If you, like I, thought that this was a great song when Al Green brought it out in 1972, check out what the ageless Ms. Tina Turner does with it in a live performance. The song is also featured in a studio version on her latest greatest hits album, "Simply The Best". She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991, along with her late husband/wife-beating bastard, Ike.
In January she starts her European leg of a major tour, the first in eight years, in Germany.
Thanks to you I am listening to Tina Turner after many many years.Merry Christmus to you.
ReplyDeleteMy pleasure, and a Merry Christmas right back to you.
ReplyDeleteI absolutely adore Tina Turner. Thanks you for this video Doug!
ReplyDeleteA very Christmassy song Doug, reminds me of the asylum social club discos I used to attend back in the days when they would still let me in.
ReplyDeleteThe slow one at the end where clinching couples held each other up in the vertical plane and unsteadilly swayed into a table full of drinks with tumultuous effect.
Those were the days, back then..... when Christmas really meant something!
Mine's a Malibu and Red Bull.... with crushed ice, a sparkler and a little Chinese umbrella....party time ....get yer coat you've pulled!
Yuletide salutations to all.....Aaran Aardvark,BBC News in war torn Birmingham
Ah, sounds like some good times at the clubs, AA, except the throwing out part. I got tossed out of a club in North Beach in San Francisco (not far from City Lights Bookstore) in record time once during a Byrds reunion gig. Seems the bartender wanted to wait on all the pretty ladies at the before taking my order. I objected to this with an Elizabethan obscenity. Next thing I knew my disgruntled girlfriend and I were back on the sidewalk. Embarrassing to get the boot from the place before I'd even had a chance to knock anything or anybody over.
ReplyDeleteBlessing to all in this Bright Spot amongst the "Bleak Midwinter". And next year, perhaps, let there be peace in Birmingham.
You're welcome, khoreia. I hoped there were some other big fans of the lady out there.
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