Here's the story for you. Tina Turner, one of America's greatest rock and roll stars,

said she was even bigger in Europe than the US during the height of her superstar. Here's

the icon herself in a 1997 interview with Larry King.

Basically Europe has been very supportive of my music.

More than America. Yes. Yes, hugely.

Surely, what? You're a major star here. You're a superstar in America.

Not as big as Madonna. I'm as big as Madonna in Europe. I'm as big as in some places

of the Rolling Stones. Turner would find her final resting place in Europe, Switzerland,

at the age of 83. And Switzerland, with its reputation for peace and neutrality, feels like a perfect fit

for a woman who often had to fight against abuse and exploitation to build the peaceful life she

wanted. That's a fight you can hear in her songs of love.

And in songs of an electrifying fervor.

I'm the champion. I'm the master.

Turner built four memoirs with stories of her struggle. She inspired an Oscar-nominated film and

most recently was the subject of the 2021 HBO documentary, Simply Titled, Teen. Its directors,

Dan Lindsay and T.J. Martin spoke with NPR about doing justice to her story.

I think there is just an inherent contradiction or paradox or complication that we were

interested in the beginning. And it's this idea that Tina's story as a survivor can be very

powerful for people and especially for other survivors. But the thing that we often fail to

realize is, or maybe we assume because Tina has this seemingly strength and resilience that she

herself is somehow superhuman. And I think what we wanted to try to show in the film is that she

is human like everyone else. But as T.J. Martin says, what she could do with music, what she could do

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