Articles tagged "tina turner"

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Feel Good: Ike & Tina live on Soul Train (video)

by Diepiriye Kuku

[24.Feb.09] :. Feel Good live in 1972 on Soul Train is an awesome performance of an awesome song. I have always dreamt of being a Soul Train dancer, a dream that was shattered when I realized that...

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Music Review

Tina Turner: Tina!

by Evan Sawdey

[9.Jan.09] :. There's nothing truly wrong with Tina! -- it's just that the Acid Queen deserves better than this.

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TV DVD Review

All You Need Is Love

by Zeth Lundy

[22.Jul.08] :. Tony Palmer's compelling yet frustrating 15-hour television series on the history of popular music, originally broadcast in the 1970s, finally sees a DVD release.

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News

Ike Turner: One of R&B’s greats, one of wedlock’s worst

by Dan DeLuca [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[14.Dec.07] :. Ike Turner, who died Wednesday in his suburban San Diego home at age 76 of undisclosed causes, was incontestably one of the greatest bandleaders in the history of rhythm and blues. In 1951 - a full...

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Rock visionary Ike Turner dies at 76

by Greg Kot [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[13.Dec.07] :. CHICAGO—Ike Turner, who died Wednesday at age 76 in his suburban San Diego home, changed the course of modern music, scored numerous hits and yet is best known as the scoundrel who abused Tina...

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PopMatters Picks: The Best Music of 2007 Feature

The Best Jazz of 2007

by Will Layman

[11.Dec.07] :. In spite of the perception of jazz as an increasingly niche market, the year's best show a style of music that remains ever youthful in its exploration of new territories, expanding its diversity and range of expression.

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Ike & Tina Turner: The Ike & Tina Turner Story

by Christian John Wikane

[12.Oct.07] :. Definitive in nearly every possible way, The Ike and Tina Turner Story is the exclamation point on an act that bridged together rock and soul.

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Herbie Hancock: River

by Will Layman

[4.Oct.07] :. The great jazz pianist, with Wayne Shorter at his elbow and a list of sympathetic guest singers, makes a stunning Joni Mitchell tribute.

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Tina Turner: Twenty Four Seven

by Chris Massey

This is a good album. Let me amend that: this is a good pop album. It could have been much better, but as it stands, it is a good watered-down pop album. Tina Turner is a strong woman. We’ve...