Tina Turner

[degenerasian]

Yup. Just heard it on TV.

[Square Rob]

An INCREDIBLE talent. Fucking pure energy. Absolute queen. Rest in Power Tina.

[L-Jam3]

Legend.

[The Sybian]

Sad seeing all of my father's young crushes dying of old age.

[Steve of phpBB]

Sadness.

[govmentchedda]

Pretty sure I've seen the What's Love Got To Do With It video a billion times. RIP to a fucking force of nature.

[DaveInSeattle]

Powerhouse talent. And both the doc "Tina" and the fictional movie "What's Love Got To Do With It" are great.

[sancarlos]

My favorite Tina Turner memory.

[Pruitt IV]

One of the greatest songs ever recorded.

Just listen to her!

[EnochRoot]

Wow.

Here she is closing a show in ‘82 doing a cover of Bob Seger’s Hollywood Nights. Her energy is infectuous (before she worked with Heaven 17’s Martyn Ware on her cover of Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together,” which essentially launched her record deal with Capitol Records)…



RIP.

[Pruitt IV]

Read somewhere that Ike Turner was nowhere near the studio during the lengthy and epic recording sessions for "River Deep, Mountain High"

I know that Ike Turner has some "pioneer of rock" credibility, but you talk about leaching off talent, he takes the cake.

[sancarlos]

Read somewhere that Ike Turner was nowhere near the studio during the lengthy and epic recording sessions for "River Deep, Mountain High"

I know that Ike Turner has some "pioneer of rock" credibility, but you talk about leaching off talent, he takes the cake.

He was a bad, dangerous person, but as a guitarist, talent scout and bandleader, he deserved a lot of acclaim.

[sancarlos]

Ike was a VERY bad person.

[Pruitt IV]

Ike was a VERY bad person.

The fact that Morgan Fairchild is retweeting anti-DeSantis tweets makes her even more of a legend.

[Gunpowder]

Ike's mistake was not leading the NFL in rushing 8 times

[Jerloma]

Private Dancer never ceases to get me just a little hard.

[Nonlinear FC]

I'm sitting here next to Univ. of Denver's campus and the guy doing the bells for the tower is going OFF with a Tina Turner tribute. What's Love Got to Do With It just finished. We'll see where this goes throughout the day.

ETA - Proud Mary... Solid.

[sancarlos]

Old guy rant (not directed at swampers):
it’s weird and mildly upsetting how many online tributes I’ve read seem to believe her career began with “What’s Love got to Do with It.” Lady was a legend long before that.

[Nonlinear FC]

Old guy rant (not directed at swampers):
it’s weird and mildly upsetting how many online tributes I’ve read seem to believe her career began with “What’s Love got to Do with It.” Lady was a legend long before that.

Currently being played by "The Bell Tower Guy."

Ok, I'll stop.

[HaulCitgo]

Private Dancer never ceases to get me just a little hard.

Two. Number of women who hit the floor screaming private dancer. Nutbush city limits now. Turn up to fall down at 5:30

[HaulCitgo]

And everyone joins in for proud Mary.

[MaxWebster]

as a little kid I watched the movie "Tommy" on HBO a bit earlier than I should have - her performance of "The Acid Queen" was seared into my brain from about age 8.

hard to believe even then that it was less than 10 years between that and Private Dancer

Old guy rant (not directed at swampers):
it’s weird and mildly upsetting how many online tributes I’ve read seem to believe her career began with “What’s Love got to Do with It.” Lady was a legend long before that.

[rass]

Old guy rant (not directed at swampers):
it’s weird and mildly upsetting how many online tributes I’ve read seem to believe her career began with “What’s Love got to Do with It.” Lady was a legend long before that.

That was her only #1 song, so wasn't her 80s renaissance her commercial peak? And I'm totally talking out of my ass here but she bottomed out at some point, financially at least, so building herself back up to a superstar while in her 40s (and without her POS husband) might have been her personal and professional peak, too.

[MaxWebster]

"...She was of course my Acid Queen in the Tommy movie, and it is often my job to sing that song with The Who, so she always comes into my mind. It isn’t easy to deal with. The song is about abuse at the hands of an evil woman. How she turned that song on its head! All the anger of her years as a victim exploded into fire and bluster and a magnificent and crazy cameo role that will always stay with me.

She has been in my mind for the last ten years, I kept meaning to track her down, and see how she was. I truly thought she would live forever.”


Pete Townshend

[sancarlos]

Old guy rant (not directed at swampers):
it’s weird and mildly upsetting how many online tributes I’ve read seem to believe her career began with “What’s Love got to Do with It.” Lady was a legend long before that.

That was her only #1 song, so wasn't her 80s renaissance her commercial peak? And I'm totally talking out of my ass here but she bottomed out at some point, financially at least, so building herself back up to a superstar while in her 40s (and without her POS husband) might have been her personal and professional peak, too.

All true. But, as I said…

[Shirley]

I did not know that Mark Knopfler wrote Private Dancer. Or that Jeff Beck played on her version (with the rest of Dire Straits, minus Knopfler).