Personnel: Tina Turner, Rod Stewart (vocals); Dan Hartman (acoustic guitar, electric piano, organ, keyboards, programming, background vocals); Tony Joe White (guitar, harmonica, synthesizer, bass); Jeff Golub, Jeff Beck, Pat Thrall, James Ralston, Gene Black, Barney Kessel (guitar); Edgar Winter, Gary Barnacle, Plas Johnson (saxophone); Nick Plytas (piano, synthesizer); Kenny Moore (piano); Phillipe Saisse, Casey Young (keyboards); Greg Mathieson (synthesizer); Bob Feit, Bernard Edwards, T.M. Stevens, Carole Kaye (bass); Art Wood, Graham Broad, Graham Jarvis, J.T. Lewis, Phil Collins (drums); Simon Morton, Frank Capp (percussion); Lance Ellington, Tessa Niles (background vocals).
Producers include: Dan Hartman, Tina Turner, Rupert Hine, Terry Britten, Albert Hammond.
There's good news and (just a little) bad news about this Tina Turner greatest hits package. The good news is that what's here is across the board terrific stuff, from her stunning update of Ann Peebles simmering r&b classic "I Can't Stand the Rain," to the more rock oriented songs like "Better Be Good to Me" (the most convincing imperative in all of recorded music) and ""What's Love Got to Do With It". Best of all, the version of "River Deep-Mountain High" here is the original '60s track, re-mastered and re-equalized by genius producer Phil Spector himself. The bad news? The set came out in 1991, and thus misses out on "I Don't Wanna Fight" (from the Turner bio-pic WHAT'S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT?) and her sensational mid-'90s remake of John Waite's "Missing You."
