R.I.P. Tina Turner

[Awaken]

NOOOOO! This is a sad sad news. R.I.P. Tina, the Queen of rock.

[Yesed]

I'm glad someone else said it.

Not a fan, and never got over what she did to Proud Mary, but I didn't wish her ill, and she was undoubtedly a superstar.

Rest in peace.

I didn't like her doing the Acid Queen. But in her defense, it's a lousy song to begin with. I did know she sang on FZ songs, but too hard to critique that, though the vocals are great. Probably a good harmonizer, but as a solo, I think her voice and talent are overrated.

[patrickq]

NOOOOO! This is a sad sad news. R.I.P. Tina, the Queen of rock.

My thoughts exactly. There’s a lot of praise for her Ike & Tina days, but Private Dancer is a remarkable album as well—evaluating it having only heard “What’s Love Got to Do With It” is like judging 90125 by “Owner of a Lonely Heart” alone. She was a great performer of both rock and R&B.

[pianozach]

I'm glad someone else said it.

Not a fan, and never got over what she did to Proud Mary, but I didn't wish her ill, and she was undoubtedly a superstar.

Rest in peace.

If you didn't like her barnstorming rendition of Proud Mary, then you may REALLY love the Elvis Presley cover he released 6 months before the Ike & Tina Turner version. The musicians seem bored. Even the drum fills seem tired. The key change near the end of the song was ill-advised.

[Khatrooper]

If you didn't like her barnstorming rendition of Proud Mary, then you may REALLY love the Elvis Presley cover he released 6 months before the Ike & Tina Turner version. The musicians seem bored. Even the drum fills seem tired. The key change near the end of the song was ill-advised.

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The 1st rock concert I travelled to another city for, had Ike & Tina opening for somebody (hey it was the 70s, I don’t remember the headliner). My friends & I went as close to the stage as we could in the standing/dancing crowd. The crowd was really pumping egged on by Tina & her backup dancers / singers, it was an old time soul show supercharged by rock n’ roll. A few songs in I was overcome by the crowd, the heat etc and fainted. My buddies dragged me out of the stage front throng and I came to lying on the nice cold floor of the hockey rink as the show continued. They said I didn’t fall, the tightness of the crowd held me upright.

Now I don’t own any of her music, (have played We Don’t Need Another Hero in a top 40 covers band) but there’s no denying her talent as a vocalist & entertainer, her power over a crowd even as an opening act in a small town in the middle of nowhere eastern Canada, and her strength in leaving an abusive marriage & business relationship when there was no guarantee or even possibly of a soft landing.

Those who feel compelled to diss her here should know, commenting is not compulsory.
Or as nearly everyone’s Mom taught them, if you have nothing nice to say sit your ass down & shut up.

[Gtkgasman]

One hell of a talent/performer/entertainer!!!

[kkleinschmidt]

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The 1st rock concert I travelled to another city for, had Ike & Tina opening for somebody (hey it was the 70s, I don’t remember the headliner). My friends & I went as close to the stage as we could in the standing/dancing crowd. The crowd was really pumping egged on by Tina & her backup dancers / singers, it was an old time soul show supercharged by rock n’ roll. A few songs in I was overcome by the crowd, the heat etc and fainted. My buddies dragged me out of the stage front throng and I came to lying on the nice cold floor of the hockey rink as the show continued. They said I didn’t fall, the tightness of the crowd held me upright.

Now I don’t own any of her music, (have played We Don’t Need Another Hero in a top 40 covers band) but there’s no denying her talent as a vocalist & entertainer, her power over a crowd even as an opening act in a small town in the middle of nowhere eastern Canada, and her strength in leaving an abusive marriage & business relationship when there was no guarantee or even possibly of a soft landing.

Those who feel compelled to diss her here should know, commenting is not compulsory.
Or as nearly everyone’s Mom taught them, if you have nothing nice to say sit your ass down & shut up.

I have to admit Khatrooper that I was surprised at some of the posts here about Tina too. I'm not a huge fan of hers and songs like Proud Mary were overplayed on the radio (more like played to death) but even I understand that she was a unique force of nature that the world will never see again. And she had the best legs ever! I mean if Jon Anderson had those legs there would have been no holding Yes back... 🤣

[Olorin]

Yes, I have noted that people often feel compelled to say "I wasn't a fan, but...." I'm not sure why that is, even though I've undoubtedly done it myself. I seem to recall describing myself as a fair weather Bowie fan when he died. In my case, I think subconsciously if I don't qualify my statement, people will assume I'm an authority on the subject and have all sorts of questions I can't answer. Who knows.

But I will say this. I'm not all that familiar with Tina's stuff from the Ike and Tina days, though I've heard a lot of it. I am familiar with her 80s/90s solo star material. It's not the type of stuff I would normally listen to, but...it was Tina. She just brought something special to it with her performance, her energy, and that fabulous voice. Someone once commented that her voice could break our hearts singing a Windex commercial. And she just had so much joie de vivre, and it poured forth.

And oh yeah, she had the legs, though in our more enlightened modern time we don't comment on a woman's legs. Or mention that she was extraordinarily beautiful. However, I think that's ok in the case of Tina, because it was part and parcel of who she was. As LeVar Burton commented on Nichelle Nichols when she died, I think we can say about Tina Turner:

Icon. Queen. Goddess.

[Gilly Goodness]

I never bought any albums of hers. But. She was embedded in our DNA by the 1980's Simply the Best TV ad campaigns for Rugby League ( go the Canterbury Bulldogs) She was chosen to attract more female fans and the ads showed cheeky players in budgie smugglers runnin' on Bondi with Tina. Womens audience participation grew by 70%. Now we have women playin' the great game at a high level.





Andrew Ettinghausen was a good lookin' rooster that was supposed to be in the ad. Seen on her left in the above picture. But. Couldn't make make it. In London for a photo shoot. They sent 2 rough heads in his place. Tina made everyone laugh when she said, " I'd hate to meet the ugly ones!". 😂

She went on to perform at Grand Finals and record Simply the Best with our King of Soul, Jimmy Barnes.

https://youtu.be/crAgnI9BF6M

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