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Tina Turner: Get Your Eyes Off... and Listen

Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 26 May 1973

THE MAKING of Tina Turner — was it the singer or the song? Well, we all know the answer to that one don't we? The consensus of opinion is that when crowds — primarily hysterical male honkies — turn out in their droolin' droves for an exhibition of Ike & Tina Turner's erotic exorcism, it's to see the lady strut her stuff. Not to hear her exercise larynx.

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