The life of Tina Turner, as told through her essential tracks
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A never-before-heard track from the Private Dancer album sessions that was once thought lost, has now been unearthed. Called Hot For You Baby, it is thrilling listen from an artist making a breakthrough record which set her off on a remarkable solo career.
Asked to summarise her life and career in a single word, Tina Turner once answered: “endurance”. And it’s true – after originally rising to fame with her first husband Ike as the R&B duo Ike & Tina Turner, the singer escaped the abusive relationship to mount one of the most sensational solo comebacks in pop music.
"My legacy is that I stayed on course from the beginning to the end because I believed in something inside of me that told me that it can get better, or you can make something better and that I wanted better." she told Oprah Winfrey in 2013. That same year, Turner had relinquished her American citizenship for good to embrace life in Europe, and married her partner of 27 years, the German record exec Erwin Bach. The pair settled down in Switzerland, and Turner lived with him in a beautiful home by Lake Zürich until her death on May 24 last year.
Widely known as the Queen of Rock’n’Roll, Turner hopped between two musical worlds with consummate ease; belting out glorious power-pop anthems with a charged and ferocious gravel that most rock singers could only dream of summoning up. Her voice was perfect because of its imperfections; the cracks and rough edges told a story. As Kurt Loder puts it in the memoir I, Tina – co-written with the late artist – she “combined the emotional force of the great blues singers with a sheer, wallpaper-peeling power that seemed made to order for the age of amplification”.
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