If I Could Turn Back Time

Single infobox
Name = If I Could Turn Back Time


Artist = Cher
from Album =Heart of Stone
B-side = "Some Guys"
Released = June 1, 1989
Recorded = 1989
Genre = Pop rock
Length = 3:49
Label = Geffen
Writer = Diane Warren
Producer = David Geffen
Certification = Platinum (U.S.)
Gold (UK)
Reviews =
Misc =Extra chronology
Artist = Cher
Type = North American singles
Last single = "After All"
(1989)
This single = "If I Could Turn Back Time"
(1989)
Next single = "Just Like Jesse James"
(1989)Extra chronology
Artist = Cher
Type = European singles
Last single = "We All Sleep Alone"
(1988)
This single = "If I Could Turn Back Time"
(1989)
Next single = "Just Like Jesse James"
(1989)Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Alternate covers
Type = studio


Lower caption = Vynil 2001 Remix

"If I Could Turn Back Time" is a song written by Diane Warren and was released on June 1 1989 as the second North American and first European single release from American singer/actress Cher's twentieth album "Heart of Stone" by Geffen Records.

ong information

After a small comeback with "I Found Someone" in 1987, Cher's career hit big with the release of "If I Could Turn Back Time", which charted at number 1 in Australia and Norway, number 3 in the United States and number 6 in the United Kingdom.

It was very successful and it became Cher's second consecutive number 1 in the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart. It topped the charts in two countries and it became a top ten hit in nearly ten countries. Cher had several subsequent hits including "The Shoop Shoop Song", "Strong Enough" and "Believe".

In episode 3-07 (first aired on november 16, 2000) of Will & Grace, Jack meets Cher in a café and mistakes her for a drag queen. She sings a few notes of "If I could turn back time" to make him understand she's the real Cher.

In 2001 Cher has released a double vinyl with 3 remix of If I Could Turn Back Time called Cher Vs. Almighty. This remix was used as the opening track for the 'Living Proof: Farewell Tour' combining the intro to 'Dark Lady' and elements of 'A Different Kind Of Lovesong'

Music video

at Pier D along with the crew. In the music video, the band plays amidships, and the whole vessel is rigged with spotlights, light racks and strobes. The crew is on the deck, waving with the rhythm.

Cher's outfit for the original video (a fishnet body stocking under a very revealing black one-piece bathing suit) caused some controversy, and many television networks refused to show the video. In 1989 the MTV network banned the video and only played it after 9:00 PM. A "censored" video, including new scenes, and showing less explicitly sexual content than the previous original video was then made.

In 2000 a remix was released, which was recorded during her previous tour, "Do You Believe?".

Finally in 2003 Cher released her "Living Proof - Farewell Tour" concert on DVD which included an official "If I Could Turn Back Time" remix video.

This specific Cher video has been parodied many times, most recently in "", where Meg Griffin is in the role of Cher, but instead of the sailors enjoying it, they all flee for their lives and the boat appears to sink at the end.

Cher's son, Elijah Blue Allman, only twelve at the time, makes an appearance in the video, playing a guitar (he wears dark glasses and a Jimi Hendrix T-shirt).

The video was number 3 in MAX music's World's Worst Ever Video countdown in 2008.

Formats and track listings

If I Could Turn Back Time US Promo CD Single
#If I Could Turn Back Time (Remix)
#If I Could Turn Back Time (Original Mix)
#If I Could Turn Back Time (Rock Mix)
#If I Could Turn Back Time (AC Mix) If I Could Turn Back Time European CD Single
#If I Could Turn Back Time (Rock Guitar Version)
#If I Could Turn Back Time
#I Found Someone

If I Could Turn Back Time Remix
#Believe (Almighty Definitive Mix)
#If I Could Turn Back Time (Almighty Remix)
#If I Could Turn Back Time (TNT Vocal Mix)
#If I Could Turn Back Time (TNT Dub)
#One By One (Junior Vasquez Vocal Remix)

Official Version

*Main Version (3:49)
*Remix (3:59)
*Original Mix (3:59)
*Rock Mix (4:06)
*AC Mix (4:00)
*Rock Guitar Version (4:08)
*Almighty Remix Promo (7:52)
*Almighty Remix Edit (5:26)
*TNT Vocal Mix (6:43)
*TNT Dub (6:47)
*TNT Radio Edit (3:57)

Charts