VIDEO LYRICS

ack in ttre deeP and slow Pre-Civil Rights South, about the

only method of escape 1.or a YoLlng

Annie Mae Bullock was dreaming ofsinging and dancing. Now that she's

Tina Turner, she's still got those

clreams, except these diiys, she's able

to do them up as videos.In " Private Dancer", she is a

public dancer. Turner plays a '40s-era

"dime-a-dance" girl, working nights

in one of those sad, old-fashionedballrooms where guYS Paid theirmoney and took their danccs. As thc

video's taxi-dance girl, Tttrnerdreams of legitimate dancirlg, and the

fantasy is lor,'ely.For director Brian Grant-a music-

video Marco Polo who helmed the

,PRIVATE RAIVCER'

first long-form hit, Olivia Newton-John's Ph.vsic'al-"Private Dancer"represetrted a private fantasy: " lremember being l4 and rushing out

and bu-ving 'River DeeP, MountainHigh'. And now, to be actually work-ing on [a conceptual] vidbo u'ith Tinais sr-rch a thrill, I can't tell )'oLi'"(Clrant itlso directed her straight pcr-

t'ornrance clip for " lletter Bc Coocl

to \1c. " )

" 'Prrr ate Dancer', thc f irst timc I

hcard it, seemed to me just a classic,"he goes on. "lt's like Tina's life untilrecently-working Years and Years

and years, working every daY, thou-sancls of gigs and not getting anY-

wlrere. All you c'un do is dream."Money changes everYthing, of

course. Yet the mr.rlti-piatinunrTurner proved, according to both

Crant and producer Pitnl .lamcs, t'ttlt

onl-v professional, but illso, relatcs

.lames, "ver!, r'er-Y hLtrnAll. Shc pr-c-

ferred to eat rvith the crew' inste acl o1'

in hcr Winnebago or sonlethitlg."A gcnuine old-fashioned ballroorrr

(thc Rivoli in London's Lcrvishan-t

\cction) pror iclecl thc settillg 1-or thc

t ri o-da1 shoot . The' choreographcrri.as ,Arlcrtc Phillips, clance arrangcr1'or both [:ltoir.loltlt's "l'm StillStanding" atrd thc [-onclcltr nlttsicalSturlight E.rpre.ss, itrltotlg otlterprojects. It was shot on 35nrttl f ilnr orl

what James calls a "reasonabll' big

budget. " Even rvithoLtt dintlcr in

the Winnebago? -F-t'rutk I-rtve((

PfiVAte DAnCef AND ANY oLD MUSIC wlLL Do

Words and Music by Mark Knopfler IWANT TO MAKE A M'LL'ON

WELL THE MEN COME IN THESE DOLLARSPLACES I WANT TO LIVE OUT BY THE SEA

AND THE MEN ARE ALL THE SAME HAVE A HUSBAND AND SOMEYOU DON'T LOOK AT THEIR FACES CHILDRENAND YOU DON'T ASK THEIR NAME YEAH I GUESS IWANT A FAMILYYOU DON'T THINK OF THEM AS ALL THE MEN COME IN THESE

HUMAN PLACESYOU DON'T THINK OF THEM AT ALL AND TI{E MEN ARE ALL THE SAME

YOU KEEP YOUR MIND ON THE YOU DON'T LOOK AT THEIR FACES

MONEY AND YOU DON'T ASK THEIR NAMEKEEPING YOUR EYES ON THE WALL

DEUTSCH EMARKS OR DOLLAHSI'M YOUR PRIVATE DANCER AMERICAN EXPRESS WILL DO NICELYA DANCER FOR MONEY _THANK YOU

I'LL DO WHAT YOU WANT ME TO DO LET ME LOOSEN UP YOUR COLLARI'M YOUR PRIVATE DANCER TELL ME, DO YOU WANT TO SEE ME

A DANCER FOR MONEY DO THE SHIMMY AGAIN

O1984 BY STRAITJACKET SONGS LTD., ADMINISTERED BY ALMO MUSIC CORP. (ASCAP) IN THE U,S.A.

& CANADA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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