Tina Turner Concerts 1980s

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Tour 1980/1983

Roger Davies, Tina's manager, advised Turner to drop her band and remodel her show into a grittier rock'n'roll showcase. In 1981, Davies booked Tina at The Ritz in New York City. Following the performance, Rod Stewart hired Turner to perform a duet version of his hit, "Hot Legs", on Saturday Night Live, and later hired Turner to open for him on his U.S. tour. One show with Rod Stewart and Kim Carnes, on 19 December 1981, at the L. A. Forum, Inglewood, was filmed. Afterwards, Turner opened three shows for The Rolling Stones. A recorded cover of The Temptations "Ball of Confusion" for the UK production team B.E.F. featuring Robert Cray, became a hit in European dance clubs in 1982. Following performances with Chuck Berry and several short tours in the U.S. and Europe,

February 18-23, 1980 Hyatt Regency, Dearborn, MI June 24-25, 1980 Garden State Arts Center, Holmdel, NJ (supporting Lou Rawls)

From the 17th of November 1980 till the beginning of December 1980 Tina Turner was on tour in Australia. 21 Nov. 1980 - Melbourne - Australia 24 Nov. 1980 - Private Concert for a newspaper in Australia From the beginning of December 1980 till the 24th of December 1980 she was on tour inAustralia and the South-East of Asia. 9-13 Dec. 1980 - St. George Leagues Club, Kogarah - Australia 20 and 21 Dec. 1980 - Bangkok - Thailand 24 Dec. 1980 - Hongkong - China Dec. 1980 Bette Midler was at a concert from Tina Turner. Tina Turner invited Bette to do the song "Hollywood Nights" with her. After the concert Elton John took Tina Turner to Bette Midler's birthday party. With Elton John she performed "The Bitch is back" in Australia. 1980 – Hammersmith Odeon – London - UK 1980 – Concerts in Eastern Europe 1980 – Concerts in the Middle East

At the 18th of March 1981 Tina Turner started her Rock Show in the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisc, CA - USA April 3-4, 1981 Country Club, Reseda, LA April 24, 1981 University of Washington, Seattle, WA May 7-9, 1981 Ritz, New York City, NY May 10, 1981 Camden, NJ June 1981 - 2 weeks of concerts in Toronto - Canada 10 Aug. 1981 - Billy Bobs Texas Stockyard, Fort Worth, TX 30 Aug. 1981 - Riviera Hotel, Las Vegas, NV September 14-26, 1981 Fairmont Hotel, Dallas, TX September 28-October 3, 1981 Ritz, New York City, NY October 19-24 & 26-31, 1981 Fairmont Hotel, New Orleans, LA 5, 6 and 7 Nov. 1981 - Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford, Nj 3 Dec. 1981 - Sala Kongresowa, Warsaw, POL 4 Dec. 1981 - Spodek, Katowice, POL 5 Dec. 1981 - Palác Lucerna Velký Sál., Prague, CZR 11 Dec. 1981 - Northstage Concert Hall, Glen Cove, NY 12 Dec. 1981 - Ritz, New York City, NY 19 Dec. 1981 - Forum, Los Angeles, CA (with Rod Stewart)

January 21, 1982 Billy Bobs Texas Stockyard, Fort Worth, TX 17 Febr. 1982 - First Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 18 Febr. 1982 - Park West, Chicago, IL 21-22 Febr. 1982 - The Sultan's Cabaret, Akron, OH 23 Febr. 1982 – Center Stage, Canton, MI 27 March 1982 - Congresgebouw, The Hague, NED March 29-30, 1982 - Le Palace, Paris, FRA 1 April 1982 - Philharmonie, Berlin, GER 2 April 1982 - C.C.H., Hamburg, GER 3 April 1982 - Alte Oper, Frankfurt, GER 4 April 1982 - Europa Saal, Aachen, GER 5 April 1982 - Ostseehalle, Kiel, GER 6 April 1982 - Zeche, Bochum, GER 9 April 1982 - Hammersmith Odeon, London, ENG 11 April 1982 - Arts Centre, Poole, ENG 12 April 1982 - Cornwall Coliseum, St. Austel, ENG 23 April 1982 - Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, BC 17-19 June 1982 - St. George Leagues Club, Kogarah, AUS 20 June 1982 - Paramatta Leagues Club, Paramatta, AUS 1-3 July 1982 - St. George Leagues Club, Kogarah, AUS 9-11 July 1982 - Revesby Workers Club, Sydney, AUS 11 May 1982 - Hillside Memorial Park, Los Angeles, CA 13 July 1982 - Astrodome, Traralgon, AUS 15 July 1982 - Collendina Hotel, Ocean Grove, AUS 16 July 1982 - The Venue, St. Kilda, AUS 17 July 1982 - Waltzing Mathilda Hotel, Springvale, AUS 18 July 1982 - Dorset Gardens Hotel, Croydon, AUS 21 Aug. 1982 - Momarkedet, Mysen, NOR 22 Aug. 1982 - Konserthuset, Stockholm, SWE 24 Aug. 1982 - Kulttuuritalo, Helsinki, FIN 3-4 Sept. 1982 - Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, BC 5 Sept. 1982 - Seattle Center, Seattle, WA 13 Nov. 1982 - De Doelen, Rotterdam, NED 14 Nov. 1982 - Forest National, Brussels, BEL 4 Dec. 1982 - Sports Hall, Budapest, HUN

Band: Chuck O'Steen - Keyboard and Musical leader Bob Feit – Bass Jack Bruno - Drums James Ralston – Guitar Kenny Moore – Piano and Vocals Lejeune Richardson - Dancer and Background vocals Annie Behringer - Dancer and Background vocals

January 12-13, 1983 Premier Center, Sterling Heights, MI

January 14-16, 1983 Caesars, Atlantic City, NJ

January 18, 1983 Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie, NY

January 20, 1983 Wax Museum, Washington, DC

January 21, 1983 Front Row Theatre, Highland Heights, OH

January 27-29, 1983 Ritz, New York City, NY

April 8-9, 1983 Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, BC

April 19, 1983 Hilton Hawaiian Village Coral Ballroom, Honolulu, HI

April 24, 1983 University of Washington, Seattle, WA

April 25, 1983 Rockefeller’s, Houston, TX

May 13, 1983 Gröna Lund - Sweden

June 10-11, 1983 Barrymore’s Music Hall, Ottawa, ON

June 27, 1983 First Avenue, Minneapolis, MN

July 13, 1983 Traralgon Astrodome, Traralgon, AUS

July 25, 1983 Pier 84, New York City, NY

August 3, 1983 Club Casino, Hampton Beach, NH

August 4, 1983 Park West, Chicago, IL

August 24, 1983 Kulttuuritalo, Helsinki, FIN

September 26-October 9, 1983 Fairmont Hotel Venetian Room, San Francisco, CA

October 13, 1983 Konserthus, Oslo, NOR

November 1, 1983 Olympen, Lund, SWE

November 2, 1983 Kulttuuritalo, Helsinki, FIN

November 4, 1983 Metropol, Berlin, GER

November 13, 1983 Zeche, Bochum, GER

December 6, 1983 Kongresshaus, Zürich, SUI

December 7, 1983 Théâtre de Beaulieu, Lausanne, SUI

December 9, 1983 Sala Morasol, Madrid, SPA

December 10, 1983 Sala Pachá, Barcelona, SPA

December 15, 1983 The Box, Arnhem, NED

December 16, 1983 The Venue, London, ENG

December 20, 1983 The Venue, London, ENG

December 22, 1983 Fairfield Hall, Croydon, ENG

Band: Annie Behringer - Singer and Dancer Lejeune Richardson - Singer and Dancer Jack Bruno - Drums Bob Feit – Bass Kenny Moore – Piano Chuck O'Steen - Keyboard James Ralston – Guitar

27 Jan. 1984 - Cornwall Colliseum - St. Austell, ENG 28 Jan. 1984 - Blazer's - Windsor - UK 30 Jan. 1984 - Top Rank Suite - Brighton - UK 1 Febr. 1984 - Guidhall - Portsmouth - UK 2.Febr. 1984 - Leisure Center - Gloucester - UK 3 Febr. 1984 - Gaumont Theater - Ipswich - UK 4 Febr. 1984 - Apollo Theater - Oxford - UK 5 Febr. 1984 - Fairfield Hall - Croydon - UK 6 Febr. 1984 - Civic Hall - Wolverhampton - UK 8 Febr. 1984 - De Montford Hall - Leicester - UK 9 Febr. 1984 - The Arts Center - Poole - UK 10 Febr. 1984 - Colston Hall - Bristol - UK 11 Febr. 1984 - Odeon Theater - Birmingham - UK 12 Febr. 1984 - St. David's Hall - Cardiff - UK 14 Febr. 1984 - Royal Centre - Nottingham - UK 15 Febr. 1984 - Derngate Center - Northampton - UK 17 Febr. 1984 - Maaspoort - Den Bosch - Holland 18 Febr. 1984 - Apollo Theater - Glasgow - UK 19 Febr. 1984 - Capitol Theater - Aberdeen - UK 20 Febr. 1984 - Playhouse Theater - Edinburgh - UK 21 Febr. 1984 - City Hall - Newcastle-upon-Tyne - UK 22 Febr. 1984 - City Hall - Sheffield - UK 23 Febr. 1984 - Davenport Theater - Stockport - UK 24 Febr. 1984 - Southport Theater - Southport - UK 25 Febr. 1984 - University of Lancaster - UK 26 Febr. 1984 - Haven Theater - Boston - UK 27 Febr. 1984 - Civic Hall - Harrogate - UK 28 February 1984 - Apollo Theatre, Manchester - UK

Band: Kenny Moore – Piano and Vocals James Ralston – Guitar Jack Bruno – Drums Bob Feit – Bass Chuck O'Steen – Keyboards and Vocals Lejeune Richardson - Dancer and Vocals Annie Behringer - Dancer and Vocals

After february 1984 Tina started with the recording of her "Private Dancer" album. She rehearsed some new songs and in May 1984 she became the opening act for Lionel Richie’s "Can't Slow Down" tour. She performed her own set of approximately 40 minutes and later in the show she performed "Hot Legs" and the duet "Three Times A Lady" together with Lionel.

Here are the dates of the tour Tina Turner did with Lionel Richie.

15 May 1984 – Mabee Arena, Tulsa , OK - USA 16 May 1984 – Mid South Coliseum, Memphis, TN - USA 18 May 1984 – San Antonio, TX - USA 19 May 1984 – Dallas, TX - USA 20 May 1984 – The Summit , Houston, TX - USA 22 May 1984 – Muncipal Auditorium – Nashville, TN- USA 23 May 1984 – Knoxiville, TN - USA 25 May 1984 – Jefferson Civic Center Coliseum, Birmingham, AL - USA 26 May 1984 – The Omni, Atlanta, GA - USA 27 May 1984 – Riverfront Coliseum, Cincinatti, OH - USA 29 May 1984 – Civic Arena – Pittsburgh, PA- USA 30 May 1984 – The Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA 1 June 1984 – Brendan Byrne Arena – East Rutherford, NJ - USA 2 June 1984 – Brendan Byrne Arena – East Rutherdord, NJ - USA 3 June 1984 – Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Uniondale, NY - USA 5 June 1984 – Boston Garden, Boston, MA - USA 6 June 1984 – Hartford Civic Cente , Hartford, CT - USA 8 June 1984 – Atlantic City, NJ - USA 9 June 1984 – Atlantic City, NJ - USA 10 June 1984 – Capitol Center, Landover, MD - USA 13 June 1984 – Market Square Arena, Indianapolis, IN - USA 14 June 1984 – Joe Louis Arena, Detroit, Michigan, USA 15 June 1984 – UIC Pavilion, Chicago, IL - USA 16 June 1984 – UIC Pavilion, Chicago, IL - USA 18 June 1984 – Richfield Coliseum, Richfield, OH - USA 19 June 1984 – Richfield Coliseum, Richfield, OH - USA 22 June 1984 – St. Paul Civic Arena – St. Paul, MN - USA 23 June 1984 – Kemper Arena , Kansas City, MO - USA 26 June 1984 – Olympic Saddledome – Calgary, AB - Canada 27 June 1984 – Northlands Coliseum – Edmonton, AB - Canada 29 June 1984 – Pacific Coliseum – Vancouver, BC - Canada 30 June 1984 – Memorial Coliseum, Portland, OR 1 July 1984 – Boise, ID - USA 3 July 1984 – Seattle, WA - USA 6 July 1984 – Los Angeles, CA - USA 8 July 1984 – Los Angeles, CA - USA 10 July 1984 – San Diego, CA - USA 11 July 1984 – Tempe, AZ - USA 13 July 1984 – Oakland, CA - USA 14 July 1984 – TCC Music Hall, Tucson , AZ – USA 22 July 1984 – Memorial Coliseum, Portland, OR - USA 26 July 1984 - Royal Oak Music Theater, Royal Oak, Michigan - USA

After the touring with Lionel Richie, Tina Turner continued her World Tour. 18 July 1984 - 1 Sept. - 40 Concerts in the USA and Canada 1 Aug. 1984 - First Avenue Club - Minneapolis, MN - USA 17 Aug. 1984 - Park West - Chicago - USA 24 Aug. 1984 - Long Wharf - Sag Harbor - USA 1-3 Sept. 1984 - Beverly Hills Theater - Beverly Hills, CA - USA 26 Oct. 1984 - Kemper Arena - Kansas City, MO - USA 15 Nov. – 13 Dec. 1984 - Concerts in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and the Gold Coast 15 Dec. - 25 Dec. 1984: Concerts in Hong Kong, Bangkok, Manila and Japan

Band: Kenny Moore – Piano and Vocals James Ralston – Guitar and vocals Bob Feit – Bass Alan – Keyboard Hal Lindes – Guitar and Vocals Henry Spinetti - Drums

The Band Jack Bruno - Drums Timmy Cappello – Percussion,Keyboard, Saxophone and Vocals Bob Feit – Bass Jemie West-Oram – Guitar and Vocals Kenny Moore – Piano and Vocals James Ralston – Guitar and Vocals

19 Febr. 1985 - Icehallen - Helsinki, FIN 21 Febr. 1985 - Drammenhallen - Oslo, NOR 22 Febr. 1985 - Lisebergshallen - Gothenburg, SWE 23 Febr. 1985 - Isstadion - Stockholm, SWE 24 Febr. 1985 - Falkoner Theatre - Copenhagen, DEN 28 Febr. 1985 - Eberthalle - Ludwigshafen, GER 1 March 1985 - Basketballhalle - - Münich, GER 2 March 1985 - Jahrhunderthalle - Frankfurt, GER 3 March 1985 - C.C.H. - Hamburg, GER 4 March 1985 - Eissporthalle - Berlin, GER 7 March 1985 - Boeblingen, GER 8 March 1985 - Hallenstadion - Zürich, SUI 9 March 1985 - Karl Diehm Halle - Würzburg, GER 11 March 1985 - The Brighton Centre - Brighton, ENG 12 March 1985 - B.I.C. - Bournemouth, ENG 14 March 1985 - Wembley Arena - London, ENG 15 March 1985 - Wembley Arena - London, ENG 16 March 1985 - Wembley Arena - London, ENG 17 March 1985 - Wembley Arena - London, ENG 20 March 1985 - The Playhouse - Edinburgh - UK 21 March 1985 - The Apollo - Manchester, ENG 23 March 1985 - N.E.C. - Birmingham, ENG 24 March 1985 - N.E.C. - Birmingham, ENG 26 March 1985 - Zenith - Paris, FRA 27 March 1985 - Garnier - Lyon, FRA 28 March 1985 - Chapiteau - Marseilles, FRA 29 March 1985 - Palace Lido - Milan- Italy 31 March 1985 - Sportshalle - Klagenfurt, GER 1 April 1985 - Sportshalle - Graz, AUT 2 April 1985 - Sportshalle - Budapest, HUN 3 April 1985 - Stadthalle - Vienna, AUT 4 April 1985 - Sportshalle- Linz, AUT 6 April 1985 - Olympiahalle - Münich, GER 7 April 1985 - Saarlandhalle - Saarbrücken, GER 8 April 1985 - The Ahoy - Rotterdam - The Netherlands 9 April 1985 - The Ahoy - Rotterdam The Netherlands 10 April 1985 - Forest Nationale - Brussels - Belgium 11 April 1985 - Jahrhunderthalle - Frankfurt - Germany 12 April 1985 - Jahrhunderthalle - Frankfurt - Germany 13 April 1985 - Stadthalle - Bremen - Germany 14 April 1985 - Westfalenhalle - Dortmund, GER 15 April 1985 - Philipshalle - Düsseldorf - Germany 18 April 1985 - C.C.H. - Hamburg - Germany 19 April 1985 - Rhein-Neckar-Halle - Heidelberg - Germany 20 April 1985 - Olympiahalle - Münich, GER 21 April 1985 - Hallenstadion - Zürich, SUI 22 April 1985 - Frankenhalle - Nürnberg, GER 24 April 1985 - Deutschlandhalle - Berlin - Germany 25 April 1985 - Stadthalle - Bremen - Germany 26 April 1985 - Philipshalle - Düsseldorf - Germany 27 April 1985 - Festhalle - Frankfurt - Germany 28 April 1985 - Münsterlandhalle - Münster - Germany 30 April 1985 - Ostseehalle - Kiel, GER 1 May 1985 - Sporthalle - Cologne - Germany 3 May 1985 - Deutschlandhalle - Berlin - Germany 4 May 1985 - Niedersachsenhalle- Hannover - Germany 5 May 1985 - Aisterdorferhalle - Hamburg - Germany 7 May 1985 - Boblinger - Sporthalle - Stuttgart - Germany 8 May 1985 - Basketballhalle - Münich, GER 9 May 1985 - St. Jakob's Hall - Basel, SUI 8 July 1985 - Memorial Stadium - St. Johns - Canada 9 July 1985 - Memorial Stadium - St. Johns - Canada 10 July 1985 - Memorial Stadium - St. Johns - Canada 11 July 1985 - Memorial Stadium - St. Johns - Canada 13 July 1985 - Live Aid - Philadelphia, PA 14 July 1985 - Aiken Center - Fredricton - Canada 15 July 1985 - Coliseum - Moncton - Canada 16 July 1985 - Metro, Halifax - Canada 17 July 1985 - Metro, Halifax - Canada 19 July 1985 - Forum - Montreal- Canada 21 July 1985 - Worcester Centrum - Worcestor- USA 22 July 1985 - Worcester Centrum - Worcestor - USA 25 July 1985 - Civic Center - Providence - USA 26 July 1985 - Civic Center - Portland - USA 27 July 1985 - Civic Center - Hartfore - USA 28 July 1985 - Meadowlands - East Rutherford - USA 31 July 1985 - Spectrum - Philadelphia, PA August 1-2, 1985 Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY 3 Aug. 1985 - Fairground - Allentown - USA 5 Aug. 1985 - Capitol Center - Lanover - USA August 7-8, 1985 Jones Beach, Wantagh, NY 9 Aug. 1985 - Raindate - Long Island - USA 10 Aug. 1985 - Hershey Park - Hershey - USA 11 Aug. 1985 - War Memorial - Rochester - USA 12 Aug. 1985 - Saratoga Perf. Arts C. - Saratoga - USA 15 Aug. 1985 - Olympic Center - Lake Placid - USA 17 Aug. 1985 - CNE - Toronto, ON 18 Aug. 1985 - CCE - Ottawa, ON 21 Aug. 1985 - Centennial Hall - Toledo - USA 22 Aug. 1985 - Richfield Co - Cleveland - USA 23 Aug. 1985 - Civic Arena - Pittsburgh - USA 24 Aug. 1985 - Civic - Charleston - USA 25 Aug. 1985 - Revermont C. - Cincinnatti - USA 28 Aug. 1985 - Joe Louis Arena - Detroit - USA 29 Aug. 1985 - Joe Louis Arena - Detroit- USA 31 Aug. 1985 - Castle Farms - Charlevoix- USA 1 Sept. 1985 - Atwood Stadium - Flint - USA 4 Sept. 1985 - Wings Stadium - Kalamazoo - USA 5 Sept. 1985 - Coliseum Ft. - Wayne - USA 6 Sept. 1985 - Rupp Arena - Lexington - USA 7 Sept. 1985 - Market Square - Indianapolis, IN 8 Sept. 1985 - Roberts Stadium - Evansville- USA 10 Sept. 1985 - Assembly Hall - Champaign- USA 11 Sept. 1985 - Horizon - Chicago - USA 12 Sept. 1985 - Horizon - Chicago - USA 13 Sept. 1985 - MTV Awards Show - USA 14 Sept. 1985 - Mecca- Milwaukee- USA 15 Sept. 1985 - Dane City Arena - Madison - USA 18 Sept. 1985 - Civic Aud. - St. Paul - USA 19 Sept. 1985 - Carva Arena - Iowa City - USA 20 Sept. 1985 - Hilton Coliseum - Ames - USA 21 Sept. 1985 - Civic Arena - Omaha, NB 24 Sept. 1985 - Saddledome - Calgary, AB 25 Sept. 1985 - Coliseum - Edmonton, AB 27 Sept. 1985 - PNE Coliseum - Vancouver, BC 29 Sept. 1985 - Dome - Tacoma - USA 30 Sept. 1985 - Coliseum - Portland - USA October 1985 2 Oct. 1985 - Lawlor - Reno - USA 3 Oct. 1985 - Coliseum - Oakland- USA 4 Oct. 1985 - Coliseum - Oakland- USA 5 Oct. 1985 - Irvine Meadows - Irvine - USA October 8-12, 1985 Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles, CA 18 Oct. 1985 - ASU Activities - Tempe - USA 19 Oct. 1985 - Pan America Center - Las Cruces - Mexico 20 Oct. 1985 - Tingley Coliseum - Albuquerque - USA 23 Oct. 1985 - Kansas Coliseum - Wichita - USA 24 Oct. 1985 - Hammons - Springfield - USA 25 Oct. 1985 - Myriad - Oklahoma City - USA 26 Oct. 1985 - Kemper - Kansas City - USA 27 Oct. 1985 - Kiel - St. Louis - USA 28 Oct. 1985 - Kiel - St. Louis - USA 31 Oct. 1985 - Ass Center - Tulsa, OK 1 Nov. 1985 - Reunion Arena - Dallas, TX 2 Nov. 1985 - Erwin Events - Austin, TX 3 Nov. 1985 - Summit - Houston, TX 6 Nov. 1985 - LSU Assembly - Baton Rouge - USA 7 Nov. 1985 - Gulf Coast 8 Nov. 1985 - Auburn Memorial Center - Auburn - USA 9 Nov. 1985 - UTC - Chatanooga- USA 10 Nov. 1985 - MidSouth - Memphis - USA 13 Nov. 1985 - Hersht Coliseum - Shreveport - USA 14 Nov. 1985 - Humphrey - Starkville - USA 15 Nov. 1985 - Jeff Co. Civic - Birmingham - USA 16 Nov. 1985 - Murphy Center - Murfrebor - USA 17 Nov. 1985 - Stokely Center - Knoxville - USA 20 Nov. 1985 - W.V.U. Gym. - Morgntown - USA 21 Nov. 1985 - Civic - Roanoke - USA 22 Nov. 1985 - Hampton Coliseum - Hampton - USA 23 Nov. 1985 - Civic - Greensboro- USA 24 Nov. 1985 - Coliseum - Columbia- USA 27 Nov. 1985 - Coliseum - Richmond - USA 29 Nov. 1985 - Coliseum - Charlotte - USA 30 Nov. 1985 - Civic Center - Savannah - USA December 1, 1985 Omni - Atlanta- USA December 4, 1985 O´Connell Center - Gainesville - USA December 5, 1985 Conv. Center - Orlando - USA December 6, 1985 Sundome - Tampa - USA December 7, 1985 Baseball Stadium - Miami- USA December 10, 1985 Chandler Velodrome, Brisbane, AUS December 12-13 & 15, 1985 Entertainment Centre, Sydney, AUS December 17-20, 1985 Entertainment Centre, Melbourne, AUS December 23-24, 1985 Entertainment Centre, Perth, AUS December 27, 1985 Festival Hall, Osaka, JPN December 28, 1985 Budokan, Tokyo, JPN

The Band: Jack Bruno - Drums Deric Dyer – Saxophone and Keyboards Bob Feit – Bass Guitar and Vocals John Miles – Keyboards, Guitars and Vocals Steve Scales - Percussion James Ralston – Guitars and Vocals Laurie Wisefield - Guitar Don Snow – Keyboards, Saxophone and Vocals Ollie Marland – Keyboards and Vocals

4-5 March 1987 - Olympiahalle - Münich, GER 6-7 March 1987 - Frankenhalle - Nürnberg, GER 8-10 March 1987 - Deutschlandhalle - Berlin, GER 12-16 March 1987 - Festhalle - Frankfurt, GER 17 March 1987 - Sporthalle- Hamburg, GER 20-21 March 1987 - Isstadion - Stockholm, SWE 22 March 1987 - Scandinavium - Gothenberg, SWE 29-31 March 1987 - The Bercy - Paris, FRA 1 April 1987 - Palais Des Sports - Antwerp, BEL 3-6 April 1987 - The Ahoy - Rotterdam, NED 7 April 1987 - Weser-Ems-Halle - Oldenburg, GER 9-12 April 1987 - Westfalenhalle - Dortmund, GER 14-19 April 1987 - Olympiahalle - Münich, GER 21-25 April 1987 - Hallenstadion - Zürich, SUI 28-30 April 1987 - Eissporthalle - Mannheim, GER 1-2 May 1987 - Eissporthalle - Hannover, GER 4-7 May 1987 - Martin Schleyerhalle - Stuttgart, GER 9-11 May 1987 - Stadthalle - Vienna, AUT 17 May 1987 - Rockodrome - Madrid, SPA 19 May 1987 - Estadio Luis Casanova - Valencia, SPA 21 May 1987 - Plaza De Toros - Barcelona, SPA 23 May 1987 - Amphitheatre - Verona, ITY 26 May 1987 - Le Zenith - Montpellier, FRA 27 May 1987 - Palais De Sports - Lyon, FRA 28 May 1987 - Sports Ground- Nijmegen, NED 30 May 1987 - Royal Dublin - Dublin, IRE 1-3 June 1987 - S.E.C.C. - Glasgow, SCOT 5-8 June 1987 - N.E.C. - Birmingham, ENG 11-18 June 1987 - Wembley Arena - London, ENG 20 June 1987 - Valle-Hovin - Oslo, NOR 21 June 1987 - Wildparkstadion - Karlsruhe, DEN 24 June 1987 - Eisstadion - Liebenau Graz, AUT 27 June 1987 - St. Jakob Fussballstadion - Basel, SUI 28 June 1987 - Galopprennbahn - Münich, GER 30 June 1987 - Eissporthalle - Hannover, GER 2 July 1987 - Waldbühne - Berlin, GER 3 July 1987 - Volksparkstadion - Hamburg, GER 4 July 1987 - Georg Melches Stadion - Essen, GER 5 July 1987 - Idraetsparken - Copenhagen, DEN 8 July 1987 - Piazza Grande - Locarno, SUI 9 July 1987 - Stade Annecy - Le Vieux Annecy, FRA 11 July 1987 - Les Arena - Fréjus, FRA 13 July 1987 - Les Arena - Nimes, FRA 15 July 1987 - Stade De Dax - Dax, FRA 16 July 1987 - Plaza De Toros - Bilbao, SPA 18 July 1987 - Estadio Municipal Malaga - Marbella, SPA 21-22 July 1987 - Park Concert - Tel Aviv, ISR 24 July 1987 - Airport Festival - Oostende, BEL 25 July 1987 - Nürburgring - Koblenz, GER 26 July 1987 - VFB Waldstadion - Giessen, GER 10 Aug. 1987 - Civic Center - Portland - USA 12-14 Aug. 1987 - Jones Beach - Wangagh - USA 15 Aug. 1987 - Olympic Center - Lake Placid - USA 17-18 Aug. 1987 - Garden State - Holmdel - USA 19-20 Aug. 1987 - Great Woods - Mansfield - USA 22-23 Aug. 1987 - Merriweather Post Pavillion - Columbia 24 Aug. 1987 - Madison Square Garden - NY 25 Aug. 1987 - Spectrum - Philadelphia, PA 27 Aug. 1987 - Forum - Montreal - Canada 29 Aug. 1987 - CNE - Toronto - Canada 30 Aug. 1987 - CCE - Ottawa - Canada 31 Aug. 1987 - SPAC - Saratoga Canada 1 Sept. 1987 - State Fair - Syracuse - USA 2 Sept. 1987 - War Memorial - Rochester - USA 4 Sept. 1987 - Pine Knob Music Theatre - Clarkston - USA 5 Sept. 1987 - Pine Knob Music Theatre - Clarkston - USA 6 Sept. 1987 - Castle Farm - Charlevois - USA 9 Sept. 1987 - Blossom - Cleveland - USA 10 Sept. 1987 - Univ. of Dayton Arena - Dayton - USA 11-12 Sept. 1987 - Poplar Creek - Hoffmann Estate - USA 13 Sept. 1987 - Marcus Amphitheatre - Milwaukee, WI 2 Oct. 1987 - Pacific Amphitheatre - Costa Mesa - USA 4 Oct. 1987 - Tacomadome - Tacoma - USA 5 Oct. 1987 - PNE Coliseum - Vancouver - Canada 7 Oct. 1987 - Saddledome - Calgary Canada 8 Oct. 1987 - Northlands Coliseum - Edmonton, AB 10 Oct. 1987 - Arena - Winnipeg, MB 13 Oct. 1987 - Civic Center - St. Paul - USA 15 Oct. 1987 - SIU Arena - Carbondale - USA 16 Oct. 1987 - Civic Center - Peoria - USA 17 Oct. 1987 - Kemper - Kansas City, MO 18 Oct. 1987 - Hilton - Coliseum Ames - USA 21 Oct. 1987 - Metro Center - Rockford - USA 22 Oct. 1987 - Coliseum - Fort Wayne - USA 23 Oct. 1987 - Market Square - Indianapolis, IN 24 Oct. 1987 - Freedom Hall - Louisville, KY 27 Oct. 1987 - Coliseum - Charlotte - USA 29 Oct. 1987 - Murphy Center - Murfreesboro - USA 30 Oct. 1987 - UTC Arena - Chattanooga - USA 31 Oct. 1987 - Stokley Arena - Knoxville - USA November 1987 1 Nov. 1987 -- Civic Center - Charleston - USA 4 Nov. 1987 -- Civic Arena - Pittsburgh - USA 5 Nov. 1987 -- Coliseum - Richmond - USA 6 Nov. 1987 -- UNC Smith Center- Chapel Hill - USA 7 Nov. 1987 -- Coliseum - Hampton - USA 8 Nov. 1987 -- Carolina Coliseum - Columbia - USA 11 Nov. 1987 -- OMNI - Atlanta - USA 12 Nov. 1987 -- Ocean Center - Daytona Beach - USA 13 Nov. 1987 -- Sportatorium - Miami - USA 14 Nov. 1987 -- Sundome - Tampa - USA 15 Nov. 1987 -- Leon County Civic - Tallahassee - USA 18 Nov. 1987 -- Von Braun Civic - Huntsville - USA 19 Nov. 1987 -- Mid-South Coliseum - Memphis - USA 20 Nov. 1987 -- Jefferson County Coliseum - Birmingham - USA 21 Nov. 1987 -- Municipal Auditorium Mobile - Alabama - USA 22 Nov. 1987 -- Hard Rock Cafe - New Orleans, LA (private) 25 Nov. 1987 -- Summit - Houston, TX 27 Nov. 1987 -- San Antonio, TX 28 Nov. 1987 -- Erwin Center - Austin, TX 29 Nov. 1987 -- Reunion - Dallas, TX December 1987 4 Dec. 1987 - Municipal Coliseum - Lubbock, TX 5 Dec. 1987 - Tingley - Albuquerque, NM 6 Dec. 1987 - ASU Activity Center - Phoenix, AZ 7 Dec. 1987 - TCC Arena - Tucson, AZ 9 Dec. 1987 - Sports Arena - San Diego, CA 10 Dec. 1987 - Great Western Forum - Los Angeles, CA 11 Dec. 1987 - Great Western Forum - Los Angeles, CA 13-14 Dec. 1987 - Coliseum - Oakland, CA 15 Dec. 1987 - Arco Arena - Sacramento, CA 16 Dec. 1987 - Lawlor - Reno, NV 18 Dec. 1987 - Salt Palace - Salt Lake City, UT 20 Dec. 1987 - McNichols - Denver, CO

3 Jan. 1988 - River Plate stadium - Buenos Aires, ARG 9-10 Jan. 1988 - Pacaembu Stadium - Sao Paulo, BRA 12 Jan. 1988 - Estadio De National de Chile - Santiago, CHL 16 Jan. 1988 - Maracana Stadium - Rio de Janeiro, BRA (182.000 - Worldrecord!!) 21 Jan. 1988 – Neal S. Blaisdell Center – Honolulu, HI 26 and 27 Jan. 1988 – Perth Entertainment Centre - Perth, AUS 30 and 31 Jan. 1988 – Entertainment Centre – Adelaide, AUS 1, 2 and 4 Febr. 1988 – Festival Hall - Melbourne, AUS 6-7 Febr. 1988 - Entertainment Center - Sydney, AUS 10-11 Febr. 1988 - Entertainment Center Brisbane, AUS 12-15 Febr. 1988 - Entertainment Center - Sydney, AUS 17 Febr. 1988 - Entertainment Center - Melbourne, AUS 18 Febr. 1988 - Istora Senayan - Jakarta, INDO 20-23 Febr. 1988 - World Trade Center - Singapore 24 en 25 Febr. 1988 - Stadion Negara - Kuala Lumpur, MALAY 26 and 28 Febr. 1988 - Huamark Stadium - Bangkok, THAI 5, 6 and 8 March 1988 - Municipal Stadium - Taipei, TAI 14 March 1988 - Nippon Budokan Hall - Tokyo, JPN 20-23 March 1988 - Yokohama Stadium - Yokohama, JPN 24-25 March 1988 - Budokan - Tokyo, JPN 27-30 March 1988 - Castle Hall - Osaka, JPN

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Tour 1980/1983.

Roger Davies, Tina's manager, advised Turner to drop her band and remodel her show into a grittier rock'n'roll showcase. In 1981, Davies booked Tina at The Ritz in New York City. Following the performance, Rod Stewart hired Turner to perform a duet version of his hit, "Hot Legs", on Saturday Night Live, and later hired Turner to open for him on his U.S. tour. One show with Rod Stewart and Kim Carnes, on 19 December 1981, at the L. A. Forum, Inglewood, was filmed. Afterwards, Turner opened three shows for The Rolling Stones. A recorded cover of The Temptations "Ball of Confusion" for the UK production team B.E.F. featuring Robert Cray, became a hit in European dance clubs in 1982. Following performances with Chuck Berry and several short tours in the U.S. and Europe, Turner again performed at the Ritz in December of the year, which resulted in a singles deal with Capitol Records under the insistence of David Bowie.

1980 18-23 Febr. 1980 – Hyatt Regency – Dearborn- Michigan - USA From the 17th of November 1980 till the beginning of December 1980 Tina Turner was on tour in Australia. 21 Nov. 1980 - Melbourne - Australia 24 Nov. 1980 - Private Concert for a newspaper in Australia

From the beginning of December 1980 till the 24th of December 1980 she was on tour inAustralia and the South-East of Asia. 9-13 Dec. 1980 - St. George Leagues Club, Kogarah - Australia 20 and 21 Dec. 1980 - Bangkok - Thailand 24 Dec. 1980 - Hongkong - China

Dec. 1980 Bette Midler was at a concert from Tina Turner. Tina Turner invited Bette to do the song "Hollywood Nights" with her. After the concert Elton John took Tina Turner to Bette Midler's birthday party. With Elton John she performed "The Bitch is back" in Australia.

1980 – Hammersmith Odeon – London - UK 1980 – Concerts in Eastern Europe 1980 – Concerts in the Middle East

1981 At the 16th of February 1981 Tina Turner was in the Sunset Sound Studio's to record 3 demo's. "Crazy in the night" (cover from the Sherps), "Out of time" (The Rolling Stones) and "Pain" (Eddy Hampton Armani).

At the 18th of March 1981 Tina Turner started her Rock Show in the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisc, CA - USA

3 and 4 April 1981 - Country Club - Reseda, LA - USA 24 April 1981 - University of Washington - Seattle, WA - USA

7-9 May 1981 - The Ritz, - New York - USA 10 May 1981 - Camden, New Jersey, NY - USA

June 1981 - 2 weeks of concerts in Toronto - Canada 10 Aug. 1981 - Billy Bobs Texas, Forth Worth, TX - USA 30 Aug. 1981 - Riviera Hotel - Las Vegas - USA

14-26 Sept. 1981 - Fairmont Hotel - Dallas, TX - USA 28 and 29 Sept. 1981 - The Ritz - New York - USA 30 Sept. 1981 - The Ritz - New York - USA

1 Oct. 1981 - The Ritz - New York - USA 2 and 3 Oct. 1981 - The Ritz, New York - USA 19-24 and 26-31 Oct. 1981 - Fairmont Hotel, New Orleans - USA

5, 6 and 7 Nov. 1981 - Brendan Byrne Arena - East Rutherford - USA

3 Dec. 1981 - Sala Kongresowa - Warsaw - Poland 4 Dec. 1981 - Spodek - Katowice - Poland 5 Dec. 1981 - Palác Lucerna Velký Sál. - Prague - Czech Republic 11 Dec. 1981 - Northstage Concert Hall, Glen Cove, NY - USA 12 Dec. 1981 - The Ritz - New York - USA 19 Dec. 1981 - LA Forum - Los Angeles, CA - USA (with Rod Stewart)

Band Chuck O'Steen - Keyboard and Musical leader Bob Feit – Bass Jack Bruno - Drums James Ralston – Guitar Kenny Moore – Piano and Vocals Lejeune Richardson - Dancer and Backgroundvocals Annie Behringer - Dancer and Backgroundvocals

1983 12 Jan. 1983 - Premier Center - Sterling Heights, MI - USA 13 Jan. 1983 - Premier Center - Sterling Heights, MI - USA 14, 15 and 16 Jan. 1983 - Caesars Atlantic City - Atlantic City - USA 18 Jan. 1983 - Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie, NY - USA 20 Jan. 1983 - Wax Museum - Washington - USA 21 Jan. 1983 - Front Row Theather, Highland Heights, OH - USA 27, 28 and 29 Jan. 1983 - The Ritz - New York - USA

8 and 9 April 1983 - The Commodore Ballroom - Vancouver - Canada 24 April 1983 - University of Washington - Seattle - USA 25 April 1983 - Rockefeller’s - Houston - USA

13 May 1983 - Gröna Lund - Sweden

10 June 1983 - Barrymore’s Music Hall - Ottawa, ON - Canada 11 June 1983 - Barrymore’s Music Hall - Ottawa, ON - Canada 27 June 1983 - First Avenue - Minneapolis - USA

13 July 1983 - Traralgon Astrodome - Traralgon - Australia 25 July 1983 - Pier 84 - New York - USA

3 Aug. 1983 - Club Casino - Hampton Beach, NH - USA 4 Aug. 1983 - Park West - Chicago - USA 24 Aug. 1983 – Kulttuuritalo – Helsinki - Finland

26 Sept. - 9 Oct.1983 - Venetian Room Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco, CA - USA

13 Oct. 1983 - Oslo Konserthus - Oslo - Norway

In November 1983, Tina released her cover of Al Green's " Let's Stay Together ", with Capitol. The record became a hit, reaching several European charts, including a top 10 placement in the United Kingdom. The song peaked at number 26 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Turner's first solo entry into the U.S. charts. It also peaked at the top ten of the Hot Dance Club Songs and Hot Black Singles charts. The success of the song forced Capitol to rethink its contract with Turner, offering the singer a three album deal, demanding an album on short notice, which had Turner staging what Ebony magazine later called an "amazing comeback." Recorded in two months in London, the album " Private Dancer " was released in June 1984.

1 Nov. 1983 - Olympen - Lund - Sweden 2 Nov. 1983 - Kulttuuritalo - Helsinki - Finland 4 Nov. 1983 - Metropol - Berlin - Germany 13 Nov. 1983 - Zeche - Bochum - Germany

6 Dec. 1983 - Kongresshaus - Zürich - Switzerland 7 Dec. 1983 - Théâtre de Beaulieu - Lausanne - Switzerland 9 Dec. 1983 - Sala Morasol - Madrid - Spain 10 Dec. 1983 - Sala Pachá - Barcelona - Spain 15 Dec. 1983 - The Box - Arnhem - Holland 16 Dec. 1983 1983 - The Venue - London - UK 20 Dec. 1983 - The Venue - London - UK 22 Dec. 1983 - Fairfield Hall - London - UK

Band Annie Behringer - Singer and Dancer Lejeune Richardson - Singer and Dancer Jack Bruno - Drums Bob Feit – Bass Kenny Moore – Piano Chuck O'Steen - Keyboard James Ralston – Guitar

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Tina Turner (born November 26, 1939) is the stage and recording name of Anna Mae Bullock, a critically acclaimed, world renowned R&B and soul singer-songwriter, actress and dancer, hailing from Nutbush, Tennessee, U.S.

Tina Turner’s earliest musical excursion came when she began singing in her teens under the name Little Ann, and later became a backing singer for Ike Turner’s Kings of Rhythm. It wasn’t long however before Anna Bullock’s soaring vocals stole the show and in 1960 the group transitioned into the Ike and Tina Turner Revue. Alongside Ike, Tina earned critical acclaim and commercial success with the singles “A Fool in Love”, “River Deep – Mountain High”, “Proud Mary”, and “Nutbush City Limits”. The singles earned the duo both national and international esteem, and resulted in a slot opening for the Rolling Stones. In 1974 plagued by Ike’s drug habits and tumultuous behaviour Tina Turner left the group to pursue a solo career.

A year later in 1975 Turner was offered the role of the Acid Queen in The Who’s film version of “Tommy”. Despite providing an unforgettable performance, the film was all too forgettable, and soon passed from public’s consciousness. Turner’s first few solo releases “Acid Queen”, “Rough” and “Love Explosion” all charted poorly and could all too well have deterred a singer of a lesser disposition. However with backing from the likes of Rod Stewart, The Rolling Stones, Chuck Berry and David Bowie, Tina Turner bounced back and released the Al Green Cover “Let’s Stay Together” in 1983. The single catapulted Turner into U.S. and a number of European charts, and resulted in the singer inking a three-album deal with Capitol Records.

The album “Private Dance” was subsequently released in June 1984 charting at No. 3 on the Billboard 200. Selling over 11 million copies, the album spawned the Grammy-winning, No. 1 single “What’s Love Got to Do with It”, along with “Better Be Good to Me”, and “Private Dancer”. Following the release Turner played the role of Aunty Entity in the film “Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome” for which she later won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress. In 1986 the singer released the single “Typical Male” after which Turner’s music moved away from the upper echelons of the chart. The albums “Foreign Affair” in 1989, “Wildest Dreams” in 1986 and “Twenty Four Seven” in 2000 earned strong reviews from critics and all saw respectable chart placing. The best-of compilation “All the Best” arrived in 2004, followed by a performance alongside Beyoncé at the 2008 Grammy Awards.

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Tiny Turner is arguable the best female performers ever! The power and tone of her voice, the energy of her performance and her sheer love for the stage. Very few have got gigs rocking the way Tiny Turner could! She has sold more concert tickets than any other live performer EVER! She has enjoyed success as a singer, dancer, writer and as an actress. She has received an enormous amount of respect from peers, many honours and awards, including 8 grammy awards and record sales of over 100 million! After breaking into the music scene in 1960 whilst part of the Ike & Tina Turner Revue she soon became known worldwide as an unbelievable live act! With amazing songs such as “Proud Mary”, “River Deep- Mountain High”, “A Fool in Love” and “Nutbush City Limits” there was no doubting they’re ability to get a crowd going. She certainly had something quite special, an ability to bring a room alive! To get the room dancing! Even, at the age of my nan, she would be rocking a stage at a stadium sized gig! Considered by many as the great female rock singer ever, the ‘queen of rock and roll’ and a performer who is still performing at the highest level after over 50 years!

Still need convincing? Ok! Once again! Tiny Turner has sold more concert tickets than any other live performer EVER!!!!!

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There are few vocalists who are completely incomparable due to the uniqueness of their tones, 80s soul/pop siren Tina Turner is very much one of those. She has a whole plethora of hits and is an icon within her own right and despite the hair not being quite outrageous these days, the stage show very much is. She is an impassioned performer even in her later years and really knows how to work the stage, her accompanying musicians and of course the adoring crowds.

The amount of legendary tracks included tonight could make your head spin 'River Deep, Mountain High' 'Private Dancer' and 'We Don't Need Another Hero' all feature along with covers of iconic rock musicians proving Tina very much lives and breathes the genre. A highlight was a downtempo rendition of 'Addicted To Love' by Robert Palmer which allows that sultry, raspy vocal to really shine. It is of course the finale of 'The Best' and 'Proud Mary' that gets the whole crowd singing, dancing and cheering as the fabulous songstress struts from side to side of shade proving she cannot be considered to be past it.

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I wld love to see Tina Turner in concert..I grew up listening to all her songs with my parents when I was a kid..love all her songs all the way bk to Ike and Tina Turner..they really new how to put on a show for sure..!..and nothing like proud Mary..!..she is “simply the best”..!

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Tina Turner’s 1985 comeback concerts still resonate with those who were there

  • Published: May. 02, 2021, 5:00 a.m.

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Tina Turner takes the stage at Richfield Coliseum on Aug. 22, 1985. (Photo: Janet Macoska)

  • Troy L. Smith, Cleveland.com

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Before she ever became a solo star who packed stadiums around the world, Tina Turner was already a legend.

Born Anna Mae Bullock, Turner spent 16-years with rock and roll pioneer and husband Ike Turner. The duo of Ike & Tina Turner earned a reputation as one of the greatest live acts in music history with iconic songs like “River Deep – Mountain High,” “A Fool In Love” and their iconic cover of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Proud Mary.”

However, none of that mattered by the late 1970s. Removed from her abusive relationship with Ike, Turner was relegated to playing cabaret shows in Las Vegas just to pay the bills.

But that wouldn’t last for long. Down but not out, Turner would embark on the greatest comeback story in music history with her album, “Private Dancer,” and the corresponding tour that stopped at Ohio’s Richfield Coliseum on Aug. 22, 1995.

“I loved that after being dominated by Ike for so long, Tina was able to take charge of the situation and envision what she wanted her life to be,” says photographer Janet Macoska , who shot Turner’s Richfield concert. “Tina always wanted to be in of a stadium full of people. And when you see that finally happen, you just are so thrilled for her that it all came true.”

[ Listen the CLE Rocks Podcast on Apple , Spotify , iHeart or Acast for the story behind Tina Turner’s 1985 “Private Dancer Tour” ]

What’s Love Got to Do with It

For almost all of their time together, Tina Turner would suffer a tremendous amount of emotional and physical abuse at the hands of Ike. Those horror stories would play out both the 1993 film “What’s Love Got to Do with It” and Tina’s autobiography “I, Tina.” But the abuse first came to light in a 1981 People Magazine interview.

“I went through basic torture,” Turner would say of her life with Ike. “I was living a life of death. I didn’t exist.”

The divorce between Tina and Ike was finalized in 1978. Tina asked for nothing in the form of spousal support or music royalties. But she did demand one thing – her stage name Tina Turner, which had been given to her by Ike. She was granted her wish.

“When she did go to court and she said, I don’t want anything from Ike. All I want is my name, she bet on herself,” recalls Barry Gabel, senior vice president of marketing and sponsorship sales. “Maybe nobody else saw her as more than just a niche Las Vegas act. But with the right handlers and the right songs, she knew she would be a superstar.”

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Following her split with Ike, Tina Turner earned a living making appearances on TV shows like “The Hollywood Squares” and “The Sonny & Cher Show,” as well as playing cabaret shows at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.

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Tina Turner circa 1980. ullstein bild via Getty Images

Turner would take her show on the road to smaller venues. But her first two albums – 1978′s “Rough” and 1979′s “Love Explosion” – failed to chart. It wasn’t until a successful cover of Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together” in 1983 that Turner earned enough confidence from her label Capitol Records to record a new studio album.

“Capitol Records took on the new Tina and who that was going to be,” says Macoska. “She wanted to be a rock singer. So, they knew they’d have to find a way to introduce all music fans to that side of her.”

After releasing “Let’s Stay Together” and a mellowed out, yet powerful cover of The Beatles’ “Help!” Capitol Records felt it had the song to take things to the next level. There was just one problem – Turner hated it.

“She didn’t particularly care for ‘What’s Love Got to Do with It,’” remembers Gabel. “Between the producer and her manager, they said just listen to it and make it your own. And she just wound up owning that song.”

“What’s Love Got to Do with It” was a modest hit for British pop group Buzz Fizz in 1984. But in the hands of Turner, it would become a sensation and the backbone of her third studio album, “Private Dancer.”

Two weeks before the release of “Private Dancer,” Turner would join Lionel Richie as the opening act on his “Can’t Slow Down Tour.” The trek came to Richfield Coliseum for two nights in June 1984.

“She was given that short period of time to play and she slayed everybody,” says Gabel. “She was the perfect setup for Lionel because she was incredibly high energy. She just did the six, seven, eight songs, whatever she did, and people were just so psyched to see Tina.”

Turner played a 40-minute opening set on the tour before returning to the stage to sing a few songs with Richie. Her show came with a full backing band and dancers who followed Turner’s every move as she navigated the stage in a small dress and high heels. It was the rock show she always desired.

“I guess she said, ‘You know, I don’t know what they’re going to make of me because I’m not Lionel’s audience,” remembers Macoska. “She didn’t think they were going to like me. Well, they loved her. And she got to introduce the material from ‘Private Dancer.’ It was a great lead-in for her.”

Turner’s tour with Richie would wrap up in July 1984. By that September she had achieved the superstar status she’d always coveted as a solo artist. “What’s Love Got to Do with It” reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The singles “Better Be Good to Me” and “Private Dancer” would also become Top-10 hits. “What’s Love Got to Do with It” would go on to win Record and Song of the Year at the 27th annual Grammy Awards in February 1985.

“She happened to hit that time in music where she could get the airplay across the board,” says Macoska. “She could do MTV and her image was that of a powerhouse.”

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Tina Turner holds up a Grammy Award on Feb. 27, 1985 in Los Angeles, Calif. (AP Photo/Nick Ut). AP

I Might Have Been Queen

A week before her Grammy wins, Turner embarked on the massive Private Dancer tour, which would take her from Europe to Australia, Asia and, of course, North America. A year after opening for Lionel Richie, Turner was now headlining Northeast Ohio’s premiere music venue in Richfield.

“It was glorious,” says Macoska, who shot the first few songs of Turner’s set on Aug. 22 at Richfield Coliseum before taking a seat nearby to watch as a fan. “She’s just shooting out energy the way Springsteen would shoot out energy or Jagger. I just loved the show top to bottom, just watch this woman take charge of 20,000 people.”

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Tina Turner at Richfield Coliseum in 1985. (Janet Macoska)

This time around, the stage was bigger. The band was fuller. The lights were brighter. The outfits were more glamorous. Even Tina’s hair seemed to take on a life of its own as she delivered an 18-song set that would have the audience standing for more than 90 minutes. And it all came from a woman who just a few months shy of her 46th birthday.

“There was sweat dripping off her. You didn’t see that from female performers,” recalls Gabel. “She’s the woman who literally taught Jagger how to move. So, just think about that persona on a woman that held that audience captive for that two-hour time period. I think that’s what the audience loved about Tina, that she gave it her all”

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Turner with her band at Richfield on Aug. 22, 1985. (Janet Macoska)

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“The Private Dancer Tour” would go on to net $40 million and earn Pollstar’s “Comeback Tour of the Year Award.” Two years later, Turner would up the ante with the “Break Every Rule Tour,” a record-setting run that would become the seventh highest-grossing tour of the 1980s.

“It’s not that she was just gifted. She created her own space and was wholly unique in terms of her vocal technique and her dancing skills,” says T.J. Martin, director of HBO’s 2021 documentary “Tina.” “The more we dove into making the film, the more we realized there’s no one else really that occupies that space in music history that Tina does.”

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Tina Turner in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Her show there in 1988 on the Break Every Rule Tour remains the largest paying concert audience by a female artist with 180,000 spectators. Getty Images

Turner remained one of the biggest touring acts in the world for two more decades before retiring from performing in 2009 following her 50th-anniversary tour. She is nominated for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s Class of 2021 as a solo artist outside of Ike & Tina, inducted as a duo in 1991.

Yet, even if Turner is inducted into the Rock Hall in Cleveland this October, she likely won’t be there to accept the honor in person. After a 60 year career, Turner now lives in Switzerland, happily removed from any burdens of being a celebrity.

“You get the sense from being around her that she wants to retire, not only from the stage but from being the persona of Tina Turner,” says Dan Lindsay, the documentary’s co-director. “She’s perfectly happy at her house gardening, decorating or going out to dinner with her friends in Zurich. I think she is at that stage in her life where she’s not interested in public life.”

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Singer Tina Turner, left, speaks on stage at the opening night of "Tina – The Tina Turner Musical" at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019, in New York. Turner has said the appearance would likely be the last public appearance of her 60-plus year career in the United States. Evan Agostini/Invision/AP

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How Tina Turner Pulled Off Pop’s Greatest Comeback

By David Browne

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O ne day in London’s Kensington district in 1983, Tina Turner ’s resurrection finally appeared within reach. The prior decade had been one of stage-shaking triumphs, personal nightmares, various degrees of mortification, and now, a chance at possible redemption. But as musician and producer Martyn Ware soon learned, Turner’s past was never in the rearview mirror — and on that day, it was terrifyingly in her face.

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Given how much she was embraced by old admirers, the MTV generation, and the industry — the holy-grail triumvirate in the music business at the time — Turner’s comeback should have been a cakewalk. Once the public learned what she’d endured with Ike, by way of a People interview in 1981, there were few pop stars more beloved. But the jarring reemergence of her ex-husband on an otherwise productive day in England would be far from the only hurdle in one of pop’s most unexpected returns. Even then, with the world cheering her on, Turner’s second act was never a given. At any moment, it could have been derailed by ageism, skeptics who wondered if she could make it on her own, music never released in her home country, and at least one racist music executive. Triggered in part by memories of life with Ike, she almost tripped herself up by not wanting to revisit the music that had made her a star to begin with. Only a series of happy accidents, combined with her unbridled belief in herself, would save her.

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At the time, few knew the horrors of her life offstage and in studios with her abusive and womanizing husband. “Ike was beating me with phones, with shoes, with the hangers,” she relayed in her first memoir, I, Tina . “Choking me, punching me — it wasn’t just slapping anymore.” Right before one show, he punched her so hard that he broke her jaw, and she had to still go onstage and sing. In 1976, at age 36, she left him and found herself raising four children while drowning in an ocean of debt. To earn a living, she took any work she could: on cheesy TV variety shows and in Vegas, where she resorted to covers of dance hits like “Disco Inferno”; during one dinnertime show, she accidentally dropped her mic into a customer’s steak. “Suddenly the booking agents didn’t think I had the ability to work without Ike,” she said. “It was like starting over again.”

But luckily for Turner, Davies stayed for the wilder second set. “People were standing on tables,” he recalled in I, Tina . “The chandeliers were shaking.” Before long, and with Turner’s consent, Davies fired two of her dancers and hired new musicians. “She wanted to rock,” says drummer Jack Bruno, one of the new recruits. “There were other tunes she would bring and put her touch on, which usually meant faster tempos. That was her signature thing, how she made songs her own.” To save money, the new musicians were outfitted in matching black karate suits (instead of the more costly tuxedos of the previous lineup). “Ike was the musician, the bandleader, the director, the business manager,” Turner said in 1981. “Now, that falls on me. That part is hard. I must make decisions I didn’t have to make before.”

As she told Rolling Stone at the time, “I want to get back into the rock of it!” Turner was still without a record deal and longed to be on par with the biggest bands of the time. “She wanted to be up there with the Stones and be mainstream and have hits of her own,” says Ann Behringer, one of her backup dancers and singers during this period — and with Davies’ help, that goal began taking shape. Rod Stewart invited her to join him on Saturday Night Live, and Turner opened for the Stones in New Jersey. 

During those early days of her rebirth, Turner still packed her set with Ike-era singles like “Proud Mary” and “River Deep, Mountain High.” But she often opened with a new addition to her repertoire — her own version of Stewart’s sleazy deep cut “Foolish Behavior,” renamed “Kill His Wife.” The lyrics alone were startling: “Why I wanna kill my wife?/I have this urge to take her life/Been planning for years to get rid of her/Not divorce, I really do mean to kill her.” During the instrumental break, Turner took the intensity one step further by grabbing a shocking prop — a noose, which she twirled around like a lasso.

STARTING WITH DAVIES sticking around for her Fairmont show, the happy-accident aspect of Turner’s return continued with James Brown. In 1982, British Electric Foundation — a partnership between Ware and Ian Craig Marsh — was working on a collection of synthed-up covers of songs from the Sixties and Seventies. The duo had enlisted Brown to front their remake of “Ball of Confusion.” But at the last minute, negotiations with Brown fell through, they say, and suddenly the producers were left with a backing track and no singer.

To Turner’s good fortune, the career-salvaging coincidences continued. In the offices of Virgin Records in London, Ware was bemoaning the fate of his project when Ken Berry, one of the founders of the label, walked by and overheard his predicament. Berry mentioned his friend Tina Turner: Maybe she’d be available? Ware had just seen her play in London and was reminded of the power of her voice and persona. “I was blown away by her talent and energy,” he recalls. “And I thought, ‘Well, if anybody can do it, Tina could.’”

I was blown away by her talent. I thought, ‘if anybody could do it, Tina could.’ 

When Ware offered Turner and Davies plane tickets to London, they accepted — but the first phase of her comeback almost fell through. When she learned that the song in question was “Ball of Confusion,” she “freaked out,” Davies later recalled in I, Tina . “She was so afraid of being put back into any kind of category like ‘oldies’ or ‘R&B.’” (In Ware’s memory, Turner had rehearsed the song before, but may have been unnerved by the fact that the “band” amounted to a bank of synthesizers.) Eventually, Turner went along with the idea, cutting the vocal in one day. Whether the song and era evoked memories of Ike was unclear, but she seemed ready to move on. “That was quite tricky, to sing that song — it sounds like there’s more than one voice on it,” Turner said afterward to Ware. “And I’m saying, ‘It’s the Temptations, Tina,’” he recalls. “She said, ‘Who are they?’ My theory is that she turned her back on soul music. It’s partly [Ike] and partly that she felt more connection with the world of rock & roll.”

A Turner revival now seemed possible — until, again, it almost wasn’t. In 1983, Capitol replaced its team with new management, who began questioning some of the projects in the works. In an infamous comment made to Carter, first reported on PopMatters in 2009, an unnamed executive informed Davies that he was dropping Turner from the label’s roster, slurring her as an “old n—-r douchebag.” (After audio of that comment was included in the 2021 documentary Tina, Capitol issued a statement saying the company was “under different ownership and management, and we’re only now learning of those reprehensible and appalling comments.”) Dropping to his knees in a meeting, Carter (as he told PopMatters) informed the boss that he wouldn’t leave the room until he called Davies to say he’d made “a mistake.” Eventually, the executive begrudgingly agreed to reverse his decision, while adding that the company would barely lift a finger to promote an album. Her new music would be dead on arrival.

To modernize her sound and image, Turner had dragged her repertoire into the Eighties, too, incorporating Don Henley’s “Dirty Laundry” and Bowie’s “Cat People (Putting Out Fire)” into her set. The Bowie association would lead to another pivotal, if accidental, moment in her life. In January 1983, Bowie was in New York to sign with EMI, and was asked what he was planning to do that evening. To the surprise of the staff, he announced he was going to see his favorite singer: Turner. Thanks to that endorsement, Davies unexpectedly received a request for more than 60 free tickets to the show, all for employees of the label. “I became infinitely more interesting to them after I got David’s seal of approval,” Turner said. “I didn’t know any of this until later.”

Dressed for part of the show in a black-leather minidress, Turner was up for the challenge: Her intro to “Proud Mary” was even more suggestive than usual, her renditions of the Bowie and Henley songs burned down the house, and a slow, simmering version of the Beatles’ “Help!” added a touch of real-life gravitas. At one point, Behringer turned toward the balcony that wrapped around most of the venue to see Turner’s all-star fans cheering her on. “You look up and there’s David Bowie and all these people, and it was like, ‘Whoa,’” she says. “They were all rooting for her 100 percent. They all idolized her.”  

After the show, everyone gathered in the small VIP room off the office of club owner Jerry Brandt, which held 10 people tops. Turner, who always insisted she didn’t drink or do drugs, playfully grabbed a champagne bottle and, in one of many flirty moments between them, pretended to pour it into Bowie’s mouth. According to photographer Bob Gruen, who was in the room, Bowie played along, although he was worried the champagne would spill on his clothes. The festivities carried on at Keith Richards’ room at the Plaza hotel, where Richards played piano, and food and alcohol were wheeled in until dawn. “Everyone was happy for Tina that night,” says Gruen. “She showed she could do it by herself; it didn’t have to be ‘Ike and Tina.’” As Turner later wrote, “For me, that night at the Ritz was the equivalent of going to the ball (minus the part about Prince Charming) because it changed my life dramatically.”

With that, work on what would become Private Dancer began, starting with Turner returning to London for another collaboration with Ware and Marsh. And again, Turner was less than enthralled with the songs they suggested, which included “Let’s Stay Together.” “Aren’t you guys into any rock & roll?” she asked. Again, Turner relented: As she admitted, “I had a crush on someone back in America,” so the song appealed to her. As with “Ball of Confusion,” her simmering take on the Al Green classic was initially not available in the states. Only after it had become a hit in the U.K. did Capitol deign to release it at home.

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But the success of “Let’s Stay Together” finally sent Private Dancer into overdrive, and Davies and Carter scrambled to find producers and songs. One of them, “What’s Love Got to Do With It,” had already been rejected by other big names. Turner herself nearly passed. “I didn’t like it,” Turner said. “I didn’t think it was my style,” also dubbing it “wimpy.” But Davies persevered, and the single, which brought out the weariness and tenderness in Turner’s voice, would be the one that firmly announced to the world that Turner was reborn. It had taken only four years of expectations, crushed hopes, wrong turns, and slurs, but Turner finally arrived, and for good. “The whole thing is about earning your way,” she later wrote in I, Tina , pondering advice to a child, “and you don’t really get there until you earn it.”

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Guitarist and bandleader Ike had given Tina—originally named Anna Mae Bullock—an outlet for her impassioned vocalizing and mesmerizing performances in his band the Kings of Rhythm. Backed by him, a team of ferocious players and the Ikettes vocal group, Tina had already tasted considerable success, scoring such crossover hits as “A Fool in Love,” “It’s Gonna Work Out Fine,” the Phil Spector-produced “River Deep—Mountain High” and the pair’s Grammy-winning, million-selling total reimagining of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Proud Mary,” which gave Ike and Tina their signature tune following its rise to #4 on the Billboard chart.

Watch the Ike and Tina Turner Revue perform “Proud Mary” on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1970

Related: Tina Turner died on May 24, 2023, at age 83

[In March 2018, Tina – The Tina Turner Musical opened at London’s Aldwych Theatre to rave reviews. The musical opened at Broadway’s Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in November 2019 to equal acclaim.]

Ike and Tina had found favor not only with the R&B/soul crowd but with rockers as well—the Rolling Stones recruited what was by then called the Ike and Tina Turner Revue to open for them on their 1969 American tour and the couple became regulars on the rock concert circuit for the next several years: Their 1971 album Live at Carnegie Hall/What You Hear Is What You Get became the best-selling of their career; audiences were especially enthralled by Tina ’s onstage style, equal parts sensuality and raw, incendiary soul power.

What fans didn’t know at the time—but would find out later, in her autobiography, I, Tina— was that Ike had been increasingly abusive to Tina for years, both physically and emotionally. (When confronted with this later, Ike admitted to having slapped and punched his wife but denied beating her.) Married since 1962, Tina had finally had enough by the late ’70s; her well-being, she decided, was more important than hitching her career to that of a man who treated her so violently. She was done with him, and if she were to still have a career, it would sort itself out. (Ike Turner died in 2007.)

Related: Tina Turner was honored in 2018 with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award

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It didn’t take long for Tina Turner to find her way back—bigger than ever, unimaginably so. With MTV having launched in 1981, the very visual Tina Turner was a perfect candidate for heavy rotation. She’d eased into her solo career while awaiting the divorce papers, playing smaller Vegas venues to receptive crowds, touring abroad and appearing on TV shows in the States. Still, her recordings weren’t doing well at all, so when her new manager advised that she refashion herself as a rock star, as opposed to a traditional soul singer, Tina agreed. High-profile gigs in New York and L.A., including opening dates for the Stones and Rod Stewart, led to a new singles recording deal with Capitol Records (friend David Bowie having nudged the label a bit to make it happen).

Her first release under the new arrangement, a cover of Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together,” reacquainted fans with the veteran singer, although it peaked only at #26. It was big enough for Capitol to offer Turner an upgrade to her contract though, a three-album deal, the first result of which was Private Dancer , recorded in London and released in June 1984. Wholly of its time, the masterpiece took off quickly, as did the single “What’s Love Got to Do With It,” written by Terry Britten and Graham Lyle and previously recorded by the British group Bucks Fizz. By September, aided by the ubiquitous video play, Tina Turner had herself her first (and only) #1 single. Two other singles, “Better Be Good to Me” and the album’s title track, followed “What’s Love…” into the top 10. Private Dancer itself, meanwhile, climbed to #3 on the Billboard album chart, where it lodged for 11 solid weeks, eventually selling over 20 million copies worldwide.

Watch Tina duet with Mick Jagger at Live Aid in 1985

Tina Turner attained a superstardom in the 1980s that far surpassed what she’d achieved with her ex-husband. Her tours were sellouts, and she took home an NAACP Image Award for her role in the film Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome . In 1993, the film What’s Love Got to Do With It chronicled her professional rise amidst a very troubled marriage.

There were, of course, many other recordings, videos and sellout tours, until the 2000s, when she began winding down her involvement in the music business (her 50th anniversary tour in 2008 was also her farewell). Turner moved permanently to Switzerland, where she became a citizen in 2013, the same year she married her longtime companion, German music executive Erwin Bach. She published another book, My Love Story: A Memoir , in 2018.

Turner—born on November 26, 1939—will long be remembered as one of the most sensational, daring and courageous women in the world of rock ’n’ roll.

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She was won every award imaginable, with 12 Grammys, selection to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (first with Ike, in 1991, and later as a solo artist in 2021) and a Kennedy Center Honor (2005).

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Despite her great success during the '60s and '70s with musical partner and then-husband Ike Turner , the indomitable Tina Turner did not appear poised at the start of the '80s to have continued success as a solo artist. However, in 1984 a brilliant combination of her powerhouse soul pipes with slick pop and rock production transformed Turner quickly into an '80s music icon and major hitmaker. Choosing songs shrewdly and carefully for a series of three highly popular albums during the decade's latter half, Turner emerged triumphantly from years of struggle for both personal and professional independence. Here's a chronological look at the best Tina Turner solo songs of the '80s.

"What's Love Got to Do With It"

For this '80s classic, Turner certainly retained the sultry rasp of her raucous soul singing past, but she also embraced a smooth pop approach that hit the mainstream music jackpot in the summer of 1984. The song itself (written by seasoned professional songwriters Terry Britten and Graham Lyle) boasts a nearly impeccable structure, lending itself well to versatile pop instrumentation. This kind of broad appeal helped push this deserving track to the top of the pop charts in North America and Australia and to at least a Top 10 position in practically every country in Europe. Ultimately, very little about this song doesn't reach for and very nearly capture multi-faceted music perfection. And this remains true despite years of radio saturation, no small feat there.

"Better Be Good to Me"

Although this fine mid-tempo rocker failed to reach the pop music chart heights of its predecessor, it may serve as an even better showcase for Turner's collection of gifts. '80s songwriter-for-hire Holly Knight helped compose a number of mainstream rock classics of the era, but this one simply scorches even as its sultry, quiet moments build thick mood and tension. The lyrics certainly touch on themes of female empowerment that fit Turner perfectly, but without the artist's assured performance, the track would not come close to the sublime level it reaches. The music video features some delightfully theatrical pantomime interaction with collaborator Cy Curnin, frontman for The Fixx , who was one of several prime session men to play on.

"Private Dancer"

Turner continued her trend of choosing songs composed by established, revered artists by taking on this jazzy tune written by Mark Knopfler and originally intended for his band, Dire Straits . Ultimately, however, Knopfler's belief that the song far better suited a female singer turned out to be utterly warranted, especially in light of the resulting classic single recorded by Turner. Her signature tough, sexy persona works perfectly here to communicate not only the bravado but also the vulnerability that distinguish the first-person title character. Once again, Turner dances nimbly around and through several genres to create, in the end, a polished and emotionally engaging performance. The song's music video tries vainly to suggest that the song's lyrics concern a ballroom dancer rather than a stripper, but listeners are smart enough to see through that nonsense.

"We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)"

As soundtrack music goes, this gentle, adult contemporary-inflected track from the 1985 Mel Gibson blockbuster sequel is certainly a curious one. Ultimately, the song's anthemic chorus reminds listeners clearly that this is a cinematic theme song, but otherwise, the Britten-Lyle composition remains remarkably composed and subtle. That doesn't mean it comes close to the level of quality found on Private Dancer , but Turner's vocal performance comes off earnest and passionate enough to help the tune hold up quite well three decades later. The presence of a children's chorus at song's end is almost as puzzling as Turner's presence in the film, but this is still pretty good mid-'80s movie rock.

"Typical Male"

Turner's massive LP chart success certainly continued with her 1986 release, Break Every Rule . This lead-off single peaked at No. 2 on the pop charts, even if it turned out to be Turner's final Top 10 single of the decade. The song's strong and confident groove proves that its mega-hit status was well-deserved, but the impact of Turner's sultry, defiant presence makes certain this track never loses momentum. Smooth production values occasionally sound dated and artificial here, but Turner's genuine soul integrity eventually wins out over excessive '80s music impulses.

"Back Where You Started"

Despite her certified oldies music past, Turner always seemed to feel comfortable within the realm of mainstream rock. That's why her pair of '80s collaborations with Canadian pop/rock hitmaker Bryan Adams (the other being 1985's big hit "It's Only Love") work so effortlessly well. In the case of this single, also written by Adams and his songwriting partner, Jim Vallance, Turner veers almost into hard rock, drawing extra fuel and passion from muscular guitar riffs, squealing leads and big, bruising drum beats. Turner deftly sounds equally convincing as a rock singer as she does a vocalist well-matched with dance, pop or soul music. No wonder she enjoyed such a cross-genre period of consistent success during the '80s.

"What You Get Is What You See"

Speaking of genre surprises, Turner manages to take this Britten-Lyle song into Juice Newton country-pop territory. That sounds like an outlandish experiment bound for failure until the song is actually heard in all its seamlessly earnest glory. Turner's vocals have always been endlessly sassy, and decades before modern country music followed suit by embracing women en masse, this song effectively creates a winning country-pop-rock formula. But that's not to suggest Turner here delivers anything resembling cynical, prefabricated fluff. Her performance sells completely the premise of an artist capable of transcending gender and race simultaneously.

"The Best"

Though embraced too often in the quarter-century since its release as celebratory fodder for sporting events or inspirational montages, this shimmering single from 1989's Foreign Affair undoubtedly deserves notice as a key mainstream rock anthem of its time. The song's chorus probably comes across as too catchy for its own good, as the central hook and keyboard power guitar template certainly lack any sense of subtlety. Still, the songwriting here from Holly Knight and Mike Chapman walks a treacherous line with aplomb, managing somehow to maintain highly listenable status despite years of excessive prominence on loudspeakers everywhere.

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The legendary Tina Turner in concert this weekend. Recorded at Rockefellers in Houston on April 25, 1983. Part of the tour that has been considered one of the greatest musical comebacks of the twentieth century.

Tina Turner began her career with Ike Turner’s Kings of Rhythm in 1957. Under the name Little Ann, she appeared on her first record, “Boxtop”, in 1958. In 1960, she was introduced as Tina Turner with the hit duet single “A Fool in Love”. The duo Ike & Tina Turner became “one of the most formidable live acts in history”. They released hits such as “It’s Gonna Work Out Fine”, “River Deep – Mountain High”, “Proud Mary”, and “Nutbush City Limits” before disbanding in 1976.

In the 1980s, Turner launched “one of the greatest comebacks in music history”. Her 1984 multi-platinum album Private Dancer contained the hit song “What’s Love Got to Do with It”, which won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year and became her first and only No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100. At age 44, she was the oldest female solo artist to top the Hot 100. Her chart success continued with “Better Be Good to Me”, “Private Dancer”, “We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)”, “Typical Male”, “The Best”, “I Don’t Wanna Fight”, and “GoldenEye”. During her Break Every Rule World Tour in 1988, she set a then-Guinness World Record for the largest paying audience (180,000) for a solo performer. Turner also acted in the films Tommy (1975), Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985), and Last Action Hero (1993). In 1993, What’s Love Got to Do with It, a biopic adapted from her autobiography I, Tina: My Life Story, was released. In 2009, Turner retired after completing her Tina!: 50th Anniversary Tour, which is one of the highest-grossing tours of all time. In 2018, she became the subject of the jukebox musical Tina.

Having sold over 100 million records worldwide , Turner is one of the best-selling recording artists of all time. She has received 12 Grammy Awards, which include eight competitive awards, three Grammy Hall of Fame awards, and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. She is the first black artist and first female to be on the cover of Rolling Stone. Rolling Stone ranked her among the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time and the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time.

In case you missed her during this historic tour in 1983, here’s a chance to catch up, at least in spirit.

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VARIOUS, VARIOUS - JUNE 25: Michael Jackson performs in concert circa 1988. (Photo by Kevin ... [+] Mazur/WireImage)

The 1980s were an eclectic and revolutionary era for music as an art form. From pop, rock , heavy metal, hip-hop and electronic music, the sheer number of genres that have blossomed out of the 80s is a testament to the phenomenally talented and ingenious artists to come out of the decade. Furthermore, several of these artists have remained relevant throughout the following decades and have continued to make an impact on pop culture today.

Top 80s Bands and Artists

Whether it’s in TV, Film or contemporary music, the sound of the 80s can be heard resonating throughout the modern entertainment industry, and the adoration for this era is only growing with new generations as they rediscover music through social media and creative outlets like TikTok. With that being said, the following list was constructed after considering a wide array of popularized 80s artists. Each of these bands and artists saw significant success and released a majority of their career defining work during the 1980s.

Slayer in 1986 in Los Angeles.

As pioneers of extreme music, the thrash metal giants have since become one of the most influential and renown metal acts to come out of the 1980s. Shaping the sonic landscape for extreme metal with albums Hell Awaits , Reign in Blood and South of Heaven, Slayer’s output in the 80s contributed heavily to one metal’s most significant eras.

Members Tom Araya, Kerry King, Dave Lombardo, and Jeff Hanneman would go on to become one of metal’s most cherished bands in the following decades, and ever since their influence can be heard in all corners of hardcore and metal music.

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English duo Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal formed what was unquestionably one of the most successful and recognizable acts from the 80s. Tears for Fears knack for writing anthemic pop-rock hits saw them flourish throughout decade and beyond, with singles “Shout” and “Everybody Wants to Rule The World” becoming synonymous with greatest hits from decade.

The band’s 1985 LP Songs From The Big Chair saw many of the band’s chart topping singles, and today it’s largely regarded as the groups defining and most highly regarded work. Both Smith and Orzabal are still active and performing under Tears for Fears, though the band is far less focused on making new music.

18. The Cure

Phil Thornalley, Porl Thompson, Robert Smith, Andy Anderson and Lol Tolhurst of The Cure in 1984.

As one of the most prolific bands during the 1980s, The Cure helped shape an entire sub-culture of goth-rock as well as a thriving adoration for alternative music. Frontman Robert Smith, the band’s most constant member, injected a mix of post-punk and catchy pop melodies into the band’s early work with albums Faith , Pornography and The Top.

With the release of Disintegration in 1989, The Cure went from having mainstream success to becoming a household name. Moreover, the band’s legacy would continue to carry on throughout the coming decades with hit singles like “Friday I’m In Love,” further lifting the band into mainstream success. The Cure is still actively performing and touring to sold out arenas across the globe, though they’ve not recorded or released new music since 2008’s 4:13 Dream .

17. Def Leppard

English heavy metal group Def Leppard, circa 1985.

As a part of the 80s new wave of British heavy metal, Def Leppard saw early success in the decade with their spin on the hard rock and heavy metal genres. However, after taking a more commercial and pop approach on 1983’s Pyromania and 1987’s Hysteria, Def Leppard grew into one of the most accomplished hard rock acts from the decade.

Joe Elliot, Phil Collen, Rick Allen, Rick Savage and Vivian Campbell have since become one of the most recognized rock acts in history, with hits “Rock Of Ages,” “Pour Some Sugar On Me,” and “Photograph” still resonating throughout the mainstream. The success of the Def Leppard’s recent stadium tours has only shown the band’s relevancy is far from dwindling, especially as new generations continue to discover their classic albums.

Adam Clayton (far left), The Edge, Bono and Larry Mullen, Jr. of U2.

Eventually taking the reins of the 1980s alternative rock scene, the Dublin post-punk outfit U2 grew from small beginnings to become a world wide sensation. Albums War , The Unforgettable Fire and The Joshua Tree were all essential to the band’s mainstream success throughout the decade, but furthermore these albums helped shape an entirely new pop-rock sonic allure. Hits song “Sunday Bloody Sunday,” “Pride,” “With Or Without You” not only showcase this style, but also the band’s now iconic charismatic and thought provoking sonic atmosphere.

Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. have brought an undeniably unique personality to rock music, and there musical output during the 80’s has undoubtedly contributed to them becoming one of the most successful rock acts in history.

15. Guns N’ Roses

Steven Adler (left), Duff McKagan, Axl Rose, Slash and Izzy Stradlin of Guns N' Roses at the Detroit ... [+] State Theater in 1988.

As pioneers of chaotic hard hitting anthemic rock, Guns N’ Roses helped to build the foundation for arena rock and contemporary hard rock throughout the mid-80s. 1987’s Appetite For Destruction was the powerhouse album that launched the band into rock stardom, and ever since they’ve been regarded as all time greats of rock music.

Nearly 40 years later songs “Sweet Child O’ Mine,” “Welcome To The Jungle” and “Paradise City” are still resonating with new generations and the larger popular music crowd. While most of GNR’s most recognizable hits came out of the 1980s, the Los Angeles outfit has remained relevant throughout recent years and are actively performing to their millions of fans across the globe.

14. Whitney Houston

Whitney Houston performs In Paris on May 18th, 1988.

As an icon of American contemporary music, Whitney Houston’s breakout success in the 80s was pivotal in her rise to mainstream stardom. The singer’s early records Whitney Houston and Whitney Dancin’ Special showed high promise for her unique talents as a pop singer. However, with 1987’s Whitney, which featured the smash hit “I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me),” Houston managed to captivate the 80s pop-culture zeitgeist and further establish herself as one of most influential music acts of the decade.

Since her death in 2012, Whitney Houston’s legacy has continued to be revered for her sheer talent and profound musical works throughout her 25 years in the industry.

13. Ozzy Osbourne

Ozzy Osbourne poses for a portrait before his performance at the Joe Louis Arena, on April 4, 1986, ... [+] in Detroit.

After building the foundation to his career with Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne’s solo career was no less significant or monumental during the 80s. The singer’s 1980 debut with Blizzard of Ozz floored audiences at the time for his unique twist on heavy metal songwriting as well as his outlandish rock n’ roll persona.

Paired with the phenomenal talent of Randy Rhodes, Jake E. Lee, and later Zakk Wylde, Ozzy Osbourne would go on to become the most recognized and successful solo act in heavy music. Despite retiring from live performance, Osbourne has remained relevant within the modern music industry collaborating with artists like Post Malone and producer Andrew Watt on his most recent acclaimed and Grammy winning records.

12. Iron Maiden

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Single-handedly shaping the metal sub-genres that sprouted from the 80s and beyond, the decade was no less defining for one of metal’s most beloved acts. Iron Maiden dominated the decade’s hard rock and metal scenes with their revolutionary take on guitar leads, powerful choruses and visceral imagery.

The English outfit consisting of Steve Harris, Adrian Smith, Dave Murray, Nicko McBrain and Bruce Dickinson embodied an aesthetic and sonic appeal that has forever been molded into rock and heavy music.

Albums The Number of the Beast, Powerslave and Somewhere In Time were essential pillars to the band’s long sustaining success, which has since blossomed into a metal empire that’s continued to reel in legions of fans across the globe.

11. Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty performs circa 1985 in Los Angeles.

As one of the most notable and renowned songwriters of contemporary American music, Tom Petty, both his solo career and career with The Heartbreakers, had one of the most lasting impressions throughout the 80s. While his career got it’s start in the mid-70s, Petty’s critical success with albums Southern Accents and his debut solo album Full Moon Fever further propelled him to new and uncharted territory.

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers would continued to perform and release music in the following decades up until Petty’s death in 2017.

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Arguably the supergroup that helped sculpt and reimagine rap music production and songwriting as we know it today, N.W.A’s short spanning career in the mid-80s was nothing short of revolutionary. Ice-Cube, Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, DJ Yella, MC Ren and (briefly) Arabian Prince brought soul, attitude, and provocative social issues to the forefront of hip-hop with their 1988 debut, Straight Outta Compton.

With hit’s “F**k Tha Police,” “Straight Outta Compton” and “Gangsta Gangsta” N.W.A. turned their short-lived career into a legacy that’s infected every corner of modern rap, hip-hop and aggressive music genres. While the group was only active up until the early 90’s, the career’s of Dr. Dre and Ice-Cube have carried over into the following decades and made a monumental impact on the modern music industry.

9. Tina Turner

Tina Turner performs on stage in Rotterdam, Netherlands, in 1990.

There’s a reason why Tina Turner has been dubbed the “Queen of Rock ‘n Roll.” Her powerful amalgamation of R&B, rock and soul music brought her to the forefront of the 80s popular music scene, along with her innate ability to captivate audiences with her mesmerizing voice.

With hits “What’s Love Got to Do with It,” “The Best” and “We Don’t Need Another Hero,” her presence and influence throughout the 80s and beyond was undeniably massive. Since her passing in 2023, Turner’s legacy has only continued to be admired and seen with great prestige amongst aspiring artists and the greater music industry.

8. Van Halen

Alex Van Halen (left), David Lee Roth, Michael Anthony and Eddie Van Halen on Van Halen.

The band that largely embodied the sound of the 1980s rock scene, Van Halen were one of the most sensational and influential rock acts at the time. Brothers Alex and Eddie Van Halen teamed up with frontman David Lee Roth and bassist Michael Anthony in the early 70s, and following their debut album in 1978, the band would go from taking over L.A.’s Sunset Strip to becoming one of the most iconic arena rock acts in history.

Hits such as “Panama,” “Unchained,” “Hot For Teacher” and “Jump” helped launch Van Halen into mainstream popularity, aided by the band’s unrelenting musicianship and charming demeanor. While the 80s were the most iconic years for the band, the success of Van Halen would carry on up throughout the 90s and early 2000s. Following the death of guitar legend Eddie Van Halen in 2020, the band officially retired and shut down all prospect of future Van Halen tours.

7. The Police

Andy Summers, Sting and Stewart Copeland of The Police.

The English rock trio consisting of Sting, Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers have become one of the most popularized groups in history for their widely recognizable sonic concoction of pop-rock, reggae and new age styles. Despite the band seeing success throughout the late 70s, The Police saw new levels of stardom during the 1980s with albums Zenyatta Mondatta , Ghost in the Machine and Synchronicity.

Hit songs “Message In A Bottle,” “Every Breath You Take” and “Don’t Stand So Close To Me” are still the gold standard for soft-rock songwriting, and the band is largely recognized for having one of the most exceptional rhythm sections in rock. While The Police are no longer actively performing or making music, the individual members of the band are still performing and working on music projects.

6. Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Springsteen performs during the "Born in the USA" Tour in 1984.

After breaking out in the mid-70s as one of America’s most promising songwriters, Bruce Springsteen would see his biggest stride throughout the 80s. The New Jersey native’s approach to the singer-songwriter genre was as innovative as it was impactful at the time.

Albums The River, Nebraska and Born In The U.S.A. have seemingly carved their place as some of the most cherished works of contemporary American singer-songwriter music. Not to mention, hits “I’m On Fire,” “Dancing In The Dark” and “Born In The U.S.A.” have become some of the most recognizable anthems of Springsteen’s career. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band are still actively performing and creating music together. His latest LP Only The Strong Survive was released in 2022.

5. Depeche Mode

From left, Dave Gahan, Andy Fletcher, Alan Wilder and Martin Gore of Depeche Mode in 1982.

Much of new wave and modern music production has been influenced by the electro-alternative giants Depeche Mode. Dave Gahan, Martin Gore, Andy Fletcher and Vince Clarke crafted a sonic allure unlike any other in the 1980s, and as a result of the band’s career being so prolific throughout the decade, they’ve grown into one of most acclaimed musical acts in history.

Notable hits including “Personal Jesus,” “Just Can’t Get Enough” and “Never Let Me Down Again” defined much of the synthetic sounds of the 80s, which has since been revitalized in much of modern music production. Dave Gahan and Martin Gore are still active and performing as Depeche Mode.

Madonna in New York City in 1982.

As one of pop music’s most iconic stars, Madonna helped to define the 80s and much of the musical renaissance that was occurring at the time. Through her use of proactive imagery and themes, not to mention her brilliant musicianship, Madonna solidified herself as one of pop music’s most accomplished artists throughout the decades to come.

Her hit songs throughout the 80s including “Like a Virgin,” “La Isla Bonita” and “Material Girl” helped build the foundation to her lustrous career, and since then she’s only continued to grow and remain relevant within the modern music industry.

3. Metallica

Left to right, bass guitarist Cliff Burton, guitarist Kirk Hammett, drummer Lars Ulrich and ... [+] vocals/guitarist James Hetfield pose for a studio portrait during the "Damage, Inc." tour on April 4, 1986 at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Michigan.

Standing as quite possibly the single biggest metal band to come out of the 80s, Metallica’s career and influence on modern rock has been nothing short of gargantuan. Having one of the most revered musical outputs with albums Ride The Lightning , Master of Puppets and … And Justice For All , Metallica is largely viewed as the all-time great of metal for their work throughout this decade.

Furthermore, the 80s were only the start of the band dominating the metal genre. In the decades to follow, Metallica would become even more popularized with their later works and commercial investments, and today they’ve cultivated a multi-generational fanbase that still insists upon their revered status.

Prince performs in concert circa 1985 in Los Angeles.

Redefining both pop and rock n’ roll music, Prince was one of the most prolific and renown artists of the 1980s. Starting his solo career in 1978, Prince would see the breakout of his success with albums Dirty Mind , Purple Rain and Around The World In A Day , all of which would instill a reverence for Prince as one of the all time greatest pop-rock artists.

With hits “Let’s Go Crazy,” “When Doves Cry” and “Kiss,” Prince created an infectious and beautifully provocative sound that’s since inspired a plethora of artists and musicians that’ve followed in his footsteps. From 1978 to 2015 Prince would go on to release 39 studio albums and win several Grammy awards. Following his death in 2017, Prince posthumously released his final 40th studio in 2021, Welcome 2 America .

1. Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson performs in concert circa 1986.

After getting his start in 1964 alongside his siblings in the Jackson 5, Michael Jackson would go on to have a solo career that’s yet to be matched by any other like-minded pop artist. With 1982’s Thriller and 1987’s Bad, Jackson became one of the most decorated artists in history, and he’s without a doubt the most popularized and influential artist to spring from the 1980s.

From hits “Beat It,” “Billie Jean,” “Man in the Mirror” and “Thriller,” Jackson has not only revolutionized pop music production and songwriting but established a precedent for the sheer talent required to become a pop-music legend. Leading up to his death in 2009, Jackson would go on to release ten studio albums throughout his career with 2001’s Invincible being his final.

Bottom Line

The artists and bands listed above are reflective of the most innovative and groundbreaking music to come out of the 1980s. Additionally, each of these artists have revolutionized the industry and their respective genres to a great extent, and all while remaining relevant through the lens of today’s culture.

There are a countless number of legendary 80s bands and artists to consider for a list of this nature. However, these artists in particular achieved a great deal of success whether through album sales, breaking musical boundaries, or capturing the attention of pop-culture throughout the decade.

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How to get The Tina Turner Musical UK tour tickets as the show visits Manchester, Edinburgh and more

What's location got to do with it? The Tina Turner Musical is stepping out from London's West End and into venues across the UK. Here's how to snap-up theatre tickets today.

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The Tina Turner Musical is simply the best. The theatre show launched in London's West End five years ago at the iconic Aldwych Theatre and it's just had its run extended into summer 2025, making it the longest-running show in the theatre's history.

We've featured the theatre production in our guide to the best West End shows , and one of our Digital Writers was lucky enough to experience the musical for herself: "In the sometimes crowded world of bio-musicals, this one stands out. I learnt so much about Tina's story that I didn't know before, and I was blown away by the vocal talent of the performers."

However, there is just one teeny tiny issue with The Tina Turner Musical — it's exclusively performed in London in the UK! That is, until, spring 2025.

The critically acclaimed musical, written by Olivier Award-winning playwright Katori Hall and directed by Phyllida Lloyd, is set to tour the UK and Ireland next spring. The Tina Turner Musical, which includes a can't-help-but-dance soundtrack featuring songs such as Proud Mary and What’s Love Got to Do with It?, will begin the tour in Leicester, before visiting cities like Belfast, Dublin and Liverpool, and ending in Milton Keynes in 2026.

This isn't the first tour The Tina Turner Musical has embarked on; the jukebox musical has toured North America, Germany, Spain, The Netherlands, Australia, and has performed on Broadway, too.

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What is the story of Tina: The Musical?

The Tina Turner Musical follows the life of Anna Mae Bullock from her early life in Nutbush, Tennessee to her transformation into Tina Turner, the Queen of Rock 'n' Roll. The award-winning musical explores how Turner defied the bounds of her age, gender and race to become a 12-time Grammy Award winner and one of the best-selling artists in the world.

When asked about the play, Turner had said: "It's really important to me to have the chance to share my full story. This musical is not about my stardom. It is about the journey I took to get there. Each night I want audiences to take away from the theatre that you can turn poison into medicine."

Will The Tina Turner Musical tour the UK?

It's simply the best news you'll hear all day: The Tina Turner Musical is touring the UK and Ireland in 2025 and into 2026. While further dates and casting are yet to be announced, here is the full list of UK dates that you can currently purchase:

  • 26th March to 5th April 2025 — Sunderland, Sunderland Empire
  • 8th April to 26th April 2025 — Bristol, Bristol Hippodrome
  • 23rd Sept to 4th Oct 2025 — Glasgow, King's Theatre
  • 11th Nov to 22nd Nov 2025 — Edinburgh, Edinburgh Playhouse
  • 25th Nov 2025 to 3rd Jan 2026 — Manchester, Palace Theatre
  • 27th Jan to 7th Feb 2026 — Milton Keynes, Milton Keynes Theatre

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