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Album: Reckless
Video: From Wat.tv.
Billboard Hot 100 Peak: 15
MTV Top 20 Peak: 6
MTV Top 20 Weeks: 2
That's right, Wat.tv, a French video sharing site. I've reviewed over 100 videos between this and the 1985 blog, and this was by far the most elusive. Just about everything else can be found on YouTube or DailyMotion. What I found may not exactly be the official MTV video, but it's pretty darn close to the way I remember it.
This was a true collaboration between Bryan Adams and Tina Turner. The video is from Turner's Private Dancer concert tour, and the track is from Adams' Reckless album. It's the sixth single from Reckless and also the sixth top 15 hit. Amazing that the album was released in 1984 and was still generating hits in 1986.
Reckless was among the first albums that I bought as a teenager (actually, cassette tapes), but I never felt that "It's Only Love" measured up to the other classic tunes. Still, it has a certain ass-kicking quality. The opening hard-driving guitar riff, followed by a joyous yell, leads into four minutes of good time rock 'n' roll. It holds up today.
In terms of chart performance, it's hard to tell where the video belongs. It appeared on the very first top 20 countdown of the year, on January 17, 1986, in the #6 spot. The next week it fell to #14 and then tumbled off the chart forever. The two-week run is significantly shorter than many other videos that missed the top 100. But, there was a three week break between the last top 20 countdown of 1985 and the first of 1986, and "It's Only Love" may have had more appearances had there not been a break. So that has to factor in as well. As the years pass, it is likely that the debate will never be settled.
But that remains for historians to ponder. More importantly, 5 awesome things about the video:
1) The video won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Stage Performance in a Video for 1986. Among the videos it beat out were Dire Straits' "Money For Nothing" and Robert Palmer's "Addicted To Love".
2) Great chemistry between these two. They get up in each other's faces and perform with wild enthusiasm and reckless abandon. (See what I did there?)
3) Live concert footage is usually pretty awesome.
4) Tina Turner's jean jacket and short skirt combo. A classic look.
5) The fact that this video actually exists online. Took me forever to find it.
That's right, Wat.tv, a French video sharing site. I've reviewed over 100 videos between this and the 1985 blog, and this was by far the most elusive. Just about everything else can be found on YouTube or DailyMotion. What I found may not exactly be the official MTV video, but it's pretty darn close to the way I remember it.
This was a true collaboration between Bryan Adams and Tina Turner. The video is from Turner's Private Dancer concert tour, and the track is from Adams' Reckless album. It's the sixth single from Reckless and also the sixth top 15 hit. Amazing that the album was released in 1984 and was still generating hits in 1986.
Reckless was among the first albums that I bought as a teenager (actually, cassette tapes), but I never felt that "It's Only Love" measured up to the other classic tunes. Still, it has a certain ass-kicking quality. The opening hard-driving guitar riff, followed by a joyous yell, leads into four minutes of good time rock 'n' roll. It holds up today.
In terms of chart performance, it's hard to tell where the video belongs. It appeared on the very first top 20 countdown of the year, on January 17, 1986, in the #6 spot. The next week it fell to #14 and then tumbled off the chart forever. The two-week run is significantly shorter than many other videos that missed the top 100. But, there was a three week break between the last top 20 countdown of 1985 and the first of 1986, and "It's Only Love" may have had more appearances had there not been a break. So that has to factor in as well. As the years pass, it is likely that the debate will never be settled.
But that remains for historians to ponder. More importantly, 5 awesome things about the video:
1) The video won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Stage Performance in a Video for 1986. Among the videos it beat out were Dire Straits' "Money For Nothing" and Robert Palmer's "Addicted To Love".
2) Great chemistry between these two. They get up in each other's faces and perform with wild enthusiasm and reckless abandon. (See what I did there?)
3) Live concert footage is usually pretty awesome.
4) Tina Turner's jean jacket and short skirt combo. A classic look.
5) The fact that this video actually exists online. Took me forever to find it.
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