She released three solo albums and appeared in the rock opera film Tommy as the "Acid Queen." Years of physical and emotional abuse by Ike Turner became too much for her, and she walked out on him and the group during a concert tour stop in Texas in July 1976. Albums released by the revue in the 1970s include Working Together (1970), Blues Roots (1972), Nutbush City Limits (1973), and The Gospel According to Ike and Tina (1974).Īlthough Tina Turner continued to tour and record with the group during the early 1970s, her own identity began to emerge both personally and professionally. Tina Turner aptly describes their style in her introduction to "Proud Mary" when she says, "we never do anything nice and easy, we always do it nice-and rough." That song won a Grammy Award in 1971 for best rhythm and blues vocal by a group. They were wildly popular with mainstream audiences who were stunned by the forceful blend of hard rock and roll and provocative soul. By the time the revue returned to the United States, Ike and Tina Turner had "crossed over" more than the Atlantic.
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Tina had taught Mick Jagger, the leader of that group, how to dance on stage. Ike and Tina Turned toured Europe twice in the 1960s with the Rolling Stones. Released late in 1966 the song" River Deep, Mountain High" topped the British pop charts for many weeks in 1966. The normally autocratic husband agreed to the arrangement thanks to a generous financial offer. Legendary pop producer Phil Spector wanted Tina to sing on a record without Ike. Stardom for the Ike and Tina Turner Revue came about first in Europe. They married in Mexico, although it was later discovered that Ike had never divorced his previous wife. Although Ike still lived with his second wife, Anna moved into their home, and soon after that Ike and Anna had a son named Ricky. Her romantic involvement at the time centered around Raymond Hill, the band's saxophone player and the father of Anna Bullock's first child, born in 1958. Ike Turner and Anna Bullock began their relationship as mentor and protégé. The reputation of Ike Turner mirrored the violence of his childhood, during which his father, a Baptist minister, was murdered by the boyfriend of the minister's lover. He gave her the stage name of Little Ann.
King song and impressed Ike Turner so immediately and overwhelmingly that he asked her to perform regularly with them. Younger Anna Bullock watched and waited for weeks for a chance to get on stage with the band, and when she finally did, she sang a B.B. Ike Turner led the band, and Alline Bullock was dating the drummer. Louis, where the Kings of Rhythm were a hot band holding court at Club Manhattan. Reunited with the older sister she idolized, Turner began toĮxperience an awakening to the rhythm and blues of East St. Zelma brought them to live with her after her own mother, with whom Turner had been living in Tennessee, died. Louis when she ended a long separation from her daughters. In 1956 Zelma Bullock was divorced and living in St.
She also experienced her first lively, soulful church visit in the Sanctified Church, where self-expression was encouraged, unlike the constrained atmosphere of her grandparents' Baptist church back home. It was in a ladies' dress shop the saleswomen gave her quarters. The girls were allowed one visit in two years, and it was on this visit that Turner first sang for money. For a time during World War II, when Turner's parents were still married, they moved without their children to Knoxville where work was plentiful in the defense industry.
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