Old Enough to Forget

This was mostly written and in my queue to post when I found out that Tina Turner passed away May 24, 2023. She was 83. Hard to imagine that almost forty years had passed since Private Dancer was released. It's always fun to revisit albums that you thought you disliked. I suppose the backlash was inevitable as "What's Love Got to Do With It" was pretty ubiquitous on MuchMusic and the radio for what seemed to be forever. I managed to keep up my dismissive airs for a long time, and even though I really liked "Better Be Good to Me" featuring the stellar guitar work of The Fixx's Jamie West-Orem and backing vocals of Cy Curnin. I stubbornly held my ground.  It didn't help that everyone was trying to make a then ancient in pop years Tina Turner who was all of forty five or six when this came out a sex symbol. "Look at those legs!"  This was right up there with trying to ogle the church organist. I'm looking through the album jacket and lin...

I always had a soft spot for"Sentimental Lady" and "Ebony Eyes" the guy had a cocky weird swagger, and incorporated disco and strings but added a rock element through his guitar. I didn't really know a lot about him at the time. I knew he was in Fleetwood Mac, but I didn't know anything by them other than Rumours so it wasn't really anything that carried any recognition. Oddly enough it would be Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie who would produce his biggest hit "Sentimental Lady" and they would, along with Mick Fleetwood, play on the track as well. So at time at least it would appear that he left his old band on decent terms. French Kiss dropped November 1977 and did pretty well, and considering a month later Saturday Night Fever came out as disco enjoyed it's brief ascent to world dominance through Donna Summer, The Village People and Barry Gibb's tight pants nut-crushed falsetto. It was a terrible time if you had to live throu...