Tina Turner on her love story

It's Sunday morning on CBS here again is Mo Rocca, the song that the 1984 private dancer helped make a Tina Turner legend whose life

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is told in the London musical Tina coming to Broadway this October and it turns out that singing It's just one of his talents. That's Gayle King from CBS this morning I learned firsthand or should I say foot you did what to do what to do what to do the phone when Tina Turner, 79, offers a dance lesson three one you join the class what does the

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That voice and those moods gave Tina Turner a five-decade career as one of rock music's biggest stars. She sold more than 200 million records as a result of the suffering and triumphs of her life off the stage. in the Oscar-nominated film What's Love Have to See with It has endeared her to millions of people, Zurich Turner is now a citizen of Switzerland, so we met her there to talk about her latest memoir, a book she admits she had to be convinced to write it. I said, "Okay, I'll do the book because there's still a lot to say," yeah, so we started working on it and it was a little boring because you're always talking about yourself and what you did, Tina, stop it, there's nothing boring.

On it. For me, there is nothing boring about Tina Turner and I love the title of the book My Love Story because it really is a love

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. In the book, the plot thickens when in 1986 Turner meets a young German record executive, Erwin Bach, she was 46 years old. he was 30, there's a great story in the book, you're at a dinner party and it's a very cheeky move on your part, go ahead and share it, Tina, what did you say? So I told Evan when you get to California, I want you to make love. me because I did it but you know who says that to someone you told them they would feel no, you won't understand it any other way but that's what I wanted they fell in love and finally got married six years ago it was the first time I got married as far as I'm concerned when you say it's the first time you felt like you've been married, why when he asked me to marry him I knew it was for a reason but I had to say yes, I knew it was going to be. a fight and then when we drove to get married, that wasn't my idea of ​​my wedding, that first wedding and that first husband, Ike Turner, are still things that Tina Turner is trying to reconcile and you spend time in the book thinking about why that.

Do you think you found yourself thinking about him, someone who caused you so much pain? I get excited about certain conversations mmm I get excited because at first Ike was very good to me Tina was born Anna Mae Bullock in Nutbush Tennessee a tomboy, she says of a broken home when she first saw Ike Turner, a popular singer on a street in St. Louis nightclub their reaction was mixed. I thought he was the ugliest person I had ever seen in my life. I had never seen anyone so skinny but he had presence and then I washed him and he got on stage and started.

I thought oh wow, I want to do it. Singing with that man soon got her chance, but when a song she recorded with Ike caught the attention of a label executive, that was the end of Anna Mae, having just returned home from the record company, she said he was the record, when I told him who Tina is. is it you Tina and you said your name is Tina Turner yeah he says you're Tina and I said Tina Tina Turner it was very hard to say at first that's when he took over the money, the name, all the control, Ike and La magazine Tina Turner became one of the most successful acts of the late '60s.

Tina says she faced competition from other big singers, but I was the only one who danced and I remember Lily Richard saying that Tina dances, you know, It is difficult for us to compete with her. because she always did the turn that she always danced and said when she did it, but you also had that voice and I had the strange boys that most singers didn't have, how does your voice sound deep to you and does it even become more deep? I like your voice to know Do you think you have a good voice? Know? Not at first.

I thought it was a bit ugly because it didn't sound like Diana Ross, but then I thought yeah, it sounds like the boys. But this duo's success came at a high price, she says. Yo Turner abused her constantly. What caught my attention was that he was so cruel. It was cruel because it depended on me. She didn't like that she had to depend on me. and I didn't want to start a fight because, like always, a black eye, a broken nose, a busted lip, a rib, but Tina got to the point where finally, if you decided to fight something you'd never done before, and when I say Fight back, I mean physically, fight back.

I felt like she had had enough. Now it's time to walk out the door. I had nothing. I had absolutely nothing. I've had this Ike and Tina career and now you're Tina Turner. Are you thinking that you are going to be successful like Tina Turner at the age of around 40? I didn't think about singing in the first place. I was thinking about where I was going to lay my head, so to speak, so I was just enjoying the freedom of not being in that environment. Tina was playing in hotels and casinos and caught the attention of a young Australian producer, Roger Davies, when she heard a demo of a song he proposed, she turned up her nose the day of Roger's recording, Tina said, I think the song goes to be successful, so I said, okay, I can sing it, that's all, but I don't like it very much, so I went to the studio and applied my boys compared to girls that UT needed I Tina made it obvious at 44 years old Tina Turner had her first number one single and would go on to fill albums with hit music and stadiums with fans around the world in 2007 on her final tour. she plane screamed I took a deep breath and said it's over I really felt like she had turned off and I was glad and went home, even though people miss you Tina, it's okay, we can watch the video.

I tell you when I see the videos. Jump and move, enjoy them, but I'm done. The years since her retirement have tested Tina Turner in new ways. Her son Craig took his own life last July. I think Craig was lonely. That's what I think really got him more than anything else. Photos everywhere of him smiling and I think I'm feeling like he's in a good place. I really believe it. She has suffered a stroke, intes

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l cancer and kidney failure when she needed a new kidney. Her husband Irwin offered him one of hers and I said yes.

Honey, you're young and I'm old and I don't care, in Buddhism they teach you that you know you live and you die, and it's accepted, so after Urban said that, I said, "Okay, honey, if it's you". you're willing to give up a kidney and then okay, is there anything you want in life right now while you're sitting here, Tina Turner, that you don't have? No, I have it all when I sit on Lake Zurich in the house I have. so serene without problems I had a very hard life that I did not blame anything or anyone I overcame it I lived it without guilt here it is for you and I am a happy person here it is for you you earned it