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  5. Fan of Tina but one thing will be her permanent mark on Australia – the Nutbush dance. Peculiarly Australian apparently , young or old, work function, parties , pubs and even hip music festivals as soon as it comes on , off they line up.

    • An amazing lady and an amazing talent. Saw her 4 or 5 times and she was never less than brilliant.
      Proud Mary was for me the song that defined her. A great talent, an engaging stage persona and possibly the best legs in show business.

  7. I saw P P Arnold earlier this year who started her career as an Ikette.
    She has posted this.

    I knew that Tina has been unwell but I am devastated by the news of her passing. 💔 Without Tina Turner, there would be no P.P. Arnold. God truly answers prayer and that magical morning when destiny landed me in her living room singing Dancing In The Street without ever having a dream to be in show business. That she would be the angel to turn my life around and rescue me from abuse and save my life before finding a way out of her own abuse, blows my mind daily. I was entrusted into her hands to wake me up, mould me and send me on my own personal journey that I´d never imagined in my wildest dreams. From the first day I met her she has been my inspiration. Phenomenal Woman!! I knew that she was a Goddess from another dimension from the moment I met her and I am so blessed to have been so close to her in those fragile formative years that would leave such a lasting impression on my whole life. Words can never express the Love I´ve always had for Tina Turner. 💓💓💓My relationship with her has always been a spiritual one that goes far beyond celebrity. Thank you for coming to my rescue Tina. 🙏🏾Your beauty, your strength, your natural talents, your sense of humour, joy and infectious enthusiasm and ability to endure trouble, heartache and pain and rise above it all to manifest divinity has inspired the entire world. What a blessing you are to us all. Your beautiful Spirit lives on and your bright Light will never be dimmed. You truly are Simply The Best Female R&B, Rock and Roll female entertainer of our time. 🌟
    My condolences go out to Erin, the love of your life and to your entire family and loved ones and to the whole world. We all love you and will miss you. I wish you the Enlightened journey ✨✨✨that you´ve earned. Rest now In Peace, you gave your all. ❤️🕊🌈No more pain, Free Soul. Namaste, God Be With You. 🙏🏾

    #pparnold #tinaturner #tinathemusical #restinparadise #simplythebest

    • Sheffield-born Martyn Ware – he produced Private Dancer, he might have mentioned it before – was briefly on BBC Radio 4 from his home in the northern post-industrial Socialist Republic of, erm, Venice.

      But the line dropped after a few moments. So we didn’t get to hear his anecdotes (again).

    • Ike Turner was a very talented guy but an abuser of women and a greedy cheapskate.
      First of all he wanted Zappa to pay Tina and the Ikettes session fees to him, but Zappa refused. Then he didn’t want Zappa to pay the girls the proper union rate, because then they’d know how much Ike had consistently been underpaying them. Zappa paid them at union rate.

  9. With hindsight her 80s comeback (at the then veteran age of 43/44) is pretty much unique. I can’t think of another star from yesteryear, let alone 60s soul singer, who came back from the wilderness years later, not just with a couple of hits, but to become a global superstar.

    Amazing fact from the Guardian. She’s only person to have had a top 40 hit in the UK in seven consecutive decades. Some achievement.

  11. Davey Jones – the consistently brilliant Viz cartoonist and Vibrating Bum-faced Goats hitmaker – wrote this on Twitter:

    “I hope newspaper headline writers find some way of expressing the idea that Tina Turner was unambiguously the foremost, and was superior to every one of the others.”

  13. Reading up on her it would seem she made some very bad personal health decisions that cost her her life. High pressure from 1978 but very reluctant to acknowledge or do anything about. Eventually, she started taking western medicine then dropped it in favour of homeopathic remedies. These failed and by then her kidneys were badly damaged. A kidney transplant donated by her husband staved the worst off but in latter years chair ridden , hours of dialysis , a stroke , organ rejection issues. It was chilling that she actively explored voluntary euthanasia.

    Rest in peace Annie Mae Bullock.

  15. Am I the only one who thinks her earlier music with Ike was better than her later hits? She more than deserved her success all the same. But my favourites were earlier tunes like Mississippi Rolling Stone, Rhode Island Red and Rockin’ and Reelin’. And of course Nutbush. Personally I would rate her higher even than the great Aretha F as a vocalist.

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