Tina embarked on her Wildest Dreams Tour in the spring of 1996, to promote her new album Wildest Dreams, which was her biggest tour with over 250 dates in nearly 16 month, surpassing her Break Every Rule Tour from 1987 / '88. In America, it was sponsored with a massive campaign by Hanes, as Turner became the spokesperson for their new hosiery line.
Before opening night, Tina gave a private concert in Brunei, to celebrate the 19th birthday of the niece of Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah. In Johannesburg, she was accompanied on stage by the Vusa Dance Company on the song „Do What You Do“ and at the three concerts in Paris, actor Bruce Willis and his band „The Accelerators“ were the opening act and Bruce joined Tina on stage for the encore song „Unfinished Sympathy.“ Oprah Winfrey announced that she would follow the tour with her talk show from Houston to New York City. The hightlight of the show was the song Goldeneye, when Tina appeared in a golden iris.
To promote the European leg of the tour, the sponsor TDK released a Behind The Dreams video documentary, which follows Tina backstage and rehearsing the tour in South Africa.
Unfinished Sympathy with Bruce Willis
Opening Night: April 13, 1996 / Indoor Stadium, Singapore
Closing Night: August 10, 1997 / Meadows Music Theater, Hartford (USA)
Regions: Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, North America
Concerts: 250+
Visitors: 3 Mio. (Europe)
Home Video: Live In Amsterdam
The Band: Sharon Owens: Dancer, Vocals / John Miles: Guitar, Vocals / Ollie Marland: Keyboard, Vocals / Cynthia Davila: Dancer, Vocals / Warren McRai: Guitar (replaced Bob Feit) / Jack Bruno: Drums / James Ralston: Guitar, Vocals / Karen Owens: Dancer, Vocals / Timmy Cappello: Percussion, Keyboard, Saxophone, Vocals / Chuck Booker: Piano, Vocals (replaced Kenny Moore) / Bob Feit: Guitar (Europe only) / Kenny Moore: Piano, Vocals
Setlist
- Whatever You Want
- Do What You Do
- Thief Of Hearts
- River Deep, Mountain High
- Missing You
- In Your Wildest Dreams
- Goldeneye
- Private Dancer
- We Don’t Need Another Hero
- Let’s Stay Together
- I Can’t Stand The Rain
- Undercover Agent For The Blues
- Steamy Windows
- Givin’ It Up For Your Love
- Better Be Good To Me
- Addicted To Love
- The Best
- What’s Love Got To Do With It
- Band Introduction
- Proud Mary
- Nutbush City Limits
- Unfinished Sympathy
- Something Beautiful Remains
- On Silent Wings
- Dancing In My Dreams
Kenny Moore
1951 - 1997
At the Australian leg of the tour, Tina’s long-time pianist Kenny Moore suffered health problems in Sydney. Kenny had worked with Tina since 1977. Chuck Booker replaced Moore for the remaining dates and the band dedicated every performance thereafter to him.
Your presence lit up our lives, your personality, your singing and playing will be impossible to replace. We all miss you and love you and will remember you always as „The Ambassador of the Tina Turner Band."
Tour Program
The 32-page tour program is available in four different versions. The first European book contains no live pictures, but many promotional shoots. A second European version replaced some pictures with some very rare promo shoots and a different 'a day in the life' page. The Australian version comes with a totally new design and many live pictures from the European concerts. The US version replaced Kenny Moore with Chuck Booker and dedicates him with a separate page. Also some live pictures have been changed.
a day in the life ...
It was midnight backstage at some pop awards. I'd had a few glasses of wine so was feeling a little gregarious. A gentleman said to me, „Are you Duncan? I am Tina Turner’s manager, do you have any ideas how we could photograph Tina in a different way?“ jokingly said „Would you like some really different pictures that will be published all over the world?“
„Oh yes,“ he said. „Well let me get Tina out of bed and photograph a day in her life.“ He laughed and said he didn't think so! Two days later he rang me and said, „Tina likes your idea, what are you doing tomorrow?“ The next day I was having breakfast with Tina. We then flew to Paris on her jet and she bought French bread and cheese for our lunch, danced a lot and then performed for her latest video. We had the wildest time with one of the worlds greatest female icons. This set of portraits were taken on a long 400ml telephoto lens to knock out the background and because I was using black and white film in very low light you get this very grainy effect which I think gives these pictures that extra gritty rawness capturing the energy of the fabulous Tina Turner. — Duncan Raban