Mariah Carey said Turner will always be a survivor and an inspiration to women everywhere. "She helped me so much when I was young and I will never forget her." "She was inspiring, warm, funny and generous," Jagger wrote on Twitter. Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones said he was saddened by Turner's death, calling her "enormously talented." "It's three-tiered, with a nasal low register, a yowling, cutting middle range and a high register so startlingly clear it sounds like a falsetto," Pareles wrote in a 1987 concert review. Most of Turner's hit songs were written by others, but she enlivened them with a voice that The New York Times music critic Jon Pareles called "one of the more peculiar instruments in pop." She played the ruthless leader of an outpost in a nuclear wasteland, acting opposite Mel Gibson in the third instalment in the Mad Max franchise, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. In 1985, Turner gave a fictional turn to her reputation as a survivor. "She's transformed herself into an international sensation - an elegant powerhouse," Jackson said.ĭuration 1:52 In the summer of 1985, Tina Turner played four dates in St. 63 on a list of the top 100 artists of all time. "Tina's story is not one of victimhood but one of incredible triumph," singer Janet Jackson wrote about Turner, in a Rolling Stone issue that placed Turner at No. She described bruised eyes, busted lips, a broken jaw and other injuries that repeatedly sent her to the emergency room. The superstar was forthcoming about the abuse she suffered from her former husband during their marital and musical partnership in the 1960s and 1970s. 'An international sensation'īy then, Turner had been free from her marriage to guitarist Ike Turner for a decade. Her 1988 show in Rio de Janeiro drew 180,000 people, which remains one of the largest concert audiences for any single performer. The decade saw her land a dozen songs on the Top 40, including Typical Male, The Best, Private Dancer and Better Be Good to Me. Sometimes nicknamed the "queen of rock 'n' roll," Turner won six of her eight Grammy Awards in the 1980s. It was unmistakable.With her taste for musical experimentation and bluntly worded ballads, Turner gelled perfectly with an '80s pop landscape in which music fans valued electronically produced sounds and scorned hippie-era idealism. There were a lot of people backstage but I could see her hair coming down the hallway above everyone. As I hadn’t heard back, I sent a copy of the song to her manager, Roger Davies, who asked if I would meet Tina after her show - which I did, and it was spectacularly Tina. He added: “Toward the end of making my album, I heard that Tina was coming to Vancouver as the support act for Lionel Richie. “Tina was making the album Private Dancer, and her producer Carter called me up and asked me to write a song for her, but I was making the Reckless album at the time and didn’t have a spare song … or did I? I asked him if she’d sing on my album and hoped to hear back,” he said.” The song eventually culminated in a number of musical projects.įor the December 2018/January 2019 issue of Zoomer, Suzanne Boyd interviewed Adams about his decades-long friendship and collaboration with Turner.
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