Simply the Best -- Tina Turner

She was a vocal and stage performing powerhouse. Another one of a kind performer I feel blessed to have been able to see, hear and enjoy.

You've earned your rest Tina.

Sepiatone

"As news of the death of Tina Turner hit Australia’s shores, people all over the country stopped what they were doing and started to dance.

School students, gym rats, TikTokers and even the staff at the United States Embassy paid tribute with a series of steps and kicks that looked like a cross between line dancing and the Macarena, set to one of Ms. Turner’s songs, “Nutbush City Limits.”

She did not perform these moves with the song. But somehow — and no one is quite sure how — the dance, the Nutbush, has become so widespread in Australia that it is sometimes called the country’s unofficial national dance"

I was going to post this in the Duets thread, but then figured it belongs here. Rod Stewart asked Tina to duet with him on his hit "Hot Legs" on SNL and the night before invited her onstage at his live show. Tina was still struggling for a foothold so it was a nice boost. She later incorporated the song into her own act. (Who better to do it?) She was already reshaping her image; the hair was half-way to what it would later become post-Private Dancer in 1983.

"Tina" not "atoms" 😒. Thanks spellcheck.

And maybe some hair inspiration from Mick Jagger as well? She opened some shows for The Stones on their 1981 tour. And Mick made no secret of the inspiration he took from the way she moved when Ike and Tina opened some shows for them in 1969; he admits he studied her closely and he still stalks the stage and moves the way she did. The movie Gimme Shelter has clips of Tina at their Madison Square Garden show before they went west for the Altamont Speedway disaster.