Rockers Who Collaborated With Tina Turner

The music world took an enormous hit when the information broke that legendary singer Tina Turner died on the age of 83 on May 24.

Hailed “The Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll,” a bunch of artists took to social media to pay their respects to Turner, together with members of The Rolling Stones, Black Sabbath’s Geezer Butler, Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan and extra (see the tributes right here). Thus, we wished to look again on Turner’s profession and clarify why her affect was so profound, and the way it helped pave the best way for girls in rock ‘n’ roll.

Turner first started singing with Ike Turner within the late ’50s, making their debut as a duo — Ike & Tina Turner — in 1960. They launched a few hits all through the primary half of the last decade that caught the eye of The Rolling Stones, and so they have been invited to open for the rockers throughout their U.Okay. tour in 1966, in addition to their U.S. tour three years later. By the top of the ’60s, Ike & Tina Turner recorded a few covers of songs by The Beatles, the Stones and Creedence Clearwater Revival for the 1970 albums Come Together and Workin’ Together.

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Tina and Ike Turner finally parted methods, however Tina launched a profitable solo profession, which earned her 12 totally different Grammy Awards through the years. She had the possibility to work with The Who, David Bowie, Eric Clapton and fairly a couple of different massive rockers, so scroll by means of the gallery under to examine extra of her rock ‘n’ roll collaborations. Some have been reside performances and others have been studio releases — regardless, all of them have been unforgettable. Most of the knowledge for the gallery was pulled from the web site The World of Tina.