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Private Dancer by Tina Turner

Private Dancer

Release Date: 9/14/1984

Recording Date: 11/1984

Tracks: 10

Length: 00:44:02 Hrs

Label: Capitol

Type: CD,CS,LP

Genre/Styles:
Soul, Pop/Rock, Synthesizer, Contemporary Pop/Rock, Vocals

Album Tracks (10)

Song Title
Length
1.
I Might Have Been Queen
04:10
2.
What's Love Got to Do with It
03:49
3.
Show Some Respect
03:18
4.
I Can't Stand the Rain
03:41
5.
Private Dancer
07:11
6.
Let's Stay Together
05:16
7.
Better Be Good to Me
05:10
8.
Steel Claw
03:48
9.
Help!
04:30
10.
1984
03:09

What the Critics Say

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. ~ Alex Henderson, Rovi

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