Tina Turner on her post-Ike music
Professionally, she fully recovered from the Ike years with an astonishingly inventive comeback in the 1980s, with songs such as Private Dancer, What’s Love Got to Do with It and The Best. It is with this return that the Aldwych show ends — on a high, the way Tina Turner likes her music. Unlike Ike.
“I didn’t like the blues because I didn’t like what they were singing about. The blues can bring you down a little. I like to be a little bit up, and as soon as I left Ike, I never sung heavy, heavy rhythm and blues any more. I Can’t Stand the Rain was a blues song, and also the songs of Tony Joe White were blues, but an up-tempo, fine kind of blues. That was the change in my life, to enjoy singing.”
So what does she call her mature post-Ike style? Pop? “No. What’s Love Got to Do with It was a bit pop, and Private Dancer, but with my voice, it became a bit more middle of the road. What was Elvis Presley? He was rock’n’roll — the rock’n’roll style of Elvis, I think that is where my music took me. I like the style of Jagger and those guys because they used the blues, but the music took it somewhere else.”
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | February 13, 2024 1:38 PM
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I enjoyed this performance with her and Ann Margret
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | February 13, 2024 5:43 AM
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Isn't she supposed to be dead?
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | February 13, 2024 5:51 AM
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R2 Her music still lives on
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | February 13, 2024 5:59 AM
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There were no "Ike years". They fought but he said she gave as good as she got. And you know it's true. She got a lot of mileage out of playing the victim.
She was Annie Mae Bullock, a nothing from nowhere and he created her from scratch.
Same for Cher. She was just some simp sleeping on people's couches til Sonny took her under his wing.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | February 13, 2024 7:59 AM
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R4 He may created her but she definitely surpassed him. And fwiw I do think his contributions to rock n’ roll shouldn’t be dismissed, but he made the mistake of abusing a woman who ended up having a more powerful voice than him.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | February 13, 2024 8:01 AM
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R1, that was amazing. They both looked like they were having a blast.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | February 13, 2024 12:04 PM
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The Foreign Affair album is a perfect album. By that point songwriters were writing specifically with her in mind rather than generic love songs.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | February 13, 2024 12:10 PM
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She had that sexy saxophone player with the big muscles all glistening, Tim Cappello.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | February 13, 2024 1:05 PM
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Dan Hartman produced most of the tracks on Foreign Affair, including the hit single "The Best", which has gone on to become one of Turner's signature songs.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | February 13, 2024 1:29 PM
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I love Tina Turner, but she didn’t do much interesting musically after Private Dancer. That always disappointed me. Lots of bland pop and easy listening that seemed to go over better in Europe, especially Germany, where Audrey Landers and David Hasselhoff were fellow hitmakers.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | February 13, 2024 1:38 PM
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