In 2015, Canadian electronic musician and performance artist Peaches performed a piano version of the song on The Strombo Show at the home of George Stroumboulopoulos. US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs ( Billboard) Īmerican singer-songwriter, rapper, and bassist Meshell Ndegeocello recorded a cover version of the song for her album Ventriloquism, released on March 16, 2018. The song remained the same length and is titled 'Private Dance - 2015 Remaster.' The album version was remastered in 2015.Alan Clark: Piano, Hammond organ, percussion.It features Turner as a disillusioned taxi dancer, although the song has also been interpreted as being sung from the perspective of a prostitute. The music video, featuring dance choreography by Arlene Phillips, was directed by Brian Grant and filmed at London's Rivoli Ballroom. The Daily Vaults Mark Millan wrote, 'It's a sexy, dark track that gives the album an edge and also a chance for Turner's powerful sexuality to sparkle.' Music video Mark Knopfler has said the song was ruined due to 'them drafting in Jeff Beck to play the world's second ugliest guitar solo'. And I wish you could hear Mark's version of it. I took it because it was an unusual song. I can be naive about some of these things.

Is it because you've been a hooker?' And I was shocked. Someone said, 'Why did you select 'Private Dancer'? It's a song about a hooker. At first I was going to try to just put my voice on Mark's tapes, but there was a record company problem, so we got Mark's musicians, Dire Straits, and went into the studio. Roger knows Knopfler's manager Ed Bicknell, and Bicknell said, 'I think Mark has a song that could fit Tina, that he never used because he thought it was a song for a girl.' Mark produced the song and sang it, and after he did it he felt that it was not a song for a man, so it was just sitting on the shelf… He gave me the track and I copied it with Dire Straits people – most of them. Knopfler did not appear on the track and was replaced by Jeff Beck. Terry Williams replaced the original drummer Pick Withers. Legal restrictions prevented the original recording being used by Tina Turner, so two years later it was remade by members of Dire Straits. The backing track was recorded, but Mark Knopfler considered the lyrics unsuitable for a male singer, so the track was cut. The song was intended for Dire Straits' 4th album Love over Gold.

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