“Everything will be alright tonight”
As you are no doubt aware, Tonight is a song written by David Bowie and Iggy Pop originally released on Iggy’s 1977 Lust For Life album. Bowie’s own version was recorded as a duet with Tina Turner for 1984’s Tonight LP and was released as a single later that year.
On 23rd March, 1985, 35 years ago tonight, at a Tina Turner concert at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham in the UK, Bowie performed the song live with Turner along with a section of the Chris Montez hit, Let’s Dance, seguing into Bowie’s song of the same name.
Bowie guested the following night too, but the first night was filmed and released as part of the Tina Live Private Dancer Tour video the same year and the Tina Live in Europe album three years later.
This live duet of Tonight was also released as a single in late 1988, becoming a #1 hit in the Netherlands and also reaching #3 in Belgium, not to mention making Switzerland’s Top 20.
Tina Live In Europe also contained a live version of the Bowie/Kızılçay penned Girls, which Turner had originally recorded for the 1986 Break Every Rule album.
View the live version of Tonight on Tina’s official YouTube channel, but for those of a nervous disposition, be warned… apparently it's steamy, whatever that means? Any lip readers out there?
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