"Private Dancer"
Single by Tina Turner
from the album Private Dancer
B-side(s)	"Keep Your Hands Off My Baby"
Released	1985
Format	CD single Digital download Vinyl Cassette
Genre	Pop, Rock, R&B
Length	3:54
Label	Capitol Records
Writer(s)	Mark Knopfler
Producer(s)	John Carter
Tina Turner singles chronology
Better Be Good to Me 1985	Private Dancer	I Can't Stand The Rain 1985

"Private Dancer" is a song performed by Tina Turner which was written by Mark Knopfler. It is the title track of Tina Turner's breakthrough solo album, Private Dancer. The song was one of Tina Turner's most successful singles, reaching number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 and it also peaked at number three on the US R&B/Hip-Hop chart, making it her second most successful single released on that chart behind "What's Love Got to Do with It?" which peaked at number two. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... A collection of various CD singles In music, a single is a short recording of one or more separate tracks. ... Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock on November 26, 1939) is an eight-time Grammy Award-winning American pop/rock singer and actress. ... Private Dancer was Tina Turners breakthrough solo album. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A CD single is a music single in the form of a compact disc. ... // A digital download (also known as a digital single or a paid digital download) is an official and legal music single available for purchase through an online store. ... Chemical structure of the vinyl functional group. ... A standard audio cassette Cassette may refer to: A small cartridge of some form. ... A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ... For popular music (music produced commercially rather than art or folk music), see Popular music. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Rock and roll. ... Rhythm and blues (or R & B) is a musical marketing term introduced in the United States in the late 1940s by Billboard magazine. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Capitol Records is a major United States-based record label, owned by EMI. // The Capitol Records company was founded by the songwriter Johnny Mercer in 1942, with the financial help of movie producer Buddy DeSylva and the business acumen of Glenn Wallichs, (1910-1971) (owner of Music City, at the... A songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics to songs, the musical composition or melody to songs, or both. ... Dr Mark Freuder Knopfler, OBE (born August 12, 1949, Glasgow, Scotland) is a British guitarist, singer, and songwriter. ... In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. ... John Carter may refer to: John Carter, Tennessee statesman and Chairman of the Watauga Petition. ... Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock on November 26, 1939) is an eight-time Grammy Award-winning American pop/rock singer and actress. ... Better Be Good to Me is a hit single released from Tina Turners breakthrough solo album, Private Dancer. ... I Cant Stand The Rain is a hit single recorded by Grammy Award-winning rock singer Tina Turner for her Private Dancer album. ... Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock on November 26, 1939) is an eight-time Grammy Award-winning American pop/rock singer and actress. ... Dr Mark Freuder Knopfler, OBE (born August 12, 1949, Glasgow, Scotland) is a British guitarist, singer, and songwriter. ... Private Dancer was Tina Turners breakthrough solo album. ... A collection of various CD singles In music, a single is a short recording of one or more separate tracks. ... The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. ... The Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart, formerly known as Top Soul Singles, Top Black Singles, and Top R&B Singles (before the hip-hop term was added in the late 1990s), lists the most popular songs, calculated weekly by airplay and sales, in traditionally African American venues... Whats Love Got to Do with It was the second single from Tina Turners album Private Dancer. ...

The track was originally going to be on the Dire Straits album Love Over Gold, however whilst the song was recorded, the vocals were not added as Mark Knopfler considered that they were not suitable for a male to sing so the track cut from the final mix. Due to legal reasons the track two years later was rerecorded for Tina Turner by Dire Straits, apart from the original drummer Pick Withers (who had now been replaced by Terry Williams). Knopfler also did not feature on the track and was replaced by Jeff Beck. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Love over Gold is the fourth album by British rock band Dire Straits. ... Pick Withers (born April 4, 1948) was the original drummer for the rock band Dire Straits and played on their first four albums, which included hit singles such as Sultans of Swing, Romeo and Juliet and Skateaway. ... Terry Williams is a Welsh rock drummer, whose resume includes Paul McCartney, BB King, and Bob Dylan. ... Geoffrey Arnold (Jeff) Beck (born June 24, 1944 in Wallington, Greater London, England) is a guitarist and songwriter. ...

Turner was required to change the line "American Express will do nicely, thank you" to "A few pounds sterling" for the BBC's Top of the Pops, due to a long-standing ban on the use of product names. American Express (NYSE: AXP), sometimes known as Amex, is a diversified global financial services company, headquartered in New York City. ... For details of notes and coins, see British coinage and British banknotes. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, usually known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion... Top of the Pops, also known as TOTP, is a long-running British music chart television programme, made and broadcast by the BBC. It was originally shown each week, mostly on BBC One, from 1 January 1964 to 30 July 2006. ...

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