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Speaker 1: Clearsy releases the story behind the album Private Dancer. It's

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Speaker 1: the fifth solo studio album by Tina Turner, released in

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Speaker 1: May nineteen eighty four. After several challenging years of going

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Speaker 1: solo after divorcing Ike Turner, Private Dancer propelled Tina into

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Speaker 1: becoming a viable solo star. It became a worldwide commercial success,

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Speaker 1: earning multi platinum certifications. Recording sessions were overseen by four

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Speaker 1: different production teams. Was done in England and one of

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Speaker 1: their producers was actually Martin Ware from Heaven seventeenasing it.

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Speaker 2: Was in the original lineup of Human League as well,

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Speaker 2: and he was quite a talent. He's Martin quite interesting.

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Speaker 3: I was due to record with James Brown on my

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Speaker 3: British Electric Foundation projects and he backed out at the

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Speaker 3: last minutes. So somebody happened to be wandering through the

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Speaker 3: Virgin Officers and said, oh, what about Tina Turner And

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Speaker 3: I've just been to see her do the Proud Mary

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Speaker 3: Show in London and I thought, wow, that'd be amazing.

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Speaker 3: So we did a cover version of All of Confusion

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Speaker 3: by the Temptations and that led to us being asked

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Speaker 3: to record some stuff for Private Dancer. And we quickly

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Speaker 3: decided between us, myself and Tina that we should do

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Speaker 3: Let's Stay Together by Al Green, and I said to

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Speaker 3: her that she should nail her legacy as one of

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Speaker 3: the greatest soul singers of all time before she went

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Speaker 3: on to do a real Passion, which was rock and roll.

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Speaker 2: So good, good advice.

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Speaker 1: I didn't know he was in human league as seventeen.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, before that really took off. Feel like that, yeah right.

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Speaker 3: Well.

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Speaker 1: The album received a positive reception from the critics. The

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles Times wrote that Tina that Turner's voice. Will

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Speaker 1: Tina turn on Turner's voice melts? Vinyl rolling Stone reviewed

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Speaker 1: her voice as rusping but strong. You definitely hear that

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Speaker 1: in Private Dancer, don't you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely. You think about that time when Tina was playing.

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Speaker 2: You know, she's doing her review, she's doing the shows

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Speaker 2: and that, but wasn't getting the attention. It was a

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Speaker 2: bit like well we talked about recently last week with

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Speaker 2: the John Farner album, there was always one before we

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Speaker 2: spring Jack. He was struggling. But in so Tina was

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Speaker 2: sort of in that same boat, and she had mates

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Speaker 2: like the Stones and Rod Stewarts had come out and

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Speaker 2: tour and be a supporter support. So she had great

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Speaker 2: support and his team of talking about the recording of

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Speaker 2: the album and the song the mark not for song

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Speaker 2: Private Dancer.

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Speaker 1: The album took two weeks.

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Speaker 4: I finished a British tour and I worked around the

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Speaker 4: city meeting with different producers listening to songs. Because Roger

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Speaker 4: and I, which is Rogerdina and my manager, decided that

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Speaker 4: we would try to make the album in London because

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Speaker 4: there was a vibe there. Most city gather had gone

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Speaker 4: terrifically well and nothing was happening in America, and they

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Speaker 4: had been problems with talking with producers there to do

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Speaker 4: what we wanted, which was I didn't want to do

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Speaker 4: just R and B material, you know. So after scarving

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Speaker 4: around for two weeks in London, graduated contact with the

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Speaker 4: Terry Britton and Lucknaffler and Ruler Prime. But I received

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Speaker 4: private dads of the song. I was so excited because

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Speaker 4: it was for the first time I would be able

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Speaker 4: to sing that type of song. I didn't cure that

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Speaker 4: the song was possibly about a hooker or a girl

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Speaker 4: that dad's wet money. I thought it was a beautiful song.

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Speaker 2: It's a beautiful song which we just heard moments ago

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Speaker 2: and Roger Davis, the Australian who also was manager of

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Speaker 2: many other artists, including Sherbert. Over the years, the.

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Speaker 1: Album has sold more than twelve million copies worldwide. At

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Speaker 1: the nineteen eighty five Grammy Awards, Private Dancer won four

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Speaker 1: of the six awards that it was nominated for.

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Speaker 2: And we mentioned these albums we're digging deep into. They've

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Speaker 2: got so many hits on them. Is Tina talking about

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Speaker 2: one of the hits? Were about to play, What's I've

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Speaker 2: Got to do with It?

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Speaker 5: The song What's Love Got to do with It?

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Speaker 4: It talks about a distrust of emotion, a distrust of love,

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Speaker 4: having those feelings.

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Speaker 5: Does that at all reflect.

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Speaker 4: How you feel about it?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 5: In my case, love has a lot to do with it.

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Speaker 5: I'm sorry. But with the world today, I mean, everything

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Speaker 5: is very fast and women have changed and men has

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Speaker 5: changed as well. So I think the song sort of

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Speaker 5: really fit a lot of liberated girls. I mean, if

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Speaker 5: they're like, yeah, that's right, you know, what does love have.

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Speaker 2: To do with it?

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Speaker 1: Anyway?

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Speaker 5: And I'm going, oh, yeah, that's right, that's what it means. Okay,

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Speaker 5: you know, But in my case, I'm more of a

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Speaker 5: one that I think love has everything to do with everything.

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Speaker 2: Such a great voice too, speaking voice to you. I believe

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Speaker 2: it's a year and a half since we lost that.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely and bullo