Dear James,
I've been listening to this song on repeat for the best part of the last two months, and have now worked it out on the piano, so you can all look forward to a very bad cover being posted shortly on Youtube. Tina Turner is now my favourite female singer, but I'm only saying that out of a Music Talliban inclination to dismiss all music recorded by women.
Note how this version isn't a patch on the original Phil Spector arrangement. I was reading that Phil Spector was well aware of what kind of person Ike Turner was in the recording studio, and so drew up a contract whereby the single would be credited to "Ike and Tina Turner" on the condition that Ike stayed the hell out of the studio. The single stalled at number 88 on the Billboard "crushing Spector's spirit and effectively causing him to close his record label down". Surely his spirit was further crushed on hearing Deep Purple's cover. It gets going after five minutes, after it stops trying to be the theme music from 2001.
Now, trivia time, pop-pickers. Can you tell me who or what connects this song with all the Grammy Song of the Year awards from 1966 to 1971, Good Vibrations and Mrs. Robinson? Click here for the answer.
Dear Daniel,
The first time I heard this song, it was Lenny Henry dressed as Tina Turner. Remember when the West Midlands ruled British comedy?
Deep Purple needed to add 5 minutes of nonsense to the beginning of their version to give the impression of being grown up and rock while distracting us from the fact that their rendition is pretty pedestrian and not unlike every pub rock act of the 1970s. Remember when the West Midlands ruled British rock?
Hal Blaine list of number ones is astounding. Can there be another non-Wrecking Crew musician to claim a direct link to that many? I like the suggestion that Dennis Wilson LET Hal do a large amount of drumming on Beach Boys records...
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