IT'S TINA TURNER'S BIRTHDAY--THE QUEEN OF ROCK 'N ROLL--A MAJOR PLAYER IN THE EVOLUTION OF ROCK 'N ROLL!!!

 

Born this date (November 26, 1938), Annie Mae Bullock was destined to make her home town Nutbush, Tennessee, famous. First, though, she had some heavy dues to pay…When her parents moved out of Nutbush, they left Anna with her grandmother, the “Big City” of St. Louis being no place to raise a daughter as sweet as Annie Mae…

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As a teenager, after her grandmother's death. she headed out to join the family in St. Louis. When she arrived, her older sister started taking her to several St. Louis nightclubs. At Club Imperial she met Ike Turner, a Mississippi born R&B musician...



Annie Mae asked Ike if she could sing in his act. He was initially skeptical, but Annie was persistent and Ike decided to let her perform in his show. At the age of 18, known as "Little Ann.,"  she became an occasional singer with  the Kings of Rhythm and the spotlight of a soul revue by the band.
     Luck hit when another singer failed to show for a recording session and "Little Ann" recorded "A Fool In Love" for Ike's band...



The tune was a MONSTER, reaching #2 on the R&B Chart. Ike married Tina and changed the name of the band to The Ike & Tina Turner Revue. Throughout the 60s and 70s Ike and Tina rose to stardom. Tina and the back-up singers (The Ikettes) wove intricate dance routines into the act, influencing many "up and comers," including Mick Jagger & The Rolling Stones (for whose 1966 UK tour they opened)...

Their HIGH ENERGY cover of CCR's "Proud Mary" peaked at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 in March of 1971 and won a grammy for the Best R&B Vocal Performance by a duo or a Group that same year....




     By 1978, Ike had become unbearably (physically) abusive of Tina and the couple divorced...Tina had a couple of near-miss recordings after the split up, including her recording of The Who's Acid Queen and her part in that movie...
 

Then she showed up on the stage with Mick Jagger:




She jammed with Rod Stewart:



And just about everybody who was hot in rock at the time (David Bowie, Paul McCartney and SO MANY others!!!)

TINA TURNER IS 
THE QUEEN OF ROCK 'N ROLL!!! 
(Just go to You Tube and be amazed!)

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