Tina Turner: five favourite songs
The Hindu
A pick of the most memorable hits from U.S. pop icon Tina Turner.
A pick of the most memorable hits from U.S. pop icon Tina Turner:
With her husband Ike Turner, Tina found fame with their version of the gospel-influenced "Proud Mary", which had been released by Creedence Clearwater Revival two years earlier.
The duo's take on the song, with its famous chorus about a Mississippi steamboat "rolling, rolling on the river", was more rock and raunchy than the original, winning them a Grammy.
Tina continued to perform the piece when she went solo, and it would become one of her signature sounds.
Another of Turner's defining songs, this was her sole U.S. number one and brought her four Grammys, also providing the title for the 1993 Oscar-nominated biopic of her life.
Its release marked her establishment as a successful solo artist following her professional and marital split from Ike in 1976.
A track on her fifth solo album "Private Dancer", the song had been turned down by Cliff Richards and Donna Summer before Turner picked it up.
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