Tina Turner - Queen Of Rock

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1995, Tina was comissioned to record the Bond theme for Golden Eye when the series was re-booted that year. Bono and The Edge wrote the song for her:



And doing it live on the Wildest Dreams Tour in '96:

 

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1975, Tina appeared in The Who's film adaptation of Tommy as The Acid Queen (and wore her own clothes for the role):

 

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The opening of Soul To Soul from 1971:

 

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A couple of my favourite Ike & Tina singles from their early years together (both Ike Turner originals):

Finger Poppin:


Sleepless (wasn't actually a single but the b-side to a non-hit single from their very first LP, The Soul Of Ike And Tina Turner releases in 1961):

 

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Another from 1961, hard to believe the woman singing this was just 22 years old.

I Idolize You:

 

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[Zuma]

What's age got to do with it?

I'm only 33, fact is that black folks invented Rock'n'Roll without really knowing what they had done. Tina pre-dates all of the celebrated female rock singers (including Janis Joplin, Grace Slick and Stevie Nicks) so I was only making a point in response to your confusion. I am sorry if you took offence as that was not my intention.

Little Richard and Chuck Berry boogie woogie and 12 bar blue

 

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Little Richard and Chuck Berry boogie woogie and 12 bar blue

Don't forget Ike Turner and his whammy bar.

 

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with David Bowie in 1985 (at 2:09) he says "my c**k is still sore" as they had their one-night-stand the previous evening.

 

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[Partridge]

Check out her performance as support at the Stones' 1969 Altamont gig on the documentary "Gimme Shelter"

Raw sexuality -see what she does to the microphone

Funnily enough, I've watched that film 100 times and can barely remember her. Probably because it is a Stones doco after all (with their best ever line-up too).

 

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1975, Tina appeared in The Who's film adaptation of Tommy as The Acid Queen (and wore her own clothes for the role):

I try to forget the film version.

 

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I try to forget the film version.

Yeah, it was a shocker and took me a long time to get into the album too. I still can't take Quadrophenia (film or album).

 

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with Robert Cray (1987):

 

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1985:

 

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She missed an amazing opportunity at immortality when she was in mad max beyond thunderdome.

A nude scene was the thing to do. Now she's just another wannabe be singer who did the token movie thing. Another mick jagger, micheal hutchence attention hoar type.

Showing off those breasts and that tight booty, in that style of movie, would of fitted perfectly.

 

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She missed an amazing opportunity at immortality when she was in mad max beyond thunderdome.

A nude scene was the thing to do. Now she's just another wannabe be singer who did the token movie thing. Another mick jagger, micheal hutchence attention hoar type.

Showing off those breasts and that tight booty, in that style of movie, would of fitted perfectly.

Don't you mean wannabe actress?

She spent the entire 1970's strutting the stage barely covered. She wanted to do Action/Adventure movies and that was the only one that came her way. She turned down a lot of roles in very popular films, Stephen Spielberg and Quincy Jones begged her to do The Color Purple as they wrote the role of Sophia with Turner in mind. She turned it down three times, telling them that she had lived that role in real life and didn't need to re-live it.

 

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Soul Train clip:

 

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Covering B.B. King: