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One of the LivingTina Turner

Released: June 30, 2015

Songwriter: Holly Knight

Producer: Mike Chapman

In the desert sun ev'ry step that you take could be the final one
And in the burning heat
Hanging on the edge of destruction
No
You can't stop the pain of your children crying out in your head
They always said that the living would envy the dead
So now you're gonna shoot
Shoot bullets of fire
Don't wanna fight
But sometimes you've got to
You're some soul survivor
And there's just one thing you've got to know:
You've got ten more thousand miles to go because you're
One of the living - and if you can't stick together
Well
You're one of the living - who's gonna make it tonight ?
Walk tall
Cool
Collected
But savage
Walk tall
Bruised
Sensual
Ravaged
It's ev'ry man for himself
Ev'ry woman
Ev'ry child
A new breed
Ferocious and wild
And all they wanna do is shoot bullets of fire
They wanna fight
But sometimes you've got to
You're some soul survivor
And there's just one thing you've got to know:
You've got ten more thousand miles to go because you're
One of the living - and if you can't stick together
Well
You're one of the living - who's gonna make it tonight ?
You're one of the living - and if we can't stick together
Well
You're one of the living - who's gonna make it tonight ?
Shoot bullets of fire
...
You're one of the living - and if we can't stick together
...
You're one of the living - and if we can't stick together
...
You're one of the living - and if we can't stick together
...

Tina Turner

Often dubbed the Queen of Rock & Roll, Tina Turner is arguably among the most iconic of female divas in history, with her prolific career and memorable personality as a performer and a public figure. Hailing from a small town in Tennessee, and born Anna Mae Bullock, Turner has cemented herself as one of music’s greatest entertainers.

Turner’s career in music arose from her frequenting of nightclubs near St. Louis, where she would meet her soon-to-be husband Ike Turner, who would also give her the alias “Tina”. With Ike, she would form the famous Ike And Tina Turner Revue. A dynamic, explosive R&B ensemble, the two became the definition of the genre in the late 60s and early 70s, where R&B/Soul had only tiptoed into the realms of the mainstream. A particularly influential act in popularizing the genre, the Revue went on to release some of music’s most memorable and iconic tracks – a cover of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Proud Mary”, the Phil Spector-penned “River Deep – Mountain High”, and the electric “Nutbush City Limits”. After a host of drug and abuse problems on Ike’s part, with the male Turner eventually engaging in a violent altercation with his wife, Tina decided to leave her husband for the solo life – and it worked.

As a solo artist, with the help of fellow artists like glam rocker David Bowie, Turner tumbled into mainstream success in the 80s with the only number-one hit of her career – the unconquerable love ballad “What’s Love Got To Do With It” as part of her debut solo album, Private Dancer.

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