Ike and Tina Turner
Bob Woffinden, NME, 25 December 1976
THAT THE Tina Turner-Phil Spector combination should have produced one isolated tour-de-force 45 was perhaps not surprising; after all, Tina more than anyone else was the one vocalist to set in front of the Spector wall-of-sound; that the team should also have produced an isolated album of sustained brilliance, however, was against all the odds.
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