: Sam Gay, Art direction: Roy Kohara, Design: John O'Brien, Photography: Pete Ashworth, Charts and certifications edit: Album Chart (1984) Position Australian Albums Chart 7 Austrian Albums Chart 1 US R&B Albums 1 Canadian Albums Chart 2 Dutch Albums Chart 2 French Albums Chart 14 German Albums Chart 2 New Zealand Albums Chart 2 UK Albums Chart 2 Swiss Albums Chart 3 US Billboard 200 3 Norwegian Albums Chart 5 Swedish Albums Chart 7 Singles Billboard (North America) Year Single B side Chart Position 1984 "Better Be Good to Me" "When I Was Young" Hot Dance Music/Club Play 16 1984 "Better Be Good to Me" "When I Was Young" Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks 6 1984 "Better Be Good to Me" "When I Was Young" Mainstream Rock Tracks 32 1984 "Better Be Good to Me" "When I Was Young" Billboard Hot 100 5 1984 "Let's Stay Together" "I Wrote a Letter" Hot Dance Music/Club Play 1 1984 "Let's Stay Together" "I Wrote a Letter" Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks 3 1984 "Let's Stay Together" "I Wrote a Letter" Billboard Hot 100 26 1984 "What's Love Got to Do with It?" "Don't Rush the Good Things" Adult Contemporary 8 1984 "What's Love Got to Do with It?" "Don't Rush the Good Things" Hot Dance Music/Club Play 21 1984 "What's Love Got to Do with It?" "Don't Rush the Good Things" Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks 2 1984 "What's Love Got to Do with It?" "Don't Rush the Good Things" Billboard Hot 100 1 1985 "Private Dancer" "Keep Your Hands Off My Baby" Adult Contemporary 30 1985 "Private Dancer" "Keep Your Hands Off My Baby" Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks 3 1985 "Private Dancer" "Keep Your Hands Off My Baby" Billboard Hot 100 7 1985 "Show Some Respect" "Let's Pretend We're Married" (Live) Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks 50 1985 "Show Some Respect" "Let's Pretend We're Married" (Live) Billboard Hot 100 37 Sales and certifications Region Certification Sales/shipments Australia (ARIA) 2× Platinum 140,000 Canada (Music Canada) 7× Platinum 700,000 Finland (Musiikkituottajat) Gold 33,464 France (SNEP) Gold 108,400 Germany (BVMI) 5× Gold 1,250,000 United Kingdom (BPI) 3× Platinum 900,000 United States (RIAA) 5× Platinum 5,000,000 Total certified sales: 8,005,864 sales figures based on certification alone, shipments figures based on certification alone, unspecified figures based on certification alone Grammy awards edit: Year Winner Category 1985 "Better Be Good to Me" Best Female Rock Vocal Performance 1985 "What's Love Got to Do with It?" Best Female Pop Vocal Performance 1985 "What's Love Got to Do with It?" Record of the Year 1985 "What's Love Got to Do with It?" Song of the Year

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