Soulful diva Tina Turner, who had a lengthy run of ’60s and ’70s R&B hits and struck major pop stardom in the ... In 1960, after vocalist Art Lassiter failed to show up for a recording ...

And it was Tina Turner who, after walking away from the spotlight and her volatile, abusive husband, remade herself as a solo artist ... on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart. The group had a ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. There has never been anyone quite like Tina Turner. The larger than life singer-songwriter emerged ...

she set out on a series of solo tours that established her as an artist in her own right. She found it difficult at first. "A lot of people thought that Tina Turner was history," she told German ...

it was hard to imagine an even remotely bright future for Tina Turner. For many years, she’d been a star, fronting a band with Ike that raced like a locomotive through the pop landscape.

Written for Art Lassiter, who didn't show up for the session, "A Fool in Love" marked the debut of Ike & Tina Turner. Raw even by 1960 standards, it reached #2 R&B and #27 pop; a major ...

In a recording career that spanned six decades, Turner found fame both as a solo artist ... U.S. pop and R&B charts in the 1960s and '70s. The duo's high-energy soul and rock was informed by ...