Tina Turner

Her next single is currently being air played in the UK, which has had mixed reactions from listeners. The album was followed by a tour of the U.K. and then Europe. She is currently preparing for the release of her next album, which is a greatest hits with two new tracks. The band changed direction once again in 2003 and released Universal Hall a mostly acoustic album with a return of some celtic influences from the Fisherman's Blues era. Now semi-retired, she teamed up with Phil Collins to record a song for the Disney film Brother Bear (2003). By 2001 the core of the new Waterboys included Mike Scott on vocals and guitar, Richard Naiff on pianos and organs and Steve Wickham on violin who returned to the band. Her home there sits atop Mont Vinaigrier, overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. A number of old Waterboys guested on the album including Anthony Thistlethwaite and Kevin Wilkinson.

In addition to a lakeshore home on the Goldküste, the most exclusive district of Zurich, Switzerland, Turner has an estate in France at Villefranche-sur-Mer, a small town about 4 miles (6km) east of the city of Nice. To the surprise of many Mike Scott resurrected the Waterboys name for the album A Rock In The Weary Land with a new experimental rock sound Scott called "Sonic Rock". She gained great popularity throughout Europe and moved there permanently in 1986 to share a home with Erwin Bach, a German-born EMI record company executive 16 years her junior. In his frustration at not being able to get a new touring Waterboys band together, Scott left New York, abandoning the Waterboys name and embarking on a solo career. She also raised Ike's two sons from his previous marriage. In December Anthony Thistlethwaite left the band leaving Mike Scott as The Waterboys' only member. The next album was completed with session musicians and was released in 1993 as Dream Harder with a new hard rock-influenced sound. Tina has two natural sons (one is Ike's, the other from a previous relationship with a musician from the Kings of Rhythm). Scott spent the rest of the year writing new material and moved to New York.

Her last world tour, which ended in 2000, was a sell out. 1991 began with Trevor Hutchinson leaving the band and a re-release of the single The Whole of the Moon from This Is The Sea becoming a success in the UK charts. In 1995, she recorded the title theme of the James Bond movie GoldenEye. Scott, Thistlethwaite and Hutchinson recruited Ken Bevins on drums to fulfil the tour dates. She led several extensive world tours in the 1980s and 1990's and released several more successful albums. Just before the album was released Steve Wickham left the band in an argument over a new drummer and the band started to fall apart. In 1985, she appeared as Aunty Entity in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome with Mel Gibson, and scored another hit with the movie's theme song, "We Don't Need Another Hero". The Waterboys' fourth album, Room to Roam was released in September 1990.

The 1984 album Private Dancer had three top ten singles: "What's Love Got to Do with It", the title track, and "Better Be Good To Me". The Waterboys at this point consisted of Mike Scott, Steve Wickham, Anthony Thistlethwaite, Colin Blakey on whistle, flute and piano, Sharon Shannon on accordion, Trevor Hutchinson on bass and Noel Bridgeman on drums. She began touring extensively to pay the bills and released several solo albums in the 1970s, but her career stalled until teaming with BEF for a remake of "Ball of Confusion" drawing the attention of Capitol Records. After further touring the band returned to Spiddal to record a new album. To put the marriage (and Ike) behind her, Tina left the marriage with no money or property, asking for and retaining only the use of the stage name Ike had given her. Due to the number of tracks recorded in the three years between This Is The Sea and Fisherman's Blues Scott released a second album of tracks from this period in 2001 titled Too Close To Heaven or Fisherman's Blues Part 2 in North America. Tina finalized her divorce in 1978 after 18 years of marriage, 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. Critics and fans were spilt, with some embracing the new folk influenced sound and others disappointed and had hoped for a continuation of This Is The Sea.

Around this time, she appeared solo in a memorable cameo as the Gypsy Acid Queen in the film of The Who's Tommy rock opera. Fisherman's Blues was released in October 1988 and showcased a host of guest musicians that had played with the band in Dublin and Spiddal. She credits her newfound Buhddist faith with giving her the courage to strike out on her own. In 1988 Scott took the band to Spiddal in the west of Ireland where they set up a recording studio in Spiddal House to finish recording their new album. Ike's increasingly abusive behavior led Tina to abruptly leave him in 1976. Some of these performances were released in 1998 on The Live Adventures Of The Waterboys including a famous Glastonbury performance in '86. Their signature hit became their frantic rendition of "Proud Mary" (1971). The new band spent 1986 and 1987 recording in Dublin and touring the U.K., Ireland, Europe and Israel.

Ike and Tina Turner recorded a number of hits in the 1960s, including "A Fool In Love", "It's Gonna Work out Fine", and the legendary "River Deep, Mountain High" (with producer Phil Spector). The band's lineup changed once again with Scott, Wickham and Thistlethwaite now joined by Trevor Hutchinson on bass and Peter McKinney on drums. She began as an occasional vocalist in his show at the age of 18, but within a couple of years she not only had a new name, but was the spotlight of a popular soul revue led by Ike Turner and his Kings of Rhythm. At the request of new member Steve Wickham, Mike Scott moved to Dublin and becomes influenced by the traditional Irish music there as well as country and gospel. She was discovered by Ike Turner, a noted pioneer of rock and roll, whom she later married. At the end of the tour Karl Wallinger left to form his own band World Party. Tina Turner is noted for her overpowering stage presence -- long legs, big hair, and powerful voice. and North America with Macro Sin replacing Martyn Swain on bass.

Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock in Nutbush, Tennessee, November 26, 1939) is an African American, Native American, R&B, pop, rock and soul singer, Buddhist and occasional actress probably best known for her scorching performances with the Ike and Tina Turner Revue and for her remarkable solo comeback in the mid-1980s. The album release was followed by successful tours of the U.K. 2004 "Open Arms" #25 UK. charts hampered by Scott's refusal to perform on Top of the Pops and mime. from All the Best