Obit: Tina Turner (1939-2023)

Subject: Obit: Tina Turner
From: Mrrzy
Date: 24 May 23 - 03:40 PM

Wow. An icon if ever.

Subject: RE: Obit: Tina Turner
From: fat B****rd
Date: 24 May 23 - 03:45 PM

I saw her at the Albert Hall in 1966 and always admired her style and material. RIP Tina

Subject: RE: Obit: Tina Turner
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 24 May 23 - 03:46 PM

Glamourous grandmother who could belt them out.
RIP and thanks.

Subject: RE: Obit: Tina Turner
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 24 May 23 - 03:53 PM

Wow. I haven't got the words...

Subject: RE: Obit: Tina Turner
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 24 May 23 - 04:30 PM

Just the saddest news…

Subject: RE: Obit: Tina Turner
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 May 23 - 04:47 PM

She fought the cancer, and it sounds like the cancer won.
And heaven knows, she was a fighter.
Heaven must be a little more fiery, if that's possible.

Subject: RE: Obit: Tina Turner
From: gillymor
Date: 24 May 23 - 05:34 PM

She was Simply the Best.

Subject: RE: Obit: Tina Turner
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 May 23 - 08:51 PM

There was a biopic made in 1993 called What's Love Got to Do With It and stared Angela Bassett. I can't think of anyone better to play Tina, but when it came to the singing, it was all Tina. Bassett lip-synced during the concert performances.

Subject: RE: Obit: Tina Turner (1939-2023)
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 26 May 23 - 06:13 AM

Tina Turner's presence in Australia in the 70's led to the Nutbush dance tho callers to Sydney radio yesterday said the moves came from a dance popular in school physical education curriculum in the 60s.

Birdsville's Big Red Bash music festival aims for Nutbush dance record as tribute to Tina Turner Thousands of revellers at one of the world's most remote music festivals on the edge of the Simpson Desert are set to kick up dust in memory of legendary American singer Tina Turner.

Since 2016, the foot of a 40-metre-high sand dune in the Munga-Thirri Simpson Desert, in far western Queensland, has been the dancefloor for annual world record Nutbush City Limits attempts.

As tributes flow for the "Queen of Rock and Roll", who died this week aged 83, those attending the Birdsville Big Red Bash in July have taken on the challenge to break last year's record of 4,084 boot-scooters dancing to the Nutbush at the same time ...

... "She did see it and acknowledge that, which is fantastic, I mean 4,000 people dancing to your song is something quite special," he said ...

If you want to join in, the article tells you how - here's a video tutorial

Subject: RE: Obit: Tina Turner (1939-2023)
From: voyager
Date: 28 May 23 - 09:52 AM

Tina Turner shines brightly in the heavens (and she did on Earth).
1974 show at the Forum (Inglewood, CO). Terry Riley (keyboards), B.B. King (blues), Ike and Tina Turner Review (let me see you shake your tail feathers - Ikettes), and the Stones.

blessed be you Ms. Tina
god speed

voyager

Subject: RE: Obit: Tina Turner (1939-2023)
From: gillymor
Date: 28 May 23 - 10:11 AM

I've been looking for a version of one of my favorite R&B songs "It's Gonna Work Out Fine" that features Tina without Ike. Maybe she retired that one for her solo career.

Subject: RE: Obit: Tina Turner (1939-2023)
From: fat B****rd
Date: 28 May 23 - 10:24 AM

Hi, Gillymor. I used to have "It's Gonna etc" Early 60s. I believe it was Mickey Baker on guitar and vocals.
ATB charlie

Subject: RE: Obit: Tina Turner (1939-2023)
From: fat B****rd
Date: 28 May 23 - 10:28 AM

Just bought it from Amazon for 99p.

Subject: RE: Obit: Tina Turner (1939-2023)
From: gillymor
Date: 28 May 23 - 10:34 AM

That early version was great, charlie but it was a bit of a novelty song. It's been covered vocally and instrumentally many times but I think it would be interesting to hear Tina do a heartfelt version solo.

Subject: RE: Obit: Tina Turner (1939-2023)
From: gillymor
Date: 28 May 23 - 10:51 AM

Wow, in the Wiki on the song Sylvia Robinson, Mickey Baker's partner, claims to have played that cool guitar part and Mickey is credited with the male vocal part, I always thought that was Ike. I see that Tina did record it again with another male partner in '93 so I'll have to check that out.
Ry Cooder, Duke Levine and Jim Henry all did nice instrumental versions of it.