“Tina Turner will arrive today“, was published in this journal on Saturday January 2, 1988. “The singer will make the first presentation of the year, as part of a chilling figure tour, with the traditional set of lights that is itself an international star,” he expanded on a staging worthy of awe.
48 years old this Tina, who was one of the most important female numbers in the world at the time. The backing bands were The KGB and, arriving from Brazil, Os Paralamas do Sucesso. “We were the first Argentine band to play in the river,” he recalled. Alejandro Desilvestresinger and keyboardist of the KGB at the programme The Viola.
Tina set foot on Argentine soil for the first and only time as part of her tour Break every rule and, as has been said, he performed in a packed River stadium. Soul and miniskirts iconSeparated from her troubled marriage to Ike Turner, she became a star long after she broke out in the 1960s..
Stardom came with everything in 1984 after editing the album Private dancer and participated in the recording of the single We are the World.
how was the show
The chronicles of the time realize that the massive Buenos Aires recital began at the top with the catchy What you get is what you see and ended explosively with sweaty Turner singing Heaven is here.
On January 3, after 21:20, the singer appeared in front of the crowd. “The Goddess comes out radiant, walking off the stage in those huge heels that look like natural extensions of her amazing legs. Tina Turner has finally started to make us vibrate,” reads the Rock & Pop magazine review.
“Tina absolutely knocked us out,” the statement concluded.
His show was lucky account various stages of his career, where he did not deprive himself of making a version of Sour Queenthe anthem he performs in the film Tommy, from The Who. Others of the hits she sang were Typical male, private dancer, we don’t need another hero, what’s love got to do with it, Proud Mary AND Nutbush city limits. The concert was broadcast on the old Channel 9.
“Energy, passion and delivery,” read one chronicle. Lei desilvestre also said that she had the opportunity to see her at the sound check and that she was surprised by the noise: “They brought the equipment from outside; everything was produced by Grinbank and sounded great from anywhere in the stadium. It was an incredible experience that I will never forget.”
For La Nación, the recital was “pure vertigo, pure excitement”. And he said verbatim: “He abandons himself to the dance without stopping from the moment the very balanced program opens, throughout the 87 minutes of music, distributed in nineteen themes. There were 50,000 spectators who surrendered to the musical maelstrom without any resistance, guided by the ardent voice of the black empress of pop”.
clarion titled: “The black goddess made Buenos Aires vibrate”, and in the article’s content the performance was likened to “a nightclub where light, color and excitement reigned. Tina Turner exhibited all the artistic virtues that testify to her 1980s renaissance.”
Ah, the crowds endured 38 degree temperatures that day.
Source: Clarin
