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Tina Turner: The Queen of Rock and Roll

Right Answers Mostly

Claire Donald & Tess Bellomo

Society & Culture, History, Tv & Film

4.6764 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

This week, we’re diving into the legendary life of Tina Turner, a true force of nature. Born in Tennessee to a family of sharecroppers, Tina grew up with big dreams of performing. Her fateful meeting with Ike Turner changed her life forever, launching her into stardom but also into a turbulent and abusive relationship. Despite it all, Tina’s unmatched talent and magnetic stage presence captivated the world. And in one of the greatest comebacks of all time, she started over at 40, reinventing herself as a solo artist and becoming bigger than ever. From selling out stadiums to being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame not once but twice, Tina Turner’s story is one of resilience and power. We love you Tina! TW: This episode contains discussion around domestic violence and SA. Created and produced by Claire Donald and Tess Bellomo For more RAM, go ⁠here.⁠ Join our premium channel for 3 bonus eps a month ⁠here⁠ and save 15% when you buy annually! Sources: Wikipedia , Tina (HBO doc), Larry King interview, 1984 CBS Interview Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.6

Ah, Benny's parents, thanks for coming. Hiya. So, Benny has really blossomed this term.

0:35.7

You're telling me, he outgrew his bike. We sold it on on eBay. Oh, that's not quite what I meant. It's free to sell on there. Free to sell? Easy too. Sold Benny's bike, your guitar, my jacket. You sold my guitar? Shall we talk about Benny? When it's this easy to sell for free,

0:56.3

you can't help but say you on it's eBay.

0:57.7

Things People Love.

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T's and Cs apply, exclusive vehicles. Music Welcome to Write Answers Mostly, a podcast on what you didn't learn in history class, but you really wanted to.

1:31.1

I'm Claire Donald.

1:32.4

And I'm Tespelomo.

1:34.2

Hello, Tespelomo.

1:35.5

You're back from your honeymoon, baby.

1:37.5

I am back.

1:38.3

I know I've had a little bit of an absence.

1:40.3

So love seeing Alice and Hannah and Friends of the Pod step in and thank you, Claire, for all of the

1:46.7

all of the hard ram work. Oh my God. We just missed you so much. No hard work. Just dismissing our baby.

1:53.6

I know. I was so excited to get back and like dive into research and hear about this episode.

1:58.1

Like I am excited for the rest of the fall and like what we are going to be doing is it's just going to be a good season. No, same. As you guys know, like, fall is coming up. So that means that true crime on RAM is coming up. We're brainstorming. We're brainstorming. Always drop, you know, drop a comment if there's anything that comes to mind. But yeah, we're going to keep you guys happy. And if you want to hear more about Tessa's honeymoon and what I've been up to, we did a full recap on our premium channel, which on our premium channel, you also get three bonus episodes a month, add its close friends on Facebook. You know, it's just you become even closer to the Ram fam. So if you want to join premium, in the show notes. What's so funny? You said on

2:36.7

Facebook. And I was like, I haven't heard Facebook for so long. Oh my God. No, don't go to Facebook.

2:41.1

You guys. Correction. Instagram. Meta, the metaverse. But I digress. Tess, I'm so happy to be back.

2:48.5

I'm so happy to be back. I'm so happy to be about hearing about this icon and

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legend. You got that right. Tess, we're going to be talking about Tina Turner today. What do you know

2:59.6

about Tina Turner? What are your feelings about Tina Turner? I am ashamed to say I actually don't know much,

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