Rock ‘n’ roll queen Tina Turner died on Wednesday at the age of 83. Here are 6 of their biggest songs that have won eight Grammy Awards.
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With Ike, her husband, Tina Turner rose to fame when she covered Proud Mary, a bayou ballad also known as Rolling on a River composed two years earlier by the group Creedence Clearwater Revival (1969).
In the original 1971 clip, we see Ike in the background with a guitar, afroball and gold torque around his neck, and Tina behind the microphone with her hair slicked back and a short dress of white pearls. The duo starts out “nice and smooth,” then builds muscle over the seconds in a funk-rock rhythm laced with Tina’s gospel accents.
Composed to the sounds of southern rhythms, the song tells the story of how a servant girl quits her job as a dishwasher in Memphis and New Orleans and embarks on a large steamboat going down the Mississippi River.
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This classic of the American repertoire, repeated several times by various formations, is a common thread in Tina Turner’s career. His extravagant duet with Beyoncé in 2008 on the 50th anniversary of the Grammys is legendary.
Tina separated from her abusive husband in 1976 after enduring 20 years of beatings. Without a producer, it almost fell into oblivion in the US.
“Given my age of 39, my gender and the color of my skin, I can say that I had headwinds,” she admits in her autobiography. In the United States she skims TVs and small spaces, while in Europe she makes beautiful posters.
With “Private Dancer”, an album that was offered to her in 1984, Tina Turner returned to her country. “What’s Love Got To Do With It” will be the king single of his entire career. It earned him the 1985 Grammy for Best Recording of the Year.
Written by Terry Britten and Graham Lyle, the song was originally intended to be sung by Cliff Richard, but due to a misunderstanding, it went through many hands before falling to Tina Turner. The hit entered the pantheon of world music with induction into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2012.
Tina Turner, who had previously starred as the insane acid queen in 1975’s The Who’s rock opera, Tommy, was chosen to star opposite Mel Gibson in Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome.
In this new adventure of anticipation, she also performs the soundtrack to “We Don’t Need Another Hero,” a new song by Graham Lyle and Terry Britten that becomes another worldwide hit. In the summer of 1985 the track was number 1 in Australia, number 2 in the United States and number 3 in the United Kingdom.
For this futuristic role, Tina Turner didn’t hesitate to shave her head to don an impressive synthetic blonde comb adorned with two oversized hoops. She wears a 55 kg chain mail dress with huge shoulder pads.
The queen of rock excels at covers. Originally performed by Bonnie Tyler in 1988, the track, which Tina included on her album Foreign Affair the following year, was a huge hit. Around six million copies were sold in 1988.
In 1992, The Best, renamed Simply the Best, was chosen to promote the Australian Rugby Championship. The National Rugby League will never be the same thanks to the commercial animated by the flamboyant Tina amidst sweaty and sexy rugby players. The anthem was soon recorded in the United States before certain baseball and football games. Tina becomes the stadium goddess.
Tina Turner continued her 1980s success with this beautiful ballad from her 1989 album Foreign Affair.
It was a top ten hit in the UK and was written by Albert Hammond and Graham Lyle, the latter also wrote What’s Love Got to Do With It.
After the box office of Mad Max, she is cast for the credits of the James Bond film of the same name, with Pierce Brosnan in the title role. In her silver dress slit above her edgy curved legs, the singer, now in her fifties, brings all her vocal power to the score of group U2’s Bono and The Edge, in the pure tradition of the 007 theme.