Now I Can Dance
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Gab is lucky to have French cousins as well as Australian. Here he is with my nephews Matéo and Valentin, who are also around the same age.
Making pancakes in our house in Paris before the builders moved in. I love cooking almost as much as I love music — even when the sous-chef keeps licking the spoon.
All dressed up with somewhere to go. Backstage while on tour in 2012 – just me and my date, the double bass. My real date, Vince, was behind the camera, taking far too long to get this snap.
Above: Recording a demo in Paris in 2012 and at Sing Sing Studios in Melbourne in August 2013, putting the finishing touches to my new album, Reset.
TINA ARENA
Album Discography
ENGLISH LANGUAGE STUDIO ALBUMS
Tiny Tina and Little John With John Bowles
Vinyl LP, Pisces, 1977, Australia; CD, Standard Records, 1998, Australia
Rock & Roll Love Letter/Ring Ring/Do Ron Ron/High Hopes/Ma (He’s Making Eyes at Me)/Let Your Love Flow/Somewhere Over the Rainbow/Jeans On/Heartbeat (It’s a Love Beat)/Calendar Girl/That’s Rock ’N’ Roll/Anything You Can Do/I’m Your Little Boy/When I Kissed the Teacher/Ben/Everybody Needs a Rainbow/Everything Is Beautiful
Strong as Steel
CD, Avenue Records/EMI, 1990, Australia; Standard Records, 1996
Woman’s Work/I Need Your Body/Close to My Heart [1990 only]/For the Sake of Talking [1990 only]/Rumour Has It [1990 only]/Images of Love [1990 only]/Strong as Steel/The Machine’s Breaking Down/I’ll Be There/Stagefright/I Believe (When I Fall In Love It Will Be Forever)/I Need Your Body (Original 12” Mix) [1990 only]/The Machine’s Breaking Down (Club Mix Hot Dr. Mix) [1990 only]/Wouldn’t Change a Thing [1996 only]/Best for You [1996 only]/On the Line [1996 only]/ You Make Me Feel Good [1996 only]/Be a Man [1996 only]
Don’t Ask
CD, Columbia, 1994, Australia; Columbia, 1994, Europe; Columbia, 1995, UK; Columbia, 1996, Europe; Epic, 1996, US
Chains/Heaven Help My Heart/Sorrento Moon (I Remember)/Wasn’t It Good/Message/Show Me Heaven [Japan, Europe and US only]/Love Is the Answer/Greatest Gift/That’s the Way a Woman Feels/Be a Man/Standing Up/Chains (S&M Radio Mix) [Europe 1996 only]
In Deep
CD, Columbia, 1997, Australia; Columbia, 1998, France; Columbia, 1998, UK; Epic, 1998, Japan; Epic, 1998, US; Columbia, 1999, France
Burn /If I Didn’t Love You/Sixteen Years/In Command/Not for Sale/Unsung Hero/I Want to Live With You/Welcome to My World/I Want to Know What Love Is/Flashback/Now I Can Dance/Stay/Burn (Acoustic Version – Hidden Track)/I Want to Spend My Lifetime Loving You [France, Japan and UK only]/No Shame [France, Japan, UK, US, only]/Whistle Down the Wind [Japan, UK, US only] Aller plus haut [France only]/Les Trois Cloche [France only]/Segnali di Fumo [France only]/Chains [France 1999 only]
Just Me
CD, Columbia, 2001, Australia; Columbia, 2001, France & Belgium
Dare You to Be Happy/Soul Mate #9/But I Lied/God Only Knows/Symphony of Life/You Made Me Find Myself/If You Ever/Tangled/I’m Gone/Something’s Gotta Change/Coeur de Pierre [France and Belgium only]/Tu es Toujours Là [France and Belgium only]/Si Je Ne T’Aimais Pas[France and Belgium only]
Songs of Love and Loss
CD, EMI, 2007, Australia
The Look of Love/I Just Don’t Know What to Do With Myself/So Far Away/To Sir With Love/The Man With the Child In His Eyes/Do You Know Where You’re Going To/Love Hangover/I Only Want to Be With You/The Windmills of Your Mind/Everybody Hurts/Woman/Until/Wasn’t It Good (live) [deluxe edition only]/You Made Me Find Myself (live) [deluxe edition only]/Les trois cloches (live) [deluxe edition only]/Now I Can Dance (live) [deluxe edition only]/Sorrento Moon (live) [deluxe edition only]
Songs of Love and Loss 2
CD, EMI, 2008, Australia
Oh Me Oh My/Only Women Bleed/Every Breath You Take/Close To You/Call Me/Baby It’s You/Nights In White Satin/I Hope I Never/Both Sides Now/Wouldn’t It Be Good/Your Song/Living a Lifetime Together/Downtown [digital only]
The Peel Me Sessions 2003
CD, Positive Dream, 2009
Talk to Me/Your Love Has Never Failed Me Yet/Peel Me (Like an Orange)/Transparency/Drunk with Love/Doesn’t It Feel Good/No Apology/Take Me Apart/(Sweetest) Love Hangover
Reset
CD, EMI, 2013, Australia
Love You Less/Still Running/You Set Fire to My Life/Let Me In/Out of the Blue/Don’t Hide/Patchwork Heart/It’s Just What It Is/Don’t Look Back/Bring Me Love/Only Lonely/Destination Unknown/Reset All/I Can Breathe [deluxe edition only]/Lose Myself [deluxe edition only]/You Set Fire to My Life (acoustic) [deluxe edition only]
FRENCH LANGUAGE STUDIO ALBUMS
Un Autre Univers
Columbia, 2005, France
Aimer Jusqu’à l’Impossible/Tu Aurais dû Me Dire (Oser Parler d’Amour)/Je M’appelle Bagdad/Si Tu Veux Mon Coeur/J’ai Envie de Savoir/S’il Faut Prier/Il y a des Jours/Un Autre Univers/Et Puis Après (with Henri Salvador)/Changer/Si J’avais le Temps/Jamais Non Jamais/Simple Désir
7 Vies
CD, Columbia, 2008, France
Entends-Tu le Monde?/Tu Pourras Dire/7 Vies/Danser la Vie/Ombres Chinoises/L’un Pour L’autre/Ta Vie/S’il M’est Donné/Hollywood Boulevard/Je Vois ta Lumière/Ailleurs/Dis-moi/N’oublie Pas
COMPILATION ALBUMS
Souvenirs
CD, Columbia, 2000, Australia
I Want to Spend My Lifetime Loving You/Love’s Funny That Way/Show Me Heaven/If I Was A River/Whistle Down The Wind/No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) (live with Donna Summer)/Burn (live at the Olympia)/Sorrento Moon (I Remember) (live at the Olympia)/Chains (Live at the Olympia)/Live (For the One I Love)/Les Trois Cloches/Segnali Di Fumo (with Luca Barbarossa)/Aller Plus Haut/Aller Plus Haut (video)/Les Trois Cloches (video)/If I Was a River (video)
Greatest Hits, 1994–2004
CD, Columbia, 2004, Australia
Italian Love Song/Chains/Burn/Wasn’t it Good/Sorrento Moon (I Remember)/Now I Can Dance (single edit)/Soul Mate #9 (single version)/Heaven Help My Heart (radio version)/Symphony of Life/That’s the Way a Woman Feels (The New Horns Mix))/If I Didn’t Love You/I Want to Know What Love Is/Dare You to Be Happy (remix)/Show Me Heaven/If I Was a River/Never (Past Tense) (radio edit)/I Want to Spend My Lifetime Loving You (with Marc Anthony)/Take Me Apart
Bonus CD (limited edition only)
Aller Plus Haut/Les Trois Cloches/Tu es Toujours Là/Cœur de Pierre/Si Je Ne T’aimais Pas/Je Te Retrouve un Peu (with Jay)/Symphonie De L’âme (single version)/Ti Voglio Qui (radio version)/Segnali di Fumo (with Luca Barbarossa)
The Best et Le Meilleur
CD, Columbia, 2009, France
Aller plus Haut/I Want to Spend My Lifetime Loving You (with Marc Anthony)/Aimer jusqu’à l’impossible/I Want to Know What Love Is/Les Trois Cloches/Je M’appelle Bagdad/Night Fever/Tu es Toujours Là/Entends-Tu le Monde?/Live (For the One I Love)/Symphony of Life/Chains/L’un Pour L’autre/7 vies/Tu Pourras Dire/Tu Aurais Dû Me Dire (Oser Parler D’amour)/Et Puis Après (with Henri Salvador)/This Universe/Out Here on My Own (duet with Patrick Fiori)
LIVE ALBUMS
Vous Etes Toujours Là
CD, Columbia, 2003, France
Je Te Retrouve Un Peu (with Jay – studio version)/Si Je Ne T’aimais Pas/Sorrento Moon/Aller Plus Haut/Les Trois Cloches/Burn/Tu Es Toujours Là/Symphonie De L’âme/I Want To Spend My Lifetime Loving You (with Roch Voisine)/I Want To Know What Love Is/Chains/Woman/You Made Me Find Myself/Coeur De Pierre/Never (Past Tense) (bonus track, The Roc Project feat. Tina Arena – studio version)
Greatest Hits Live
CD & DVD, Sony BMG Columbia, 2005, Australia
Soul Mate #9/Take Me Apart/If I Didn’t Love You/That’s the Way a Woman Feels/I Want To Know What Love Is/Wasn’t It Good/Les Trois Cloches/Burn/You Made Me Find Myself/Italian Love Song/Symphony of Life/Sorrento Moon/Heaven Help My Heart/Chains/Dare You to Be Happy
The Onstage Collection
CD & DVD, Liberation, 2010, Australia
The Look of Love/I Only Want to Be With You/Wouldn’t It Be Good/Only Women Bleed/Je M’appelle Bagdad/I Want To Know What Love Is/I Want To Spend My Lifetime Loving You/Wasn’t It Good/Burn/Maybe This Time/I Just Don’t Know What to Do With Myself/Nights in White Satin/Chains/Call Me/Symphony of Life
Symphony of Life
2 CDs & DVD, Ambition Entertainment/EMI, 2012, Australia)
CD 1: Arenature Overture/Living a Lifetime Together/Oh Me Oh My/The Man with the Child in His Eyes/I Just Don’t Know What to Do with Myself/My Husband Makes Movies/Don’t Cry for Me Argentina/The Prayer (with Anthony Callea)/I Want to Spend My Lifetime Loving You (with Anthony Callea)
CD 2: Wasn’t It Good/Burn/Sorrento Moon (I Remember)/You Made Me Find Myself/Je M’appelle Bagdad/Only Women Bleed/GoldenEye/Maybe This Time/Symphony of Life/Cry Me a River/Chains/Both Sides Now/Call Me
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This book would not have been possible without the assistance of many people who generously gave of their time, their memory banks, their photo albums and files.
First, I would like to thank my family. Without their support and advice I couldn’t have had any kind of career – or written this book. To my darling parents, Franca and Joe – thank you, thank you, thank you. Without your love and support I couldn’t have achieved anything. A special thanks to Mum for keeping every clipping and costume and allowing me to use the family photos.
To my sister Nancy – thank you for everything. You got me started in music and always listened and gave advice when I needed it. Thanks for sharing your memories, which were much clearer than mine; and for trawling through all the family photos and getting them ready for publication – a huge job, I know! Thank you also to Walter, for helping Nancy out. And a big thanks to my sister Silvana, and Matt for sharing the ride, your memories and your family snaps.
To John Young, my mentor and lifelong friend who gave me my first gig when I was just eight years old – thanks for everything!
To my manager Grant Gillies – I couldn’t have done it without you! You make it all so easy and fun. Thanks also to Mike Brady, who recalled far better than I ever could how we had those hits with ‘I Need Your Body’ and Strong as Steel. The lovely Geoffrey Schuhkraft helped me piece together the stories around my trips to LA, Japan and around Australia, and generously lent me his photos. To Ann-Marie Meadows, who travelled with me all around the world, despite her fear of flying – thanks for sharing your memories and your photos.
Thanks also to my former manager, Bruce Pawsey; my assistant in Australia, Tori Wood; Janine Kerr; Emmanuel Candi at Sony Music Entertainment Australia; Peter Karpin; John O’Donnell at EMI Music Australia; Wade Goring at Foxtel; Jane Manning and Anthea Bulloch for sparking my interest in tracing the family history and telling my story; Robin Eastwood and Julie Raffaele at Artemis International for supplying images; and Rafa Sanchez, who generously mailed from Spain an amazing collection of clippings and video that he has gathered over the past twenty years; Nicole Groch, for sharing her photos; and Andrew Mulcahy, for supplying even more pictures. Thanks also must go to the extraordinary photographer Pierre Baroni, for agreeing to photograph me for the cover of my book.
I am indebted to a circle of friends in Australia, France, London, Los Angeles, New York and Sweden. The diversity of these spirits means my life is rarely dull. Thank you for welcoming me, or us, with open arms every time we pass through: Jacques, Val, Natalie and Laurent Robert; Stephane DuMontier; Ludovic and all the gang at the Val; Brigitte and Laurent; Margaux; Charles; the Kadoches; Georgia Zaris; Lauren Liistro; Mattias Lindbloom; Anders Wolbeck; Linda Gregoriou; Stefan Tyra; Nic Buc; Michael Angel; Gil Buresi; Fabienne; Sophie Hare; Steve and Karen Birbeck; Paul; Lia; Olivia and Ava Toscano; Heather Cairns; Marianne Harris; Tim Page; Kelvin and Lynn Rann; all the gang at Les Enfoirés; and Salvatore Anzalone. If I’ve left someone out please don’t hate me for it!
I am also indebted to Fiona Henderson, who loved the idea for this book and pursued it with a passion; as well as Catherine Milne and Katie Stackhouse at HarperCollins, for making the process almost painless!
Thanks to Jude McGee, who so graciously enabled me to put this story into words. I trusted my instinct when we embarked on this storytelling journey together. I’m glad I waited for the perfect wordsmith to come along. It was worth the wait – thank you!
And last but by no means least, a huge thank you to my partner, confidante, and collaborator Vincent Mancini – an unbelievably patient man who has taught me many things; and to Gabriel, my son, who singlehandedly keeps it all very real.
SEARCHABLE TERMS
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ABBA 6–7, 18
Abbey, Kelley 66, 67
Aerosmith 163, 202
Afanasieff, Walter 148
Aguilera, Christina 123, 170
Album of the Year 2, 105
Alpet, Herb 91
Amato, Peter 203
America 69–79, 83, 87–91, 111, 117–18, 122, 131, 157–9, 163, 202–7, 219–20, 262, 301
Amorosi, Vanessa 191, 193
Andress, Ursula 115
Angel, Michael 94, 133, 201
Angels 78
Anthony, Julie 191, 193
Anthony, Marc 140–1, 146, 149
Anzalone, Salvatore 297
Apple Records 91
Arena, Filippina (Pina/ Tina) 287
boyfriends 44–5, 81
first public singing appearance 8–13
insurance company, working for 46–7
marriage 2, 4, 86, 98, 103, 107–11, 126, 127, 141, 151–3, 161–2, 181, 215, 216, 218
pregnancy 237–8, 240–2, 247–51, 276–7, 286
school 19, 31–3, 38, 39, 44
singing lessons 15–16
YTT competition appearances 17
Arena, Franca 5, 7, 12–26, 29–32, 37–40, 44, 45, 51–2, 69, 72, 75, 80–1, 104, 109, 133, 175, 187–8, 218, 222–3, 254–5, 264–5, 270, 285, 288–90, 304, 309
nursing home 52, 62, 76, 98, 193, 292
Arena, Joe 7, 9–14, 17–18, 21–2, 25, 29, 31, 37–40, 44–5, 51–2, 69, 76, 80, 86, 98, 104, 109, 133, 187–8, 193, 218, 222, 254, 264, 270, 285, 289–90, 304, 309
Arena, Nunzia 24
Arena, Silvana 9, 16, 19, 31, 36, 52, 62, 85, 98, 104, 109, 131, 133, 182, 218, 254, 261–2, 270, 285, 304, 309
Arena Bilic, Nancy 6, 8–13, 16–17, 18, 19, 31, 36, 42, 50, 52, 78, 85, 133, 138, 145–6, 193, 218, 223, 255, 270, 309, 311
Asher, Peter 91–2, 113, 124, 146
Atkins, David 62, 63, 192
Auclair, Virginie 164–5, 170, 180
Australian Recording
Industry Association (ARIA) 150, 151, 201, 217, 302
awards 1–2, 105–7, 124–5, 273
Avenue Records 55
Aznavour, Charles 170
Bacall, Lauren 189
Bacharach, Burt 34, 262–3, 278
Balsamo, Steve 186
Bancroft, Anne 6
Banderas, Antonio 136–7, 139
Bannister, Jenny 60
Barbarossa, Luca 173–4, 188
Baroni, Pierre 93–5, 125, 135, 141, 148–9
Bassey, Shirley 124
Bat Out of Hell 139
Batignolles 239, 270, 276
Battaglia, Christophe 168
Beale, Amanda 100
Bee Gees 111, 134, 142–4, 148, 207
Belbruno, Frank 12–13
Benson, George 91
Bernardini, Alain 271
Bernardini, Jean-François 271
Bernardo, Danielle 32, 270
Berti, Orietta 5
Best Australian Solo Artist 187
Best Female Artist 105, 125
The Best and Le Meilleur (The Best and the Best) 285– 6, 318
Best Pop Release 105
Bilic, Sofia 223, 255, 270, 309
Bi
lic, Walter 52, 85, 223, 255, 270
Birch, Rick 192
Black, Cilla 41
Blackwell, Mark ‘Duck’ 244–5, 260, 263–4, 272, 279
Bocelli, Andrea 248, 280–1
Bon Jovi, John 202
Bono 183
Bonython-Hines, Nicole 299
Bourne, Shane 68
Bowie, David 205
Bowles, John 26–7, 28, 33, 121, 315
Boy George 138
Boyden, Sally 21
The Boyfriend 33
Boyzone 138, 139
Brady, Doug 54
Brady, Mike 48, 54–61, 66, 75, 120
Braithwaite, Daryl 7, 12
Branigan, Laura 147
Branson, Richard 112
Bread 138
Brel, Jacques 170
Brightman, Sarah 137, 280
Broadcast Music Inc (BMI) award 217
Broadway 53, 83, 206, 219, 221, 265
Brotherhood of Man 18
Brown, James 77
Browne, Sally 121
Bruni, Carla 114, 173
Buc, Nicholas 274
Buchanan, Kere 170, 234, 274
Buckingham Palace 189–90
Bulloch, Anthea 287, 289
Burns, Ronnie 302
Burr, Gary 204
Bush, Kate 34, 263
Bye Bye Birdie 33
Byrne, Debbie 21, 30
Cabaret 218–24, 265, 266
Cadd, Brian 41–2, 72
Cafe Nostalgia 204
Campbell, Glen 41
Campbell, Naomi 114–15
Cannes 182–3, 255
Cantor, Randy 203
Cardinale, Claudia 53
Carey, Maria 2, 101, 146, 148, 183
Carlisle, Belinda 80
Carols by Candlelight 202
Carpenter, Karen 278
Carr, Ralph 78–83, 85–7, 89, 93–4, 97–8, 100–1, 103–4, 106–11, 119–21, 126–8, 131–4, 138, 141, 151–3, 155, 160–3, 181, 202, 204, 215–16, 234
Casta, Laetitia 114
Catalfamo, Carmela 291–2
Catalfamo, Filippa 22, 287–8, 294–5
Catalfamo, Francesco 22, 30, 75–6, 288, 292–4, 313
Ceberano, Kate 78, 181
Chagall, Marc 173