Tribute to Tina Turner
TINA TURNER ~ Original Album Collection
Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock; November 26, 1939 – May 24, 2023) was a singer, songwriter, and actress. Known as the "Queen of Rock 'n' Roll", she rose to prominence as the lead singer of the husband-wife duo Ike & Tina Turner. Tina Turner 1976. embarking on a solo successfulled career performer and becoming one of the greatest cultural icons of all time.
In 1984, Turner launched "one of the greatest comebacks in music history", with her multi-platinum album Private Dancer. Its single "What's Love Got to Do with It" won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year and became her only number-one song on the Billboard Hot 100.
Turner's chart sucess continued with "Let's Stay Together", "Better Be Good to Me", "Private Dancer", "We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)", "It's Only Love", "Typical Male", "The Best", "I Don't Wanna Lose You", "I Don't Wanna Fight", and "GoldenEye".
Her Break Every Rule World Tour (1987–1988) became the highest-grossing female tour of the 1980s and set a Guinness World Record for the then-largest paying audience in a concert (180,000).
Turner continued her success as a live performer with Wildest Dreams Tour (1997–1998), the second highest-grossing female tour of the 1990s, and Twenty Four Seven Tour (2000), the highest-grossing tour of the year in North America.
In 2009, she retired after completing her Tina!: 50th Anniversary Tour. Outside of music, Turner acted in the films Tommy (1975), Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) and Last Action Hero (1993).
Her life and career were dramatized in the film What's Love Got to Do with It (1993), based on her autobiography I, Tina: My Life Story (1986). Turner was also the subject of a jukebox musical, Tina (2018), and a documentary film of the same name (2021).