Ike Turner: Beneath All That Tarnish
Bill Wasserzieher, musicblitz.com, 2000
IKE TURNER – Tinas ex-bad half – has a reputation for being the wicked prince of the blues. His former missus in her as-told-to/tell-all book, I, Tina, and the subsequent film, Whats Love Got to Do With It, made him out to be a wife abuser of monstrous proportions, somewhere down the evolutionary scale with Charles Manson and those horned demons Buffy slays on the WB.
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