Tina Turner, the pioneering rock’n’roll star who became a pop behemoth in the 1980s, has died aged 83 after a long illness.
She had suffered ill health in recent years, being
diagnosed with intestinal cancer in 2016 and having a kidney transplant in
2017.
Tina Turner in a studio shoot on 25th November 1969.
Turner affirmed and amplified Black women’s formative stake
in rock’n’roll, defining that era of music to the extent that Mick Jagger
admitted to taking inspiration from her high-kicking, energetic live
performances for his stage persona.
After two decades of working with her abusive husband, Ike
Turner, she struck out alone and – after a few false starts – became one of the
defining pop icons of the 1980s with the album Private Dancer. Her life was
chronicled in three memoirs, a biopic, a jukebox musical, and in 2021, the
acclaimed documentary film, Tina.
In a statement on Wednesday night, her publicist Bernard
Doherty said: “Tina Turner, the ‘Queen of Rock’n Roll’ has died peacefully
today at the age of 83 after a long illness in her home in Kusnacht near
Zurich, Switzerland. With her, the world loses a music legend and a role
model.” Guardian
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