The Life and Music of Tina Turner, the Queen of Rock & Roll

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🗓️ 24 May 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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With Tina Turner's death at the age of 83, we look back on her oft-difficult life, career triumphs, and world-shaking music. Brittany Spanos and Rob Sheffield join host Brian Hiatt for the discussion Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:26.6	I'm Brian Hyatt and this is Rolling Stone music now.
0:30.9	Tina Turner, one of the greatest rock and soul singers who ever lived, died Wednesday
0:36.1	at the age of 83. Her family said that she died peacefully after a long illness in her home
0:41.2	near Zurich, Switzerland.
0:43.0	Tina was of course an incredibly influential stage performer and singer.
0:47.0	She changed the way everyone from Mick Jagger to Beyoncé sang and moved on stage.
0:51.0	She also had one of the most dramatic, sometimes tragic, and ultimately
0:55.2	triumphant stories in all of show business from her abusive marriage with
1:00.2	I Turner to her years in industry purgatory to her ultimate solo triumph well into her career.
1:06.8	There was no one like her and there never will be anyone like her.
1:10.0	Not long ago I sat down with Rob Sheffield and Brittany Spanos to talk about Tina's life and music.
1:15.4	We talk about the excellent 2021 documentary Tina that was on HBO and much more.
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