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1 I Don't Need - Tina Turner 1965 2 Medley - Tina Turner & Marvin Gaye 2:01 1965 3 Money - Tina Turner & Marvin Gaye 7:33 1965 4 Shake - Ike & Tina Turner 10:38 1965 5 River Deep Mountain High - Ike & Tina Turner 11:35 1966 6 A Love Like Yours - Ike & Tina Turner 13:17 1969 7 Bold Soul Sister - Ike & Tina Turner 15:04 1969 8 I've Been Loving You Too Long - Ike & Tina Turner 18:04 1969 What Tina Turner Meant to the MTV Generation She earned the title of Queen of Rock & Roll with her pioneering work in the Sixties — and her comeback in the 1980s made her a superstar whose work will live forever. THE DEATH OF Tina Turner is heartbreaking for anyone who’d ever marveled at the brilliance, basked in the warmth, or been enthralled by the titanic talent of the woman born Anna Mae Bullock. Her resilience became an inspiration around the world, and Tina Turner’s musical and cultural legacy is unparalleled — an influence that stretches across generations and genres. The Queen of Rock & Roll title means so much in regards to her; when people struggled to remember and name historical figures like Big Mama Thornton and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Tina Turner was doing U2 and Springsteen numbers around the world. A Black woman in her forties who was a bonafide rock star at the height of the multimedia 1980s, Tina reinvented herself on her own terms and provided a blueprint for so many to come. She rose to fame 20 years earlier as the frontwoman for the Ike & Tina Revue, a powerhouse R&B combo musically led by her abusive first husband, Ike Turner. Starting in 1960, years before the Beatles or the Roling Stones, the duo traversed through everything from gutbucket soul to psychedelic pop en route to becoming one of rock and soul’s most revered acts. It was only later that the world learned about how Ike’s brutality had tormented Tina during their time together. She split from Ike in 1976, before resuming her career as a solo act via Vegas and disco. The following decade, with 1984’s Private Dancer, Tina did the seemingly impossible, fully re-emerging with a multiplatinum smash. For Gen Xers and elder millennials who didn’t have a firsthand witness to the Ike & Tina years, her superstardom in the 1980s was staggering. Throughout the decade, Tina Turner stood on the Mount Olympus of cultural ubiquity next to fellow icons like Whitney, Bono, and Michael, having climbed to heights that made her one of the most omnipresent stars of an entirely new generation. In the post-apocalyptic Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, she starred alongside Mel Gibson as Aunty Entity, and she spent the decade criss-crossing the world with blockbuster Private Dancer and Break Every Rule tours. The abuse she had suffered in her years with Ike was devastating. The fact that she came out of that dark place and wrote an entirely new story for herself — one where she wasn’t defined by what she’d been put through in the past, but was a fixture at the very top of entertainment in the present — remains a comeback unlike any other. Tina was 47 and had just released Break Every Rule when she gave that interview, discussing her then-new autobiography, her three-year run of success, and what she’d gone through to get there. For a new group of fans, Tina Turner was the leggy sex symbol with the big hair, a fixture on music video television who’d strutted in the “What’s Love Got To Do With It” video, lent her star power to “We Are the World,” and gone beyond Thunderdome. Her image and music were pivotal for Black Gen X kids growing up with MTV. The network had infamously rebuffed Black artists in its initial years, before Michael Jackson and Thriller tore down the proverbial wall. Tina was one of the first Black artists to follow in that wake, as Private Dancer and music videos like “Better Be Good To Me” and the title track followed “What’s Love…” onto the Billboard Top Ten. With her distinctive mid-’80s image, Tina Turner was a rocker who towered alongside the Jaggers and Bowies of the day. Unlike so many of her peers from the 1960s, she spent the Eighties delivering music that was vital and engaged; she wasn’t interested in rehashing any old approaches or even referencing what she’d done before. She was too busy breaking new territory. When her Break Every Rule tour — a massive trek of 132 cities around the world over 12 months — hit Rio De Janeiro on Jan. 16, 1988, Tina took the stage to an astounding crowd of 180,000 people. The massive audience swayed and rocked throughout Maracanã Stadium, a towering moment that affirmed that Tina Turner was one of the biggest draws in the world. Source: Rolling Stone
