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Wonderfully directed,
Wildest Dreams Tour makes a viewer feel practically omnipresent at Tina Turner's 1996, three-night stand in the Amsterdam Arena. With camera angles seemingly coming from everywhere, the massive scope of Turner's show is put into a proper, and enjoyable, visual context, along with the star's own artful way of reaching 50,000 fans at a shot with fierce energy but an unmistakably nuanced performance. Turner's secret weapon: her voice, with its whiplash gospel, survivor's pride, and endless capacity for ecstasy. It doesn't matter if she's dancing as if her life depended on it or launching tiny ripples of erotic warmth with the barest of gestures: she still flaunts for this Dutch crowd her share of Jerry Lee Lewis's profane fire. Starting in fourth gear with "Whatever You Want," Turner takes a detour through the too-precious "Do What You Do" before time-traveling to the Phil Spector-produced "River Deep Mountain High" (featuring the star singing along with her younger self in a 1960s film clip). "In Your Wildest Dreams" is a lulling bath of sexual longing, and "GoldenEye" is pure, Bond-ian fun. The 21 tracks are heavy with past hits, none of which disappoint: "Proud Mary," "What's Love Got to Do with It." The final performance, "Something Beautiful Remains," is a hard-won epiphany.
--Tom Keogh
Product Description
Witness the excitement and the magic when Tina Turner lifted the roof off the Amsterdam Arena for three sizzling nights in September 1996, in front of 150,000 people, as part of her record-breaking "Wildest Dreams" European tour, on which she performed over 150 shows to 3,000,000 people. Songs: Whatever You Want, Do What You Do, River Deep Mountain High, Missing You, In Your Wildest Dreams, Goldeneye, Private Dancer, We Don't Need Another Hero, Let's Stay Together, I Can't Stand The Rain, Undercover Agent for the Blues, Steamy Windows, Givin' It Up For Your Love, Better Be Good to Me, Addicted to Love, The Best, What's Love Got to Do With It, Proud Mary, Nutbush City Limits, On Silent Wings, Something Beautiful Remains.
