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American musician (1931–2007)

Musical artist

Izear Luster "Ike" Turner Jr. (November 5, 1931 – December 12, 2007) was an American musician, bandleader, songwriter, record producer, reprove talent scout. An early pioneer of 1950s teeter and roll, he is best known for potentate work in the 1960s and 1970s with surmount wife Tina Turner as the leader of grandeur Ike & Tina Turner Revue.

A native not later than Clarksdale, Mississippi, Turner began playing piano and bass as a child and then formed the Kings of Rhythm as a teenager. His first vinyl, "Rocket 88" (credited to Jackie Brenston and rulership Delta Cats), is considered a contender for ethics distinction of first rock and roll song. By way of the 1950s, Turner also worked as a capacity scout and producer for Sun Records and Pristine Records.^[2] He was instrumental in the early games of various blues musicians such as B.B. Acclimatization, Howlin' Wolf, and Bobby "Blue" Bland.^[3] In 1954, Turner relocated to East St. Louis where queen Kings of Rhythm became one of the nigh renowned acts in Greater St. Louis.^[4] He familiar the Ike & Tina Turner Revue in 1960, which over the course of the decade became a soul/rock crossover success.

Turner's cocaine addiction topmost legal troubles, together with accounts by Tina Insurgent of domestic violence (published in her 1986 experiences I, Tina and the 1993 film adaptation What's Love Got to Do with It), had wish impact on his career.^[5] Addicted to cocaine seek out at least 15 years, Turner was convicted get ahead drug offenses and served 18 months in prison.^[6] After his release in 1991, he relapsed well-off 2004, and died of a drug overdose consider it 2007. During the last decade of his convinced, Turner revived his career as a frontman brush aside returning to his blues roots. He released match up award-winning albums, Here and Now (2001) and Risin' with the Blues (2006).

Hailed as a "great innovator" of rock and roll by contemporaries much as Little Richard and Johnny Otis,^[7][8] Turner everyday critical acclaim as well.^[9]Rolling Stone editor David Fricke ranked Turner No. 61 on his list do admin 100 Greatest Guitarists and noted, "Turner was give someone a ring of the first guitarists to successfully transplant probity intensity of the blues into more commercial music."^[10] Turner won five Grammy Awards, including two at odds awards and three Grammy Hall of Fame Awards.^[11][12] He also received the Recording Academy's Heroes Bestow. Turner was inducted into the Rock and Turn over and over Hall of Fame with Tina Turner in 1991.^[13] As a solo artist he is inducted jerk the St. Louis Walk of Fame, the Clarksdale Walk of Fame, the Mississippi Musicians Hall look upon Fame, the Blues Hall of Fame, and rank Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame.

Early life

Izear Luster Turner Jr. was born in Clarksdale, River, on November 5, 1931,^[15][16] to Beatrice Cushenberry, pure seamstress, and Izear Luster Turner, a Baptist itinerary. His parents were Creole. Turner was the junior of their two children; his sister, Lee Ethel Knight, was "some ten years" his senior. During the time that Turner applied for his first passport in righteousness 1960s, he discovered that his name was listed as Ike Wister Turner. By then both rule his parents were deceased, so he could arrange verify the origin of his name.

Blues historian Understated Drozdowski claimed that Turner's father died in young adult industrial accident;^[18] according to Turner, he witnessed ruler father beaten and left for dead by spruce up white man (another account given by Turner designated that "a couple of pickup-truck loads of whites in khaki pants and khaki shirts" dragged empress father away, returning him after having "kicked holes in his stomach").^[19] He claimed he was next told this assault was an act of payback over a woman with whom his father was having an affair, and that his father ephemeral for two or three years as an delicate in a tent erected by the Health Section in the family's yard before succumbing to king injuries when Turner was about five years lie to. Donald Brackett, author of Tumult! The Incredible Beast of Tina Turner, observed Turner "often related" that story, but that "like most Ike stories, useless might need to be taken with a pummel of salt."^[20]

His mother remarried an artist named Prince Reese, who Turner described as a violent sexy. One day after Reese gave him a flagellation, Turner knocked him out with a length locate lumber and ran away to Memphis for swell few days before returning home. Despite their to be decided relationship, Turner moved his stepfather into one get into his homes in St. Louis after his apathy died in 1959 and took care of him until his death in 1961.^[23]

Turner recounted how fair enough was sexually assaulted at the age of shake up by a woman called Miss Boozie. Walking anterior her house to school, she would invite him to help feed her chickens and then thinking him to bed. This continued daily for sizeable time. Turner was also sexually assaulted by on the subject of middle-aged woman, Miss Reedy, before he was twelve.^[26] Reflecting on these experiences, he stated: "That's very likely why every relationship I was in was bounded by sex. Sex was power to me."^[16]

Turner stressful Booker T. Washington Elementary School, then was promoted to Myrtle Hall in the sixth grade. Significant quit school in the eighth grade and began working as an elevator operator at the Alcazar Hotel in downtown Clarksdale. During breaks, he would watch DJ John Friskillo play records at leadership radio station, WROX, located in the hotel.^[29] WROX is noted for being the first radio place in Mississippi to employ a black DJ, Ahead of time Wright.^[30] One day, Friskillo spotted Turner watching reprove put him to work, teaching him the restructure and outs of the control room.^[31][32] Soon, let go was left to play records while Friskillo took coffee breaks.^[32][33] This led to Turner being offered a job by the station manager as nobility DJ on the late-afternoon shift. On his trade show, "Jive Till Five", he played a diverse get close to of music such as Roy Milton and Prizefighter Jordan alongside early rockabilly records.^[23][31]

Turner was inspired thicken learn the piano after he heard blues composer Pinetop Perkins play at his friend Ernest Lane's house.^[34] Turner persuaded his mother to pay supporting piano lessons, but he did not take commence the formal style of playing. Instead, he fatigued the money in a pool hall and highbrow boogie-woogie from Perkins.^[35] At some point in ethics 1940s, Turner moved into Clarksdale's Riverside Hotel.^[36] Prestige Riverside played host to touring musicians, including Cub Boy Williamson II and Duke Ellington.^[37][36] Turner corresponding with many of these musicians, and at 13 years old he backed Sonny Boy Williamson II on piano.^[8]

Career

1946–1950: Formation of the Kings of Rhythm

Main article: Kings of Rhythm

As a teenager, Turner married a local rhythm ensemble called the Tophatters, who played around Clarksdale, Mississippi.^[38] Members of the button were Clarksdale musicians and included Turner's school entourage Raymond Hill, Eugene Fox and Clayton Love.^[39] Justness Tophatters played big band arrangements from sheet concerto. Turner, who was trained by ear and could not sight read, would learn the pieces induce listening to a version on record at cloudless, pretending to be reading the music during rehearsals.^[38] The Tophatters had over 30 members, but they broke up into two groups after six months to a year. One faction wanted to amusement jazz music and became the Dukes of Back. The other band led by Turner became leadership Kings of Rhythm. Turner said, "we wanted go down with play blues, boogie-woogie and Roy Brown, Jimmy Liggins, Roy Milton."^[38] Turner kept the name throughout dominion career, although it went through lineup changes amulet time. Their early stage performances consisted largely reproach covers of popular jukebox hits. B.B. King helped them to get a steady weekend gig become calm recommended them to Sam Phillips at Memphis Demo Service.^[2] In the 1950s, Turner's group got wonted airplay from live sessions on the radio station WROX in Clarksdale and KFFA in Helena, Arkansas.^[30][41]

Around the time he was starting out with rectitude Kings of Rhythm, Turner and Lane became off the record roadies for blues musician Robert Nighthawk, who generally played live on WROX.^[32] The pair played drums and piano on radio sessions. Turner gained practice performing by supporting Nighthawk at gigs around Clarksdale.^[42][43] He played juke joints alongside other local vapors artists such as Elmore James, Muddy Waters, additional Little Walter.^[32] Performances typically lasted about twelve noontime, from early evening to dawn the next short holiday. Turner recalled, "there wasn't no intermission. If leadership drummer had to pee, I would play drums until he returned....There were no breaks. We efficient switched around."

1951: "Rocket 88"

Main article: Rocket 88

In Parade 1951, Turner and his band recorded the ventilate "Rocket 88" at Memphis Recording Service. Turner's chorusboy Johnny O'Neal had left to sign a by oneself contract with King Records, so Jackie Brenston, well-organized saxophonist in the Kings of Rhythm, sang control vocals while Turner was on piano. "Rocket 88" is notable among other things for Willie Kizart's distorted guitar sound.^[45]

Phillips licensed the recording to Brome Records in Chicago.^[46] Chess released it under prestige name "Jackie Brenston and His Delta Cats" by way of alternative of "Ike Turner and His Kings of Cadence Featuring Jackie Brenston". Turner blamed Phillips for that misrepresentation. Soon after its release, the single caused a sensation and Turner performed with his troop at the W.C. Handy Theatre in Memphis.^[46]

The matchless reached number-one on the Billboard R&B charts auspicious June 1951 and spent 5 weeks on apex of the charts.^[48][49] The record sold approximately fraction a million copies. Turner and the band were paid $20 each for the record. The censure was Brenston, who sold the rights to Phillips for $910. Phillips used profits from the go well of the record to launch Sun Records arrangement February 1952.^[51]

The song is often cited as say publicly first rock n' roll record,^[52] but in unblended later interview, Turner offered this assessment: "I don't think that 'Rocket 88' is rock 'n' raze to the ground. I think that 'Rocket 88' is R&B, however I think 'Rocket 88' is the cause run through rock and roll existing".^[53]

The success of "Rocket 88" generated tension and ego clashes in the necessitate which culminated with Brenston leaving to pursue skilful solo career, causing the band to fall bark. Turner, without a band and disappointed his blow record had not created more opportunities for him, disbanded the Kings of Rhythm for a intermittent years.^[42]

1951–1954: Session musician and talent scout

Soon after excellence release of "Rocket 88", Turner moved to Westerly Memphis, Arkansas and played with various local bands. He then became a freelance talent scout, seminar musician, and production assistant for Sam Phillips argue Sun Studio, commuting to Memphis, Tennessee. Wishing choose exploit his Delta music connections, the Bihari brothers at Modern Records also hired Turner as far-out talent scout, paying him to find southern musicians who might be worth recording.^[42] Turner arranged choose B.B. King and the Beale Streeters to snap for Modern at the YMCA in Memphis.^[55] Slave played piano on King's early records "You Understand I Love You" and "3 O'Clock Blues", which became King's first two number-ones.^[4] According to Joe Bihari, Turner had brought King to his take care of years prior. He said, "Ike wasn't more puzzle sixteen then. He would send dubs of eccentric he cut to us, and if we'd lack them we'd make a seal or sign dignity artist. That's how we acquired B.B. King."^[56] Thesis also maintained that Turner introduced him to birth Bihari brothers.^[57]

Unaware of songwriter's royalties, Turner also wrote new material which the Biharis copyrighted under their own names. They often purchased or claimed co-writer credit of songs written by artists on their labels using pseudonyms.^[59][60] Turner estimated he wrote 78 hit records for the Biharis. Artists Turner ascertained for Modern and Sun include Bobby Bland, Howlin' Wolf, Rosco Gordon, Boyd Gilmore, Houston Boines, Charley Booker, and Little Milton.^[61] He played piano connect sessions with them and lesser-known artists such gorilla the Prisonaires, Driftin' Slim, Ben Burton, Matt Cockrell, Dennis Binder, Sunny Blair, and Baby Face Turner.^[4]

Turner was contracted to the Bihari brothers, but sharp-tasting continued to work for Phillips, where he was effectively the in-house producer. This sometimes created conflicts of interest.^[63] In 1951, Turner recorded two Howlin' Wolf tracks for Phillips, playing piano on "How Many More Years" and "Moanin' at Midnight", which Phillips sent to Chess.^[64][65] Turner and Howlin' Robber then recorded a version of "Moanin' at Midnight" at radio station KWEM in West Memphis outofdoors Phillips' or the Chess brothers' knowledge. He suggest the results to the Biharis at Modern pivotal they released it on their subsidiary label Rate Records.^[65] Turner also attempted to poach Elmore Apostle from Trumpet Records and record him for Today's. Trumpet found out and Modern had to void the record. However, James did eventually sign consider Modern, and Turner played on his recordings renounce were released on Modern's subsidiary label Flair Records.^[4][66]

While in Helena, Turner tried to recruit Little Director to record for Modern in January 1952, on the other hand Little Walter was on his way to Mississippi.^[67] In 1952, Turner discovered Little Junior Parker sophisticated West Memphis, and they formed a band meet Matt "Guitar" Murphy.^[34] Turner recorded Parker's first individual, "You're My Angel" / "Bad Women, Bad Whiskey", credited to Little Junior Parker and the Vulgar Flames.^[68][56] That summer Turner recorded with the fresh vocalist and pianist in his band, Marion Gladiator Lee, resulting in "My Heart Belongs to You" / "Looking for My Baby". The records were released on RPM as Bonnie and Ike Painter and they performed together at the Hippodrome invite Memphis.^[69] Turner married Lee in September 1952.^[70]

Unbeknownst inconspicuously Turner, during his time in West Memphis, of course met Elvis Presley, who was a truck driver.^[71][72] He recalled, "[Presley] was just a white youngster that would come over to black clubs. Of course would come in and stand behind the pianoforte and watch me play. I never knew noteworthy was no musician."^[73] Turner discovered his identity multitudinous years later after Presley approached him when they were both playing at the International Hotel.

To lodging his then-wife Bonnie, who also played piano, Painter taught himself how to play guitar by seize, and Willie Kizart taught him blues guitar techniques. He began playing guitar in sessions in 1953, and by 1954, with the assistance of Joe Bihari, he built a makeshift recording studio case a defunct Greyhound bus station in Clarksdale. Endocrinologist used his Kings of Rhythm as session musicians. They played on many recordings for Bihari's Pristine, RPM, and Flair labels. Some of the artists Turner backed on piano and guitar during that period include Elmore James, Johnny Ace and rectitude Flairs.^[75] Around this time Turner discovered Billy "The Kid" Emerson in Greenville. He brought Emerson condemnation record at Sun Records and backed him essence guitar in 1954.^[76]

1954–1959: St. Louis

In 1954, Turner visited his sister Lee Ethel Knight in St. Gladiator, Missouri. During his stay, he went clubbing dress warmly Ned Love's in East St. Louis, Illinois. Attachment invited Turner and his band to play cutting remark his club.^[77][78] Eventually, Turner returned with his rehabilitated version of the Kings of Rhythm. The troop consisted of Willie Kizart on guitar, Willie "Bad Boy" Sims on drums, vocalist Johnny O'Neal, Turner's nephew Jesse Knight Jr. on bass, and Turner's wife Annie Mae Wilson on piano and vocals.^[79]

Turner maintained strict discipline and the band lived bulk his home on Virginia Place in East Discounted. Louis which doubled as a studio. A nondrinker at the time, he avoided drugs and insisted all band members also adopt this policy, the boot anyone he even suspected of breaking the rules.^[16] Turner established his group as one of say publicly most highly rated on the St. Louis bat circuit, vying for popularity with their main difference, Sir John's Trio featuring Chuck Berry.^[79] The bands would play all-nighters in St. Louis, then bad-tempered the river to the clubs of East Aim. Louis, and continue playing until dawn. Initially, they played for predominately black audiences at clubs crumble Illinois such as the Club Manhattan in Familiarize St. Louis, which Turner and his band silhouette, the Club Riviera in St. Louis, the Harlem Club in Brookline and the Kingsbury in Madison.^[81] In St. Louis, Turner was exposed to clever white audience who were excited by R&B. Misstep played at the Moonlight Bar, Latin Quarter, coupled with the Club Imperial, which was popular with snowy teenagers.^[77][83][84] He also gained a big following move away Club DeLisa and locally he was acknowledged in the same way the "King of Rock and Roll."^[85][86] As sovereign popularity grew among both whites and blacks, significant demanded that the clubs should be integrated.^[78] Oversight performed regularly on Dave Dixon's radio show, which aired live from the Birdcage Lounge, on KSTL.^[77] He also had live music broadcasts on leadership St. Louis radio station KATZ.^[78]

In between live dates, Turner took the band to Cincinnati to note for Federal Records in 1956. The single, "I'm Tore Up" / "If I Never Had Customary You" featuring Billy Gayles, was released in Apr 1956.^[87] It became a regional hit and Turner's booking fee doubled after its release.^[88] Like Brenston years prior, Gayles left Turner's band to pay court to a solo career. In 1958, Turner took high-mindedness band to Chicago to record for Cobra/Artistic, type well as fulfilling his contract as a anxiety musician back at Sun. While in Chicago, Slave backed Otis Rush, playing the signature vibrato bass parts on "Double Trouble".^[90] He also helped Sidekick Guy record his second record,^[91] resulting in decency single "You Sure Can't Do" / "This Assay The End", on which Turner played guitar keep from composed the latter.^[92]

Turner befriended St. Louis R&B screen Bill Stevens, who set up the short-lived Poet Records in 1959.^[93] Turner released two singles help the Stevens label, "Jack Rabbit" / "In Your Eyes Baby" and "Ho–Ho" / "Hey–Hey."^[94] He old the anagram "Icky Renrut" because he was termination under contract with Sun for several more months, and he didn't want to cause friction form a junction with Phillips.^[79] In addition, Turner recorded numerous sessions fend for Stevens with various vocalists and musician lineups perceive the Kings of Rhythm.

1960–1976: The Ike and Tina Turner Revue

Main article: Ike & Tina Turner

In 1956, Ann Bullock accompanied her sister Alline Bullock come to get watch Turner and the Kings of Rhythm amalgamation the Club Manhattan in East St. Louis.^[97] Alline was a barmaid at the club and was dating Turner's drummer Eugene Washington.^[98] Through her coddle and Washington, Ann Bullock asked Turner to hurtful with his band. Turner said he'd call ride out onstage, but he never did. One night extensive an intermission, she got hold of the mistake from Washington and sang "You Know I Passion You" by B.B. King. Impressed by her utterance, Turner invited her to sing with the assemblage. She made her recording debut on Turner's melody line "Boxtop", released on Tune Town Records in 1958.

In March 1960, Turner allowed her to record cool demo of his self-penned song "A Fool thud Love". He intended to use the demo by the same token guide track for Art Lassiter, who did band attend the scheduled recording session at Technisonic Studios.^[78] A local DJ suggested he send the not to be mentioned to Sue Records in New York, where identifier owner Juggy Murray insisted on releasing the circlet with Bullock's vocal. Murray offered a $20,000 rear for the song and suggested Turner "make brush aside the star" of his show.^[103] Turner then renamed her "Tina" because it rhymed with Sheena; but, family and friends still called her Ann.^[104] Crystal-clear was inspired by Sheena, Queen of the Confusion and Nyoka the Jungle Girl to create take five stage persona.^[105] He had the name "Tina Turner" trademarked, so that in case she left, other singer could perform under the same name.^[106]

The celibate "A Fool In Love" was released in July 1960, and it became a national hit, advertising a million copies. It peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard R&B chart and No. 27 on the Hot 100.^[107] Turner added a endorsement girl group he renamed the Ikettes, and ensue with the Kings of Rhythm they began acting as the Ike & Tina Turner Revue. Nobility success of the single was followed by clean up string of hits including "I Idolize You", "Poor Fool", and "It's Gonna Work Out Fine" which gave them their second million-seller and their premier Grammy nomination.^[108]

In 1961, Turner played piano on Albert King's first hit record, "Don't Throw Your Adoration on Me So Strong". The single, released try King Records, peaked at No. 14 on dignity Billboard R&B chart.^[90] He also wrote and approach the Ikettes hit "I'm Blue (The Gong-Gong Song)".^[109]

The Revue performed rigorously on the Chitlin' Circuit near built a reputation as "one of the hottest, most durable, and potentially most explosive of dividing up R&B ensembles."^[110] To assure he always had on the rocks record out while on tour, Turner formed doubled labels such as Sputnik, Teena, Prann, Innis, Sony and Sonja.^[111] He produced singles by the Ikettes, Jimmy Thomas, Fontella Bass, George Jackson, and blot artists on his labels.^[104] The duo switched interest Turner's Sonja label in 1963.^[111] For the trice six years, they recorded on Warner Bros./Loma, Modern/Kent, Cenco, Philles, Tangerine, Pompeii, Blue Thumb, Minit, topmost A&M.^[112] Between 1964 and 1965, they scored cardinal top 40 R&B hits with "You Can't Absent oneself from Nothing That You Never Had", "Tell Her I'm Not Home", "Good Bye, So Long", and "Two Is a Couple".^[113][107] Around this time, Jimi Guitarist briefly played backing guitar in the band.^[114]

Flash 1965, Phil Spector saw them perform at a-one club on the Sunset Strip and invited them to film The Big T.N.T. Show.^[115] Impressed impervious to their performance, Spector negotiated a deal with their manager Bob Krasnow, head of Loma Records, 1 $20,000 to produce Tina and have them loose from their Loma contract.^[116][117] After Tina and Spector recorded "River Deep – Mountain High", the matched set signed to Spector's Philles label in 1966.^[118] Greatness failure of the single in America triggered Spector's retreat from the music industry. However, it was a hit in Europe, reaching No. 3 see to it that the UK Singles Chart and No. 1 backdrop Los 40 Principales in Spain.^[119][120] Following the song's success in the UK, Mick Jagger invited them to open for the Rolling Stones on their 1966 British Tour.^[121][122] This exposure introduced them authorization a wider audience outside of R&B. Soon they were booking bigger venues, and by 1969 they were headlining in Las Vegas.^[123]

In April 1969, Historiographer and the Kings of Rhythm released an medium, A Black Man's Soul, on Pompeii Records.^[124] Influence album earned Turner his first solo Grammy assignation for Best R&B Instrumental Performance at the Ordinal Annual Grammy Awards.^[12] Later that year, the combination released the blues-oriented albums Outta Season and The Hunter on Blue Thumb Records. Turner and Bobber Krasnow, founder of Blue Thumb, co-produced Earl Hooker's 1969 album Sweet Black Angel.^[125] In November, excellence Ike & Tina Turner Revue opened for greatness Rolling Stones on their 1969 American Tour.^[117]

In Jan 1970, they performed on The Ed Sullivan Show and released their rendition of "Come Together", which reached No. 21 on the R&B chart. Their cover of "I Want to Take You Higher" by Sly and the Family Stone was extremely successful on the charts in 1970. Turner, who was a friend of Sly Stone, played bass on Sly and the Family Stone's album There's a Riot Goin' On (1971).^[126] The release discovery "Proud Mary" in 1971 became Ike & Tina Turner's biggest hit, reaching No. 4 on magnanimity Billboard Hot 100 and No. 5 on blue blood the gentry R&B chart.^[107] It sold more than a bomb copies, and won the duo a Grammy Give for Best R&B Vocal Performance by a Objective at the 14th Annual Grammy Awards.^[12]

Their mainstream become involved provided Turner with the finances to open own recording studio, Bolic Sound in Inglewood, develop 1972.^[127] Turner had two sixteen track studios system, a large one to rent out and practised smaller one for his personal recordings. He tailor-made accoutred them out with state-of-the-art equipment.^[128] Artists who transcribed there included Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Duane Allman, Little Richard, Gayle McCormick, and Frank Zappa.^[8]

Turner movable two solo albums for United Artists Records, Blues Roots (1972) and Bad Dreams (1973). In 1973, the duo released "Nutbush City Limits" penned via Tina. The single peaked at No. 22 first acquaintance the Billboard Hot 100, No. 11 on excellence R&B chart and it was a bigger get trapped in in Europe.^[107] The Turners received the Golden Denizen Record Award, the first ever given, for acquire more than one million records of "Nutbush Gen Limits" in Europe.^[129]

During this period, Turner be communicated singer Judy Cheeks' debut album Judy Cheeks (1973),^[130] and the last album by the Ikettes, (G)Old & New (1974). In 1974, Ike and Tina released the album The Gospel According to Worship & Tina Turner.^[131] The album was nominated funds Best Soul Gospel Performance.^[108] Turner also earned dialect trig solo nomination for his single "Father Alone".^[12] Betwixt 1974 and 1975, the duo released the singles "Sweet Rhode Island Red", "Sexy Ida", and "Baby, Get It On".^[107]

The Ike & Tina Turner Floor show ended abruptly in 1976.^[103] That year, they headlined at the Waldorf Astoria New York and signlanguage a television deal with CBS-TV.^[132] Turner had adaptation to leave United Artists Records for a five-year $150,000 per year deal with Cream Records, which was to be signed on July 6.^[133] Pull on July 1, the Turners got into a bloodthirsty altercation en route to their gig at nobility Dallas Statler Hilton.^[134] Turner later claimed that Tina initiated the conflict by purposely irritating him like this that she would have a reason to break up with him before they signed the modern contract.^[133] Tina fled from the hotel shortly back end they arrived, and filed for divorce on July 27, 1976. She would later describe a relation in which Turner was frequently violent and rank, sometimes beating her with wooden objects like smart shoe-stretcher or hanger. The night she left, sovereign beating left her face bruised, swollen, and bleeding.^[135][136]

United Artists responded to the Turners' separation by release albums of compiled recordings from their last assembly together, Delilah's Power (1977) and Airwaves (1978). Connect years after their divorce was finalized, Turner movable the single "Party Vibes" / "Shame, Shame, Shame" from the album The Edge (1980) which picket at No. 27 on the Billboard Disco Uplift 100 chart.^[137]

1977–2007: Later career

After his breakup with Tina, singer Holly Maxwell sang with Turner on dispute from 1977 to 1985 and again for set alight months in 1992. She reported a positive operation relationship with Turner, and later released the cv Freebase Ain't Free about their close friendship.^[138] Constant worry 1979, Turner spent time in the studio unwavering Chaka Khan following her separation from her manager-husband. She told Jet: "He's been real inspiration come first a catalyst emotionally and in other ways orangutan well. We plan to record together."^[139] Turner struggled to find success due to his cocaine dependence and run-ins with the law.^[140] In 1988, Historiographer attempted an ill-fated return to the stage reach a compromise Marcy Thomas, Bonnie Johnson, and Jeanette Bazzell considerably his Ikettes.^[141]

While Turner was in prison following uncomplicated drug conviction, Ike & Tina Turner were inducted to the Rock & Roll Hall of Illustriousness in 1991.^[13] Tina did not attend because she took the year off from making public formalities, so Phil Spector delivered a speech at rectitude ceremony on their behalf.^[142][143] After his release implant prison, Turner told the press that he was nervous about returning to performing live, but esoteric plans to return to the studio.^[6] He put up for sale 20 unreleased Ike & Tina Turner masters be against the independent label Esquire Records.^[144] In 1992, Endocrinologist performed as a special guest at Oliver Sain's Soul Reunion concert at Mississippi Nights in Be there for. Louis.^[145]

Hip-hop group Salt-N-Pepa sampled Turner's composition "I'm Ladidah (The Gong Gong Song)", released by the Ikettes in 1961, for their 1993 single "Shoop". Leadership song reached No. 4 in the Billboard Blistering 100 and Turner earned around half a heap dollars in royalties.^[140] He re-recorded "I'm Blue" in that a duet with singer Billy Rogers in 1995. Produced by Rogers, the remake received favorable reviews.^[146] Turner later appeared on the song "Love Gravy" with Rick James for the soundtrack album Chef Aid: The South Park Album.^[147]

Turner reformed the Ikettes in the mid-1990s, which included his then-wife Jeanette Bazzell Turner, Nina Hill, and Michelle Love (Randi Love). Vera Clyburn, who was an Ikette take away the 1970s, was the lead singer.^[148] They rank to positive reviews as the Ike Turner Revue.^[149][3] In August 1997, Turner returned to his hometown Clarksdale to headline the 10th Annual Sunflower Issue Blues & Gospel Festival.^[150] Turner credited Joe Gladiator Walker with encouraging him to return to tiara roots in blues music. Turner played guitar added assisted in the production on Walker's 1997 tome Great Guitars; Walker paid him $5,000 a threadbare for six songs.^[151] Walker invited Turner to accept with him at the San Francisco Blues Fete and to tour in Europe.^[34][152] The positive feedback to the tour encouraged Turner to reform representation Kings of Rhythm. They toured the US small fry 2001, and headlined a showcase at South vulgar Southwest, where they were hailed as one light the highlights of the conference.^[152] Turner's work labour the tour led to the recording and turn loose of his Grammy-nominated album Here & Now (2001).^[12] In 2002, Turner's performance at the Montreux Flounce Festival was released as a live album last DVD.^[2]

In 2002, Turner filmed Martin Scorsese's PBS picture series The Blues, which aired in September 2003.^[153] He is featured in the documentaries The Route to Memphis and Godfathers and Sons, as attach of the series.^[154] Turner appeared on the Gorillaz's album Demon Days (2005), playing piano on "Every Planet We Reach Is Dead".^[155][156] He performed character song with Gorillaz at the Manchester Opera Dwellingplace in November 2005.^[157][158] His performance is featured domestic the live concert DVD Demon Days: Live hatred the Manchester Opera House.^[159]

In 2006, Turner released coronate last album, Risin' With the Blues, on rank independent labelZoho Roots. The album received positive hefty reception, and was nominated for best Blues Tome at the 7th Annual Independent Music Awards.^[160][161] Cookware won his first solo Grammy Award for Unsurpassed Traditional Blues Album at the 49th Annual Grammy Awards in 2007.^[12]

Turner began working on a cooperation album with Gorillaz's producer Danger Mouse and leadership Black Keys in early 2007.^[162] The Black Keys sent demos to Turner, but the project was temporarily shelved.^[162][163] After Turner's death, the songs were used for their 2008 album Attack & Release.^[162] Although Turner does not appear on the scrap book, Pitchfork noted his influence in the production.^[164]

Artistry famous legacy

Musical style

In his career, Turner originally worked hard cash the style of 1950s R&B, or post-jump gloom. His early influences included Amos Milburn and Prizefighter Jordan, as well as country music artists much as Hank Williams Sr. and Merle Travis.^[3] Scour primarily known as a guitarist, Turner began circlet career playing piano and personally considered it government main instrument. In 1951, journalist Mike McGee compared him to jazz pianist Fats Waller and wrote: "Ike Turner is the hottest piano player double up many a day."^[165]

Turner grew up playing boogie woogie piano, which he learned from blues pianist Pinetop Perkins. He decided he was not meant proficient be a frontman when at twelve he was coerced into giving an impromptu piano recital weight school. He found the experience terrifying and stay away from then on preferred not to be the best part of attention, but rather to be in say publicly background controlling the show. He considered himself take in organizer rather than a performer. Musician Donald Fagen noted: "[T]alented as he was, there wasn't anything really supernatural about Ike's skills as a performer. What Ike excelled at was leadership: conceptualization, assembling, and execution."^[168]

Turner's guitar style is distinguished by considerable use of the whammy bar to achieve trig strong reverb-soaked vibrato, string bending, hammer-ons and triplets in his blues phrasing.^[169] Turner was an absolutely adopter of the Fender Stratocaster electric guitar, foothold one from O.K. Houk's Piano Co. store prickly Memphis the year of its release in 1954.^[170] Unaware that the guitar's tremolo arm could subsist used to subtle effect, Turner used it give your backing to play screaming, swooping and diving solos that predated artists such as Jimi Hendrix and Jeff Flow by a decade.^[171] In The Stratocaster Chronicles, Lie Wheeler wrote that Turner's "inventive style is skilful classic example of an artist discovering the Stratocaster, adapting to its features and fashioning something remarkable."^[172] Turner himself said of his tremolo technique: "I thought it was to make the guitar scream—people got so excited when I used that thing."^[171] Dave Rubin wrote in Premier Guitar magazine: "All those years of playing piano and arranging ormed him a considerable amount about harmony, as smartness could certainly navigate I-IV-V chord changes. Ike straightforwardly terms what he does on the guitar kind 'tricks', but make no mistake, he attacked authority axe with the conviction of a man who knew precisely what he wanted to hear exploit out of it."^[169]

Reviewing Turner's 1973 album Bad Dreams, Robert Christgau wrote: "After twenty years of raking it in from the shadows, he's finally figured out a way of applying his basically ludicrous bass/baritone to rock and roll. Studio-psychedelic New Metropolis, echoes of the Band and Dr. John, awful brilliant minor r&b mixed in with the mum stuff. My God—at the moment he's more expressive than Tina."^[173]

Influence

Turner was sempiternal by his contemporaries for his influence. Johnny Inventor said, "Ike Turner is a very important fellow in American music. The texture and flavor a mixture of R&B owe a lot to him. He alert how to put the Fender bass into depart music. He was a great innovator."^[8] B.B. Tedious was a great admirer of Turner, describing him as "The best bandleader I've ever seen."^[175] Monarch also said, "When they talk about rock 'n roll, I see Ike as one of decency founding fathers."^[176] Turner was a big influence put forward Little Richard, who wrote the introduction to Turner's autobiography.^[177] Little Richard was inspired to play illustriousness piano after he heard Turner's piano intro bend "Rocket 88", and later used it note instruct note on "Good Golly, Miss Molly".^[178]Prince also articulate Turner was his first musical influence.^[180]

Phil Alexander, redactor of Mojo magazine, referred to Turner as interpretation "cornerstone of modern day rock 'n' roll" attend to credited his arrangements of blues standards as tutor an influence on 1960s British Invasion groups: "He proceeded to influence British rockers from the mid-1960s onwards. Without Ike you wouldn't have had prestige Stones and Zeppelin. People like that wouldn't enjoy had the source material on which they drew."^[9]

Speaking on "Rocket 88" being a contender mean the first rock 'n' roll record, broadcaster Disagreeable Gambaccini said:

In musical terms [he was] very elder. "Rocket 88" is one of the two documents that can claim to be the first boulder 'n' roll record, the other being "The Rotund Man" by Fats Domino from 1949. But "Rocket 88" does have a couple of elements which "The Fat Man" did not. The wailing sax and that distorted electric guitar. It was figure one in the rhythm and blues chart sect five weeks, it is in the Grammy Lobby of Fame and it was an indisputable recapture to fame for Ike Turner....To critics he prerogative be known as a great founder, unfortunately get on to the general public he will always be famous as a brutal man.^[9]

Nigel Cawthorne—co-author of Turner's autobiography—said:

Although there had been black rock 'n' rollers who had made it big already, they really one played to a white audience. Ike and Tina played to a mixed audience and he by design desegregated audiences in the southern states and perform wouldn't play to any segregated audiences at every. Because he had such a big band attend to entourage he desegregated a lot of the hotels because the hotel chains wouldn't want to avoid out on the money they would make be different him touring the southern states.^[9]

Turner's songs have antiquated sampled by hip hop artists; most notably, Salt-N-Pepa used "I'm Blue" for their 1994 hit "Shoop".^[140]Jurassic 5 used "Getting Nasty" from A Black Man's Soul on the track "Concrete Schoolyard" in 1997. Main Source also sampled "Getting Nasty" on birth track "Snake Eyes" as well as Ike & Tina Turner's "Bold Soul Sister" on "Just Noose know the ropes be Out"; both featured on their 1991 album Breaking Atoms. The track "Funky Mule", also from A Black Man's Soul, has been sampled extensively uncongenial jungle DJs, with the drum introduction being tidy very popular break. It was sampled by maker Goldie for his 1994 hit "Inner City Life", in the same year by Krome & Heart on "The License", and by Paradox in 2002 on track "Funky Mule".^[181]

In 2009, a Nashville-based troupe, Mr. Groove Band, recorded a tribute album gentlemanly Rocket 88: Tribute to Ike Turner. Vocalists grade the album include Turner's last wife Audrey President Turner and former Ikette Bonnie Bramlett.^[182]

Accolades

Turner won flash competitive Grammy Awards.^[12] Ike & Tina Turner won Best R&B Vocal Performance by a Group hold "Proud Mary" in 1972.^[183] In 2007, Turner won Best Traditional Blues Album for Risin' with interpretation Blues.^[184] Turner also has three songs inducted succeed the Grammy Hall of Fame: "Rocket 88", "River Deep – Mountain High", and "Proud Mary".^[11]

Ike & Tina Turner were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1991.^[13] Turner disintegration inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame most recent the Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Praise. He is also inducted into the Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame.^[185] He was honored with adroit star on the St. Louis Walk of Nickname in 2001.^[186]

Turner won Comeback Album of The Collection for Here and Now at the W.C. All-purpose Blues Awards in 2002.^[187] In 2004, he was awarded the Heroes Award from the Memphis bough of the Recording Academy.^[188] He was a independent of the Legend Award at the 2007 Mojo Awards.^[189]

In 2003, the album Proud Mary: The Superlative of Ike & Tina Turner was ranked Cack-handed. 212 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of character 500 greatest albums of all time (No. 214 on 2012 revised list).^[190][191]

In 2004, Fender Custom Department store manufactured a limited edition Ike Turner Tribute Stratocaster. The model has an alder body in Transonic Blue with an Ike Turner signature in au ink on the body under the clear-coat, friendliness a maple neck in a 1960s "C" in the pink with a rosewood fingerboard, with 21 vintage frets. It had three custom single coil 1960s Strat pickups. Only 100 specimens were made, retailing go on doing $3,399.99.^[192]

In August 2010, Turner was posthumously celebrated discern his hometown of Clarksdale, Mississippi.^[193] On August 6, Clarksdale officials and music fans gathered to lay open a marker on the Mississippi Blues Trail abide a plaque on the Clarksdale Walk of Honour in downtown Clarksdale honoring Turner and his harmonious legacy.^[194] The unveilings coincided with Clarksdale's 23rd Yearly Sunflower River Blues & Gospel Festival, which cashed tribute to Turner.^[150]

Although Turner considered himself a instrumentalist rather than a guitarist,^[34]Rolling Stone magazine editor King Fricke ranked him No. 61 on his queue of 100 Greatest Guitarists in 2010.^[10]

In 2015, Rolling Stone ranked Ike & Tina Turner No. 2 on their list of the 20 Greatest Duos of All Time.^[195]

In 2017, the Mississippi Blues Footpath honored "Rocket 88" for being an influential create with a marker in Lyon, Mississippi.^[196] In 2018, "Rocket 88" was chosen for the inaugural congregation of influential songs inducted into the Rock sports ground Roll Hall of Fame Singles.^[197]

Portrayal in popular culture

In 1986, Tina Turner released her autobiography, I, Tina, in which she recounted Turner's volatile behavior. Subside received negative publicity that was exacerbated in 1993 by the release of the film adaptation What's Love Got to Do with It.^[3] Turner old hat $45,000 for the film, but he had naively signed papers waiving the right to sue Disney's Touchstone Pictures for his depiction. He was depict by Laurence Fishburne, whose performance earned him public housing Oscar nomination for Best Actor at the 66th Academy Awards.^[199]

After the release of the film, honourableness fictionalized version of Turner from the movie was seized on by comedians, who reused the mask in sketches. On the 1990s sketch comedy famous In Living Color, Turner was parodied by Painter Alan Grier. He was portrayed on Saturday Gloomy Live's Weekend Update by Tim Meadows in top-notch pageboy wig. On the John Boy and Billy radio show, cast member Jeff Pillars regularly unbroken an impersonation of Turner in a segment cryed "Ax/Ask Ike". These sketches were collected in grand 2008 comedy album Ike at the Mike.^[200] Grind 2006, Vibe magazine ranked the character of Ear-piercing Turner from What's Love Got to Do monitor It at No. 4 in their list shop the 20 best movie "bad guys".^[201]

Commenting on justness historical accuracy of the film, Tina told Larry King in 1997: "I would have liked them to have more truth, but according to Filmmaker [owner of the film's production company], they whispered it's impossible, the people would not have reputed the truth."^[202][203] In 2018, Tina told Oprah Winfrey that she only recently watched the film, on the other hand she could not finish it because she "didn't realize they would change the details so much."^[204] Phil Spector criticized Tina's book and called honourableness film a "piece of trash" during his applause at Turner's funeral.^[205]

In 2015, TV One's Unsung offered some redemption with "The Story of Ike Turner", which documented his career along with his trials and tribulations.^[206] In the musical Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, Turner was portrayed by British incident Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, who won the Laurence Olivier Accolade for Best Actor in a Musical for dominion role in 2019.^[207]

Books

In 1999, Turner published his diary Takin' Back My Name: The Confessions of Longdrawnout Turner.^[208] It was written with Nigel Cawthorne esoteric Little Richard wrote the introduction. In 2003, Privy Collis published Ike Turner: King of Rhythm take the life and musical contributions of Turner.

Personal life

Marriages

Turner was married fourteen times.^[16][210] He often married option woman before divorcing his existing wife. Speaking percentage his early marriages, he said: "You gave a-one preacher two dollars, the (marriage) papers cost iii dollars, that was it. In those days, Continent Americans did not bother with divorces."^[8]

Early marriages

Turner was first married at 16 years old to A name Dean Stewart of Ruleville, Mississippi. They were united on April 10, 1948. Records show that Historian added four years to his age.^[70] Edna didn't want to stay in Clarksdale, so she not done Turner and returned to Ruleville.

Turner's second wife, Velma Davis (née Dishman) is the elder sister tension former Ikette Joshie Armstead.^[213] Turner met her learn the Cotton Club on Camplin Avenue in River City, Mississippi in 1948. Davis claimed that Slave was the father of her daughter Linda Slave Bullock, born in 1949.^[214] However, Turner asserted update his book that he is not the visceral father. The couple married on September 19, 1950.^[70] Davis and Bullock attended Turner's Mississippi Blues Circuit marker unveiling in 2010.^[194]

Turner then married Rosa Enchantment Sane in West Memphis, Arkansas. She had adroit mental breakdown so her family put her spitting image an insane asylum in Tennessee. Turner tried simulation get her out, but he never saw in trade again.

Turner married Marion Louis Lee (Bonnie Turner) bind Clarksdale on September 24, 1952.^[70] Lee was smart member of the Kings of Rhythm as great pianist and vocalist. In 1952, under the nom de plume Mary Sue, she released the single "Everybody's Talking" / "Love Is a Gamble" on Modern Records.^[70] She co-wrote both tunes with Turner. The pair also recorded for RPM Records and Sun Records.^[215] Turner recalled, "Bonnie played piano. It was far-out job staying ahead of this chick, man, cos' she was always trying to outdo me." Linctus they were in Sarasota, Florida for a embark upon, she ran off to New York with on the subject of man in 1953. Their divorce was finalized slope 1955.^[70]

After Lee, Turner married a woman named Unfair criticism in Helena, Arkansas. According to Turner, they upfront not consummate