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Elly Roberts reviews
All The Best
Parlophone (EMI)
- Released: November 2004
- Rating: 10/10
- Cat. No: 8667172
Track listing:
Disc 1:
- 1.Open Arms
2. Nutbush City Limits
3. What You Get Is What You See
4. Missing You
5. The Best
6. River Deep Mountain High
7. When The Heartache Is Over
8. Let’s Stay Together
9. I Don’t Wanna Fight
10. Whatever You Need
11. I Can’t Stand the Rain
12. Goldeneye
13. I Don’t Wanna Lose You
14. Great Spirits
15. Proud Mary
16. Addicted To Love (live)
Disc 2:
- 1. In Your Wildest Dreams
2. Private Dancer
3. Why Must We Wait Until Tonight
4. Typical Male
5. Tonight
6. Complicated Disaster
7. On Silent Wings
8. Something Special
9. We Don’t Need Another Hero
10. It’s Only Love
11. Cose Della Vita
12. Steamy windows
13. Paradise Is Here
14. What’s Love Got To Do With It
15. Better be Good To Me
16. Two People
17. Something Beautiful Remains
She may well have retired from the concert circuit four years ago but Tina Turner simply won’t go away.
Barely in her teens, Anna Mae Bullock the daughter ofa black church deacon and part-Native American mother,was in the recording studio testing herself as asinger. Eventually she teamed up and married IkeTurner performing as the Ike and Tina Turner Review.
As a live singer she gained a formidable reputationwhich lasted her entire carreer, Their first hit RiverDeep Mountain High, and last, Nutbush City Limits(thankfully not the dreadful re-recording), make awelcome inclusion.
When she left Ike in 1976, it tooksome time and hardship until she got back on thescene, opening tours for the Rolling Stones and RodStewart. Over the next few years she perseveredgaining a contract with Capitol in 1983 which totallyresurrected her life and career. Then came hit albumslike Private Dancer, selling 11 million copies, whichspawned What’s Love Got To Do With It, Better Be GoodTo Me, both winning Grammy awards, are also featuredhere.
Her next non-album songs were from Mel Gibson’sFlick Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, in which sheappeared. Steamy Windows and The Best are consitentlyplayed as anthemic party records across the nation.With We Don’t Need Another Hero and One Of the Living,the success continued, proving to be some of her mostoutstanding work. Another album, Foriegn Affair gaveus Typical Male, Two People and What You Get Is WhatYou See.
Canadian Rocker Bryan Adams duets on It’sOnly Love, as does Rod Stewart on It Takes Two -showing she’s in good company. A James Bond filmopener – Goldeneye -lets the diva lap it up at hersultry best. Just for good measure, two live tracks arethrown in – a raucous Addicted To Love, recorded inLondon in 1988, and Cose Della Vita with ErosRamazoti.
Released as a double disc set,All The Best is Tina Turner at her Rock Star best.Thirty three tracks presenting sensual, soulful vocalsthat have been part of modern culture for over 4decades.
It’s not all retrospective, as there’s 3 new songs –Open Arms (notto be confused with Journey’s song of the same title),Complicated Disaster and Something Special.
Best Tracks? All of them. For all her achievemnts, Grammys,sell-out tours, she’s never had a Number 1 in the UK. That’s Showbiz for you !
Elly Roberts passed away in 2011, but he was a man who was so passionate about all types of music and loved meeting his musical heroes, such as Mick Hucknall at a book signing at the Trafford Centre, Manchester in 2007.
A former teacher and also a music journalist, DJ and radio presenter on local community station Calon FM, plus appearances on BBC Radio Wales, BBC Radio Cymru and BBC Radio 2, Elly started doing reviews for DVDfever.co.uk in 2004 and he did the majority of the CD and concerts reviews on the website.
I know also that he loved getting away for the summer to Spain and I hope that wherever he is now he is enjoying the hot sunshine and, as one of his friends has said on his Facebook page, that he is interviewing his musical heroes.