Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Private Dancer is arguably the album that saved Tina Turner’s career, widely credited in many circles, one that reignited her standing within the rock circuit, and one that gave others the right to call her the Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll. It could have all been so different, she could have flatly refused to record the song Mark Knopfler offered her, she could have stuck to her guns and disappeared without a trace after a less than successful album run that had seen little faith bestowed upon her from the public after she was able to separate herself from Ike Turner, both in marriage, and more importantly as a woman abused by a system and a name.