Tina Turner
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Tina Turner: London, Wembley Stadium
Live Review by Ian Fortnam, bol.com, July 2000
NESTLED BETWIXT the iconic twin towers of Wembley Stadium lies a sumptuous banqueting hall that’s completely rammed to its very rafters with the affluent and ...
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The Ike And Tina Turner Revue: Streatham Locarno, London
Live Review by Bill Millar, Soul Music Monthly, 25 April 1968
IN SEPTEMBER 1966, some seven thousand people saw the Rolling Stones and like & Tina Turner at the Royal Albert Hall and – judging by ...
Ike & Tina Turner: River Deep-Mountain High; Outta Season
Review by Greil Marcus, Rolling Stone, 17 May 1969
IKE AND TINA TURNER have been packing suitcases and riding buses for years, playing the Sportmen's Clubs and the Showcase Lounges, sometimes making it into ...
Tina Turner: If This Is Vegas, Give Me More
Live Review by Cliff White, New Musical Express, 18 February 1978
JANUARY, Millie Jackson; February, Tina Turner; soon to come, Gladys Knight...gee whizz, can it all be too much for this white boy? No, no, no; ...
Tina Turner: The Willpower Way From Square One
Interview by Mick Brown, The Guardian, 14 March 1979
Tina Turner, now singing alone, is back in Britain. She talks to Mick Brown ...
Tina Turner: Past The Point Of No Returner
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 17 April 1982
Tina Turner: Hammersmith Odeon, London ...
The Tube: Ready... Steady... Um...
Report by Helen Fitzgerald, Melody Maker, 5 November 1983
Helen FitzGerald has a nightmare... and finds herself at the first night of THE TUBE. ...
Tina Turner: Private Dancer (Capitol)
Review by Jack Barron, Sounds, 23 June 1984
AM I the only person who thinks Tina Turner looks, um, more sensual when she's fully clothed rather than parading acres of well preserved flesh? ...
Tina Turner: Onstage A Blaze In Total Control
Interview by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 1984
"I'M NOT A mystery," says Tina Turner. "Look what's in now — body building, aerobics, exercise — I've been yelling and running for 20 years! ...
Tina Turner: The Soulful Queen of Rock'n'roll Struts Back Into the Spotlight
Interview by Mark Rowland, Musician, September 1984
PRIVATE DANCER is Tina Turner's new album; 'I Might Have Been Queen' the first song; and it's hard to decide which title, album's or single's, ...
Tina Foiled! Tina Turner: Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by Paolo Hewitt, New Musical Express, 23 March 1985
SOMEHOW, WHEN THAT first inevitable round of thunderous applause erupted and Tina Turner stood there, bathing in a lone spotlight, you couldn't help but feel ...
Various Artists: We Are The World (Columbia)
Review by Mark Rowland, Musician, June 1985
Industry of Mercy: Bruce & Tina lead a parade of mobilized mega-stars. ...
USA For Africa: We Are The World (Columbia)
Review by J. Kordosh, Creem, August 1985
OUCHLESS BAND-AID ...
Soundtracks Thrived in Summer of '85
Report by Rob Tannenbaum, Rolling Stone, 21 November 1985
Arranged marriages between movies and rock & roll produced spectacular results ...
Report and Interview by Chris Heath, Smash Hits, 13 August 1986
• She was a huge star in the sixties, down the dumper in the seventies and now, at 47, she's a huge star again.• She ...
Tina Turner: Mega Woman Conquers the World
Interview by Mark Rowland, Musician, October 1986
QUEEN TINA DOES NOT WANT ANY MORE POP, FUNK, REGGAE OR SOUL. QUEEN TINA WANTS TO ROCK 'N' ROLL ...
Tina Turner: Break Every Rule (Capitol)
Review by Davitt Sigerson, Rolling Stone, 6 November 1986
Tina repeats a winning formula ...
Interview by Chas de Whalley, International Musician & Recording World, December 1986
The man who made AOR respectable? Terry Britten confesses all to Chas de Whalley ...
Tina Turner: Break Every Rule (Capitol)
Review by Craig Zeller, Creem, January 1987
A RECENT read through I, Tina, Ms. Turner's painfully honest life story, confirmed two things for me: 1) You won't find any used "I Like ...
Tina Turner: A smile and a song
Report and Interview by David Sinclair, The Times, 17 June 1987
David Sinclair meets the resilient rock star Tina Turner, playing at Wembley Arena until tomorrow night ...
Report and Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, Q, April 1988
THE BIGGEST FOOTBALL stadium in the world is the Maracana in Rio de Janeiro: a big game such as a World Cup Final can pack ...
Retrospective and Interview by John Pidgeon, Classic Albums (BBC Books), 1991
IN 1983, AT THE age of 45, Tina Turner could lay claim to a handful of hit singles, the first of which had come in ...
Once-cool songs now politically incorrect
Comment by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 9 January 1992
IT'S TIME TO re-evaluate that good ol' time rock 'n' roll. Or, as you may discover, not so good ol' time rock 'n' roll. ...
What's Love Got To Do With It? (Dir.: Brian Gibson, Buena Vista Pictures)
Film/DVD/TV Review by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 20 July 1993
Tina: a legend in her own time ...
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Vogue, September 1993
Angela Bassett's astonishing portrayal of Tina Turner in the film What's Love Got to Do With It reveals her as an actress who can shimmy, shake and ...
Tina Tuner: Twenty Four Seven (Virgin)
Review by Amy Linden, Vibe, April 2000
SOME PEOPLE you just can't fathom criticizing, one of them being Tina Tuner. Miss Tina has always been larger than life, an iconic figure of ...
Interview by Jim Sullivan, Rock's Backpages, January 2014
"BABY, baby, baby you're out of time," sang Tina Turner near the end of a show in Boston back in 1981. ...
Book Excerpt by Barney Hoskyns, 'Capitol 75' (Taschen), 2016
NOTE: Herewith the full "director's cut" version of the historical essay I contributed to the spectacularly lavish Taschen book marking the 75th anniversary of West ...
Retrospective by Steve Pafford, stevepafford.com, 26 November 2019
How a middle aged woman from Tennessee pulled off the greatest comeback in music history ...
Bhaskar Menon: Former Capitol Colleagues Remember EMI Music Chief
Retrospective and Interview by Stephen K. Peeples, stephenkpeeples.com, 6 March 2021
BHASKAR MENON, EMI Music Worldwide founding chairman and CEO and one of the record industry's most respected leaders, died at his home in Beverly Hills ...
Dan Lindsay and T. J. Martin (directors): Tina (Sky/HBO)
Film/DVD/TV Review by Simon Warner, unpublished, April 2021
IF THEY fictionalised the Tina Turner story, it would be so implausible that not even Hollywood's most starry-eyed director would take it on. No one, ...
Regal, Fierce & Divine: Tina Turner Roars into the Rock Hall on her own terms
Retrospective and Interview by Holly Gleason, Pollstar, October 2021
TINA TURNER in a chain mail dress… Tina Turner in a black leather mini skirt, denim jacket, seam up the back of those legs… Tina Turner in ...
see also Ike & Tina Turner
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