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Why Mark Knopfler Gave “Private Dancer” to Tina Turner

Some songs seem destined for a particular artist. Mark Knopfler’s “Private Dancer” is one of the best examples. Although Knopfler wrote the song during the Love Over Gold sessions with Dire Straits, he quickly realized that it did not belong on a Dire Straits album. Instead, it became one of the defining songs of Tina Turner’s legendary comeback and helped launch one of the biggest albums of the 1980s. More than forty years later, Private Dancer…
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direstraitsblog.com broke the news on Wednesday, August 5, 2026.
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