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Tina Turner – Rio ’88 Live In Concert (DVD-Video/EV Classics/Eagle Rock)

 

Picture: C     Sound: C     Extras: D     Concert: B

 

 

On home video, one of the most successful and popular concerts have always been Tina Turner – Rio ’88 Live In Concert and even when it seems to have gone out of print, it suddenly resurfaces.  Turner has done many concerts and many of them have also been issued multiple times, but there is just something special about this taping that distinguishes it from her many great moments on stage.

 

She performs most of the songs from Private Dancer as expected, throws in her underrated end theme to Mad Max – Beyond Thunderdome (as One Of The Living opened the film) and some then-new tracks from the interesting Break Every Rule album.  The songs are as follows:

 

  1. Addicted To Love
  2. I Can't Stand The Rain
  3. Typical Male
  4. Better Be Good To Me
  5. Private Dancer
  6. We Don't Need Another Hero (from Mad Max – Beyond Thunderdome)
  7. What's Love Got To Do With It?
  8. Help
  9. Let's Stay Together
  10.  Proud Mary
  11.  What You Get Is What You See
  12.  Break Every Rule
  13.  Paradise Is Here

 

 

She is joined by samba dancers at one point, though she actually does Proud Mary as a solo performer without her usual backup dancers, which still works and is something.  Her voice is in great shape, the band is top notch, the outfits are changed at times for the visit and the set could not go on long enough for me.  The only hit song she does not do from Break Every Rule is Two People.  Otherwise, it is another amazing performance form her monumental comeback and is a concert you need to see once just for all of its energy.

 

The 1.33 X 1 image is from a second-generation video source, as the PolyGram logo at the beginning is alone indicative of its age before even seeing the picture.  Whether an NTSC or PAL analog taping, the master would look a bit sharper than this.  Ditto to the Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo, which may have a master that exists in multi-channel that should sound a bit better than this.  Hope we see an upgrade down the line.

 

There are no extras despite the room on the disc, but we do recommend these Eagle/Tina Turner releases reviewed on this site as follows:

 

Tina Turner – Live In Amsterdam (remastered)

http://www.fulvuedrive-in.com/review/1297/Tina+Turner+-+Live+In+Amsterdam

 

Ike & Tina Turner – The Legends Live In ‘71

http://www.fulvuedrive-in.com/review/1718/Ike+&+Tina+Turner+-+Live+In+71

 

 

-   Nicholas Sheffo


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