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Tina Turner (born November 26, 1939) is the stage and recording name of Anna Mae Bullock, a critically acclaimed, world renowned R&B and soul singer-songwriter, actress and dancer, hailing from Nutbush, Tennessee, U.S.

Tina Turner’s earliest musical excursion came when she began singing in her teens under the name Little Ann, and later became a backing singer for Ike Turner’s Kings of Rhythm. It wasn’t long however before Anna Bullock’s soaring vocals stole the show and in 1960 the group transitioned into the Ike and Tina Turner Revue. Alongside Ike, Tina earned critical acclaim and commercial success with the singles “A Fool in Love”, “River Deep – Mountain High”, “Proud Mary”, and “Nutbush City Limits”. The singles earned the duo both national and international esteem, and resulted in a slot opening for the Rolling Stones. In 1974 plagued by Ike’s drug habits and tumultuous behaviour Tina Turner left the group to pursue a solo career.

A year later in 1975 Turner was offered the role of the Acid Queen in The Who’s film version of “Tommy”. Despite providing an unforgettable performance, the film was all too forgettable, and soon passed from public’s consciousness. Turner’s first few solo releases “Acid Queen”, “Rough” and “Love Explosion” all charted poorly and could all too well have deterred a singer of a lesser disposition. However with backing from the likes of Rod Stewart, The Rolling Stones, Chuck Berry and David Bowie, Tina Turner bounced back and released the Al Green Cover “Let’s Stay Together” in 1983. The single catapulted Turner into U.S. and a number of European charts, and resulted in the singer inking a three-album deal with Capitol Records.

The album “Private Dance” was subsequently released in June 1984 charting at No. 3 on the Billboard 200. Selling over 11 million copies, the album spawned the Grammy-winning, No. 1 single “What’s Love Got to Do with It”, along with “Better Be Good to Me”, and “Private Dancer”. Following the release Turner played the role of Aunty Entity in the film “Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome” for which she later won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress. In 1986 the singer released the single “Typical Male” after which Turner’s music moved away from the upper echelons of the chart. The albums “Foreign Affair” in 1989, “Wildest Dreams” in 1986 and “Twenty Four Seven” in 2000 earned strong reviews from critics and all saw respectable chart placing. The best-of compilation “All the Best” arrived in 2004, followed by a performance alongside Beyoncé at the 2008 Grammy Awards.

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Tiny Turner is arguable the best female performers ever! The power and tone of her voice, the energy of her performance and her sheer love for the stage. Very few have got gigs rocking the way Tiny Turner could! She has sold more concert tickets than any other live performer EVER! She has enjoyed success as a singer, dancer, writer and as an actress. She has received an enormous amount of respect from peers, many honours and awards, including 8 grammy awards and record sales of over 100 million! After breaking into the music scene in 1960 whilst part of the Ike & Tina Turner Revue she soon became known worldwide as an unbelievable live act! With amazing songs such as “Proud Mary”, “River Deep- Mountain High”, “A Fool in Love” and “Nutbush City Limits” there was no doubting they’re ability to get a crowd going. She certainly had something quite special, an ability to bring a room alive! To get the room dancing! Even, at the age of my nan, she would be rocking a stage at a stadium sized gig! Considered by many as the great female rock singer ever, the ‘queen of rock and roll’ and a performer who is still performing at the highest level after over 50 years!

Still need convincing? Ok! Once again! Tiny Turner has sold more concert tickets than any other live performer EVER!!!!!

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There are few vocalists who are completely incomparable due to the uniqueness of their tones, 80s soul/pop siren Tina Turner is very much one of those. She has a whole plethora of hits and is an icon within her own right and despite the hair not being quite outrageous these days, the stage show very much is. She is an impassioned performer even in her later years and really knows how to work the stage, her accompanying musicians and of course the adoring crowds.

The amount of legendary tracks included tonight could make your head spin 'River Deep, Mountain High' 'Private Dancer' and 'We Don't Need Another Hero' all feature along with covers of iconic rock musicians proving Tina very much lives and breathes the genre. A highlight was a downtempo rendition of 'Addicted To Love' by Robert Palmer which allows that sultry, raspy vocal to really shine. It is of course the finale of 'The Best' and 'Proud Mary' that gets the whole crowd singing, dancing and cheering as the fabulous songstress struts from side to side of shade proving she cannot be considered to be past it.

I wld love to see Tina Turner in concert..I grew up listening to all her songs with my parents when I was a kid..love all her songs all the way bk to Ike and Tina Turner..they really new how to put on a show for sure..!..and nothing like proud Mary..!..she is “simply the best”..!

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50th Anniversary (2008 - 2009)

The 50th Anniversary Tour was the very last concert tour from Tina Turner, exactly 50 years after Anna Mae Bullock stepped on to an East St. Louis stage for her first professional performance. After Tina’s performance at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards in February 2008, everybody wanted her back on stage, but Tina wasn’t sure. At a  Giorgio Armani  fashion show in Milan soon after the Grammys, Sophia Loren greeted Tina: „Why aren’t you working? You’ve had enough time off. You owe it to the people, go back to work!“ That was the moment Tina realised it was now or never. Eventually at a special Oprah Winfrey show in Las Vegas, Tina announced that she will embark once again on a world tour later that year. The setlist included some of Tina's greatest solo hits as well as some classics from Ike & Tina Turner and a Rolling Stones medley. The concerts started with an updated version of the Beatles Get Back and was divided in two segments, with a video intermission showing the most memorable moments of Tina’s career with I Don’t Wanna Fight in the background. As special guests, the „Ninjas“, a group of four martial artists introduced some songs in a very artistic way. At the very first rehearsals, also used to promote the tour on programs like The Insider , Tina’s son Ronnie Turner played guitar and his wife Afida performed backing vocals.

Opening Night : October 1, 2008 / Kansas City (USA) Closing Night : May 5, 2009 / Sheffield (UK) Regions : North America, Europe Concerts : 90+ Visitors : 1.2 Mio. Clothes :  Bob Mackie Home Video :  TINA Live  (2009)

„I wasn’t ready to go back on stage. Then all of the acts of my time started to go out. All of my peers, so to speak, are out there. It just seemed like it was right that I should go now.“

• Steamy Windows
• Typical Male
• River Deep, Mountain High
• What You Get Is What You See
• Better Be Good To Me
• Ninja Chase
• What’s Love Got To Do With It
• Private Dancer
• Weapons Sequence
• We Don’t Need Another Hero
• I Don’t Wanna Fight
• Let’s Stay Together
• Undercover Agent For The Blues
• I Can’t Stand The Rain
• Jumpin' Jack Flash
• It’s Only Rock’n Roll (But I Like It)
• Flamenco 007 Encounter
• Addicted To Love
• Band Introduction
• Nutbush City Limits
• Be Tender With Me Baby

There are two different versions of the program book. The first one from the beginning of the American leg (42 pages) contained no live pictures - only from the rehearsals and many wonderful promotional shoots. After the first concerts, most of the promo pictures were replaced with live pictures and the pictures with the dancers and Ninjas are totally different. The European tourbook is the same as the second American version, but with the European tour dates.

Warren McRae: Bass / Laurie Wisefield: Guitars, Vocals / Euge Groove: Saxophone, Percussion, Keyboards / Jack Bruno: Drums / Joel Campbell: Keyboards, Vocals / Ollie Marland: Musical Director, Keyboards, Vocals / John Miles: Guitar, Vocals / Lisa Fisher: Vocals / Stacy Campbell: Vocals / Djeneba Aduayom: Dancer / Ferly Prado: Dancer / Solange Guenier: Dancer / Clare Turton: Dance Captain Ninjas: Xin Wuku, Philip Sahagun, Jesse "Justice" Smith, Danny Sre

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Tina Turner Turns It Up On Her 1997 ‘Wildest Dreams’ Tour

A vintage look back at Tina Turner's grueling but wildly successful 1996-1997 'Wildest Dreams' tour.

By Clive Young ⋅

A vintage look back at Tina Turner’s grueling but wildly successful 1996-1997 ‘Wildest Dreams’ tour.

This article appeared in the October 1997 issue of Pro Sound News , covering the end of the 18-month-long Tina Turner “Wildest Dreams” tour.

New York (October, 1997)—By August, everyone on the Tina Turner tour was looking forward to some time off. Having started 18 months earlier in March, 1996, the production arrived in New York some 300-plus shows later with a mere eight performances left; going home was a popular topic of conversation.

“Everyone’s ready to stop–even Tina’s ready. She toured last year for 10 months and had one week off in that time,” remarked Chad Shreiner, system engineer for the Clair Bros. rig with which Turner was traveling. He, system tech Kirk Shreiner and FOH engineer Dave Natale were the only members of the six-man sound crew to do the entire tour. Natale, who’s been Turner’s FOH engineer since 1985, repeatedly characterized Turner as “a traditionalist” and the same could be said for his own approach to mixing; for instance, there was little in the way of effects at the FOH position. “See, I actually mix ,” he said, wryly. “I push the faders up and down, like, a lot during the show. I do it myself, it makes it more interesting. Plus I think I’m a better limiter than any box anyway.”

Following similarly in that traditionalist vein, Natale noted that he had used the same makes of microphones for the last 15 years (“no point in changing unless there’s something worth changing to.”). Not that he’s against change however—for instance, he added a “new” box to his set up a few years ago: “I run Tina’s voice through the Manley, which is an excellent limiter. You can’t hear it—just like a limiter should work. Tina’s vocal gets no Harmonizer, and reverb only if it’s exceptionally dry. She’s got a really good voice, so I don’t have to do anything to it.”

When the reverb is used, it’s also used in a straight-ahead fashion. “I’m not much for using different reverbs on different instruments,” said Natale, “because this is supposed to sound like it’s live. Everything has the same reverb on it, so it sounds like the band’s all playing in the same place at the same time.”

One of the things Natale had to contend with was a powerful stage sound created by a slew of sidefills and 40 monitor wedges–18 across the front of the stage just for Turner alone. Despite all those boxes, monitor engineer Ed Dracoules didn’t think the stage sound was that unusual, describing it as “Loud—same as most bands I work with.” Natale simply saw the stage level as something that just had to be dealt with, noting, “Tina needs to hear herself before she can sing anything into the PA–which is what I care about. I just EQ around it. Instead of going through a big song and dance about the wedges, it’s easier to just pull the vocal fader up and down a little bit every now and then.”

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With all the boxes on stage and the fact that the show was all singing and dancing, it was almost surprising that personal monitor systems weren’t used, if only to get wedges out the audience’s view of Turner’s shuffling feet. Shreiner explained, “Only the percussion/sax player is using personal monitors and he has a Clair Brothers system. It doesn’t get quite as loud as the other ones, but it’s very clean. We tried to give them to Tina, but she’s from the old school. She wanted to see boxes pointed at her, plus she has a lot of costume changes where she has to get back on stage fast, so they’d get in the way.”

Regardless of the stage sound, the PA often got turned up pretty high, too. “Tina likes the show to be powerful, so it gets as loud as it can,” Natale explained. Pushing the sound to the wall would be right in line with the rest of the show, however, which was a strong mix of over-the-top spectacle and performance, even with only eight shows left. As Shreiner pointed out, “She gives 120 percent every night, whether it’s a good audience or not. She still treats it like it’s the first show of the tour.”

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• Published: May. 02, 2021, 5:00 a.m.

Tina Turner takes the stage at Richfield Coliseum on Aug. 22, 1985. (Photo: Janet Macoska)

• Troy L. Smith, Cleveland.com

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Before she ever became a solo star who packed stadiums around the world, Tina Turner was already a legend.

Born Anna Mae Bullock, Turner spent 16-years with rock and roll pioneer and husband Ike Turner. The duo of Ike & Tina Turner earned a reputation as one of the greatest live acts in music history with iconic songs like “River Deep – Mountain High,” “A Fool In Love” and their iconic cover of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Proud Mary.”

However, none of that mattered by the late 1970s. Removed from her abusive relationship with Ike, Turner was relegated to playing cabaret shows in Las Vegas just to pay the bills.

But that wouldn’t last for long. Down but not out, Turner would embark on the greatest comeback story in music history with her album, “Private Dancer,” and the corresponding tour that stopped at Ohio’s Richfield Coliseum on Aug. 22, 1995.

“I loved that after being dominated by Ike for so long, Tina was able to take charge of the situation and envision what she wanted her life to be,” says photographer Janet Macoska , who shot Turner’s Richfield concert. “Tina always wanted to be in of a stadium full of people. And when you see that finally happen, you just are so thrilled for her that it all came true.”

[ Listen the CLE Rocks Podcast on Apple , Spotify , iHeart or Acast for the story behind Tina Turner’s 1985 “Private Dancer Tour” ]

What’s Love Got to Do with It

For almost all of their time together, Tina Turner would suffer a tremendous amount of emotional and physical abuse at the hands of Ike. Those horror stories would play out both the 1993 film “What’s Love Got to Do with It” and Tina’s autobiography “I, Tina.” But the abuse first came to light in a 1981 People Magazine interview.

“I went through basic torture,” Turner would say of her life with Ike. “I was living a life of death. I didn’t exist.”

The divorce between Tina and Ike was finalized in 1978. Tina asked for nothing in the form of spousal support or music royalties. But she did demand one thing – her stage name Tina Turner, which had been given to her by Ike. She was granted her wish.

“When she did go to court and she said, I don’t want anything from Ike. All I want is my name, she bet on herself,” recalls Barry Gabel, senior vice president of marketing and sponsorship sales. “Maybe nobody else saw her as more than just a niche Las Vegas act. But with the right handlers and the right songs, she knew she would be a superstar.”

Show Me Some Respect

Following her split with Ike, Tina Turner earned a living making appearances on TV shows like “The Hollywood Squares” and “The Sonny & Cher Show,” as well as playing cabaret shows at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.

Tina Turner circa 1980. ullstein bild via Getty Images

Turner would take her show on the road to smaller venues. But her first two albums – 1978′s “Rough” and 1979′s “Love Explosion” – failed to chart. It wasn’t until a successful cover of Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together” in 1983 that Turner earned enough confidence from her label Capitol Records to record a new studio album.

“Capitol Records took on the new Tina and who that was going to be,” says Macoska. “She wanted to be a rock singer. So, they knew they’d have to find a way to introduce all music fans to that side of her.”

After releasing “Let’s Stay Together” and a mellowed out, yet powerful cover of The Beatles’ “Help!” Capitol Records felt it had the song to take things to the next level. There was just one problem – Turner hated it.

“She didn’t particularly care for ‘What’s Love Got to Do with It,’” remembers Gabel. “Between the producer and her manager, they said just listen to it and make it your own. And she just wound up owning that song.”

“What’s Love Got to Do with It” was a modest hit for British pop group Buzz Fizz in 1984. But in the hands of Turner, it would become a sensation and the backbone of her third studio album, “Private Dancer.”

Two weeks before the release of “Private Dancer,” Turner would join Lionel Richie as the opening act on his “Can’t Slow Down Tour.” The trek came to Richfield Coliseum for two nights in June 1984.

“She was given that short period of time to play and she slayed everybody,” says Gabel. “She was the perfect setup for Lionel because she was incredibly high energy. She just did the six, seven, eight songs, whatever she did, and people were just so psyched to see Tina.”

Turner played a 40-minute opening set on the tour before returning to the stage to sing a few songs with Richie. Her show came with a full backing band and dancers who followed Turner’s every move as she navigated the stage in a small dress and high heels. It was the rock show she always desired.

“I guess she said, ‘You know, I don’t know what they’re going to make of me because I’m not Lionel’s audience,” remembers Macoska. “She didn’t think they were going to like me. Well, they loved her. And she got to introduce the material from ‘Private Dancer.’ It was a great lead-in for her.”

Turner’s tour with Richie would wrap up in July 1984. By that September she had achieved the superstar status she’d always coveted as a solo artist. “What’s Love Got to Do with It” reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The singles “Better Be Good to Me” and “Private Dancer” would also become Top-10 hits. “What’s Love Got to Do with It” would go on to win Record and Song of the Year at the 27th annual Grammy Awards in February 1985.

“She happened to hit that time in music where she could get the airplay across the board,” says Macoska. “She could do MTV and her image was that of a powerhouse.”

Tina Turner holds up a Grammy Award on Feb. 27, 1985 in Los Angeles, Calif. (AP Photo/Nick Ut). AP

I Might Have Been Queen

A week before her Grammy wins, Turner embarked on the massive Private Dancer tour, which would take her from Europe to Australia, Asia and, of course, North America. A year after opening for Lionel Richie, Turner was now headlining Northeast Ohio’s premiere music venue in Richfield.

“It was glorious,” says Macoska, who shot the first few songs of Turner’s set on Aug. 22 at Richfield Coliseum before taking a seat nearby to watch as a fan. “She’s just shooting out energy the way Springsteen would shoot out energy or Jagger. I just loved the show top to bottom, just watch this woman take charge of 20,000 people.”

Tina Turner at Richfield Coliseum in 1985. (Janet Macoska)

This time around, the stage was bigger. The band was fuller. The lights were brighter. The outfits were more glamorous. Even Tina’s hair seemed to take on a life of its own as she delivered an 18-song set that would have the audience standing for more than 90 minutes. And it all came from a woman who just a few months shy of her 46th birthday.

“There was sweat dripping off her. You didn’t see that from female performers,” recalls Gabel. “She’s the woman who literally taught Jagger how to move. So, just think about that persona on a woman that held that audience captive for that two-hour time period. I think that’s what the audience loved about Tina, that she gave it her all”

Turner with her band at Richfield on Aug. 22, 1985. (Janet Macoska)

I Can’t Stand the Rain

“The Private Dancer Tour” would go on to net $40 million and earn Pollstar’s “Comeback Tour of the Year Award.” Two years later, Turner would up the ante with the “Break Every Rule Tour,” a record-setting run that would become the seventh highest-grossing tour of the 1980s.

“It’s not that she was just gifted. She created her own space and was wholly unique in terms of her vocal technique and her dancing skills,” says T.J. Martin, director of HBO’s 2021 documentary “Tina.” “The more we dove into making the film, the more we realized there’s no one else really that occupies that space in music history that Tina does.”

Tina Turner in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Her show there in 1988 on the Break Every Rule Tour remains the largest paying concert audience by a female artist with 180,000 spectators. Getty Images

Turner remained one of the biggest touring acts in the world for two more decades before retiring from performing in 2009 following her 50th-anniversary tour. She is nominated for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s Class of 2021 as a solo artist outside of Ike & Tina, inducted as a duo in 1991.

Yet, even if Turner is inducted into the Rock Hall in Cleveland this October, she likely won’t be there to accept the honor in person. After a 60 year career, Turner now lives in Switzerland, happily removed from any burdens of being a celebrity.

“You get the sense from being around her that she wants to retire, not only from the stage but from being the persona of Tina Turner,” says Dan Lindsay, the documentary’s co-director. “She’s perfectly happy at her house gardening, decorating or going out to dinner with her friends in Zurich. I think she is at that stage in her life where she’s not interested in public life.”

Singer Tina Turner, left, speaks on stage at the opening night of "Tina – The Tina Turner Musical" at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019, in New York. Turner has said the appearance would likely be the last public appearance of her 60-plus year career in the United States. Evan Agostini/Invision/AP

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Even when the Stones had a great influence on Tina’s career, it also happened the other way round. In fact, along James Brown , she’s the one who Mick Jagger got some of his best dance steps from. It all started back in 1966, when with the success of songs like River Deep, Mountain High in England, Ike & Tina Turner were invited to perform with the Stones as an opening act of the band’s UK tour.

A message from Mick, Brian, Keith, Charlie and Bill (1966): “Hi, Here we are, on the road again. We are all very excited about this tour, it’s been nearly a year since our last tour of England and we have really missed it… We’ve tried to get together a great bill for this tour, and we know you’ll enjoy the fantastic Ike and Tina Turner Revue, which we saw some time ago in the States. We thank you for coming to see us tonight and hope you enjoy yourselves, ’cos that’s the general idea” In November 1969 the Stones asked Ike and Tina once more to open their American tour, which raised their profile among young rock audiences three years later. The 1970 concert film Gimme Shelter featured the performance of I’ve Been Loving You Too Long , and the anniversary edition of the album Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out! , released in 2009, featured the entire opening set performance.

The US tour by The Rolling Stones in 1969 began in November of that year. Ike and Tina Turner, Terry Reid, and B were present. B. King as the supporting acts, with Chuck Berry filling in on some dates.

The tour was referred to as “history’s first mythic rock and roll tour” by rock critic Robert Christgau and “one of the benchmarks of an era” by rock critic Dave Marsh. The tour was named one of The 50 Greatest Concerts of the Last 50 Years by Rolling Stone magazine in 2017. “Opening for the Stones were B.B. King and then World War Three, also known as Ike and Tina Turner….“

Janis Joplin unexpectedly joined Tina on stage for the final song, “Land of 1.000 Dances” at the concert on November 27 at Madison Square Garden in New York while she was in the audience. Then next year, in 1970, Ike & Tina recorded, Honky Tonk Women , their first song from the Stones’ catalog, which was released on the album Come Together . Tina and her manager Roger Davies concentrated on developing her solo career after she split from Ike, while she also performed cover versions of their songs.

Twelve years later the Stones invited Tina once more to open for them for three shows at the Brendan Byrne Arena in East Rutherford in 1981 while they were on tour in the country to support their then-new album Tattoo You . She joined the band onstage during Honky Tonk Women in addition to her own set as an opening act at the Stones’ shows at he Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford, New Jersey on November 5, 6 and 7.

Following her comeback, Tina collaborated with Mick and Keith numerous times, including the 1985 Live Aid festival (when Mick and Tina duetted after Jagger’s question to the audience “ Alright. Where’s Tina? “) the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and the 1989 International Rock Awards .

Later on, in 1988, Tina also joined Mick on two of his solo shows in Tokyo (March 23) and Osaka ( March 27 ) to duet on Brown Sugar , It’s Only Rock’n Roll and Honky Tonk Women.

May 24, 2023: The news announce Tina’s gone. Reactions from Mick, Ronnie, Keith and Bill.

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Flashback: Tina Turner Plays the Final Encore of Her Last Concert

• By Andy Greene

Andy Greene

Eighty years ago today, Anne Mae Bullock was born in Nutbush, Tennessee. The daughter of a poor farm worker, Bullock moved around the country a lot in her early years, eventually winding up in St. Louis where she met a charismatic bandleader named Ike Turner in 1957. He invited her to join his group, changed her name to Tina, and eventually married her.

The horrific physical and emotional abuse she endured during her two-decade relationship with Ike has been documented in several books and the 1993 biopic What’s Love Got to Do With It. But as Rob Sheffield points out in his essay commemorating her 80th birthday , she managed to launch an incredible solo career in the Eighties. Against all odds, she enjoyed enormous success even though she was a good two decades older than most everyone else in the pop world.

Tina Turner ‘s tours after the release of Private Dancer in 1984 packed stadiums all across the world, especially in Europe. She launched a farewell tour in 2000 that truly seemed like the end of her live career, but in 2008 she went back out at the age of 69 to celebrate her 50th anniversary in music. It was a show that would have exhausted someone half her age, but Turner got through 90 shows and amazed every single night.

The run wrapped up May 5th, 2009, at the Sheffield Arena in Sheffield, England. Like every show on the tour, that concert featured a cross-section of songs from her entire career, including “Proud Mary,” “River Deep, Mountain High,” “Goldeneye,” and “Private Dancer.” She finished off the night with the relatively obscure “Be Tender With Me Baby” from her 1990 LP Foreign Affair. Here’s video of the big moment captured by a fan in the audience.

In the years following this tour, Turner survived a brutal bout of intestinal cancer and kidney failure. She survived the latter ailment because her husband, Erwin Bach, gave her one of his kidneys, and she’s currently thriving. Another tour, however, remains very hard to imagine. But with everything this woman has survived, it’s impossible to totally rule it out. If anyone on this planet can strap on high heels in their eighties and hit the road, it’s her.

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Tina Turner played dozens of concerts in Florida in storied rock career

Tina Turner, who died Wednesday at age 83 , played more than 1,700 shows during her storied career, but only a relative handful of them were in Florida. 

Setlist.fm , a website that keeps track of concerts and the songs that were played at them, shows that Turner played 1,483 concerts in her solo career, plus another 250 or so with her former husband, Ike Turner. The site is user-generated, so those numbers should be taken with a grain of salt. 

It shows that she played six concerts in Florida with Ike Turner between 1970-74, and 24 as a solo artist between 1979-2008. Her final Florida performance listed on the site was in 2008 in Orlando. 

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Ike and Tina Turner 

• Jan 1-2, 1970: Newport Resort Hotel in Sunny Isles Beach  
• March 22, 1970: University of Miami 
• Oct. 8, 1971: Doak Campbell Stadium in Tallahassee 
• Oct. 9, 1971: Curtis Hixon Convention Hall in Tampa 
• May 25, 1974: Springtime Rock Jubilee 1974 at the Florida State Fairgrounds in Tampa 

Tina Turner 

• Dec. 20, 1979: Sunrise Musical Theater in Sunrise 
• Nov. 7, 1985: Tallahassee-Leon City Civic Center in Tallahassee 
• Dec. 2, 1985: Hollywood Sportatorium in Pembroke Pines 
• Dec. 4, 1985: Stephen C. O’Connell Center in Gainesville 
• Dec. 5, 1985: Orange County Convention and Civic Center in Orlando 
• Dec. 6, 1985: USF Sundome in Tampa 
• Nov. 12, 1987: Ocean Center in Daytona Beach 
• Nov. 13, 1987: Hollywood Sportatorium in Pembroke Pines 
• Nov. 14, 1987: USF Sundome in Tampa 
• Nov. 15, 1987: Tallahassee-Leon City Civic Center in Tallahassee 
• Aug. 20, 1993: Orlando Arena in Orlando 
• Aug. 21, 1993: USF Sundome in Tampa 
• Aug. 22, 1993: Miami Arena in Miami 
• June 11, 1997: Coral Sky Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach 
• June 12, 1997: Orlando Arena in Orlando 
• June 13, 1997: Ice Palace in Tampa 
• April 14, 2000: Ice Palace in Tampa 
• April 15-16, 2000: National Car Rental Center in Sunrise 
• Oct. 15, 2000: TD Waterhouse Centre in Orlando 
• Oct. 18, 2000: National Car Rental Center in Sunrise 
• Oct. 30, 2008: American Airlines Arena in Miami 
• Nov. 2, 2008: BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise 
• Nov. 5, 2008: Amway Center in Orlando 

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The producers of TINA—The Tina Turner Musical announced today that a multi-year North American tour will launch at the Providence Performing Arts Center (PPAC) in Providence, Rhode Island in the Fall of 2022 and visit more than 40 cities in its first year.

A two-week engagement of TINA—The Tina Turner Musical was also announced today as part of the 2022-2023 Bank of America Broadway on Hennepin Season in Minneapolis. The show will play the historic Orpheum Theatre from March 1-12, 2023, and tickets are currently available via season subscription packages.

Additional tour stops, single ticket on sale dates and casting will be announced throughout the spring and summer. Fans should visit www.TinaOnBroadway.com to sign up for updates on upcoming tour news and announcements.

“It has been years since I toured the US and I am very excited that my own musical can now bring my music and story to my fans in their home cities across America. Together with the show running on Broadway it’s a homecoming and that is very special to me,” said Tina Turner.

This new musical reveals a comeback story like no other, of a woman who dared to defy the bounds of racism, sexism and ageism to become the global Queen of Rock n’ Roll. TINA—The Tina Turner Musical is a celebration of resilience and an inspiration of triumph over adversity.

TINA—The Tina Turner Musical originally opened on Broadway on November 7, 2019, was nominated for 12 Tony Awards including Best Musical. The production reopened at Broadway’s Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on October 8, 2021, following the 18-month industry wide shut down due to the COVID 19 pandemic.

The producers, Tali Pelman from Stage Entertainment and Jimmy Nederlander, said: “We are delighted to begin this next chapter for TINA – The Tina Turner Musical . The North American tour will see the show enjoy its sixth production around the world since opening in the West End in 2018, which is testimony to Tina’s extraordinary legacy. This tour clearly has special resonance for Tina herself, and now more than ever we can’t wait to uplift audiences across America with her joyful and triumphant story.”

Produced by Stage Entertainment, James L. Nederlander and Tali Pelman, in association with Tina Turner, TINA—The Tina Turner Musical  was written by Tony Award nominee and Pulitzer Prize winner Katori Hall with Frank Ketelaar and Kees Prins.

TINA—The Tina Turner Musical is directed by Tony Award nominee Phyllida Lloyd with choreography by Tony Award nominee Anthony van Laast, set and costume designs by Tony Award nominee Mark Thompson, musical supervision, additional music and arrangements by Nicholas Skilbeck, lighting by Tony Award nominee Bruno Poet, sound by Tony Award nominee Nevin Steinberg, projection design by Tony Award nominee Jeff Sugg, orchestrations by Tony Award nominee Ethan Popp, wigs, hair and makeup design by Drama Desk Award winner Campbell Young Associates, and casting by The Telsey Office.

One of the world’s best-selling artists of all time, Tina Turner has won 12 Grammy Awards and her live shows have been seen by millions, with more concert tickets sold than any other solo performer in music history.

This new musical based on the life of legendary artist Tina Turner and presented in association with Tina Turner herself, received its world premiere in April 2018 in London, where it opened to five-star reviews and has broken box office records at the Aldwych Theatre. In March 2019, the German production opened at Stage Operettenhaus in Hamburg, and the Dutch production opened at the Beatrix Theater, Utrecht, in February 2020. A third European production opened in Fall 2021 at the Teatro Coliseum in Madrid, Spain.

Produced by Stage Entertainment and Ghostlight Records and featuring the original London cast, Tina – The Tina Turner Musical: Original Cast Recording is available worldwide on CD, both online and in stores. The CD features a 20-page booklet, which includes liner notes, synopsis, and production and studio photography. The album was recorded in February 2019 at Angel Studios and RAK Studios, produced by the show’s Music Supervisor Nicholas Skilbeck and Kurt Deutsch, and co-produced by Tom Kelly. To download or stream the album, or order the CD, please visit http://www.ghostlightrecords.lnk.to/riverdeep-tinaturnermusical .

Tina Turner is a 2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nominee. She was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1991 as a duo alongside Ike Turner but has never been inducted in recognition of her solo work.

The Emmy-nominated feature documentary TINA is now available to stream on HBO Max. A revealing and intimate look at the life and career of musical icon Tina Turner, TINA charts her improbable rise to early fame, her personal and professional struggles throughout her life and her even more improbable resurgence as a global phenomenon in the 1980s. The feature documentary is from Academy Award-winning directors Dan Lindsay, T.J. Martin and Lightbox, the production company founded by Academy Award-winning producer Simon Chinn and Emmy-winning producer Jonathan Chinn, together with Emmy-nominated producer Diane Becker.

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National tour of ‘Tina’ traces the rise of the ‘Queen of Rock ’n’ Roll’

• March 14, 2024

Tina Turner survived a heap of adversity to become the “Queen of Rock ’n’ Roll.”

Born Anna Mae Bullock in a tiny Tennessee town, she spent years touring small venues, endured a brutally abusive marriage and suffered career setbacks before rising to pop-icon status.

“She exemplifies resilience,” said Deon Releford-Lee, who plays Turner’s husband, Ike, in the national tour of “Tina — The Tina Turner Story.”

The musical, coming to the Peace Center March 19-24, tells Tina Turner’s inspiring story through a hard-charging soundtrack of 23 songs, including her chart-topping hits “Proud Mary,” “Private Dancer” and “What’s Love Got to Do with It.”

“The audience gets an opportunity to enjoy all of Tina’s story,” Releford-Lee said.

Releford-Lee has the tough assignment of playing Turner’s notoriously abusive husband Ike.

“When we think of Ike, we think about the drugs and abuse,” Releford-Lee said. “He was a very polarizing character. I try to humanize him, but not excuse his behavior.”

Jukebox musical

The musical shows how Ike himself, growing up in a dysfunctional home, was a victim of abuse.

“There’s an old saying that hurt people hurt other people,” Releford-Lee said.

Ike Turner also was exploited by the music industry, being deprived of the credit and royalties in 1951 for writing “Rocket 88,” considered by some to be the first rock ’n’ roll song, Releford-Lee said.

“Tina — The Tina Turner Musical” won high praise from critics when it opened on Broadway in 2019.

Marilyn Stasio, of Variety, wrote “Call ‘Tina’ a jukebox musical or a bio-musical or anything you want to call it, but above all, this is one fine specimen in the best showbiz tradition of the Great Big Broadway Musical. The music is fantastic (and) the staging is deluxe.”

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What: “Tina — The Tina Turner Musical”

When:  March 19-24

Where:  Peace Center

Tickets:  $49–$109

Info:  864-467-3000 or  peacecenter.org

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Tina Turner After Ike: The ’80s Comeback

Guitarist and bandleader Ike had given Tina—originally named Anna Mae Bullock—an outlet for her impassioned vocalizing and mesmerizing performances in his band the Kings of Rhythm. Backed by him, a team of ferocious players and the Ikettes vocal group, Tina had already tasted considerable success, scoring such crossover hits as “A Fool in Love,” “It’s Gonna Work Out Fine,” the Phil Spector-produced “River Deep—Mountain High” and the pair’s Grammy-winning, million-selling total reimagining of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Proud Mary,” which gave Ike and Tina their signature tune following its rise to #4 on the Billboard chart.

Watch the Ike and Tina Turner Revue perform “Proud Mary” on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1970

Related: Tina Turner died on May 24, 2023, at age 83

[In March 2018, Tina – The Tina Turner Musical opened at London’s Aldwych Theatre to rave reviews. The musical opened at Broadway’s Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in November 2019 to equal acclaim.]

Ike and Tina had found favor not only with the R&B/soul crowd but with rockers as well—the Rolling Stones recruited what was by then called the Ike and Tina Turner Revue to open for them on their 1969 American tour and the couple became regulars on the rock concert circuit for the next several years: Their 1971 album Live at Carnegie Hall/What You Hear Is What You Get became the best-selling of their career; audiences were especially enthralled by Tina ’s onstage style, equal parts sensuality and raw, incendiary soul power.

What fans didn’t know at the time—but would find out later, in her autobiography, I, Tina— was that Ike had been increasingly abusive to Tina for years, both physically and emotionally. (When confronted with this later, Ike admitted to having slapped and punched his wife but denied beating her.) Married since 1962, Tina had finally had enough by the late ’70s; her well-being, she decided, was more important than hitching her career to that of a man who treated her so violently. She was done with him, and if she were to still have a career, it would sort itself out. (Ike Turner died in 2007.)

Related: Tina Turner was honored in 2018 with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award

Watch the official video for “What’s Love Got to Do With It”

It didn’t take long for Tina Turner to find her way back—bigger than ever, unimaginably so. With MTV having launched in 1981, the very visual Tina Turner was a perfect candidate for heavy rotation. She’d eased into her solo career while awaiting the divorce papers, playing smaller Vegas venues to receptive crowds, touring abroad and appearing on TV shows in the States. Still, her recordings weren’t doing well at all, so when her new manager advised that she refashion herself as a rock star, as opposed to a traditional soul singer, Tina agreed. High-profile gigs in New York and L.A., including opening dates for the Stones and Rod Stewart, led to a new singles recording deal with Capitol Records (friend David Bowie having nudged the label a bit to make it happen).

Her first release under the new arrangement, a cover of Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together,” reacquainted fans with the veteran singer, although it peaked only at #26. It was big enough for Capitol to offer Turner an upgrade to her contract though, a three-album deal, the first result of which was Private Dancer , recorded in London and released in June 1984. Wholly of its time, the masterpiece took off quickly, as did the single “What’s Love Got to Do With It,” written by Terry Britten and Graham Lyle and previously recorded by the British group Bucks Fizz. By September, aided by the ubiquitous video play, Tina Turner had herself her first (and only) #1 single. Two other singles, “Better Be Good to Me” and the album’s title track, followed “What’s Love…” into the top 10. Private Dancer itself, meanwhile, climbed to #3 on the Billboard album chart, where it lodged for 11 solid weeks, eventually selling over 20 million copies worldwide.

Watch Tina duet with Mick Jagger at Live Aid in 1985

Tina Turner attained a superstardom in the 1980s that far surpassed what she’d achieved with her ex-husband. Her tours were sellouts, and she took home an NAACP Image Award for her role in the film Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome . In 1993, the film What’s Love Got to Do With It chronicled her professional rise amidst a very troubled marriage.

There were, of course, many other recordings, videos and sellout tours, until the 2000s, when she began winding down her involvement in the music business (her 50th anniversary tour in 2008 was also her farewell). Turner moved permanently to Switzerland, where she became a citizen in 2013, the same year she married her longtime companion, German music executive Erwin Bach. She published another book, My Love Story: A Memoir , in 2018.

Turner—born on November 26, 1939—will long be remembered as one of the most sensational, daring and courageous women in the world of rock ’n’ roll.

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She was won every award imaginable, with 12 Grammys, selection to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (first with Ike, in 1991, and later as a solo artist in 2021) and a Kennedy Center Honor (2005).

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Tina turner's birthplace to build bronze statue in her honor, tina turner statue coming to hometown ... nearly 1 year after death.

Tina Turner 's getting a huge honor in the place where she was born, as local leaders have approved a bronze Tina statue -- about a year after the mayor first promised to erect one.

Bill Rawls, Jr. the mayor of Brownsville, Tennessee tells TMZ ... the city has decided to fund a six-foot-tall bronze statue that will be placed in the city's Heritage Park, which is located right near the high school Turner attended.

We're told the statue's gonna cost around $150k with the city making the initial deposit before public/private funds cover the rest. The fundraising is starting ASAP, but Rawls says he's not worried about puttin' together the cash.

Remember, we spoke with Mayor Rawls just a few days after TT's death last May, when he laid out this exact plan ... a statue for Tina located in Heritage Park.

They're not just stopping with the statue though ... 'cause the plan is to build a huge new plaza for the park, with Tina's statue serving as the centerpiece.

The city's already home to the Tina Turner Museum, so a huge plaza dedicated to the "Queen of Rock & Roll" just makes sense.

Tina Turner, 'Queen of Rock 'n' Roll,' Dead at 83

Rawls says the city wants to honor Tina in the biggest way it can, and thinks putting the statue right near her old high school is the best way to keep her memory alive.

The statue -- set to be made by sculptor Fred "Ajano" Ajanogha -- should be ready to unveil in fall 2025 if all goes to plan.

Tina died last year at 83, after facing a number of health problems. Many stars -- including Lizzo , Patti LaBelle and John Fogerty paid tribute to the star after her death.

Now, her hometown's determined to do the same.

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‘Such a legend!': Tina Turner to be honored with six-foot-tall bronze statue in her hometown one year after death

BROWNSVILLE, TENNESSEE: Tina Turner is set to be immortalized in her hometown of Brownsville, Tennessee.

Local leaders have approved the creation of a six-foot-tall bronze statue in her honor, a year after the city's mayor, Bill Rawls Jr, first pledged to do so.

A tribute to Tina Turner: Bronze statue to be set up in heritage park

"The city has decided to fund a six-foot-tall bronze statue that will be placed in the city's Heritage Park," Rawls told TMZ.

The park is located near the high school that Turner attended. The statue, which is estimated to cost around $150,000 will be initially funded by the city before public or private funds cover the rest.

"The fundraising is starting ASAP," Rawls said, expressing confidence about raising the necessary funds. The statue will be crafted by sculptor Fred "Ajano" Ajanogha and is expected to be unveiled in fall 2025.

A new plaza is also on the cards with Tina Turner's statue serving as the centerpiece

In addition to the statue, the city plans to build a large new plaza in the park with Turner's statue serving as "the centerpiece."

The city already houses Tina Turner Museum and a plaza dedicated to the ‘Queen of Rock & Roll' seems a fitting addition.

"The city wants to honor Tina in the biggest way it can, and thinks putting the statue right near her old high school is the best way to keep her memory alive," Rawls said, according to the publication. 

Tina Turner was born as Anna Mae Bullock in 1939 

Turner, born Anna Mae Bullock on November 26, 1939, in Nutbush, Tennessee, died last year on May 24 at the age of 83, in Kusnacht near Zurich, Switzerland, where she lived. 

She had been facing several health problems. Turner, sometimes nicknamed the 'Queen of Rock ‘n' Roll', won six of her eight Grammy Awards in the 1980s. Her 1988 show in Rio de Janeiro drew 180,000 people, one of the largest concert audiences for any single performer.

Internet supports setting up of Tina Turner's statue at her hometown 

The internet has been jubilant over the news with many expressing that this is a well-deserved honor for the legend. "Much deserved!" wrote one Instagram user.

"Such a legend!! Well deserved," another commented. "This is such an honor to her," added another.

This article contains remarks made on the Internet by individual people and organizations. MEAWW cannot confirm them independently and does not support claims or opinions being made online .