Amanda, this article is great, wonderful, terrific, insightful and incisive, all of that. Thank you so much. I saw Ike and Tina Turner in South Bend, Indiana, in an unremembered auditorium sometime in the 1960s. (At least I remember where I was at the time.) Tina in her red dress is the dominant memory, over and above the energy in the music.
Dear Amanda, Thank you for this. I've been playing Private Dancer on a loop for days. And I cannot stop singing and playing "River Deep Mountain High." I was born in 1971 and that album was my tween high - my girlfriends and I played the crap out of it. I especially dug "Better Be Good to Me." I just did a performance of that song with lip sync and cowbell in the kitchen this morning while making eggs.
My mom, born in 1947, was a single, working mom. We had a tough life. Music saved my soul, every time.
I wanted to share with you a podcast I just did honoring Tina, astrologically. Here's the Substack and link to the episode:
Thank you for sharing such a personal and heartfelt tribute. Definitely takes me back to the age of being raised by MTV. I always imagine the videos when I think of the songs, and Tina's work was always artistic and compelling. What an artist, what a life!
Amanda, this article is great, wonderful, terrific, insightful and incisive, all of that. Thank you so much. I saw Ike and Tina Turner in South Bend, Indiana, in an unremembered auditorium sometime in the 1960s. (At least I remember where I was at the time.) Tina in her red dress is the dominant memory, over and above the energy in the music.
Thank you for reading, Sally! And for this comment.
Dear Amanda, Thank you for this. I've been playing Private Dancer on a loop for days. And I cannot stop singing and playing "River Deep Mountain High." I was born in 1971 and that album was my tween high - my girlfriends and I played the crap out of it. I especially dug "Better Be Good to Me." I just did a performance of that song with lip sync and cowbell in the kitchen this morning while making eggs.
My mom, born in 1947, was a single, working mom. We had a tough life. Music saved my soul, every time.
I wanted to share with you a podcast I just did honoring Tina, astrologically. Here's the Substack and link to the episode:
https://erinreese.substack.com/p/full-moon-in-sagittarius-the-courage
Thank you again. Writer to writer. Music lover to music lover.
And daughter of a strong, single woman.
Thank you for this lovely and moving comment, Erin! I'll definitely check out the podcast.
Thank you for sharing such a personal and heartfelt tribute. Definitely takes me back to the age of being raised by MTV. I always imagine the videos when I think of the songs, and Tina's work was always artistic and compelling. What an artist, what a life!