The Announcement of The Passing of This Rose of Rock n’ Roll Was Made Wednesday May 23rd 2023 Mid-Week of The Royal Chelsea Flower Show. The Welsh Guards Military Band Paid Tribute To Her By Playing ‘Simply The Best’ Outside Buckingham Palace
Tina Turner
November 26 1939 ~ May 24 2023
(Age 83)
It Was Announced This Month, During The Height of This Year’s Chelsea Flower Show And During One of Her Theatre Shows, That Rock Legend Tina Turner Has Entered Into Heaven’s Ultimate Hall of Fame Aged 83 And Is No Longer With Us In The Physical World. She Was Aged 83 When She Passed Away Having Suffered From Kidney Disease.
The Legacy of Her Great Music And Indominitable Spirit Will Always Be With Us Though And So She Will Never Be Forgotten. Reflecting On Miss Tina’s Life, This Amazing Poster Seems Most Appropriate As She Looks Wonderfully Divine, Happy & Heavenly!
This Poster (Photographed By TheOrator.Press Photography Department At Palazzo’s Italian Restaurant, Crystal Palace, South East London) Beautifully Highlights The Gusto And Unique Style With Which She Approached The Second Half of Her Phenomenonal Musical Career.
At Over 40 Years Old And Divorced From Her Abusive Husband Ike Turner, She Forged A New Magical Solo Career Which Lasted For Over 25 Years And Represents The Greatest Career Comeback In Music History. The Fightback Was But It Was Not Easy But It Was Greatly Rewarding And Made Her A Global Music Legend And Provides A Great Lesson In Perserverance.
In Unexpected But Characteristic And Cosmicly Dramic Style Characteristic of Tina Turner The News of Her Passing Broke During The Theatre Intermission of ‘Tina’ The Musical’s Evening Performance Wednesday Evening May 24th 2023
Tina The Musical Opened In 2018
On Wednesday May 24th 2023 The Aldwych Theatre In London’s West End Was Surrounded By The Press After It Was Announced “With Great Sadness” On The Official Tina Turner Instagram Page @TinaTurner That The Rock Legend Tina Turner Had Passed Away.
A Couple of Months Earlier (On World Kidney Day, March 9 2023) Tina Had Posted That She Was Supporting A New Campaign For Kidney Health After Realising Too Late That High Blood Pressure And Kidney Failure Are Related.
She Directed Followers To Read Her Story On The showyourkidneyslove.com Website. There She Said “My Kidneys Are The Victim of Elevated Blood Pressure”. So One of Her Legacies Will Now Be Encouraging Other People To Take Care of Their Blood Pressure And In Turn, Their Kidneys.
The Cast Learnt of The Star’s Passing During The Intermission And Duly Told The Audience Before The Start of The Second Half. Undoubtedly That Is A Night At The Theatre None of Them Will Ever Forget. There Was Reportedly Alot of Emotion In The House Afterwards With Cast, Crew And The Crowd All Crying During The Second Half of The Performance.
The Royal Chelsea Flower Show & The Gateshead Flower Festival
That Night Singer Rick Astley (Famous For His Timeless Hit ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’) Was One of The First To Post A Tribute To The Legend Saying: “What A Woman, What a life, What a voice! One of the GREATS! Such Sad News. R.I.P. ” The Day Before (On Tuesday May 23rd 2023) He Had Posted How Proud He Was of His Daughter Winning A Silver Gilt Medal At The Chelsea Flower Show, Along With Her Business Partner. We Spoke To Him At The Time And He Was Beaming With Pride @officialrickastley
The Beautiful Publicity Poster Above For A 1979 Concert Appearance In Amsterdam Features Tina Wearing A Wonderful Shimmering, Short, Skimmpy, Sparkly, Tight Fitting Super-Short Outfit With Glamourous Expandable Wings Made of Metalic Looking Fabric, Which Makes Her Look Paradoxically Angelic. It Resides On The Wall of Bar Palazzo In Crystal Palace, South East London, Which Is Run By A Combination of Lovely Italian & English Gentlemen.
TO.P Took A Picture of It Back In March After We Last Lunched There And Interviewed Actress, Personal Trainer & Reggae DJ Judith Jacobs. On Her Thursday Concious Radio Show 1-4pm, The Day After The News Broke, She Said:
“Didn’t That Woman Work That Stage. Jeez. In Her 60s. And 70s. That’s Why You Never Thought She Would Leave…”
She Later Read A Quote From The Late Tina Turner Herself:
We’re Living In World, Stars And Dust.
Between Heaven And All That Surrounds Us.
We’re Travellers Here.
Spirits Passing Through.
And The Love We Give, Is All That Will Endure.
Just Like A Rose After The Rain Something Beautiful Remains.
Tears Will Leave No Stains.
Time Will Ease The Pain.
For Every Life That Fades Something Beautiful Remains”
TINA TURNER (As Read By Judith Jacob On Her Conscious Radio FM Show Thursday May 25th 2023)
Tina Turner’s 1990 Tour Celebrated Her 3rd Solo ‘Success’ Comeback Album ‘Foreign Affair’ (Released The Year Before In 1989) And Included Her Performing At Gateshead International Stadium. Hit Tracks The Best, Steamy Windows, I Don’t Wanna Lose You, Look Me In The Heart And Be Tender With Me Baby Featured On The Album.
Gateshead Flower Festival
Whilst Performing In Gateshead In 1990 The ‘What’s Love Got To Do With It’ Star Was Presented With A Beautiful Selection of Roses From The Town’s Flower Festival. They Were A Peachy Golden Colour. She Liked Them So Very Much That She Promised To Cultivate Them At Her Home In France.
Tina Turner’s 1996 Tour Celebrated Her 4th Solo ‘Success’ Comeback Album ‘Wildest Dreams’ And Included Her Performing At Gateshead International Stadium For A Second Time. The Hit Rock Tracks ‘Whatever You Want’ And ‘Missing You’ Featured On The Album, As Did The Classic Bond Track ‘Golden Eye’. (It Was Written By U2 Rockers ‘The Edge’ & Lead Singer Bono). It Was The Title Track To The 1995 Pierce Brosnan Bond Film of The Same Name. Turner And Brosnan Met Prince Charles At The Premiere of The Movie.
Tina’s Passing Was Announced During The Middle of The RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2023 www.rhs.org.uk Which Somehow Also Seems Rather Fitting In A Curious Coincidence.
In July 1990 Tina Was On Tour And Scheduled To Perform At Gateshead International Stadium. Gateshead Was Hosting One of Five National Garden Festivals To Take Place Across Britain In The 1980s & 1990s To Help Regenerate A Number of Former Industrial Areas
Susan Wear, who worked at the festival As head of communications Tasked With publicising the event, gave her the flower, created by one of Queen Elizabeth II’s Favourite rose growers. She told BBC Radio Newcastle At The Time, That the star giggled when she was given the rose.
More than three million visitors flocked to the Gateshead Garden Festival, which was one of five held across Britain in the late-1980s and early-1990s on former industrial sites Which Were Being Regenerated Under A Scheme By Tory Minister Michael Hestltine Under The Thatcher Government. He Was Inspired By A Scheme That Had Previously Been Impletemented In Germany.
“Tina Turner was coming to do a concert at Gateshead stadium and we thought what would be elegant for Tina Turner would be to get a rose named after her” she said.
“We somehow managed to persuade her people to let us go and present it backstage – it was so hot.”
“By the time we got in to see Miss Turner there were strict conditions that we weren’t to speak to her because she couldn’t speak before the concert – she had to rest her voice – so we just had to give her the roses and she would pose for a photograph.”
Tina Was A “Keen Gardener” And Clearly A Charmer!
Susan Went On To Explain How Tina Revealed That She Was “A Keen Gardener” As She Defied Her Management Teams Orders Not To Talk So That She Could Protect Her Singing Voice In Order To Perform Successfully At The scheduled Concert.
“After all this time I have always had fond memories of Tina Turner obviously because of her fantastic talent but also how kind she was.”
Sadly By The Time She Presented Miss Turner With The Roses The Rose Heads Had Drooped, But The Star Salvaged The Situation, Saving Alot of Potential Awkwardness And Embarrssment By De-escalating The Situation And Making Light of It, Despite Being A Global Rock Legend At The Height of Her Powers.
“She seemed tiny but she filled up the whole room and she was absolutely stunningly beautiful.
She just had this great big smile and these big eyes and she just giggled when she saw the roses and said,
“Oh I’m going to give them a drink, I’m a really keen gardener.”
she Reportedly started talking away And Promised To Plant Them In Her French Garden Located In The South of France.
She Returned To Gateshead International Stadium Six Years Later In July 1996 On Another Tour. This Time For Her Wildest Dreams Album.
Tributes To ‘The Queen of Rock’ Continue To Roll’ In
On Thursday May 25th 2023 After News of Tina Turner’s Passing Broke The Day Before, We Reached Out To Actress & Reggae DJ Judith Jacob For Comment Having Recently Interviewed Her At Bar Palazzo. She Praised Tina’s Work Rate, Energy And Longevity, Which She Said Made Her Passing Harder To Believe. @judithjacob1313
She Fought To Be A Black Woman Within The Rock Music Genre, She Started Out Again Aged Over 40, And She Superceded Her Abusive Ex-Husband After Divorcing Him. In Doing So (And More) Tina Turner Broke All The Rules, As Per The Title of Her Second Solo ‘Success’ Comeback Album of 1986 – Break All The Rules.
Shaven, Strong, Stylish, International, Veteran Soul Singer Janice Robinson Said Tina Turner Was Like “A Fairy Godmother” To Her Who Had Granted Her Wish And Taught Her So Very Much About Life, Stage Craft & The Music Industry. Here They Are Photographed Together On ‘The 24/7 Tour‘ In 2000 On Which They Worked Together.
The Album ’24/7′ (Released 2000) Was Tina’s 5th Solo ‘Success’ Comeback Album And Included The Hits Don’t Leave Me This Way, Talk To My Heart, When The Heartache Is Over, Absolutely Nothing’s Changed And ‘All The Woman’.
Singer/Songwriter Janice Robinson, Who Toured With Tina And Opened Her Shows On The 2000 24/7 Tour, Appeared On Various News Outlets On Thursday May 25 2023 The Day Following The Announcement of Tina’s Death, And Shared Stories of How She Studied Tina Whilst Touring With Her And Learnt Something New Each Day.
What We (TO.P) Love About This Relationship Is Being Able To Observe, As It Seems To Us, That Whilst Janice Is Shaven, Tina Was Known For Her ‘Big Hair’ And Yet Even Though Their Styles Were So Different – Their Boldness, Strong Sense of Self And Respect For Each Other’s Unique Talent Is What Connected, Bonded And Helped Drive Them.
Janice Said She Didn’t Need Any Awards After Being Chosen By Tina To Open The Shows (After Submitting A Reel To Her Music Company).
“It Was Like A PHD In Stage Craft And Performance. Those Legs And The Heels And The Singing.”
“She Was Like A Fairy Godmother, Who Grants You This Huge Wish.”
“She Was My Blueprint. She Taught Me ‘Protect Your Private Life’. ‘Make Sure You Have A Private Life’. ‘Don’t Get Too Caught Up In The Career Life’. And Always Surround Yourself With A Circumference of Love. She Also Taught Me How To Have A Dialogue With The Audience, Which She Kept The Same All The Time”.
Illustrating This Last Point Janice Mimicked Tina’s Gravally Voice And Said “Nice & Rough” (Which Is What Tina Used To Say As Part of Her Introduction To Her Performance of ‘Proud Mary’ One of Her Signature Songs).
She Originally Used To Perform The Song With Ike Turner After They Recorded It On Their Album Called ‘Working Together’ In 1970. When Ike & Tina Toured With The Rolling Stones In The Early 1970s Audiences Loved The Song. They Released It As A Single In 1971.
She Finally Filed For Divorce From The Abusive Violent Control Freak In Dallas Texas, Five Years Later In July 1976, On The Grounds of Ireconcilable Differences. She Wanted Nothing From Him The Only Thing She Insisted On Was Keeping Her Stage Name ‘Tina Turner’ (Having Been Born Anna Mae Bullock). Once Free From Him Proud Mary Became On of Her Most Rauchy Routines Featuring Incredible Performances Along With Her Backing Singers.
Private Dancer’ Released In 1984 Was Her First Solo ‘Success’ Comeback Album And The One That Launched Her To A Whole New Unprecedented Groundbreaking Level After She Found The Strength And Courage To Leave Ike Turner Who Grossly Mistreated Her. It Included What’s Love Got To Do With It, Let’s Stay Together And You Better Be Good To Me.
‘Break Every Rule’ Released In 1986 Was Her Second Solo ‘Success’ Come Back Album And Included The Hit Track ‘Typical Male’.
It Was During This Period of New Found Solo Success That She Met Her Second Husband Erwin Bach, A German EMI Music Executive, Who Would Become Her Manager And The Love of Her Life. They Finally Married In 2013 After Nearly 30 Years of Being Together. She Was 17 Years His Senior When They Met In 1985. She Was 47 And He Was 30. He Survives Her. It Was He Who Announced Her Passing On The Official Tina Turner Website On Wednesday May 23rd 2024. Understandably He Also Asked For Privacy At This Time @TinaTurner.
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