Foreign Affair (Tina Turner album)
Foreign Affair is the seventh solo studio album by Tina Turner, released on Capitol Records in 1989. It was Turner's third album release after her massively successful global comeback five years earlier, and although the album was not a major success in Turner's native United States, it was a huge international success in Europe. The album reached number one on the UK Albums Chart, her first number one album there. The album includes the single "The Best" which has gone on to become one of Turner's best-known songs.
Commercial success
While Foreign Affair didn't perform as well as Turner's previous albums Private Dancer and Break Every Rule in the US, where it failed to crack the Top 30 in the Billboard 200, it was a worldwide hit, selling over 6 million copies. It entered the UK Albums Chart at number one and went on to sell over 1.5 million copies in the UK. The album also reached number one in numerous countries including Germany and Sweden and topped the overall European Chart for 4 weeks.Single releases
In Europe, six of the album's tracks became hit singles; "The Best", "Steamy Windows", "I Don't Wanna Lose You", "Foreign Affair", "Look Me in the Heart" and "Be Tender with Me Baby".Track listing
B-sides
Personnel
- Tina Turner – lead vocals, backing vocals, arrangements
- Dan Hartman – electric piano, organ, acoustic guitar, keyboards, backing vocals, percussion programming, Moog bass, drum programming
- Jeff Bova – horn section, synth bass, organ, strings
- Phil Ashley – keyboards, bass pulse, organ, synthesizers, strings, acoustic piano, flute
- Elliot Lewis – additional keyboards, strings, flute
- Philippe Saisse – additional keyboards, slap bass, flute solo, keyboard mallet and chimes
- Rupert Hine – keyboards, bass, drum programming, backing vocals
- Nick Glennie-Smith – keyboards, strings, synth bass, drum programming, bell tree
- Casey Young – keyboards
- Greg Mathieson – synth bass
- Eddie Martinez – rhythm guitar, all guitars
- Neil Taylor – slide guitar, guitar solo
- Tony Joe White – lead guitar, rhythm guitar, harmonica, synth bass
- Gene Black – rhythm guitar, lead guitar, guitar solo, guitar
- James Ralston – rhythm guitar, guitar
- Pat Thrall – guitar solo, additional lead guitar fills, slide guitar, electric guitar
- Phil Palmer – guitar
- Mark Knopfler – guitar
- Carmine Rojas – bass guitar
- T. M. Stevens – bass guitar
- J. T. Lewis – drums
- Art Wood – drums
- Geoff Dugmore – drums
- Danny Cummings – percussion, shaker, congas
- Albert Hammond – shaker, backing vocals
- Gary Barnacle – all saxophones, saxophone solo
- Edgar Winter – saxophone solo
- Tim Cappello – saxophone solo
- Roger Davies – arrangements
- Lance Ellington – backing vocals
- Tessa Niles – backing vocals
- David Munday – backing vocals
- Sandy Stewart – backing vocals
- Holly Knight – backing vocals
- Graham Lyle – backing vocals
Production
- Dan Hartman – producer
- Tina Turner – executive producer, producer
- Rupert Hine – producer
- Roger Davies – executive producer, producer
- Albert Hammond – producer
- Graham Lyle – producer
- Tony Joe White – producer
- Chris Lord-Alge – recording engineer, mixing
- Andrew Scarth – recording engineer
- Mike Ging – recording engineer
- Tommy Vicari – recording engineer
- Nick Froome – recording engineer
- Vincent Frerebeau – additional engineer
- John Lee – additional engineer
- Dave O'Donnell – additional engineer
- James Allen-Jones – assistant engineer
- Darren Allison – assistant engineer
- Lee Curle – assistant engineer
- Tim Leitner – assistant engineer
- Paul Logus – assistant engineer
- Ray Pyle – assistant engineer
- David Scott – assistant engineer
- Elliot Singerman – assistant engineer
- Bob Ludwig – mastering
- Overdubs recorded at Multi-Level ; The Power Station ; Lion Share Recording ; E-Zee Studios ; Mayfair Studios ; Swanyard Studios.
- Mixed at The Grey Room.
- Mastered at Masterdisk.
- Bill Burks – art direction
- Tommy Steele – art direction
- Glenn Sakamoto – design
- Herb Ritts – center photography
- Peter Lindbergh – photography
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications and sales
Singles
European promotional-only singleYear | Single | Chart | Position |
1990 | "You Can't Stop Me Loving You" | Polish music chart | 20 |