To get to the smooth, you need to take pride in the rough. Thanks to Mark Beery, and now thanks to Tina Turner for that important lesson. Support high-integrity, independent journalism that serves ...

Ike & Tina Turner’s rendition begins by letting the listener know what’s up: “We never, ever do anything nice and easy. We always do it nice and rough. We’re going to take the beginning of ...

Tina Turner did it, in her own words, “nice and rough,” with a husky, sultry voice filled with the Southern grace of gospel and the gravel of the rocking blues. Whether it was raunchy R&B or ...

And her voice, a supernatural approximation of molten honey and rough sugar, earned her the role of the Acid Queen in the 1975 film version of the Who's "Tommy." Nobody but Tina Turner could ...

Another beat. “But then we’re gonna do the finish … rough.” Grammy-winning Tina Turner was a rock ’n’ roll original with her high-octane, powerful yet soulful voice and iconic hairstyles.

Tina Turner performing in Brighton ... When she sang, in “Proud Mary,” that “we’re going to do it nice and rough,” she could very well have been describing her visual style.

By Lindsay Zoladz As the great Tina Turner told it in the wrenching 2021 ... but then we’re gonna do the finish rough. That’s the way we do ‘Proud Mary.’” That was also the spirit ...

Tina Turner was forced to go on with bronchitis ... “We always do it nice — and rough.” But by the end of the 1970s, Turner’s career seemed finished. She was 40 years old, her first ...

It sounded worn, and rough, but more than anything else, alive. Tina Turner’s voice. You can hear it inside your mind right now. But what is that sound, exactly? Not a house burning down at 4 in ...

Dave Hogan/Getty Images, FILE The singer also opened up about her marriage in the 2021 HBO documentary "Tina." Following her divorce, Turner released her third solo album, "Rough," an album of ...

Tina Turner, an utterly commanding singer who broke ... indelible spoken intro – "nice and easy" but finishing "nice and rough," their definitive 1971 reinterpretation of Creedence Clearwater ...