Tina Turner — Live in Chicago
Recorded August 4, 1983
Park West · Chicago · 
United States
Setlist
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“To see Tina at the Park West months before Let's Stay Together opened the way to Private Dancer.”
Context
In August 1983, the distance between Chicago's Park West and the big stages Tina Turner will fill is still only a few months. Private Dancer does not yet exist as a released album. Under Roger Davies' guidance, she had already reshaped the show toward rock, leaving part of the old repertoire behind.
On stage, Tina opens with Cat People and goes through The Acid Queen before reaching River Deep, Mountain High. James Ralston is on guitar, Kenny Moore plays piano and Jack Bruno sits at the drums. The Beatles, Rod Stewart and Foreigner share space with Nutbush City Limits and the long stretch of Proud Mary.
The recording reaches television through WTTW's Soundstage, with reruns on American public broadcasting. Later that year, Let's Stay Together opens the way to the new recording phase; in 1984, Private Dancer changes the scale of her career. Chicago preserves the phase just before, when the rebuilding already has a repertoire and a band but not yet its decisive album.
- Cat People opens a selection that brings Bowie, Foreigner and the Beatles into Tina's repertoire.
Lineup at this show
The lineup of this performance — not necessarily the current one.
- Tina TurnerLead vocals
- James RalstonGuitar
- Bob FeitBass
- Jack BrunoDrums
- Kenny MoorePiano
- Chuck O'SteenKeyboards
- Annie BehringerBacking vocals and dance
- LeJeune RichardsonBacking vocals and dance
Trivia
The show is part of the Soundstage series, produced by Chicago public broadcaster WTTW.
Music Keeps Me Dancin’ represents Love Explosion, Tina's most recent studio album that night.
More concerts by Tina Turner
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1993·What's Love? Tour 1993
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2000·Live in Sopot
Tour of Twenty Four Seven (1999)
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