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The most dynamic female soul singer in the history of the music, Tina Turner oozed sexuality from every pore in a performing career that began the moment she stepped onstage as lead singer of the Ike & Tina Turner Revue in the late '50s. Her gritty and growling performances beat down doors everywhere, looking back to the double-barrelled attack of gospel fervor and sexual abandon that had originally formed soul in the early '50s. Divorced from Ike in the mid-'70s, she recorded only occasionally later in the decade but resurfaced in the mid-'80s with a series of hit singles and movie appearances; her high-profile status was assured well into the '90s.
Born Annie Mae Bullock near Brownsville, Tennessee, she began singing as a teen, and joined Ike Turner's touring show as an 18-year-old backup vocalist. Just two years later, Tina was the star of the show, the attention-grabbing focal point for an incredibly smooth-running soul revue headed by Ike and his Kings of Rhythm. The couple began hitting the charts in 1960 with "A Fool in Love," and notched charting singles throughout the '60s, though the disappointing position of "River Deep-Mountain High" -- cited by Phil Spector as one of his best productions -- was very hard to take. All expectations were filled in 1971 with "Proud Mary," a number four hit which became the capstone of Ike & Tina's Revue. Frustrated by Ike's increasingly irrational behavior, though, Tina walked out just three years later.
She celebrated her new-found freedom in 1975 with a role in the film version of the Who's Tommy. Playing the Acid Queen, she delivered an outrageous, all-too-brief performance in an otherwise forgettable mistake of a movie. Several albums were recorded for United Artists during the late '70s but she appeared to be washed up by the turn of the decade. Surprisingly, Tina returned in 1983, first teaming with a Heaven 17 project named BEF on a remake of the Temptations' "Ball of Confusion." Tina's vocal was understandably apocalyptic, and she gained a solo deal with Capitol that same year. Her first single, a cover of Al Green's "Let's Stay Together," hit the Top 30 early in 1984. Second single "What's Love Got to Do with It" became one of the year's biggest hits, spending three weeks at number one. Her album Private Dancer included two more Top Ten singles, the title track and "Better Be Good to Me." With another movie role in 1985 (Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome), she found a number-two hit with its theme, "We Don't Need Another Hero." Her next big hit followed in 1986 ("Typical Male"), after which Tina began to decline, still charting occasionally and selling respectably with albums including 1989's Foreign Affair, 1996's Wildest Dreams and 2000's Twenty Four Seven. -- John Bush, All Music Guide
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01. Under My Thumb 02. Let's Spend the Night Together 03. Acid Queen 04. I Can See for Miles 05. Whole Lotta Love 06. Baby - Get It On |
07. Bootsey Whitelaw 08. Pick Me Tonight 09. Rockin' and Rollin' 10. I Know 11. Crazy 'Bout You Baby 12. I've Been Loving You Too Long |
01. Fruits of the Night 02. Bitch Is Back 03. Woman I'm Supposed to Be 04. Viva la Money 05. Funny How Time Slips Away 06. Earthquake & Hurricane |
07. Root Toot Undisputable Rock 'n Roller 08. Fire Down Below 09. Sometimes When We Touch 10. Woman in a Man's World 11. Night Time Is the Right Time |
01. Love Explosion 02. Fool for Your Love 03. Sunset on Sunset 04. Music Keeps Me Dancin' 05. I See Home |
06. Backstabbers 07. Just a Little Lovin' 08. You Got What I'm Gonna Get 09. On the Radio |
01. I Might Have Been Queen 02. What's Love Got to Do with It 03. Show Some Respect 04. I Can't Stand the Rain 05. Private Dancer |
06. Let's Stay Together 07. Better Be Good to Me 08. Steel Claw 09. Help 10. 1984 |
01. We Didn't Need Another Hero 02. One of the Living 03. We Don't Need Another Hero |
04. Bartertown 05. Children 06. Coming Home |
01. Typical Male 02. What You Get Is What You See 03. Two People 04. Till the Right Man Comes Along 05. Afterglow 06. Girls |
07. Back Where You Started 08. Break Every Rule 09. Overnight Sensation 10. Paradise Is Here 11. I'll Be Thunder |
01. What You Get Is What You See 02. Break Every Rule 03. I Can't Stand the Rain 04. Two People 05. Girls 06. Typical Male 07. Back Where You Started 08. Better Be Good to Me 09. Addicted to Love 10. Private Dancer 11. We Don't Need Another Hero 12. What's Love Got to Do with It 13. Let's Stay Together 14. Show Some Respect |
15. Land of 1000 Dances 16. In the Midnight Hour 17. 634-5789 18. Change Is Gonna Come 19. River Deep, Mountain High 20. Tearing Us Apart 21. Proud Mary 22. Help! 23. Tonight 24. Let's Dance 25. Overnight Sensation 26. It's Only Love 27. Nutbush City Limits 28. Paradise Is Here |
01. Steamy Windows 02. Best 03. You Know Who (Is Doing You Know What 04. Undercover Agent for the Blues 05. Look Me in the Heart 06. Be Tender with Me Baby |
07. You Can't Stop Me Loving You 08. Ask Me How I Feel 09. Falling Like Rain 10. I Don't Wanna Lose You 11. Not Enough Romance 12. Foreign Affair |
01. I Don't Wanna Fight 02. Rock Me Baby 03. Disco Inferno 04. Why Must We Wait Until Tonight? 05. Nutbush City Limits 06. (Darlin') You Know I Love You |
07. Proud Mary 08. Fool in Love 09. It's Gonna Work out Fine 10. Stay Awhile 11. I Might Have Been Queen 12. What's Love Got to Do with It |
01. Missing You 02. In Your Wildest Dreams 03. Whatever You Want 04. Do What You Do 05. Thief of Hearts 06. On Silent Wings 07. Something Beautiful Remains |
08. Confidential 09. Difference Between Us 10. All Kinds of People 11. Unfinished Sympathy 12. Goldeneye 13. Dancing in My Dreams |
01. The Best 02. Better Be Good To Me 03. I Can't Stand The Rain 04. What's Love Got To Do With It 05. I Don't Wanna Lose You 06. Nutbush City Limits 07. What You Get Is What You See 08. Let's Stay Together 09. River Deep-Mountain High |
10. Steamy Windows 11. Typical Male 12. We Don't Need Another Hero 13. Private Dancer 14. Look Me In The Heart 15. It Takes Two 16. I Want You Near Me 17. Way Of The World 18. Love Thing |
01. You Took a Trip 02. Put Some Time into It 03. I Had a Notion 04. Lean on Me 05. Stay with Me 06. Pick Me Up 07. Never Been to Spain |
08. Stormy Weather 09. Trying to Find My Mind 10. It's Too Late 11. What's on a Woman's Mind 12. Woke up This Morning 13. I Don't Want Nobody 14. Why I Sing the Blues |
01. Whatever You Need 02. All the Woman 03. When the Heartache Is Over 04. Absolutely Nothing's Changed 05. Talk to My Heart 06. Don't Leave Me This Way |
07. Go Ahead 08. Without You 09. Falling 10. I Will Be There 11. Twenty Four Seven |