{"id":10829,"date":"2023-05-24T21:53:13","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T21:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=10829"},"modified":"2023-06-02T16:57:16","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T16:57:16","slug":"how-tina-turner-dealt-with-her-troubled-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=10829","title":{"rendered":"How Tina Turner dealt with her troubled past"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Ray Bennett<\/p>\n

LONDON \u2013 \u2018As crazy as it was,\u2019 said Tina Turner, \u2018I laugh about it. \u2019 The queen of rock\u2019n\u2019roll, who has died aged 83, was talking about her difficult childhood in Tennessee and her abusive marriage to rocker Ika Turner.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>That dynamic spirit and joyous optimism rang through her recordings and performances. She wrote (with Kurt Loder) about her life in \u2018I, Tina: My Life Story\u2019 in 1986. Speaking the following year about her TV special \u2018Tina Turner Breaks Every Rule\u2019, she told me the book came about only after she had appeared on the television news programme \u201920\/20\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u2018It was the first time I described what my life was like,\u2019 she said. \u2018I was talking about it for a few years before I wrote the book. I\u2019m not one to dwell on the past and I became a bit depressed talking to the press. I was pulling out a lot of stuff. It touched me in psychological places. I became emotional. One of the reasons to write about it in the book was so I don\u2019t have to talk about it.\u2019\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Relaxed and friendly, two years after her success with Mel Gibson in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome<\/i>, she said she had always dreamed of being an actress and she was looking for a script with the same kind of action. \u2018I want to do some really wild things like Sigourney Weaver in Aliens,<\/i>\u2019 she said.<\/p>\n

For her \u2018Tina Turner Breaks Every Rule\u2019 show, Turner admitted that she had wanted Bruce Springsteen but the Boss wasn\u2019t available. She asked Wilson Pickett but that fell through. Instead, for the HBO concert film taped during her world tour for her sixth solo album, she landed blues guitarist Robert Cray (pictured top) and everything worked out fine. The show, recorded at the Camden Palace in London, features Turner performing old hits by artists such as Pickett, Otis Redding and Sam Cooke. \u2018I had rehearsed a lot of them, she said, \u2018so there was no point in wasting all that eneregy.\u2019<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>My other favourite memory related to Tina Turner involves Tony Joe White, the Swamp Fox famous for songs such as \u2018Polk Salad Annie\u2019 and \u2018Rainy Night in Georgia\u2019. When he and his wife Leanne, close friends of my in-laws Charlie and Margaret Ann Rich, spent a little time in Los Angeles with their daughter Michelle White (who went on to be a great performer), I sat in silent awe as they worked on new songs in their hotelroom.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Tony Joe and I played a round of nine holes at the Studio City Golf Club and afterwards sat in his SUV while he played\u00a0tapes of two new songs he had written for Tina Turner \u2013 \u2018Steamy Windows\u2019 and \u2018Undercover Agent for the Blues\u2019 \u2013 which showed up on her album \u2018Foreign Affair\u2019 (pictured above). That was a trip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Ray Bennett LONDON \u2013 \u2018As crazy as it was,\u2019 said Tina Turner, \u2018I laugh about it. \u2019 The queen of rock\u2019n\u2019roll, who has died aged 83, was talking about her difficult childhood in Tennessee and her abusive marriage to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,1263,8,2257],"tags":[5357,5361,5355,5360,5358,5354,5356,5359],"class_list":["post-10829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-interviews","category-memory-lane","category-music","category-recalling","tag-tina-turner-breaks-every-rule","tag-foreign-affair","tag-i","tag-michelle-white","tag-robert-cray","tag-tina-turner","tag-tina-my-life-story","tag-tony-joe-white"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10829"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10842,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10829\/revisions\/10842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}