23 cuts (total duration 29.20 min.) comes
from an interview with Tina Turner conducted by Alan Jackson, in Zurich
Switzerland, in September 2004. Many tracks of the double CD are discussed.
01: So,
this is the first whole career retrospective for Tina Turner. I guess you
must be mighty proud of your body of work. Do they all sound good to you?
(sigh)Well, All the Best is…
02: There
are 3 new tracks on the CD. How do you go about choosing that new material?
You know, sometimes it doesn’t…
03: The first single is Open Arms.Tell
us about your collaboration on that thrack with Jimmy Hogarth.
(Laughter) That was another… (NOT AT CD)
04:Another
new track is Something Special.
Something Special…
SAMPLE Something Special
05: Let’s
talk about the track Complicated Disaster.
Complicated Disaster is wonderful because…
SAMPLE Complicated Disaster
06: Of
course, All the Best also goes right back into the Ike and Tina Turner
archive. River Deep, Mountain High, for example.
River Deep came…
07: And
the great old classic, Nutbush City Limits.
That’s one that…
08: We’ve
also got Proud Mary, a classic written by Creedence Clearwater Revivals’s
John Fogerty.
Oh Mary…
09: Please
tell us about meeting Lulu,and her writing I don’t wanna Fight?
Before I met her…
10: Looking
back to the start of your solo success, you hooked up with the English
electronistas Heaven 17. And with them you recorded the Al Green classic
Let’s stay Together.
Heaven 17, that was…
11: Next
up. Private Dancer, written for you by guitar wizard Mark Knopfler.
Ah well, when I met…
12: One
of your biggest hits is What’s Love Got to do With it? Written by Terry
Britten.
These are all good stories…
13: Now,
movie, success, singing and acting in the Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome cinema
smash, which spawned the classic We Don’t Need Another Hero.
We don’t need another here…
14: How
did you get to meet David Bowie, and tell us about Tonight.
My meeting with…
15: The
Break Every Rule album produced hits like Typical Male
Break Every Rule was…
16: Also
from that album came the much more sensitive (Paul Brady song) Paradise
is Here.
The most serious…
17: Tell
us about Steamy Windows, on which you worked with Tony Joe White.
Well, Tony and I…
18: Another
Terry Britten song is I Don’t Wanna Lose You.
I Don’t Wanna Lose you…
19: Now,
I know it was a great thrill for you to be involved with the James Bond
films. And your hit Goldeneye was written by Bono and the Edge of U2.
I was thrilled…
20: But
you have a softer, slower side as well, well showcased on Silent Wings.
Silent Wings…
21: And
you’ve recorded with Italian hearthrob Eroz Ramazotti. Tell us about Cose
Della Vita.
I was in Germany…
22: And
there’s another collaboration next. Your work for Disney with Phil Collins
on Great Spirits from Brother Bear.
In Brother Bear…
23: And
finally, we can’t leave All the Best double CD without talking about the
monster track Simply the Best.
All the Best… |