![]() Big Tuesday night at Stabler Arena in Bethlehem, insists that all interviews be written in a question-and-answer format. So the Canadian rocker, who performs with Mr. The 33-year-old Vancouver, Canada, native and resident, who struck platinum a decade ago with his third album, “Cuts Like A Knife,” and played virtually every high-profile concert of the 1980s (Live Aid, Nelson Mandela’s Freedomfest, Roger Waters’ Berlin Wall concert), also says that many stories written about him are “unfactual.” She helped me so much when I was young and I will never forget her.Bryan Adams freely admits that he doesn’t particularly like doing interviews. She was inspiring, warm, funny and generous. "She was truly an enormously talented performer and singer. "I'm so saddened by the passing of my wonderful friend Tina Turner," said Mick Jagger. Thank you for being the inspiration to millions of people around the world for speaking your truth and giving us the gift of your incredible voice." "I'll be forever grateful for the time we spent together on tour, in the studio and as friends. "The world just lost one of the greatest performers of all time," tweeted Bryan Adams, who duetted with Turner on It's Only Love in 1985. "It was a privilege and an honour to have been a close friend as well as her manager for more than 30 years. ![]() ![]() "From the first day I met her in 1980, she believed in herself completely when few others did at that time. "Tina was a unique and remarkable force of nature with her strength, incredible energy and immense talent," said Roger Davies, her manager of 30 years. There was also a jukebox musical and a well-received documentary, with both – in a true reflection of her fame – simply called Tina. Tina Turner's life was chronicled in three memoirs and in the 1993 biopic What's Love Got To Do With It. After another four albums she announced her retirement in 2000, and – aside from a farewell tour in 2009 – she stayed true to her word. Private Dancer, released in 1985, was a huge, era-defining success, selling more than 12 million copies worldwide and picking up four Grammy Awards. Turner's subsequent battle back from financial and career ruin to 80s megastardom showed her steel. After a final explosion of violence during which she fought back physically for the first time, Tina quit the relationship, and the pair divorced in 1978. Comparing her to her more static contemporaries, he said “she was like a female Little Richard and would respond to the audience… really go out and grab them”.īy 1976 the cracks between Ike and Tina – he'd been abusing her for years – were obvious to all. Mick Jagger, who’d copped his moves from her when Ike and Tina supported the Stones in 1966, knew it. “I wanna be up!… I always knew I wanted to be rock’n’roll.” “I just find R&B so depressing,” she told writer Charles Shaar Murray in the 80s. The duo's shift away from R&B to rock'n'roll was driven by Tina, who suggested that the duo's popular revue show cover what became hit versions of The Beatles’ Come Together and Creedence Clearwater Revival’s Proud Mary. And in 1973 she wrote the classic rocker Nutbush City Limits, another hit.
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