RIP - Tina Turner!

RRP

Rough life with some rough roads, but she escaped Ike

Gamecockeggman

She made lemonade out of lemons that’s for sure!!  Sad 

kl8ton

Simply the best!

lkapigian

RIP

JohnInCarolina

She always seemed like a really cool lady.  

RRP

How I got into following her was after she re-recorded Proud Mary which was written by band member John Fogerty and recorded by Creedence Clearwater Revival way back in January, 1969. At that time my wife and I followed a local band with Memphis aspirations performing many popular songs of that era.

Many a fond memory of those nights out being young, happy, nothing to tie us down and with "some coins" in our pockets to do what ever direction the wind blew us!

 

SamIAm2

Listening to her great hit "What's Love Got To Do With It?". Rick Beato did a live stream about her music 3 hours ago. 

Botch

I have a friend in Denver who started out as a male model, then a drummer, roadie, sound engineer (supposedly at Miles's last concert, and he insists the two vortexes were there); not sure what craft he now does but he flies all over the country to do it.  
Anyhoo, he posted this about Tina.  I'm not normally into "celebrity gossip" but she's gone now, and this adds to her legacy.
 

Today I am reminded.

We had a family friend, who passed on a couple of years ago, who had a turn as Ike & Tina Turner's' drummer, back in the day.

Harold and I were sitting around drinking and talking one evening, in the manner us drummers are wont to do in the company of our own kind. He relayed to me some general retellings of his experiences then...how you could hear the screaming and fighting coming from their hotel room, the physical impacts, stuff thrown at each other... you know, those old chestnuts.

At one point, he took a good drag from his cigarette, paused a few seconds, then looked at me with a dead serious gaze and said:

"David, I know that a lot has been made about how much Ike beat her and abused her - and it's ALL TRUE - but let me tell you... that woman could hold her own and there were times that she gave Ike what he gave her...and THEN some. A DAMNED good asswhuppin'. A good number of times she beat the **** outta him, fighting back, and he gave in. And you could SEE it, the next day, in her presence...she was strong, and not to be **** with. Things would settle down for a few days, when that went down.

Now, I'm not trying to, y'know, 'minimize' what she went through, but I'm just sayin' that she didn't get quite the credit that she should have. And it was because of that - those ass-kickin's she gave Ike, and the strength it took - that she was able to get to where she is today."

RRP

WOW!!! I have never heard that! And GOOD for her to kick his sorry ass! Too bad she didn’t do it even sooner!,