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Towards the end of 1983, the band (under their B.E.F. guise and assisted by Greg Walsh) helped relaunch Tina Turner's career, producing, and providing backing vocals on her hit "Let's Stay Together", a cover of the Al Green song. 1984 saw the release of Heaven 17's third studio album, How Men Are, [9] which reached number 12 in the UK Albums ...
The British Electric Foundation was an experimental production project that employed artists including Tina Turner, Sandie Shaw, and Gary Glitter.The band's first album in 1980 was the instrumental cassette-only release Music for Stowaways, followed in 1982 by Music of Quality and Distinction, Vol. 1 which featured vocalist Glenn Gregory.
B.E.F.* featuring Tina Turner - Ball of Confusion-VS 500-Vinyl 7" 1982: Music of Quality and Distinction Volume One: 25: V 2219: B.E.F./Virgin Records: listed as a 'Various Artists' compilation album on the UK Top 100 albums chart 1982: Music of Quality and Distinction Volume One-VV 2219-Vinyl 5 x 7" singles 1991: BEF featuring Lalah Hathaway ...
Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock; November 26, 1939 – May 24, 2023) was a singer, songwriter, ... a side project of Heaven 17, singing "Ball of Confusion".
Turner met her future husband in the late 1950s at the age of 17 and began recording with him as the Ike & Tina Turner Revue soon afterwards. She later revealed in her memoir I, Tina that Ike’s ...
Outside Heaven 17, Gregory has been a member of the bands Ugly and Honeyroot, as well as working with ABC, Tina Turner, Grace Jones, Propaganda, Terence Trent D'Arby, Ultravox, La Roux and John Lydon. [4] He was a member of the "supergroup" Holy Holy. [7] He has also established a career in soundtrack music, writing for radio, TV and film.
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"Let's Stay Together" was later covered by Tina Turner, her second collaboration with the British Heaven 17 and British Electric Foundation production team after "Ball of Confusion" in 1982, and served as her comeback single in late 1983. Unlike Al Green's version, Turner sings verse 2 first, then verse 1 when the band starts playing.