Rupert Hine-- what happened?

[cactusjack]

It's interesting that his Wikipedia page has NOTHING about his personal life at all, beyond his name and birthdate

[ahafan02]

Originally Posted by MacMan

Well he's still producing music. Just googled him and he has a website showing all his production and solo credits. I didn't know he did a bunch of Rush albums and also Tina Turners first 3 comeback albums back in the 80's along with The Fixx. The guy was pretty popular.

To be clear he only produced 2 songs on Private Dancer (I Might Have Been Queen and Better Be Good To Me), 2 on Break Every Rule (the title track and I'll Be Thunder) and 1 on Foreign Affair (Falling Like Rain). I don't know who else on here are Tina Turner fans beside myself but here's a tidbit on one of Hine's tracks "I Might Have Been Queen" It was originally nearly 7 minutes. Against Tina's request he chopped the song down to make room for "I Can't Stand the Rain" which was the last track recorded for the album. If you listen to the remix on the soundtrack of "What's Love Got To Do With It" you can hear one of the chopped verses. Sadly the 7 minute version hasn't been released alone with 6 finished songs recorded during that album. Sorry for getting off topic.

[jeffd8382]

Originally Posted by ahafan02

To be clear he only produced 2 songs on Private Dancer (I Might Have Been Queen and Better Be Good To Me), 2 on Break Every Rule (the title track and I'll Be Thunder) and 1 on Foreign Affair (Falling Like Rain). I don't know who else on here are Tina Turner fans beside myself but here's a tidbit on one of Hine's tracks "I Might Have Been Queen" It was originally nearly 7 minutes. Against Tina's request he chopped the song down to make room for "I Can't Stand the Rain" which was the last track recorded for the album. If you listen to the remix on the soundtrack of "What's Love Got To Do With It" you can hear one of the chopped verses. Sadly the 7 minute version hasn't been released alone with 6 finished songs recorded during that album. Sorry for getting off topic.

Wow that's really interesting! I am a Tina Turner fan as well - never knew that about the Private Dancer album. "I Might Have Been Queen" is one of my favorite tracks from that album. I like a lot of the stuff Rupert Hine did in the 80's as well (with The Fixx, Saga, Tina, Stevie, etc.) I also am a big a-ha fan - so we must share quite a few similar musical tastes!