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Studio album by Tina Turner
Released September 18, 1989
Recorded 1988–1989
Studio The Hit Factory (New York, New York, US); Pathé-Marconi Studios (Paris, France)
Genre Pop rock
Length 52:16
Label Capitol
Producer
Dan HartmanRoger DaviesTina TurnerRupert HineGraham LyleTony Joe White
Tina Turner chronology
Tina Live in Europe
(1988) Foreign Affair
(1989) Simply the Best
(1991)

Foreign Affair is the seventh solo studio album by Tina Turner, released on September 18, 1989, through Capitol Records.[5] It was Turner`s third album release after her massively successful comeback five years earlier with Private Dancer and her third and last album with the label.[6] Although the album was not a major success in Turner`s native United States, it was a huge international hit, especially in Europe. The album reached number one on the UK Albums Chart, her first number one album there. Dan Hartman produced most of the tracks on the album, including the hit single `The Best`, which has gone on to become one of Turner`s signature songs.[7]

Composition
Foreign Affair falls under the adult contemporary genre[8] and features a diverse range of musical styles, from pop-rock anthems (`The Best`, `I Don`t Wanna Lose You`) to bluesy tracks (`Undercover Agent for the Blues`) and power ballads (`Be Tender With Me Baby`). The album features collaborations with prominent musicians, including saxophone solos by Gary Barnacle on at least three tracks and guitar work by Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler, who co-wrote Turner`s hit `Private Dancer`, on the title track.[9]

Commercial performance
While Foreign Affair did not perform as well as Turner`s previous albums Private Dancer and Break Every Rule in the US, where it failed to crack the Top 30 in the Billboard 200, it was a worldwide hit, selling over six million copies.[10][11] In the UK alone the album sold over 1.5 million copies entering the UK Albums Chart at number one (Turner`s first album to do so there) and staying in Top 100 for a year and a half.[12] The album also reached number one in numerous other countries including Germany and Sweden and topped the overall European Chart for four weeks.[citation needed]

In 2021, Foreign Affair was released as a box set, which includes a previously unreleased demo of `The Best`.[13]

Single releases
Six tracks from the album were released as singles, most of which became hits in various parts of Europe and, to a lesser extent, in the US. `The Best` (US No. 15; UK No. 5) was released as the first single propelling the sales of the album.[7] This was followed by `I Don`t Wanna Lose You` (UK No. 8), which was released in Europe only. The album`s third single (second in the US) was the opening track, `Steamy Windows` (US. No. 39; UK No. 13), which earned Turner a Grammy nomination.

Three additional singles released in various territories were the title track `Foreign Affair` (Continental Europe only), the ballad `Look Me in the Heart` (No. 8 on the US Adult Contemporary chart; UK No. 31) and the rock ballad `Be Tender with Me Baby` (UK No. 28).

Track listing
Standard edition
No. Title Writer(s) Producers Length
1. `Steamy Windows` Tony Joe White Dan Hartman 4:03
2. `The Best`
Mike ChapmanHolly Knight
HartmanTina Turner
5:28
3. `You Know Who (Is Doing You Know What)` T. White Hartman 3:45
4. `Undercover Agent for the Blues`
T. WhiteLeann White
Hartman 5:20
5. `Look Me in the Heart`
Tom KellyBilly Steinberg
Hartman 3:42
6. `Be Tender with Me Baby`
Albert HammondKnight
Hartman 4:18
7. `You Can`t Stop Me Loving You`
HammondKnight
Hartman 4:00
8. `Ask Me How I Feel`
HammondKnight
HartmanT. Turner
4:46
9. `Falling Like Rain`
David MundaySandy Stewart
Rupert Hine 4:03
10. `I Don`t Wanna Lose You`
HammondGraham Lyle
Roger DaviesLyleHammond
4:20
11. `Not Enough Romance` Hartman Hartman 4:04
12. `Foreign Affair` T. White
DaviesT. White
4:27

Personnel
Musicians

Tina Turner – lead vocals (all tracks), backing vocals (3, 7, 8, 10), arrangements (2, 8)
Dan Hartman – electric piano (1, 3, 4), organ (1, 4), keyboards (2, 3, 11), acoustic guitar (2, 6, 8, 11), backing vocals (2, 5), percussion programming (5), Moog bass (11), drum programming (11)
Jeff Bova – horn section (1, 4, 5), synth bass (3), organ (4), strings (5)
Phil Ashley – keyboards (2, 7), bass pulse (2), organ (6), synthesizers (6), strings (6, 7, 8), acoustic piano (8), flute (8)
Elliot Lewis – additional keyboards (2, 8), strings (2, 8), flute (11)
Philippe Saisse – additional keyboards (2, 3, 6, 8), slap bass (3), flute solo (5), keyboard mallet and chimes (7)
Rupert Hine – keyboards (9), bass (9), drum programming (9), backing vocals (9)
Nick Glennie-Smith – keyboards (10, 12), strings (10, 12), synth bass (12), drum programming (12), bell tree (12)
Casey Young – keyboards (10)
Greg Mathieson – synth bass (10)
Eddie Martinez – rhythm guitar (1, 3, 4), all guitars (5)
Neil Taylor – slide guitar (1), guitar solo (1)
Tony Joe White – lead guitar (1, 3, 4, 12), rhythm guitar (1, 3, 4, 12), harmonica (1, 3), synth bass (1, 4)
Gene Black – rhythm guitar (2, 7, 8), lead guitar (6, 7), guitar solo (6), guitar (10)
James Ralston – rhythm guitar (2, 6, 7, 8), guitar (10)
Pat Thrall – guitar solo (2), additional lead guitar fills (6), slide guitar (8), electric guitar (11)
Phil Palmer – guitars (9)
Mark Knopfler – guitars (12)
Carmine Rojas – bass guitar (1, 4, 5)
T. M. Stevens – bass guitar (2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 11)
J. T. Lewis – drums (1, 3, 4, 5)
Art Wood – drums (2, 6, 7, 8)
Geoff Dugmore – drums (10)
Danny Cummings – percussion (3, 4, 7), shaker (5), congas (7)
Albert Hammond – shaker (10), backing vocals (10)
Gary Barnacle – all saxophones (1, 12), saxophone solo (10)
Edgar Winter – saxophone solo (2)
Tim Cappello – saxophone solo (5, 8)
Roger Davies – arrangements (5)
Lance Ellington – backing vocals (2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 11)
Tessa Niles – backing vocals (2, 3, 5–8, 11)
David Munday – backing vocals (9)
Sandy Stewart – backing vocals (9)
Holly Knight – backing vocals (10)
Graham Lyle – backing vocals (10)
Production

Dan Hartman – producer (1–8, 11)[7][14]
Tina Turner – executive producer, producer (2, 8)[15]
Rupert Hine – producer (9)
Roger Davies – executive producer, producer (10, 12)
Albert Hammond – producer (10)
Graham Lyle – producer (10)
Tony Joe White – producer (12)[16]
Technical

Chris Lord-Alge – recording engineer (1–8, 11), mixing (all tracks)
Andrew Scarth – recording engineer (9)
Mike Ging – recording engineer (10, 12)
Tommy Vicari – recording engineer (10)
Nick Froome – recording engineer (12)
Vincent Frerebeau – additional engineer
John Lee – additional engineer
Dave O`Donnell – additional engineer
James Allen-Jones – assistant engineer
Darren Allison – assistant engineer
Lee Curle – assistant engineer
Tim Leitner – assistant engineer
Paul Logus – assistant engineer
Ray Pyle – assistant engineer
David Scott – assistant engineer
Elliot Singerman – assistant engineer
Bob Ludwig – mastering
Studios

Overdubs recorded at Multi-Level (Westport, Connecticut); The Power Station (New York, New York); Lion Share Recording (Los Angeles, California); E-Zee Studios (London, UK); Mayfair Studios (Primrose Hill, London, UK); Swanyard Studios (Islington, London, UK)
Mixed at The Grey Room (Hollywood, California)
Mastered at Masterdisk (New York, New York)
Other credits

Bill Burks – art direction
Tommy Steele – art direction
Glenn Sakamoto – design
Herb Ritts – center photography
Peter Lindbergh – photography