any old music will do (10. 775)

As our faithful chronicler informs, on this day in 1984 Tina Turner released her fifth solo studio album, which propelled her career and established her reputation as a global and ensuring star. This R&B analogy of pop and rock ballads (see previously) also covering songs from the Beatles, David Bowie and Al Green was the first record that H owned and was produced by several UK studios and introduced to the international stage her Turner’s virtuosity and broad appeal that crossed genre and circumstance and launched a landmark ten-month comeback tour that included energetic audience favourites from her earlier performances like “Proud Mary” and “Mountain High—River Deep.”