Diva Canon #8: TINA TURNER

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

It's Friday, it's time for another canon! And who more deserving than our enormo-haired leggy warbler Anna Mae Bullock? Not a diva in the traditional screaming-toddler sense perhaps, but most definitely an icon worthy of a ticky box or two.

TINAFAX:

Tina's hair fell out after she bleached it too much as a teenager. Thankfully Mr Wig invented the wig the next day and Tina became a massive superstar!

Tina has sold nearly 100 million records.

Tina was the oldest person to get a US #1 hit but her record was subsequently broken by Aerosmith and Cher (not at the same time).

Tina loves Steps' version of Tragedy (see picture)

Tina's voice can cut through a block of Stilton at 20 paces.



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Comments

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I absolutely LOVED the Thunderdome song when it came out! (and rightly so).

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I loved it too. Tina Turner was definitely one of the earliest pop stars beknown to tinyKat, more famous to 4 yr old me than Madonna!

Points of order:

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

- Tina's version of Disco Inferno on Now 26 was my first introduction to this song and as such I STILL WUV IT.
- Goldeneye is good! Why the hatorade?
- I've kind of gone off Simply The Best but it is still a good song.

Re: Points of order:

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

Goldeneye is the most underrated Bond theme. It's great - really nice build up in the verse, working in the first key Bond element (the horn stabs), then bringing in the second (beautiful sweeping strings) over the chorus, and all building up to a wonderful climax where she really belts it out.

The only thing to hate about it is that it's written by Bono. But hey, it sounds nothing like U2 and he's not on it, so that's not good enough reason.

[also - on that note - I love "You Made Me the Thief of Your Heart" by Sinead O'Connor, also written by Bono. Why are the songs he writes for other people so much better than the stuff he writes for U2?]

Re: Points of order:

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

I don't mind U2 or Bono's voice that much, but otherwise I agree entirely - Goldeneye is a very very classy recording.

Re: Points of order:

[miss-newham.livejournal.com]

Goldeneye is awesome! And I had to study Private Dancer in a music lesson once!

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

why wasn't 'Proud Mary' a single then?

non-top 40 singles:

30/07/1966 Ike And Tina Turner Tell Her I'm Not Home #48
15/09/1984 Tina Turner Better Be Good To Me #45
02/03/1985 Tina Turner I Can't Stand The Rain #57
12/10/1985 Tina Turner One Of The Living #55
08/11/1986 Tina Turner Two People #43
12/09/1987 Tina Turner Paradise Is Here #78

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I was wondering where I Can't Stand The Rain was! It was on my Mum's Best Of TT and I hearted that lots.

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

I knew there were more hits from Private Dancer (four as I recall, and Private Dancer was the least popular of all, despite good press for its Dire Straits connection).

"Better Be Good to Me" was huge, and would certainly get a ticky from me (and should from you, too)!

notable incursion of t turner into STREET CULTURE

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

one of my favourite pieces of graffiti in London is the following scribbling in Dalston:

"tony romanoff
is
ike and tina turner"

...what, both of them?

Re: notable incursion of t turner into STREET CULTURE

[sbp.livejournal.com]

I saw a graffito mentioning tony r too. something like:
60s Beatles 70s (whoever) 80s U2 90s (whoever) 00s tony romanoff
It's probably a viral marketing campaign - pay it no heed.

Re: notable incursion of t turner into STREET CULTURE

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I thought 'Ike And Tina Turner' was some sort of rhyming slang I wasn't au fait with.

Re: notable incursion of t turner into STREET CULTURE

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Is au fait the right phrase there? I almost typed out 'ofay'. I have never used that phrase in writing or seen it written down.

Didja know?

[sbp.livejournal.com]

Tina and the Ikettes sang lots of really tricky backing vocals on one of Frank Zappa's mid-70s albums (Overnite Sensation), but Ike wouldn't let them be credited, or be paid more than $25 per song.

The American Perspective

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

(w/ Ike) "A Fool in Love" (1960)
(w/ Ike) "It's Gonna Work Out Fine (1961)
(w/ Ike) "Poor Fool" (1962)
(w/ Ike) "I Want To Take You Higher" (1970)
(w/ Ike) "Proud Mary" (1971)
"Let's Stay Together" (1983)
"What's Love Got to Do With It" (1984)
"Better Be Good To Me" (1984)
"Private Dancer" (1985)
"Show Some Respect" (1985)
"We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)" (1985)
"One of the Living" (1985)
(w/ Bryan Adams) "It's Only Love" (1985)
"Typical Male" (1986)
"Two People" (1986)
"What You Get Is What You See" (1987)
"Simply The Best" (1989)
"Steamy Windows" (1989)
"I Don't Wann Fight" (1993)

Re: The American Perspective

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

So, a lot more success with Ike (though notice the list of top 40 hits in the two countries is completely disjoint). A bit more success during the mid 80's comeback, but way less post-1990 success.

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

Tina used to hold the record for longest gap between chart debut and first number one hit in America. The record was broken by Aerosmith ("Don't Wanna Miss A Thing") who only held it for a couple months before it was broken again by Santana ("Smooth").

I see that record for "Oldest Artist to Have a Number One in America" is listed on the Wiki page, but that is fact is wack. Louis Armstrong was over 60 when "Hello Dolly" hit number one in 1963, and that's just off the top of my head.

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

Ah Tina, "What's Love Got To Do With It" was a record I bugged my MOTHER to buy for me, aged three. I really did. It may have been the first new _record_ I "owned".

I also had "Typical Male" but I got sick of that and frisbee-threw it across the fence to my neighbour. We did this frequently with records we didn't like anymore. Once I accidentally threw a Kate Bush single thinking it was something else and it broke :(

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

Ike Turner is an idol of mine (musically, not as a human being!) - he made arguably the first rock 'n' roll record (Rocket 88), he made my favourite instrumental ever (Ho Ho) and is one of my favourite guitarists ever. I saw him live less than two years ago, well into his 70s, and he was astonishing. His records with Tina aren't quite as good as his records without her, for me, and her records without him don't really interest me at all.