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Tina Turner: Hot for You Baby review – she’s in fine voice, but this lost 1984 song is no classic
Dug out of the vault for a 40th anniversary version of Private Dancer, this glossy rock track gains much-needed rawness from Turner
Private Dancer achieved its aim of catapulting the down-on-her-luck Turner into the upper echelons of rock aristocracy, but it really isn’t impossible to imagine the heraldic chords that open Hot for You Baby emanating from a much scruffier figure, the Clash’s Mick Jones in the late 70s. That said, absolutely nothing else about it recalls the Clash, as befits a song intended for an album that noticeably dialled down the experimental edge of Turner’s previous release (a cover of the Temptations’ Ball of Confusion that featured post-punk hero John McGeoch providing abstract, feedback-laden guitar). It’s glossy, clearly performed by crack session musicians and features a guitar solo that suggests someone was keeping an eye on current developments in the US hard rock scene as hair metal took flight, or had at least clocked Eddie Van Halen’s contribution to Michael Jackson’s Beat It.
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