Ike Turner: dead at 76
p2pnet news | Music:- Rock legend Ike Turner is dead, aged of 76.
He passed away at his home in San Diego with no cause of his death being released, although he’s said to suffered from emphysema, the ’smoker’s disease’.
Turner discovered Anna Mae Bullock, a teenager from Tennessee who later became Tina Turner who later accusing Turner of, “years of severe spousal abuse and rampant drug addiction in her autobiography I, Tina which was later made into the film What’s Love Got to Do with It?,” says the Wikipedia.
Says Turner’s mini-web page bio:
Born: Clarksdale, Mississippi 1931
Musical Influence: Perkins, Pinetop
First Instrument: Piano, 40’s
First Hit Record: “Rocket 88″, It’s Gonna Work Out Fine, Proud Mary, Nutbush City Limits, I’ve Been Loving You to Long, Fool in Love ….to name a few
Artists Worked With: Otis Rush, Little Milton, Rolling Stones, Tyrone Davis, Elton John, Santana, Roberta Flack Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Chaka Khan, Natalie Cole, Bill Cosby, Elvis, Eric Clapton, Yardbirds, Janis Joplin, Miles Davis, Tina Turner & more..
Book Release: Bio,”Takin Back My Name” 1998.
Awards Received: Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: 1990 for “Rocket 88″, BMI Award for Shoop, sung by Salt & Pepper,
2002- Grammy Nomination-Best Traditional Blues Album
2002- W.C. Handy multi Catagory Nominations
Walk of Fame Star- St. Louis-2002
Personal: Favorites:
Place: San Marcos -Home
Guitar: Fender Stratocaster, Fender Telecastor, PRS Guitars
Song: Judy Blue Eyes (Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young)
Good Vibrations (Beach Boys), Who are You (The Who)
Favorite Motto: “A man with courage is a Majority.”
Favorite Quote: “If you wasn’t born with it you can do without it.”
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