Successful duets with David Bowie and Mick Jagger showed her ability to perform on an equal footing with the greats of rock 'n' roll. Hit singles included "Typical Male", "The Best", "I Don't Wanna Lose You", "I Don't Wanna Fight" and "Goldeneye". The album would earn her widespread recognition and numerous awards, including three Grammys.Ī string of hit albums followed, including "Break Every Rule", "Foreign Affair" and "What's Love Got To Do With It". and selling 10 million copies worldwide, spawning megahits, including "What's Love Got To Do With It", "Better Be Good To Me", the title track and a cover of Al Green's "Let's Stay Together". She continued to release several albums during the late 1970s, but it was in 1984 that her career went stratospheric with 1984's "Private Dancer" going five times platinum in the U.S. She celebrated her newfound freedom in 1975 with the role of the Acid Queen in the film version of THE WHO's "Tommy", delivering an outrageous, but all-too-brief performance.
By the 1970s, she began practicing Buddhism and rebuilt her life by tapping into her spiritual strength. Turner's well-publicized divorce and hardships ultimately forced her to virtually all but disappear from the music scene. First inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame as half of IKE & TINA TURNER, she was inducted in her own right as a solo artist in a ceremony in October 2021.īorn as Anna Mae Bullock in Nutbush, Tennessee, Turner first rose to fame in the 1960s, partnering with then-husband Ike Turner, as the lead singer of the IKE & TINA TURNER REVUE, acclaimed for her live performances and catalog of hits, including "River Deep - Mountain High" and "Proud Mary". One of the world's best-selling artists of all time, her live performances have been seen by millions. With a career spanning more than half a century, the legendary singer, dancer, actress and author was not only one of the world's most popular and successful entertainers, but the beloved global icon widely regarded as the "Queen Of Rock 'N' Roll".Īmong her many accomplishments, the revered singer had received 12 Grammy Awards, was the first black artist and the first female artist to feature on the cover of Rolling Stone and was awarded the Légion D'honneur by the French government. Turner had battled several health issues in recent years, including being diagnosed with intestinal cancer in 2016 and having a kidney transplant in 2017. But just an incredible voice, an incredible career and just an iconic human being, really. And I remember being introduced to that voice as it came over the speakers, and it obviously went from there. "And I was a massive fan of Bryan Adams, and still am a massive fan of Bryan Adams and that record. She'd done a song with him - 'It's Only Love', I think it was called," he continued. "I was introduced to Tina Turner via the Bryan Adams 'Reckless' album.
What an absolute, global, universal icon.
He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "What an icon. She was 83 years old.įaulkner commented on Turner's death during an appearance Wednesday on SiriusXM's "Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk". The pioneering rock singer passed away on Wednesday (May 24) after a long illness. JUDAS PRIEST guitarist Richie Faulkner has paid tribute to Tina Turner.
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