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Originally Posted by Thursday007
Determind as all hell, she didn't see solo success until her fith solo album 1984's Private Dancer.
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Success is an understatement. Private Dancer went through the roof and there is simply no comparison to its success and her previous dodgy efforts.
Oh what a difference a record label can make.
Her previous efforts were with EMI which tried to recapture the Ike and Tina years, sans Ike, which was impossible to do without Ike who was a magician producer in his own right, regardless of how much an A hole he was as a person. Capitol, thank god, chose instead to completely rebrand the franchise and at the same time ushering in a whole new and original style.
"...with her English producers, Miss Turner discarded many of those Southern soul trappings - blaring horns, frenzied percussion and gospel calls and responses - and softened her cartoonlike sex goddess pose. The album was a landmark not only in the career of a singer who had been recording since the late 1950's, but in the evolution of pop-soul music itself."
Stephen Holden New York Times (1984)
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