I, Tina - Erstausgabe

Musical Lioness, Honky-tonk Angel, Star of Mad Max 3, Devout Buddhist and an inspiration to Women everywhere - This is Tina Turner. Ike and Tina Turner were one of the rock sensations of the Sixties. Today, Tina has made an incredible solo comeback after a number of years in the wilderness, both professional and privately, and here she tells the astonishing story which lies behind her success. Her story is hard to forget. Born Anna Mae bullock, daughter of a sharecropper in Nutbush, Tennessee, she was sixteen when she first joined Ike Turner and his Rhythm Kings. Success came quickly and with it almost unbearable suffering. I, Tina describes everything - her marriage to Ike, their rise to stardom, marred by his increasing violence and drug-taking, the heartache that led her with enormous courage and determination to leave Ike and the 'act', followed by years of obscurity until, encouraged by admirers like David Bowie and Mick Jagger, she rocketed back to fame with her bestselling, award-winning album Private Dancer. Funny, wrenching, inspiring, this is the real story of one of the hottest, sexiest and most charismatic female performers of the eighties. Tina Turner was born in Brownsville, Tennessee, in 1939. An unmarried mother in her teens, she married Ike turner in the early 1960s and together they went from the rhythm-and-blues circuits to chart success with 'A Fool in Love' and 'River Deep, Mountain high'. But in the mid-seventies, after enduring increasing violence from Ike, Tina walked out on the marriage and embarked on a solo career which, after years of struggle, culminated in her huge-selling album Private Dancer. She swept the Grammy Awards, starred in the third Mad Max film, and in 1985 triumphantly toured in nineteen countries, firmly establishing herself as the Queen of Rock. Kurt Loder wrote the cover story on Tina Turner for Rolling Stone magazine in October 1984. He has received her full co-operation in the writing of this book.