Tina Turner

I'm sitting at home and the phone doesn't even ring
I'm all alone again
Not a sound in the house save the radio
FM DJ filling up the emptiness
Baby's on the road again
Six weeks nation-wide opening the show

And I'm making it on my own like a rock 'n roll widow
Get my news from the Rolling Stone, wait by the telephone
Wonder if he's alone
Or is my man on a permanent loan to rock 'n roll
Rock 'n roll

Outdoor concert, watching him play for me
I fall in love again
He says his music is everything
Helpless, caught by the melody
When he begins to sing
Go on, tell me he's like all the rest

And I'm making it on my own like a rock 'n roll widow
Get my news from the Rolling Stone, wait by the telephone
Wonder if he's alone
Or is my man on a permanent loan to rock 'n roll
Rock 'n roll

Watching him run
I've got the feeling that he's already lost in the life

So I'm making it on my own like a rock 'n roll widow
Get my news from the Rolling Stone, wait by the telephone
Wonder if he's alone
Or is my man on a permanent loan to rock 'n roll
To rock 'n roll

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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