Tina Turner - What's Love Got To Do With It

     美國搖滾樂界女王級的歌手 Tina Turner 24日在她瑞士的家中去世，享壽83歲。Tina Turner 以她獨特的嗓音、性感的魅力和爆炸性的能量，成為了世界上最成功、最讓人難忘的歌手之一。她的名曲包括"River Deep, Mountain High"、"Pround Mary"、"What's Love Got to Do with It"。

    Tina Turner 本名 Anna Mae Bullock，1939年11月26日出生於田納西州，她的演唱生涯從1950年代末開始，當時她還是聖路易斯的一名高中生，但已經能跟當時的搖滾歌星Ike Turner以及他的樂隊Kings of Rhythm同台演出，後來也成為了他的太太。1960年，她與 IkeTurner合組節奏藍調二重唱Ike and Tina Turner，開始在樂壇大放異彩；但她同時也是婚姻暴力的受害者，忍受Ike 的虐待長達20年，直到1978年兩人終於離婚。

    1983年Tina Turner 東山再起，發行首張個人專輯《Private Dancer》，其中第二首單曲"What's Love Got To Do With It"，登上Billboard Hot 100單曲排行榜冠軍。而她在舞台上的活力與爆發力，也使她的歌唱生涯再度發光。

    Tina Turner是史上銷量最高的唱片歌手之一，在全球賣出過超過1億張唱片。她的演唱生涯中共獲得12座Grammy獎，也獲得了 Grammy終成生就獎。她還是第一位登上滾石雜誌封面的非裔藝術家和女性。

    歌而優則演， Tina Turner也曾經在多部電影中客串演出。1985年她與梅爾吉勃遜主演的電影「衝鋒飛車隊續集」(Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome)，使得她獲得了有色人種促進協會形象獎最佳女主角獎。

    Tina Turner十年前歸化為瑞士籍，定居於蘇黎世湖畔。

(26) Tina Turner - What's Love Got To Do With It (Official Music Video) – YouTube

1984年五月得到三周冠軍的此曲也是滾石雜誌RS500排行榜第316名的名曲

(26) TINA TURNER ★ We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)【music video】 - YouTube

Tina Turner這一首電影插曲於1985年七月獲得過第2名

What's Love Got to Do with It

lyrics：Terry Britten / Graham Hamilton

You must understand how the touch of your hand
Makes my pulse react
That it's only the thrill of boy meetin' girl
Opposites attract
It's physical
Only logical
You must try to ignore that it means more than that

Oh oh
What's love got to do, got to do with it?
What's love but a second hand emotion?
What's love got to do, got to do with it?
Who needs a heart when a heart can be broken?

It may seem to you that I'm acting confused
When you're close to me
If I tend to look dazed I've read it someplace
I've got cause to be
There's a name for it
There's a phrase that fits
But whatever the reason you do it for me

Oh oh
What's love got to do, got to do with it?
What's love but a second hand emotion?
What's love got to do, got to do with it?
Who needs a heart when a heart can be broken?
Huh

I've been takin' on a new direction
But I have to say
I've been thinkin' about my own protection
It scares me to feel this way

Ho oh
What's love got to do, got to do with it?
What's love but a second hand emotion?
What's love got to do, got to do with it?
Who needs a heart when a heart can be broken?

Got to do, got to do with it
What's love but a sweet old fashioned notion?
What's love got to do, got to do with it?
Who needs a heart when a heart can be broken?

Got to do
Huh, got to do with it
(What's love but a second hand emotion?)
What's love got to do, got to do with it?
Who needs a heart when a heart can be broken?
What's love?
(Ooh, ooh)
Got to do it
Got to do it
What's love?
(But a second hand emotion?)

Got to do
Huh, got to do with it
(What's love but a second hand emotion?)
What's love got to do, got to do with it?
Who needs a heart when a heart can be broken...

Troggs -Wild Thing

    Troggs 的“Wild Thing” 是 Bobby Kennedy and Senator Everett Dirksen共同撰寫的，The Troggs 並未因寫此歌曲而且出名，他們因唱得好而成名。

    1966年英國合唱團The Troggs 翻唱“Wild Thing”， 在英美二地都獲得排行榜冠軍。有音樂界人士懷疑這個英國搖滾樂團盜用了原作者的版本，說真的，他們沒有，因為做翻唱版本不是偷竊。

    The Troggs來自英格蘭Andover，他們唱的“Wild Thing” 這首歌在滾石雜誌歷年500首最佳歌曲排行榜獲得第261名，也進入Grammy獎搖滾樂名人堂。

  當年有一位作曲人 Chip Taylor 於1965年試錄這首三和弦巨作時，說真的他並不認真，可是後來 The Troggs參照他的版本將這首歌唱成酒店最叫座歌曲時，情況不一樣了，傳奇藍調迷幻搖滾樂手吉他Jimi Hendrix在歷史性的Monterery Pop演唱會時。都用他獨有的吉他演奏，去唱這首歌。

(30) The Troggs - Wild Thing - YouTube

很多電影用過這首歌當插曲，也許你聽過不知道名子吧

(30) Wild Thing (1967) (Monterey Pop Festival) - YouTube

1967年的錄影 ， Jimi Hendrix 1970年已因窒息而死，享年27歲。

Wild Thing

lyrics :The Troggs

Wild thing...you make my heart sing...

You make everything

Groovy

I said wild thing...

Wild thing, I think I love you

But I wanna know for sure

Come on, hold me tight

I love you

Wild thing...you make my heart sing...

You make everything

Groovy

I said wild thing...

Wild thing, I think you move me

But I wanna know for sure

So come on, hold me tight

You move me

Gordon Lightfoot -Sundown

   來自加拿大的民謠搖滾歌手/詞曲作者/吉他手 Gordon Lightfoot 月初去世，享年84歲，之前他曾宣布2023年的美加巡迴演唱會因故延期。

  Lightfoot 的歌唱生涯始於 1960 年代初的多倫多民謠巡迴演出，並在 1970 年代因一系列有影響力的暢銷曲而走向全球，他1962年的作品“ Earl;y Morning Rain”是民謠合唱團 Peter Paul and Mary 的一首受歡迎的歌。

  Gordon Lightfoot 的暢銷曲包含“The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”(#2/1976)、“If You Could Read My Mind”(#5/1971) 、“Sundown” (#1/1974) 及“Carefree Highway” (# 10/1974)，以及獲得the Billboard 200 排行榜 2 周冠軍的白金專輯 《Sundown》。

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IBdZ645S-o

1974年的冠軍曲，懷念的旋律

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuzTkGyxkYIThe 

“The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”是講1975 年11月10日一艘以密爾瓦基公民領袖命名的礦石船在蘇比立湖沉沒的故事，在錢櫃雜誌排行榜獲得冠軍。  

 

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Lyrics: Gordon Lightfoot

 

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down

Of the big lake they call 'Gitche Gumee'

The lake it is said, never gives up her dead

When the skies of November turn gloomy

With a load of iron ore, twenty six thousand tons more

Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty

That good ship and true was a 'bone to be chewed'

When the gales of November came early

The ship was the pride of the American side

Coming back from some mill in Wisconsin

As the big freighters go, it was bigger than most

With a crew and good captain well seasoned

Concluding some terms with a couple of steel firms

When they left fully loaded for Cleveland

Then later that night when the ship's bell rang

Could it be the north wind they'd been feelin'?

The wind in the wires made a tattle-tale sound

When the wave broke over the railin'

And every man knew, as the captain did too

'Twas the witch of November come stealin'

The dawn came late and the breakfast had to wait

When the gales of November came slashin'

When afternoon came it was freezing rain

In the face of a hurricane west wind

When suppertime came, the old cook came on deck

Sayin', "Fellas, it's too rough to feed ya"

At 7 p.m. a main hatchway caved in

He said, "Fellas, it's been good to know ya"

The captain wired in, he had water comin' in

And the good ship and crew was in peril

And later that night when his lights went out of sight

Came the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Does anyone know where the love of God goes

When the waves turn the minutes to hours?

The searchers all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay

If they'd put fifteen more miles behind her

They might have split up or they might have capsized

They may have broke deep and took water

And all that remains is the faces and the names

Of the wives and the sons and the daughters

Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings

In the rooms of her ice-water mansion

Old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams

The islands and bays are for sportsmen

And farther below, Lake Ontario

Takes in what Lake Erie can send her

And the iron boats go as the mariners all know

With the gales of November remembered

In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed

In the Maritime Sailors' Cathedral

The church bell chimed 'til it rang twenty-nine times

For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down

Of the big lake they call, 'Gitche Gumee'

Superior, they said, never gives up her dead

When the gales of November come early

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Styx-Mr. Roboto

 哪首歌對歌手或樂隊來說很受歡迎，也引起了他們的強烈反對？

以下是二個例子

    Styx樂團具有歌唱天賦的鍵琴手Dennis DeYoung，以及喜歡搖滾的Tommy Shaw。他們之間總是有緊張的氣氛，但是在(Kilroy Is Here)專輯裡的單曲“ Mr.Roboto”發行後，問題完全解決了 。Shaw成了該團的代表性人物，Dennis DeYoung 則離團而去，他在後來巡迴演唱時會唱Styx時代唱過的歌曲。

    英格蘭搖滾樂團Supertramp 1979年以專輯(Breakfast in America )成名時也產生了類似的裂痕。主唱 Roger Hodgson一直是樂隊的藝術驅動力和主要詞曲作者，但那張專輯產生了四首熱門單曲，其中包括一首並非他獨自創作的“ Goodbye Stranger”(#15/1979)。合唱團的成員希望他們能成為一個更商業化的樂團 ，而Roger 總是遠離商業傾向。這導致Roger 最後離團而去唱solo ，Supertramp在沒有他的情況下繼續前進，結果雙方都無法產生之前的成功，他們都需要對方。 Supertramp在排行榜上名次最好的歌是1979年獲得過第 6名的"The Logic Song” ，Roger Hodgson個人則只有一首“ Had A Dream(Sl;eeping With The Enemy)”只獲得48名 。 

     搖滾樂團Styx來自芝加哥，他們的歌大多是Dennis DeYoung與Tommy Shaw所寫的，他們在Billboard Hot 100排行榜名次最好的歌是1979年的2周冠軍曲"Babe”。Dennis DeYoung個人名次最好的歌則是1984年獲得第10名的“Desert Moon ” 。

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc6f_2nPSX8

Mr.Roboto在Billboard Hot 100排行榜獲得第 3名，但在Cash Box錢櫃雜誌獲得冠軍。這首歌反映1980年代日本經濟擠壓美國的狀況，作曲是Dennis DeYoung.收錄於 Kilroy Was Here 專輯(1983). 很不錯的歌。

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cFOLFtw2Ic

“Desert Moon ” 是一首動聽情歌

"Mr. Roboto"

 

Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto

Mata au hi made

Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto

Himitsu wo shiri tai

You're wondering who I am (secret secret I've got a secret)

Machine or mannequin (secret secret I've got a secret)

With parts made in Japan (secret secret I've got a secret)

I am the modren man

I've got a secret I've been hiding under my skin

My heart is human, my blood is boiling, my brain I.B.M.

So if you see me acting strangely, don't be surprised

I'm just a man who needed someone, and somewhere to hide

To keep me alive, just keep me alive

Somewhere to hide, to keep me alive

I'm not a robot without emotions. I'm not what you see

I've come to help you with your problems, so we can be free

I'm not a hero, I'm not the saviour, forget what you know

I'm just a man whose circumstances went beyond his control

Beyond my control. We all need control

I need control. We all need control

I am the modren man (secret secret I've got a secret)

Who hides behind a mask (secret secret I've got a secret)

So no one else can see (secret secret I've got a secret)

My true identity

Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto, domo...domo...

Thank you very much, Mr. Roboto

For doing the jobs that nobody wants to

And thank you very much, Mr. Roboto

For helping me escape just when I needed to

Thank you, thank you, thank you

I want to thank you, please, thank you

The problem's plain to see:

Too much technology

Machines to save our lives.

Machines dehumanize.

The time has come at last (secret secret I've got a secret)

To throw away this mask (secret secret I've got a secret)

Now everyone can see (secret secret I've got a secret)

My true identity...

I'm Kilroy! Kilroy! Kilroy! Kilroy!