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Rolling Stone Music Now

Why Tina Turner Is the Queen of Rock

Rolling Stone Music Now

Rolling Stone

Music Commentary, Music, Music Interviews

41K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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We look back at Tina Turner’s triumphs, tragedies, and one-of-a-kind career, with Rob Sheffield and Brittany Spanos joining host Brian Hiatt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, I'm Brian Hyatt, and this is Rolling Stone Music Now. I'm happy to have with me,

0:08.4

Brittany Spanos and Rob Sheffield, and we are going to talk about Tina Turner.

0:14.1

There was, I thought a very good documentary about her on HBO that you can watch on HBO Max.

0:21.2

Pretty good.

0:22.4

She's also one of the people who may be voted into the Rock and

0:26.0

Roll Hall of Fame this year. Solo, she's already in with Ike Turner. One of the

0:32.1

reasons I wanted to do this show is to encourage anyone who is a voter to vote for Tina

0:36.5

Turner who needs to be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. She'll certainly be on top of my ballot.

0:42.4

And she also had her second autobiography just a couple

0:46.7

years ago that was very much worth reading even if you read the first one I Tino

0:51.9

which was of course done with the Kurt Loader.

0:54.8

But this one is really revealing, really good and she's one of the greatest.

0:59.8

She's simply the best and I thought we should talk about her.

1:02.8

Starting out, I think we all know a fair amount about Tina,

1:05.6

but what were your takeaways from the documentary, Robin Brandy?

1:09.0

I cried through all of it.

1:10.9

It was my big takeaway. Yeah, I mean I just have been a huge fan of Tina for the

1:17.3

longest time and any sort of direct. I mean so much of her story I feel like we know and I think kind of rehearing it is

1:25.4

really sobering especially kind of the early part of her career and even before

1:29.7

her career with her family stuff too it's just so powerful just to kind of see everything that she's done,

1:34.6

especially the way that she looks at her solo career and how it really began and everything. I don't know. I just, I loved hearing her directly

1:40.8

look back on it and kind of talk about how happy she's been in the

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