Nice and rough
One thing I left behind the last time I moved was a very old Tina Turner poster. (How old? It was a promotional poster for a video, which was available in Beta, fercrissake.) It was tucked away on the inside of a closet door, which may explain why I forgot to bring it with me to the palatial estate at Surlywood: simple brain fart.
After her 2000 tour, after which she was supposedly going to pack it in, Tina had said:
It’s time to hang up my dancing shoes. I can’t sing without jumping around and it’s getting harder. I’m happy I can do it one last time so people can remember me at my best rather than as a caricature.
Oh, she can still jump around. This particular shot came from a performance in Germany in January 2009, kicking off the European portion of her 50th Anniversary (!) tour, at which time she was sixty-nine years old and still manifestly poster-worthy.
A caricature? Never. This is Tina. This is the only woman on earth who could cover both Elton John’s “The Bitch Is Back” and Dan Hill’s “Sometimes When We Touch” — on the same album.
McGehee »
23 October 2009 · 8:53 pm
When I picture Tina, it’s always as she looked in the video for “What’s Love Got to Do With It?”
And it’s a moving picture. Heh.
Kay Dennison »
23 October 2009 · 8:54 pm
Hallelujah and Amen!!!!! The lady is still utterly fabulous!!!
Lisa Paul »
23 October 2009 · 9:36 pm
Tina is amazing. I saw her as part of that “farewell tour”. She had three sets of back up singers/dancers — all in their twenties. She rotated in a new crew every half hour. She danced the entire time without an intermission. In the highest heels. I imagined those youngsters backstage saying, “Gotta quit after this tour. Lady’s gonna kill me.”
Brett »
23 October 2009 · 11:56 pm
I remember when MTV VJ JJ Jackson would promo her upcoming clips by calling her “The burner, Tina Turner” and would get a kind of twinkle in his eye, probably because she was not only hot, she was about the only person played on MTV in his age range (She was born two years before he was).
Jim - PRS »
24 October 2009 · 4:20 pm
Smokin’ Hot at 69.
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