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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 4 32 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. 16 44 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. 56 24 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 72 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. 86 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. 2 TINA TURNER The gift that keeps on giving ORDER A GIFT SUBSCRIPTION TODAY PRICES FROM JUST $33 for 6 issues call 1.800.726.7207 or visit irelandofthewelcomes.com/wss 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 4 TINA TURNER 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 6 TINA TURNER “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. 8 TINA TURNER

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