Pop Icons Magazine: Tina Turner - September 2022

100 Pages·2022·133.4 MB·English

Turner captured on May
10, 1996, the second of
a fi ve-night run at the
Flanders Expo in Gent,
Belgium, during her
Wildest Dreams tour.
T I N A
TURNER
How the music legend found her voice
Contents
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SHOW SOME RESPECT MOTHER OF REINVENTION
Powerhouse doesn’t even begin to describe After leaving Ike, Turner was slowly but steadily
Tina Turner as a vocalist, performer, style crafting and honing the image and sound she had
icon, and social force. But for all the laudatory wanted ever since her career began. Although she
words uttered about her during her remarkable disliked calling it a comeback, Turner released
60-plus-year career, survivor may be the most solo album Private Dancer in 1984—and found
apt, and the most meaningful. breakthrough success at the age of 44.
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NUTBUSH CITY LIMITS REACHING IMMORTALITY
Anna Mae Bullock grew up in Tennessee, raised With a best-selling autobiography, her life turned
with a fi erce work ethic from picking cotton and into a major motion picture, a James Bond theme
a musical education from singing in the church song, and accolades galore, Turner achieved
choir. She had drive, but with a fractured and living-legend status.
fraught household, what she didn’t have was love.
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SIREN OF STYLE
RIVER DEEP, MOUNTAIN HIGH
Big hair, bold lips, high heels, and fringe-fabulous
The Ike & Tina Turner Revue was a soul spectacle
costumes—Turner created signature looks
unlike any other, crossing from the R&B
that paired well with her stage persona and
charts to pop stardom behind Turner’s electric
accentuated her long, very insured legs.
performances. What the public didn’t know was
that the stage was her escape from the harrowing
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abuse she faced at home.
SIMPLY THE BEST
Her legacy secure with a jukebox musical and
a defi nitive documentary, Turner has stepped
out of the public eye to live quietly with husband
Erwin Bach in Switzerland, fi nding a peace that
has long eluded her.
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TINA IN REVIEW
Here, we look at what made Tina Turner a
showstopper, chart her 10 key performances, and
off er a checklist for an astounding discography.
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SHOW
SOME
RESPECT
Powerhouse doesn’t even begin to describe Tina Turner
as a vocalist, performer, style icon, and social force. But for
all the laudatory words uttered about her during her remarkable
60-plus-year career, survivor may be the most apt,
and the most meaningful.
BY DAVID HINCKLEY
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The Ike & Tina
Turner Revue
performed in the
U.K. circa 1972.
T
early rock ’n’ roll and its reputation as a ABOVE: Ike and Tina
playground for sex and drugs. Turner returned to
the Hammersmith
She joined Ike’s Kings of Rhythm as
Odeon in London
a teenager in East St. Louis in 1956. He
for a gig on October
renamed her Tina Turner after the popular 24, 1975 (they had
played at the same
comic book and TV warrior Sheena, Queen
venue in 1971 and
of the Jungle. Tina, as he envisioned it,
1974).
would command similar power onstage.
Turner “was a good housewife and a good RIGHT: Ike and Tina
Turner participated
mother,” Ike said in a 1985 interview. “She
in this 1964 portrait
was nothing like you see on stage. There was
session in Dallas.
no Tina before me. I invented her.” “Pretty is nice, but
Tina Turner had sung sizzling rhythm and He also abused her. Laurence Fishburne I don’t mind being a
little silly or playful
blues for almost three decades before a enshrined Ike as The Worst Husband Ever
in some shots and
harrowing survival story, a steamy stage in the 1993 film What’s Love Got to Do serious in others,”
show, and a song she hated converged to with It, and Turner’s own accounts of Ike’s Turner wrote in
Tina Turner: That's
make her one of modern pop music’s most physical and psychological cruelty, often
My Life, a pictorial
admired and indelible icons. fueled by his world-class cocaine habit,
autobiography
Anna Mae Bullock graduated from finally drove her to leave him in 1976. She published in October
a vagabond childhood in rural Middle fled their hotel room, she famously said, 2020. “I love it
when a photograph
America to a musical and then marital with “nothing more than 36 cents and a
captures my
partnership with Ike Turner, a bandleader, Mobil gas credit card.”
innermost emotions
talent scout, hustler, dealmaker, and and makes them
come to life.”
artist who helped shape both the sound of Continued on page 11
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“She was a good housewife and a good mother.
While Turner
performed a
carefree dance She was nothing like you see onstage. There was
during a photo
shoot in New York
no Tina before me. I invented her.”
on November 25,
1969 (right), she
was more subdued
—IKE TURNER
with Ike in a joint
portrait in 1972,
10 years into their
marriage.
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