#Ike turner

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Ike & Tina Turner performing at Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, 1972.

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“You’re too busy looking at Ike” 🥴

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“Is it possible to aspire to be two different people at the same time, rolled into one? If so, the two-headed transplant of my musical backbone could only be Ike and Tina Turner. I wanted to be as snakelike as Ike and as scary-sexy as Tina. So should you. Ike and Tina Turner were the best soul group ever.”

/ From John Waters’ 2019 collection of essays Mr. Know-It-All /

Born on this day: musician, songwriter, guitarist, producer, bandleader and rock’n’roll pioneer Ike Turner (né Izear Luster Turner Jr, 5 November 1931 – 12 December 2007). From the late fifties until their acrimonious split in 1976 Turner and his fiercely glamorous raspy-voiced “bold soul sister” wife Tina Turner (the former Anna Mae Bullock) were the tempestuous royal couple of greasy, primal rhythm and blues. Yes, Ike’s reputation as a monster is warranted (especially once the cocaine addiction kicked in), but his trailblazing musical genius demands recognition. In the great 2023 documentary Little Richard: I Am Everything, one of the talking heads notes that Richard's piano playing was beholden to Turner’s, something Richard himself freely admitted (he raved that hearing “Rocket 88” by Ike Turner and His Kings of Rhythm in 1951 “made my big toe shoot up in my boot” and profoundly fired his own musical imagination. Richard borrowed the piano intro to “Rocket 88” for his own “Good Golly, Miss Molly”). Pictured: The eternally stylish Turners on the cover of the revue’s first-ever live album – released sixty years ago this month (November 1964). Find it on Spotify if you're curious - it rocks! John Waters is right: Ike and Tina Turner were the best soul group ever.

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Ike Turner - She Made My Blood Run Cold

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Vintage Magazine - Sepia (Feb1973)

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What's Love Got To Do With It

directed by Brian Gibson

starring Angela Bassett & Laurence Fishburne

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Arnold said she was fearful of speaking out, as it could've meant the end of her budding career, and a return to an abusive husband.

Turner's history of abuse towards his own ex-wife, Tina, has been well-documented over the years. In her memoir, My Love Story, Tina wrote, 'Sex with Ike had become an expression of hostility - a kind of rape - especially when it began or ended with a beating.' Turner also had a child with Ann Thomas, one of the Ikettes, in 1968.

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Ike & Tina Turner rehearsing in Paris, January 1971.

Photos by Jean-Pierre Leloir

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The Ikettes (Pat Powdrill, Paulette Parker, Ann Thomas, & Jean Brown) in 1968. 💗

Pat Powdrill was an Ikette from 1967 to 1970, she left the group after winning lots of money in the casino while performing in Las Vegas. Paulettee Parker was an Ikette from 1967 to 1968, she later sang lead in a group with her husband. Also was a backing vocalist for many artist like Bobby “Blue” Bland, Donna Summer, and Rufus. Also was a session singer alongside Steve Marriott, The Gap Band, Rita Coolidge, & BB King.

Ann Thomas was an Ikette from 1966 to 1968, she was only an ikette because of her looks. Ike & Tina thought she was very pretty but she couldn’t sing so she often lip synced her lyrics. She lived with Ike & Tina but left the Ikettes before getting pregnant by Ike and having their daughter Mia in 1969. She returned to work for them as their wardrobe manager, she later married Ike from 1981 to 1990. Jean Brown was an Ikette from 1967 to 1968, but returned from 1970 to 1972. After her tenure as an Ikette she retired from show business to devote her time to her family.

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2013-2014 you had Bey and Jay mocking Tina Turner’s abuse from Ike, and Nicki disregarding Malcom’s daughter’s feelings towards the way her father’s likeness was being sued.

What was in the water that era? 😭

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For the Surgeon General.