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Tina Turner
Private Dancer (Remastered)
Tina Turner:  Private Dancer (Remastered)

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Released: 1984
Label: Capitol
Selection #: 133307
Remastered classic smash with seven additional tracks. What's Love Got To Do With It, Better Be Good To Me, I Can't Stand The Rain, title track, more.
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1 I Might Have Been Queen
2 What's Love Got to Do With It
3 Show Some Respect
4 I Can't Stand the Rain
5 Private Dancer
6 Let's Stay Together
7 Better Be Good to Me
8 Steel Claw
9 Help!
10 1984
11 I Wrote a Letter [*]
12 Rock & Roll Widow [*]
13 Don't Rush the Good Things [*]
14 When I Was Young [*]
15 What's Love Got to Do With It [Extended Version][*]
16 Better Be Good to Me [Extended Version][*]
17 I Can't Stand the Rain [Extended Version][*]
  
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Album Review

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. [The 1998 U.K. edition features seven bonus tracks, including "Better Be Good To Me" and "Rock & Roll Widow."] ~ Alex Henderson, All Music Guide

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