Tina Turner Early Solo Albums

Tina Turner acoustic performance in Manchester, 2009

 Tina Turner has entered the next life at 83.  She leaves behind a legacy of music and survival.  Many assume her 1984 breakthrough album Private Dancer is her first after leaving the ex (as stated in 1993 biopic What's Love Got to Do with It? for dramatic purposes), but she released four solo albums before that, most have never been on CD.  They are Tina Turns the Country On, Acid Queen (which she played in The Whos Tommy), Rough and Love Explosion.  These have been released by United Artists, EMI, and/or Ariola Records.  EMI bought UA by 1979.  In 1983, Turner had Australian manager Roger Davies (who also manages Cher and Olivia Newton-Johns estate) spearheading her comeback and got her signed to then-EMI subsidiary Capitol (she later transferred to then-sister labels Virgin and Parlophone) after a few years playing clubs around Europe, including behind the Iron Curtain.  It was like she never left.

I got Boris Private Dancer, Break Every Rule and Foreign Affair as they were on the list.  Yet these lost albums may have been unavailable because they may have reminded Turner of that difficult time understandably (the third one is obvious).  They could be reissued as two CDs since two albums can fit onto one CD as both official and unofficial reissues alike have done that to save money.  BMG (which used to own Ariola) bought her catalogue a couple years ago as part of a buying spree of her peers' work started by onetime colleague Bob Dylan not long before that.  It would likely be up to them, Davies and Turners estate and family if these albums ever get remastered as it's just too soon right now.

UPDATE: All four will be re-released on vinyl and CD on 15 November 2024 by Rhino/Parlophone.

Aerosmith (1973) 50th Anniversary

Courtesy Legacy Recordings/Sony Music Entertainment

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 Aerosmith are about to be on their final tour (my sister might go), but without drummer Joey Kramer, who retired from the road in 2020.  It's now fifty years on since their first album, and frontman Steven Tyler purposely changed his voice since they were all a right bundle of nerves being new to the studio in early days.  Lead single "Dream On", which wasn't a hit until after Toys in the Attic was released, will show you (I recently discovered a cover version with the late Ronnie James Dio and Yngwie Malmsteen on amazon Music from one of those budget compilations).  With AI being more than what sci-fi legend Isaac Asimov had ever imagined, it can be used to change ones voice (ex-pat Canadians Drake and the Weeknd being at the centre of AI-gate).  What could be done is make Tylers voice sound like it did from 1974-80 and even enhance the others' playing due to their inexperience with a producer in those days (I'm not wholly familiar with the bands work myself).  If A&R legend John Kalodner (who appeared in drag in a couple of their videos in cameos and even on The Simpsons), who signed them, Peter Gabriel, Asia and possibly Elton John (in the US and Canada) to Geffen still worked with them, he might not have allowed this, but he's a pensioner now.  Aerosmith themselves would also have to approve, of course.  There could be a remaster with a remix of the original album and a new one with the AI vocals.  It could be done, as no one has announced an official release of anyones work with such manoeuvres just yet.  It's being considered and already being done for new material.  Until then, we all can just "Dream On".