![]() as we are seeking to emerge from these ‘anni horribiles,’ these dreadful years of the pandemic. So, Tina Turner? This week? How? What? I’ve got to thinking, and we do need another hero! All of us, all over the world. its all there in her voice, and trust me, she certainly has got the best legs in the business! Her duet, with Aussie rocker Jimmy Barnes, of “Simply the Best,” showcases all that she has been and is. Widely acknowledged today as the “Queen of Rock’n’Roll,” the diminutive Turner was described in the New York Times in 2020, as having an inimitable “swagger, sensuality, gravelly vocals and unstoppable energy.” I can tell you, having seen Turner live during the mid-nineties, up-close and impersonal, she is dynamic, her voice is almost guttural, almost visceral, yet at the same time resilient, with an edge of vulnerability. Her acting in ‘Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome,’ alongside Mel Gibson garnered praise, and the theme song “We Don’t Need Another Hero,” became a smash hit, and “Simply the Best,” has become iconic, ensuring Turner’s place among the pantheon of true musical legends. ![]() Tina Turner emerged from the wilderness during the mid-eighties with the Al Green standard “Let’s Stay Together,” showcasing a bluesy edge, “Private Dancer” offering vocal subtlety, poignancy, and vulnerability, “What’s Love Got to Do with It?” demonstrated her personal and professional strength and resilience. Again ironically, but with clear purpose, she kept his name to remind her of his enmity, and how she needed to be strong and independent to emerge from his shadow. Ike Turner didn’t let go easily and tied his ex-wife in contractual knots for nearly a decade afterwards. But little did the world know of the diminutive star’s volatile relationship with her husband, which was to severely affect her ability to work in the industry after their separation. ![]() The frenetic “River Deep, Mountain High,” the pulsating “Proud Mary,” the driving “Nutbush City Limits,” defined Turner as an icon and poster girl for Phil Spector’s ‘wall of sound’ musical phenomenon, in the so called ‘glory days’ of sex, drugs, and rock’n’roll. Nor that she was ironically, the subservient half of her own failed nuptials, married to abusive cocaine addict and musician, Ike Turner, for 16 years, only ended in 1977 when the wheel came full circle, and she fled from her husband and was hidden by friends until her divorce was finalised the following year. Tina Turner was born Anna Mae Bullock, in Brownsville Tennessee, she is simply five foot nothing of ‘viva voce,’ of “life, given voice.” Born into a violent, loveless marriage, from which her mother fled, and her father remarried soon after, leaving the 11-year-old in the care of her grandmother, you needn’t know. ![]()
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