Results for Tina TurnerIt could be the mile-long legs, it could be the step-class-from-Hell dance moves, it could be the God-given grit-gravel voice with croon control, but Tina Turner puts the "woo" in woman. By the time Helen Reddy was soft-rockin' "I Am Woman" in 1972, Turner was a well known, live-and-in-person hot-rockin' woman who kept her hard-driving, heavy-breathing onstage performances barely to the right of "lady." The engine in the Ike and Tina R & B soul rock machine, Turner's talent quickly moved the Revue from B-billing at Princeton U. parties in the mid-'60s to "River Deep-Mountain High" for Phil Spector in 1966 and opening for the Stones in '69. Turner's path from Tennessee and St. Louis to Ike Turner, however, was also a trip from naive to deja vu and, ultimately, her personal transformation from used and abused to transfused. Ahead of the women's lib curve, Turner walked out on Ike in '73 and became herself. With a string of hits from the sixties, including "A Fool in Love" and "I Idolize You" behind her, Turner had "Private Dancer" and "What's Love Got to Do With It" ahead of her in '84. That album plus others including the eloquent "Twenty Four Seven" in 1999 and several block-busting, this-is-my-final-tour tours keep Turner out there, relevant and respected. "Nice... And rough," the "Proud Mary" intro., describes the early Turner; elegant, ageless and admired describe capri-clad diva today.“more
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by David Gendelman•June 12, 2009•
"In the two years since they’d made their first record, the Drags had become the real deal, a success, even if not everyone understood it."
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by Franklin Bruno•January 14, 2009•
Costello’s ungentle judgment of Americans raised the stakes: “We hate you. We only come here for the money... We’re the original white boys, you’re the colonials.” The May 5, 1979 RS “Random Notes” item, reported from information offered by Bramlett, gives this as a general pronouncement to the “barroom crowd”; in other reconstructions, it is a response to a fan’s questions. Either way, this is fairly self-damning as insults go, splitting the difference
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by Mike Conklin•December 24, 2008•
I've gone back and read everything I've written over the past 12 months and chose my favorite stories—some serious, many just ridiculous—in hopes of taking a brief, telling snapshot of the year that was.
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by Michael Lydon•December 24, 2008•
Originally published in The New York Times
, March 1968
"Will he burn it tonight?" asked a neat blonde of her boyfriend, squashed in beside her on the packed floor of the Fillmore auditorium. "He did at Monterey," the boyfriend said, recalling the Pop Festival at which the guitarist, in a moment of elation, actually put a match to his guitar. The blonde and her boyfriend went on watching the stage, crammed with huge silver-fronted Fender amps, a double drum set
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by Denise Sullivan•December 17, 2008•
Photographer Bob Gruen's images are among some of the most reproduced in rockdom: John Lennon, arms across his New York City t-shirt; Led Zeppelin posing in front of their private plane; a very cool Clash in an open-air ride, en route to their gig with the Who at Shea Stadium. And yet, Gruen says he never took those photos (nor any of the others in his gallery of thousands) with an eye on the iconic.
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8/8/2008
I'm not sure if that's entirely true. I've heard bootlegs were Janis compliments many performers between songs,and has...
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7/10/2007
Wishlist:
Delaney Bonnie Small Faces Sam Cooke Ike Tina Turner
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11/19/2006
Have you any Free? Back Street Crawler? Cat Stevens? Tina Turner? Blues music in general?
Please!!
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