[3] Though primarily known as a guitarist, Turner began his career playing piano and personally considered it his main instrument. [166] In 2004, he was awarded the Heroes Award from the Memphis branch of the Recording Academy. [64] Velma and Linda attended Turner's Mississippi Blues Trail marker unveiling in 2010. "[222] Their daughter Mia was born in January 1969. This sometimes created conflicts of interest. Turner, best remembered for his successful musical partnership and stormy marriage to . Their divorce was finalized in 1955. On the 1990s sketch comedy show In Living Color, Turner was parodied by David Alan Grier. Ike Turner states the facts", "Ike Turner That Kat Sure Could Play! [8], Before the age of thirty, Turner did not use drugs or drink alcohol. By then both of his parents were deceased, so he could not verify the origin of his name. [111] Artists who recorded there included Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Duane Allman, Little Richard, Gayle McCormick, and Frank Zappa. [102][103] Following the song's success in the UK, Mick Jagger invited them to open for the Rolling Stones on their 1966 British Tour. "Tina Turner was a raw talent who's singing style fit naturally into Ike's patented rough take on rhythm and blues, a style that befit his demons. His oldest son Ike Turner, Jr . The two sons she adopted were from his longterm relationship with Lorraine Taylor. His father lived for two or three years as an invalid in a tent in the family's yard before succumbing to his injuries when Turner was about five years old. Ike Turner's cause of death was due to a reported cocaine overdose, and he passed away in his home in San Diego. [49], To accommodate his then-wife Bonnie, who also played piano, Turner taught himself how to play guitar by ear and Willie Kizart taught him blues guitar techniques. [12] Later that year, the duo released the blues oriented albums Outta Season and The Hunter on Blue Thumb Records. [49] He then became a freelance talent scout, session musician, and production assistant for Sam Phillips at Sun Studio, commuting to Memphis, Tennessee. But I never beat her. [16], On January 16, 2008, the San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office reported that Turner had died from a cocaine overdose. . [91] The Turners received the Golden European Record Award, the first ever given, for selling more than one million records of "Nutbush City Limits" in Europe. [239][240], Ronnie Turner was in a band called Manufactured Funk with songwriter and musician Patrick Moten. The wailing saxophone and that distorted electric guitar. [64] Bonnie was a member of the Kings of Rhythm as a pianist and vocalist. ", Turner was praised by his contemporaries for his influence. They made amazing music together, but their private life was not as collaborative as their public appearances, and it was downright terrible for Tina. As he predicted, Turner died two days later, on December 12, at the age of 76, at his home in San Marcos, California. 1960), with Lorraine Taylor. Kings You Know I Love You," and their musical bond was instantly formed. [46], The song is often cited as the first rock n' roll record [47] but in a later interview, Turner offered this assessment: "I don't think that Rocket 88 is rock n roll. He would come in and stand behind the piano and watch me play. "[147], Turner's guitar style is distinguished by heavy use of the whammy bar to achieve a strong reverb-soaked vibrato, string bending, hammer-ons and triplets in his blues phrasing. How many wives did ike turner have? American musician Ike Turner (1931 - 2007) and his wife, singer, dancer, and actress Tina Turner at London Airport on their way to Los Angeles, London, 11th March 1969. Some of the artist Turner backed on piano and guitar during this period include Elmore James, Johnny Ace and the Flairs. [197] However, Turner and Bullock eventually began having an affair and she became pregnant in January 1960. [16] They married at A Special Memory Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas on October 8, 2006. She told Jet: "He's been real inspiration and a catalyst emotionally and in other ways as well. He received negative publicity that was exacerbated in 1993 by the release of the film adaptation What's Love Got to Do with It. In My Love Story, Tina has talked about her deep affection for her long-term partner, Erwin Bach, whom she wed in 2013, and the contours of their relationship, contrasting what she has experienced and learned from her second marriage in contrast to her first. The Kings of Rhythm played "Rocket 88" and "Proud Mary". [184], In 2015, TV One's Unsung offered some redemption with "The Story of Ike Turner", which documented his career along with his trials and tribulations. [35] The Tophatters played big band arrangements from sheet music. Ike modestly terms what he does on the guitar as 'tricks', but make no mistake, he attacked his axe with the conviction of a man who knew precisely what he wanted to hear come out of it. [91] Turner added a backing girl group he renamed the Ikettes, and along with the Kings of Rhythm they began performing as the Ike & Tina Turner Revue. 27 on the Hot 100. [156] Little Richard was inspired to play the piano after he heard Turner's piano intro on "Rocket 88", and later used it note for note on "Good Golly, Miss Molly". Annie Mae left Turner for a policeman after they moved to East St. Louis, Illinois. IKE'S WIFE, AUDREY, GIVES DETAILS ABOUT HIS ABUSE & WHY HE DID IT Audrey Turner did an interview with Afro and stated that her husband, Ike, used to beat her because he had bipolar disorder, which caused severe mood swings and his cocaine use only exaggerated the problem. One of the Federal releases, "I'm Tore Up" / "If I Never Had Known You" featuring Billy Gayles became a regional hit. [22] Turner was also raped by another middle-aged woman, Miss Reeny, before he was twelve. [119] In 1979, Turner spent time in the studio with Chaka Khan following her separation from her manager-husband. [16] In 2011, Audrey appeared as a contestant on The X Factor. [16][188] He often married another woman before divorcing his existing wife. In January 1987, Turner was arrested for trying to sell 10 ounces of cocaine to an undercover police officer; he pleaded not guilty. "[259] Despite his ill health, he collaborated with Gorillaz on their album Demon Days and performed the track with them at the Manchester Opera House in November 2005. That's how we acquired B.B. "[183] Phil Spector criticized Tina's book and called the film a "piece of trash" during his eulogy at Turner's funeral. [118], After his breakup with Tina, singer Holly Maxwell sang with Turner on occasion from 1977 to 1985 and again for eight months in 1992. [174], In 2017, the Mississippi Blues Trail honored "Rocket 88" for being an influential record with a marker in Lyon, Mississippi. Groove Band, recorded a tribute album titled Rocket 88: Tribute to Ike Turner. [72], Turner maintained strict discipline and the band lived at his home on Virginia Place in East St. Louis which doubled as a studio. Speaking on "Rocket 88" being a contender for the first rock 'n' roll record, broadcaster Paul Gambaccini said: In musical terms [he was] very important. [195] Sources often incorrectly refer to Taylor as one of Turner's wives, but she was his live-in girlfriend. Turner's vocalist Johnny O'Neal had left to sign a solo contract with King Records, so Jackie Brenston, a saxophonist in the Kings of Rhythm, sang lead vocals while Turner was on piano. An early pioneer of 1950s rock and roll, he is best known for his work in the 1960s and 1970s with his then-wife Tina Turner as the leader of the Ike & Tina Turner Revue. [142] Although Turner does not appear on the album, Pitchfork noted his influence in the production. [173] The unveilings coincided with Clarksdale's 23rd Annual Sunflower River Blues & Gospel Festival, which paid tribute to Turner. 104 and No. : Turner Nervous About Restarting His Pop Career", "100 Greatest Guitarists: David Fricke's Picks", "King of Rhythm: Rock and Roll Pioneer Ike Turner November 5, 1931 December 12, 2007", "Early Wright, 84, Disc Jockey Who Made the Delta Blue, Dies", "Spotlight: Ike Turner Antone's, Midnight", "All the Blues Players Shacked Up at This Hotel", "Ike Turner's Kings of Rhythm I'm Tore Up", "Most Played Juke Box Rhythm & Blues Records", "Will the creator of modern music please stand up? He was convicted of, 2015: Inducted into St. Louis Classic Rock Hall of Fame, This page was last edited on 26 February 2023, at 08:14. "If I married her, he couldn't do nothing," he said. He defined how to put the Fender bass into that music. He had tried to sell his studio Bolic Sound in 1980 to raise funds to avoid foreclosure, but the studio burned down on the day a potential buyer was scheduled to view it in January 1981. The single, released in April 1951, reached number-one on the Billboard R&B charts in June 1951 and spent 5 weeks on top of the charts. [31] Turner persuaded his mother to pay for piano lessons, but he did not take to the formal style of playing. 14 on the Billboard R&B chart. [107] The album earned Turner his first solo Grammy nomination for Best R&B Instrumental Performance at the 12th Annual Grammy Awards. [10], In 2015, Rolling Stone ranked Ike & Tina Turner No. [227] In 2019, she told Palm Spring Life that the film What's Love Got to Do with It "assassinated Ike's career. [190] The couple married on September 19, 1950. [16], In 2005, Turner revealed he had been diagnosed with emphysema which required him to use an oxygen tank. According to Jeanette, Turner called her his "backbone". [50] Turner played piano on King's early records "You Know I Love You" and "3 O'Clock Blues", which became King's first two number-ones. While in Chicago, Turner backed Otis Rush; playing the signature vibrato guitar parts on "Double Trouble". Last edited on 26 February 2023, at 08:14, You Can't Miss Nothing That You Never Had, Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album, Proud Mary: The Best of Ike & Tina Turner, Takin' Back My Name: The Confessions of Ike Turner, Ike & Tina Turner's Kings of Rhythm Dance, His Woman, Her Man: The Ike Turner Diaries Unreleased Funk/Rock 19701973, The Bad Man: Rare & Unreissued Ike Turner Produced Recordings 19621965, Jack Rabbit Blues: The Singles of 19581960, "Ike Turner, Musician and Songwriter in Duo With Tina Turner, Dies at 76", "Will They Still Like Ike? [75] In 1958, Turner took the band to Chicago to record for Cobra/Artistic, as well as fulfilling his contract as a session musician back at Sun. In 1968 she tried to escape by attempting suicide. We had fights and there have been times when I punched her to the ground without thinking. [2] He was instrumental in the early careers of various blues musicians such as B.B. On December 10, 2007, he told his assistant Falina Rasool that he believed he was dying and would not live until Christmas. July 3, 2018Raymond Craig Turner / Date of death. Sadly, in summer 2018, her eldest biological son Craig committed suicide. [78], Turner befriended St. Louis R&B fan Bill Stevens who set up the short-lived Stevens Records in 1959. But with or without Tina, Ike Turner was mean and dangerous, the epitome of the bad bad man." Ike was always quite a character and was very candid about his struggles with addiction, sexual abuse as a child, and his abusive actions toward some women in his life. [98] Impressed by their performance, Spector negotiated a deal with their manager Bob Krasnow, head of Loma Records, offering $20,000 to produce Tina and have them released from their Loma contract. He fitted them out with state-of-the-art equipment. [248] By the early 1970s, he was heavily addicted to the drug, buying it in large quantities and sharing it with friends. He found the experience terrifying and from then on preferred not to be the focus of attention, but rather to be in the background controlling the show. [196][246] Producer D'Angela Proctor alleged in Turner's Unsung documentary that the two famous people were Elvis Presley and Redd Foxx. [95] For the next six years, they recorded on Warner Bros./Loma, Modern/Kent, Cenco, Philles, Tangerine, Pompeii, Blue Thumb, Minit, and A&M. However, it was a hit in Europe, reaching No. Vocalist on the album include Turner's last wife Audrey Madison Turner and former Ikette Bonnie Bramlett. ", In 1957, Turner met Anna Bullock (Tina Turner) at the Manhattan Club in East St. [206] Tina signed her legal name as Martha Nell Turner on multiple contracts. I never sent itI was telling her in this letter that I'm sorry for putting her and the kids through that kind of stuff. They played on many recording for Bihari's Modern, RPM, and Flair labels. [33] Turner associated with many of these musicians, and at 13 years old he backed Sonny Boy Williamson II on piano. Records show that Turner added four years to his age. In 2003, John Collis published Ike Turner: King of Rhythm about the life and musical contributions of Turner. During this period, the couple formed a band known as 'Ike & Tina Turner' and belted out hits like 'Proud Mary', 'River Deep', etc. "[16], Turner attended Booker T. Washington Elementary School, then was promoted to Myrtle Hall in the sixth grade. In May 1989, Turner was arrested on drug charges in West Hollywood. [188][205][8] He also revealed on The Howard Stern Show in 1993 and on Fresh Air in 1996, that Tina's birth name is Martha Nell (not Anna Mae) Bullock. [121] Jurassic 5 used "Getting Nasty" from A Black Man's Soul on the track "Concrete Schoolyard" in 1997, Main Source also sampled "Getting Nasty" on the track "Snake Eyes" as well as Ike & Tina Turner's "Bold Soul Sister" on "Just Hanging Out"; both featured on their 1991 album Breaking Atoms. Ike Turner performing in Juan-Les-Pins, southern France, on the last day of the Jazz a Juan music festival. [13] Tina did not attend because she took the year off from making public appearances, so Phil Spector delivered a speech at the ceremony on their behalf. [115] On July 1, the Turners got into a violent altercation en route to their gig at the Dallas Statler Hilton. 4 in the Billboard Hot 100 and Turner earned around half a million dollars in royalties. He asked for one more tour with me, and I said, 'No, absolutely not.' King. the ikettes, originally the artettes, were a trio (sometimes quartet) of female backing vocalists for the ike & tina turner revue. A native of Clarksdale, Mississippi, Turner began playing piano and guitar as a child and then formed the Kings of Rhythm as a teenager. However, they reconciled and lived together until his passing. "[120] Turner struggled to find success due to his cocaine addiction and run-ins with the law. [88] They became close friends and she began dating his saxophonist Raymond Hill. [228] Turner filed for divorce two months later on December 22, but after the divorce was granted they reconciled in 2007. [244], In 1974, Turner was arrested for using illegal blue boxes at Bolic Sound studio to make long-distance phone calls. [145] He decided he was not meant to be a frontman when at twelve he was coerced into giving an impromptu piano recital in school. [241] He married French singer Afida Turner in 2007. Wishing to exploit his Delta music connections, the Bihari brothers at Modern Records also hired Turner as a talent scout, paying him to find southern musicians who might be worth recording. [8], During the 1980s, Turner was arrested multiple times for drug and firearm offenses which resulted in two convictions. At first, I had really been in love with him. [16] However, Turner's daughter, Mia Turner, disagreed with this diagnosis and felt he was being overmedicated. Turner said he only fired a shot to scare him off and that the man had injured himself when he climbed over the fence to get away. [125], Hip-hop group Salt-N-Pepa sampled Turner's composition "I'm Blue (The Gong Gong Song)", released by the Ikettes in 1961, for their 1993 single "Shoop". [29][30] This led to Turner being offered a job by the station manager as the DJ on the late-afternoon shift. Nonetheless, in 2017, Tina was able to give her blessings to a high-profile musical depicting her life story, which debuted the following year in London starring Adrienne Warren. Tina Turner turned her back on me and her family in the US claims son Watch on The ikettes. He had two sons, Ike Turner Jr. (b. [246] Turner was first introduced to cocaine by "two very famous people" he had been working with at the International Hotel in Las Vegas. Tina Turner is known for her fierceness onstage and resilience overcoming an abusive marriage. Instead, he spent the money in a pool hall and learned boogie-woogie from Perkins. Ike had a belief that he was going to die . Arriving in Dallas during the summer of 1976, Tina fled from Ike after a fight and managed to get to safety at a Ramada Inn with practically no money and in bloodied clothes. [6] He sold 20 unreleased Ike & Tina Turner masters to the independent label Esquire Records. [199] During Bullock's pregnancy, Taylor became suspicious that Bullock was pregnant by Turner and threatened her with a gun before shooting herself; her injuries were nonfatal. [21], Turner recounted how he was sexually assaulted at the age of six by a middle-aged lady called Miss Boozie. Initially, they played for segregated audiences at the black clubs in Illinois: Manhattan Club in East St. Louis, which Turner and his band built,[74] the Harlem Club in Brookline and the Kingsbury in Madison. 61 on his list of 100 Greatest Guitarists and noted, "Turner was one of the first guitarists to successfully transplant the intensity of the blues into more commercial music. The 79-year-old superstar . [249] His addiction caused a hole through his nasal septum, the pain of which he relieved by using more cocaine. She made her recording debut on Turner's song "Boxtop", released on Tune Town Records in 1958. [36] The other band led by Turner became the Kings of Rhythm. He considered himself an organizer rather than a performer. Speaking on his early marriages, he said: "You gave a preacher $2, the papers cost $3, that was it. I think that Rocket 88 is R&B, but I think Rocket 88 is the cause of rock and roll existing". [76] He also helped Buddy Guy record his second record;[77] resulting in the single "You Sure Can't Do" / "This Is The End" which Turner played guitar and composed the latter. One faction wanted to play jazz music and the Dukes of Swing. The studio albums Break Every Rule and Foreign Affair followed, as well as a starring role in Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome that featured the anthemic We Dont Need Another Hero. She also penned a 1986 memoir, I, Tina, with journalist Kurt Loder that was turned into the 1993 film Whats Love Got to Do With It, starring Angela Bassett and Laurence Fishburne. How many wives did Ike Turner have? [139], In 2006, Turner released his last album Risin' With the Blues on the independent label Zoho Roots. Ike Turner died of an accidental cocaine overdose. [5] Addicted to cocaine for at least 15 years, Turner was convicted of drug offenses and served 18 months in prison. If the drummer had to pee, I would play drums until he returned.There were no breaks. King. [223] Turner stated, "I loved Tina, but I was in love with Ann Thomas. [200], Following the birth of their son Ronnie in October 1960, they were married in Tijuana in 1962. [82] Through her sister and Washington, Bullock asked Turner to sing with his band. He would send dubs of things he cut to us, and if we'd like them we'd make a seal or sign the artist. [194], In East St. Louis, Turner lived with Lorraine Taylor. [190], Turner married Marion Louis Lee (Bonnie Turner) in Clarksdale on September 24, 1952. Their cover of "I Want to Take You Higher" by Sly and the Family Stone was also successful on the charts in 1970. "I know I'm bipolar.And I've been bipolar, but a lot of people is bipolar," he told her. [27][37], Around the time he was starting out with the Kings of Rhythm, Turner and Lane became unofficial roadies for blues musician Robert Nighthawk, who often played live on WROX. [16] He would fire anyone in his band who used any substances. [32] At some point in the 1940s, Turner moved into Clarksdale's Riverside Hotel. The domestic situation was relentlessly permeated with fear and pain as Ike abused drugs and openly paraded around mistresses. Turner, who was a friend of Sly Stone, played guitar on Sly and the Family Stone's album There's A Riot Goin' On (1971). 3 on the UK Singles Chart and No. While many fans were shocked, many began speculating if his choices in life had killed him. They had met in the mid-1960s at a concert in Bakersfield, California. The couple had also become intimately entangled, and with Tina having a child from a previous relationship with his bandmate Raymond Hill, the two would have a son of their own and reportedly married in 1962 in Tijuana, Mexico. Also, I wanted the general public to have a better outlook and perspective on where Ike was mentally and emotionally, because so often, as a nation, we turn on people who have mental health issues and define them by their behaviors rather than their condition. These sketches were collected in a 2008 comedy album Ike at the Mike. [245] He was cleared of the charges. [12] In 2002, Turner's performance at the Montreux Jazz Festival was released as a live album and DVD. [130], Although Turner considered himself a pianist rather than a guitarist,[31] Rolling Stone magazine editor David Fricke ranked him No. Produced by Rogers, the remake received favorable reviews. [229] In 2016, she released her memoir Love Had Everything to Do with It, which details her volatile relationship with Turner due to his bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. [138], After his death in 2007, Turner's autopsy and toxicology report showed he was taking Seroquel at the time of his death. [212], In her 1986 autobiography, Tina revealed that Turner had been abusive during their marriage. Louis. [2], In 2002, Turner filmed Martin Scorsese's PBS documentary series The Blues, which aired in September 2003. Reports on the December 12, 2007 began flowing in which announced that Tina Turner's ex-husband Ike Turner died at 76. The exception was Brenston who sold the rights to Phillips for $910. [201] Turner stated that the reason they went to Tijuana was to see "sex shows and whores". King and the Beale Streeters to record for Modern at the YMCA in Memphis. [41], Phillips licensed the recording to Chess Records in Chicago. [19] One day after Reese gave him a whipping, Turner knocked him out with a length of lumber and ran away to Memphis for a few days before returning home. Look what he'd done for me. "I want women who find themselves in violent relationships to first, get themselves out of danger and then seek help for them," Audrey added. 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