- The late singer’s comeback, achieved in 1984 with hits like “What’s Love Got to Do With It” and her album “Private Dancer”, followed several hot years in the 70s
- After her divorce from Ike, Turner first attended cabaret shows in Las Vegas before finding surprising success in the UK with a cover of Al Green’s Let’s Stay Together
- It was this success, Turner said in a 1997 interview that prompted her to give up her citizenship in 1995 and move to Switzerland
Tina Turner explained years ago that her decision to move to Europe in the mid-’90s was spurred by the comeback in the ’80s – one of the biggest upswings in music history.
In 1984, the late legendary singer enjoyed a revival with hits like “What’s Love Got to Do With It” and her seminal album “Private Dancer” after a hot couple of years in the late ’70s and an abusive first marriage to ex-bandmate Ike Turner took place.
It was Ike, who died of a drug overdose in 2007, that propelled Turner to success in the early stages of her career — with hits like “River Deep Mountain High” and “Nutbush City Limits” propelling the couple to powerhouse status in the 60s.
The next decade and a half – and the couple’s relationship – were marked by high-profile abuse and drug addiction, which eventually brought both their marriage and Turner’s burgeoning career to an abrupt end.
In order to be able to afford the rent, the newly divorced gymnast was forced to take a cleaning job. She first attended cabaret shows in Las Vegas before finding success in the UK with a cover of Al Green’s ‘Let’s Stay Together’ – a surprise hit and her ticket back to mainstream fame.
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In a resurfaced CNN interview, Tina Turner explained that her decision to move to Europe in the mid-’90s was spurred by the comeback she was experiencing in the ’80s — one of the biggest resurgences in music history. In 2013, she took it a step further — by renouncing her U.S. citizenship entirely. At the time, she was living in the same Swiss suburb where she died Wednesday, but was still a few years away from moving to the $76 million site, where fans still lay wreaths in Turner’s honor
The next year, while touring abroad, she met the man who would become her next husband, German music executive Erwin Bach, and went on to become one of the world’s most celebrated stars.
It was this success, Turner said in an interview with resurface in 1997, that prompted her to move to Switzerland two years earlier.
In 2013, still a few years away from her move to the $76 million compound where fans still lay wreaths, she went one step further — by renouncing her U.S. citizenship entirely and herself altogether to her new home on the other side of the Atlantic.
“Europe has been very supportive,” Turner, who died Wednesday of an unknown illness at her sprawling mansion in an obscure Zurich suburb, told the broadcaster in 1997, reinforcing her decision to live across the pond full-time. influenced.
The then 60-year-old singer was grinning from ear to ear and joked, “I’m as tall as Madonna in Europe.”
She added, “I’m — in places — as tall as the Rolling Stones.”
The revelation of Turner’s decision to move to a Swiss town on the shores of tranquil Lake Zurich that most have never heard of comes as a series of old interviews keep coming to light following Turner’s death – the death, which was itself preceded by years of health problems, history went back as a bout of cancer and kidney failure experienced by the singer.
Despite these illnesses – which began about a decade ago – Turner managed to make the most of her years in the peaceful seaside town of Küsnacht, where she had lived for the past 26 years.
However, she wouldn’t be moving into the 250,000-square-foot, ten-building behemoth she passed until 2021 — when she bought it with Bach, 67, for a staggering $76 million.
The astronomical price tag, as well as the mass of flowers currently growing outside the gates of the estate, is an indication of the legacy Turner left behind – a reputation that would likely never have been achieved without Turner’s musical presence in other countries.
A then-60-year-old gymnast made the remark to Larry King in 1997, two years after he’d settled permanently in the obscure Lake Zurich town and more than a decade after a career surge largely attributed to success in countries like… The British gymnast, who succumbed to an unknown illness at the 250,000-square-foot, ten-building home she bought two years ago, couldn’t help but smile as she joked about her success abroad: “I’m as tall as Madonna.” in Europe,” she said. “I’m – in some places – as big as the Rolling Stones” The revelation about Turner’s decision to move to Küsnacht, a town most have never heard of, comes as a series of old interviews keep coming back after her death come to light. She moved to this property – where she died – just two years ago and lived with her second husband Turner. Her husband, Erwin Bach, bought the massive 260,000-square-foot estate a few years ago for a whopping $76 million, after living in the city for the better for part of three decades at what is an astronomical price tag, as well as the mass of flowers currently on the outskirts of the estate are indicative of the legacy Turner left behind. Pictured is a Turner fan deep in prayer after paying tribute to the star on Thursday. The singer’s reputation abroad – which would probably never have been achieved without Turner’s ’80s resurgence after a speed bump the decade before – came into full focus on Thursday’s procession of mourners and bouquets of flowers outside the gates of her estate. A person gestures as tributes are laid outside the home of the late singer, who has been widely dubbed the ‘Queen of Rock’. Flowers and candles at the gate of the late singer’s mansion and on-stage actress on Thursday the day after her death, groundsmen were seen moving the mass of flowers around the estate. Mourners left heartfelt messages paying tribute to the singer’s illustrious catalog of songs
Contrary to her much later success, Turner was born in 1939 in the very quiet, rural community of Nutbush, Tennessee.
Her father worked as a farm overseer and her mother abandoned the family when the singer was 11, according to the singer’s 2018 memoir My Love Story. As a teenager, she moved to St. Louis to rejoin her mother.
She was then discovered by her first husband Ike when she was 17, after she grabbed the microphone to sing at his club show in St. Louis in 1957.
The band leader later recorded the hit song “A Fool In Love” with the young singer and gave her the stage name Tina Turner before the two were married in Tijuana, Mexico.
The ensemble called “Ike and Tina Turner Revue” immediately put her in the spotlight.
The group worked with members of rock’s premier league, including The Who and Phil Spector, throughout the 1960s and ’70s, and appeared on the cover of Issue 2 of Rolling Stone magazine in 1967.
Ike and Tina Turner moved between record companies and owed much of their commercial success to a relentless touring schedule. Her biggest hit was a cover of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s Proud Mary, which reached the top four on the Billboard pop chart and sold more than a million copies worldwide.
Ike and Tina Turner perform “Nutbush City Limits” on German TV show Musikladen, Bremen, West Germany, 1973. Then-R&B duo Ike and Tina Turner, then-husband, perform in Dallas Fort in 1964 with a Fender Stratocaster electric guitar Worth on Stage in , Texas Ike Turner discovered the singer when she was 17 after grabbing the mic to sing at his club show in St. Louis in 1957. They are pictured in 1963. Tina – The Tina Turner musical first became a hit in London’s West End in 2018 (pictured) and later on Broadway and is still going
Turner left her husband one night in 1976 at a Dallas tour stop after he beat her during a car ride and hit her back, her memoir says. Their divorce was finalized in 1978.
For years after leaving her husband, Turner struggled to regain the limelight, releasing solo albums and singles that flopped and appearing at corporate conferences.
In 1980 she met new manager Roger Davies, an Australian music executive who managed her for three decades. That led to a #1 solo – “What’s Love Got to Do With It” – and then she topped the charts again in 1984 with her album Private Dancer.
Private Dancer became Turner’s biggest album, the capstone of a career that saw her collectively sell more than 200 million records.
Turner also made sporadic appearances on the big screen, including in Tommy (1975), Mad Max (1985) and Last Action Hero (1993).
She starred opposite Mel Gibson in the apocalyptic action film Mad Max and provided the song “We Don’t Need Another Hero,” adding to her already huge commercial success.
In 1985, Turner met German music executive Erwin Bach, who became her longtime partner, and in 1988 she moved to London and began a decade-long residency in Europe.
Turner officially retired from live performances in 2009 after a sold-out concert in England. Their last appearance was in Sheffield, Yorkshire. Tina Turner has won eight Grammys from 25 nominations and three Grammy Awards for her life. Pictured: Turner (centre) talks onstage with actors Daniel J. Watts (left) and Adrienne Warren on the opening night of the Broadway show Turner and Bach Shopping in Milan, Italy April 5, 2008, shortly before her retirement. The pair began dating after meeting at a German airport in the mid-’80s – the beginning of Turner’s love affair with the continent
In the 1990s, she released two studio albums that sold well, particularly in Europe, recorded the theme song for the 1995 Bond film GoldenEye, and embarked on a successful world tour in 2008 and 2009.
After that she retired from show business. She married Bach, gave up her US citizenship and became a Swiss citizen.
In 2021, eight years after marrying Bach and more than three decades after their relationship, the pair rented out the aforementioned ten-building estate where she passed away on Wednesday.
Her agent confirmed to Dailymail.com that she died of natural causes at her home in Switzerland.