1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:15,160 Speaker 1: Disgraceland as a production of Double Elvis. 2 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:19,680 Speaker 2: The stories about rock and roll pioneer Ike Turner are insane, 3 00:00:20,520 --> 00:00:23,880 Speaker 2: as are the stories about his volatile relationship with his wife, 4 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:27,520 Speaker 2: Tina Turner. I claim to have been married more than 5 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:29,840 Speaker 2: a dozen times and to have spent more than eleven 6 00:00:29,880 --> 00:00:33,400 Speaker 2: million dollars on cocaine over the course of his life. 7 00:00:33,440 --> 00:00:36,080 Speaker 2: He once fired Jimmy Hendrix from his band, and he 8 00:00:36,120 --> 00:00:39,800 Speaker 2: discovered Tina Turner, who, among her many other accomplishments, top 9 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:44,760 Speaker 2: McJagger to dance. During their marriage, Ike Turner grew heavily 10 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:47,640 Speaker 2: addicted to coke, and as a result, his natural rough 11 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:52,920 Speaker 2: and tumble demeanor intensified. He beat his wife, a musical partner, Tina, mercilessly. 12 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:57,120 Speaker 2: Tina Turner was a raw talent whose singing style fit 13 00:00:57,280 --> 00:01:00,520 Speaker 2: naturally into Ike's patented rough take on rhythm and blues, 14 00:01:00,760 --> 00:01:04,120 Speaker 2: a style that befittes demons. Together, they were, as Tina 15 00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:08,360 Speaker 2: would later proclaim, nice and rough. But with or without Tina, 16 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:11,640 Speaker 2: Ike Turner was mean and dangerous, the epitome of the 17 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:15,200 Speaker 2: bad bad man. While married to Tina, he built a 18 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:17,959 Speaker 2: sexual layer over his studio for his groupies and hangers 19 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:21,160 Speaker 2: on kept a gun on him almost always and grew 20 00:01:21,160 --> 00:01:23,720 Speaker 2: accustomed to making his own drug runs in the Hollywood 21 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:28,080 Speaker 2: Hills and his rolls Royce by himself. Ike and Tina 22 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:31,080 Speaker 2: Turner had one of the most violent and volatile relationships 23 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:33,760 Speaker 2: in rock and roll history. But they made great music. 24 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:35,880 Speaker 2: And that music you heard at the top of the 25 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:39,360 Speaker 2: show that wasn't great music. That was a preset loop 26 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:44,319 Speaker 2: from my melotron called Melo Sachs bossa BK one. I 27 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:46,919 Speaker 2: played you that loop because I can't afford the rights 28 00:01:46,959 --> 00:01:50,280 Speaker 2: to kiss and Say Goodbye by the Manhattans. And why 29 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:53,240 Speaker 2: would I play you that specific slice of deep throated 30 00:01:53,320 --> 00:01:54,320 Speaker 2: slow jam cheese. 31 00:01:54,360 --> 00:01:55,200 Speaker 3: Could I afford it? 32 00:01:55,880 --> 00:01:58,560 Speaker 2: Because that was the number one song in America on 33 00:01:58,680 --> 00:02:01,960 Speaker 2: July twenty seven, teen seventy six, And that was the 34 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:05,400 Speaker 2: day Tina finally split from Ike, severing one of rock 35 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:08,640 Speaker 2: and roll's most talented couples forever, and took our first 36 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:12,160 Speaker 2: triumphant steps towards cementing her own legacy as one of 37 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:17,919 Speaker 2: pop music's greatest icons. On this episode, mellow Sax's Deep 38 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:21,320 Speaker 2: Throated Cheese and the rough music and relationship with Ike 39 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:22,120 Speaker 2: and Tina Turner. 40 00:02:22,720 --> 00:02:25,959 Speaker 3: I'm Jake Brennan in This This Disgraceland. 41 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:40,760 Speaker 2: The show that night was at Caesar's Palace, but the 42 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:45,520 Speaker 2: cocaine was at the International Hotel Las Vegas. Gigs started 43 00:02:45,560 --> 00:02:49,119 Speaker 2: early and so they then ended early, which meant Ike 44 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:52,519 Speaker 2: Turner world class night. Owl needed to find a way 45 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:55,200 Speaker 2: to occupy himself for the rest of the night, and 46 00:02:55,240 --> 00:02:58,240 Speaker 2: that meant sex, and if he was going to take 47 00:02:58,240 --> 00:03:00,440 Speaker 2: advantage of all that Vegas had to offer for then 48 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:04,880 Speaker 2: cocaine was necessary for stamina. Not that Ike Turner needed 49 00:03:04,960 --> 00:03:07,840 Speaker 2: motivation for sex, but coke got them high and had 50 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:11,080 Speaker 2: the added benefit of not derailing him sexually like most 51 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:11,760 Speaker 2: other drugs. 52 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:15,480 Speaker 3: When his show business workloads. 53 00:03:14,919 --> 00:03:17,520 Speaker 2: Started to pick up back in the fifties, Ike was 54 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:20,000 Speaker 2: so anti drug that he fired members of his band, 55 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:23,160 Speaker 2: The Kings of Rhythm if they were even suspected of using. 56 00:03:24,120 --> 00:03:26,760 Speaker 2: Ike had seen dope heroin creep into the scene and 57 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:30,720 Speaker 2: start to cause real problems. Heroin was originally a jazz 58 00:03:30,760 --> 00:03:34,320 Speaker 2: man's drug. Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, and Miles Davis were 59 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:38,960 Speaker 2: all known users, but as various styles of American roots 60 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:42,040 Speaker 2: music filtered into one potent mix to become rock and roll, 61 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:45,640 Speaker 2: various drugs of choice from various musicians affiliated with those 62 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:48,880 Speaker 2: styles came along for the ride. Ray Charles was hooked 63 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:51,520 Speaker 2: on heroin by the late nineteen forties and rock and 64 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:55,880 Speaker 2: roll was still a decade away, so dope wasn't going 65 00:03:55,920 --> 00:03:58,040 Speaker 2: to cut it for Ike Turner. He had too much 66 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:00,240 Speaker 2: to do dealing with his band members. It was a 67 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:02,760 Speaker 2: full time headache, and there was always a record label 68 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:06,640 Speaker 2: calling and harassing him for the latest overdue single or album. 69 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:11,080 Speaker 2: Ike worked hard. His schedule, like him, was rough when 70 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:14,080 Speaker 2: not writing, recording or blowing off steam. There were the 71 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:16,920 Speaker 2: live shows during the first part of his career, six 72 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:19,640 Speaker 2: to seven nights a week of hard work. Some of 73 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:22,680 Speaker 2: those early Chitlin circuit gigs literally went all night long. 74 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:26,200 Speaker 2: Ike and Tina began to find success with their first 75 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:28,520 Speaker 2: singles think It's Going to Work Out Fine and I 76 00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:31,880 Speaker 2: Idolize You in the early sixties, but now, due in 77 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:35,200 Speaker 2: part to Tina's growing domesticity, I cut the touring schedule 78 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:38,159 Speaker 2: back to three to five shows a week. Still, the 79 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:42,760 Speaker 2: schedule was relentless, just as Ike liked it, so heroin 80 00:04:42,839 --> 00:04:46,120 Speaker 2: wasn't going to cut it. Something else was needed, something strong, 81 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:50,240 Speaker 2: where the desired effect was mania, not oblivion. That was 82 00:04:50,279 --> 00:04:52,359 Speaker 2: sort of the pitch King Curtis made the Ike some 83 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:56,640 Speaker 2: years ago backstage after a gig. Ike, Man, you're right 84 00:04:56,720 --> 00:04:59,440 Speaker 2: not to mess with that brown stuff. It'll make you soft. 85 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:03,520 Speaker 2: This stuff, it'll make you go, go go all night long. 86 00:05:04,960 --> 00:05:08,480 Speaker 2: Ike was impressed. King Curtis blew hard just like Ike's 87 00:05:08,480 --> 00:05:11,520 Speaker 2: Idyl Louis Jordan and the cocaine. The way it looked 88 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:15,240 Speaker 2: it was almost pretty white, pure looking, packaged up like 89 00:05:15,240 --> 00:05:18,960 Speaker 2: a little pillow inside of King Curtis's saxophone case. Three 90 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:21,600 Speaker 2: thousand dollars worth. That was a lot of money for 91 00:05:21,720 --> 00:05:25,120 Speaker 2: a lot of cocaine. Ike was flushed, so what the hell? 92 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:27,719 Speaker 2: It was an investment. He thought he'd share it with 93 00:05:27,760 --> 00:05:30,719 Speaker 2: the band get him going for real cooking. Ike pulled 94 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:32,600 Speaker 2: out a stack of hundreds and peeled off three k 95 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:35,560 Speaker 2: for Curtis. He grabbed the massive bag of coke and 96 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:37,559 Speaker 2: stuffed it into his own bag and hit the street 97 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:41,279 Speaker 2: in search of his hotel. Forty five minutes later, he 98 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:43,760 Speaker 2: was sprinting out of that same hotel and back toward 99 00:05:43,839 --> 00:05:46,240 Speaker 2: the venue to lay and asked looking on King Curtis, 100 00:05:46,279 --> 00:05:49,559 Speaker 2: the likes of which he'd never seen. The coke wasn't coke. 101 00:05:50,040 --> 00:05:52,719 Speaker 2: It was dreno or baking soda or flour, or some 102 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:56,080 Speaker 2: impure combination of the three. He'd been had by the 103 00:05:56,120 --> 00:05:58,760 Speaker 2: sax man, who by now was nowhere in sight, long 104 00:05:58,839 --> 00:06:03,599 Speaker 2: gone in the wind. Ike learned a lesson that night. 105 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:08,760 Speaker 2: Never trust no one, especially not a dealer. From then on, 106 00:06:08,839 --> 00:06:11,320 Speaker 2: Ike made as many deals as he could by himself, 107 00:06:11,640 --> 00:06:14,520 Speaker 2: no matter how famous he got, and he always always 108 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:19,080 Speaker 2: sampled the product before purchasing it, so he was super 109 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:21,720 Speaker 2: high when he exited room three zero zero nine on 110 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:24,640 Speaker 2: the thirtieth floor of the International Hotel that night in 111 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:29,440 Speaker 2: nineteen seventy one. The dealer had set him upright. Ike 112 00:06:29,480 --> 00:06:31,680 Speaker 2: paid more than three grand and ended up with less 113 00:06:31,760 --> 00:06:34,039 Speaker 2: coke than Curtis tried selling him back in the day. 114 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:38,240 Speaker 2: But Ike, despite the inflation, was happy, if not satisfied. 115 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:42,560 Speaker 2: Satisfaction would come later in his suite back at Caesar's. 116 00:06:42,839 --> 00:06:46,960 Speaker 2: While Tina slept in her suite quietly on another floor 117 00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:49,680 Speaker 2: of the hotel, Ike and a few select male members 118 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:51,839 Speaker 2: of his band would party their way into the morning 119 00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:54,760 Speaker 2: through a mountain of cocaine in a rhythm King's harem 120 00:06:54,760 --> 00:06:58,760 Speaker 2: of Vegas showgirls. But at the moment, Ike was moving 121 00:06:58,839 --> 00:07:02,320 Speaker 2: quick down the hall on his brain as usual. He 122 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:04,599 Speaker 2: heard the familiar ding of the elevator and then a 123 00:07:04,640 --> 00:07:08,599 Speaker 2: loud gaggle of slow moving Southern voices surrounding the entourage 124 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:12,240 Speaker 2: exited through the elevator doors. The group of men moved 125 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:15,720 Speaker 2: toward him, all dark shades, brill cream and pinky rings, 126 00:07:16,080 --> 00:07:18,840 Speaker 2: the smell of cheap cologne and bad barbecue making its 127 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:20,800 Speaker 2: way out in front of them and down the hall 128 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:24,680 Speaker 2: toward Ike. In the middle of the gaggle, Ike recognized 129 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:31,160 Speaker 2: a distinct laugh, deep resonant, raspy, infectious. As Ike approached, 130 00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:34,520 Speaker 2: the entourage split, revealing in its center the one and 131 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:39,040 Speaker 2: only King of rock and Roll, Elvis Presley. Ike Turner, 132 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:41,360 Speaker 2: not one to be easily impressed, was, for a split 133 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:46,400 Speaker 2: second anyways, shocked, not by Elvis's celebrity but by his size. 134 00:07:46,960 --> 00:07:49,480 Speaker 2: Ike hadn't seen the King since the sixty eight Comeback 135 00:07:49,520 --> 00:07:53,240 Speaker 2: special on NBC a couple years prior, where Elvis presented 136 00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:55,760 Speaker 2: a morse s felt, if not more seasoned, version of 137 00:07:55,840 --> 00:07:58,600 Speaker 2: himself in an effort to reclaim his crown from the 138 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:01,840 Speaker 2: hippies who'd stolen the throne, turning on and tuning out. 139 00:08:02,600 --> 00:08:05,880 Speaker 2: But here now was Vegas Elvis, and to Ike he 140 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:08,560 Speaker 2: was one fat looking motherfucker who looked like he'd seen 141 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:12,560 Speaker 2: better days. He certainly didn't look like no king king 142 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:15,720 Speaker 2: of rock and roll shit. Rock and roll was a genre. 143 00:08:15,800 --> 00:08:18,760 Speaker 2: Ike Turner had every right to claim he invented. So 144 00:08:18,960 --> 00:08:21,480 Speaker 2: called experts debated the subject, but the fact was that 145 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:23,840 Speaker 2: there was no rock and roll before Rocket eighty eight, 146 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:27,000 Speaker 2: and it was Ike Turner's mind that launched Rocket eighty eight. 147 00:08:27,560 --> 00:08:30,000 Speaker 2: That song had that boogie woogie rock and roll vibe 148 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:33,000 Speaker 2: before any of that hip shaking, hillbilly shit Elvis put out. 149 00:08:33,240 --> 00:08:35,680 Speaker 2: That brought him to the attention of Colonel Parker, who 150 00:08:35,720 --> 00:08:38,760 Speaker 2: eventually brought Elvis to RCA, into Hollywood, and thus rock 151 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:42,040 Speaker 2: and roll to the world over, making teenagers piss their 152 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:44,400 Speaker 2: pants and screamed so loud that they drowned out the 153 00:08:44,440 --> 00:08:47,920 Speaker 2: reverberations of Rocket eighty eight, and Ike Turners claimed any 154 00:08:47,960 --> 00:08:51,440 Speaker 2: sort of throne. But to Ike Turner, a man who 155 00:08:51,520 --> 00:08:53,160 Speaker 2: knew a thing or two about a thing or two, 156 00:08:53,320 --> 00:08:56,720 Speaker 2: number one being rock, number two being roll, Elvis Presley 157 00:08:56,800 --> 00:08:58,760 Speaker 2: was as much a king as king. Curtis was a 158 00:08:58,760 --> 00:09:02,880 Speaker 2: coke dealer despite whatever coked up look of shock Ike 159 00:09:02,960 --> 00:09:04,920 Speaker 2: Turner had on his face there in the hallway of 160 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:07,960 Speaker 2: the thirtieth floor of the International Hotel. There was no 161 00:09:08,040 --> 00:09:11,880 Speaker 2: mistaking who he was, Ike motherfucking Turner, and Elvis was 162 00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:14,760 Speaker 2: happier than a pig and shit to see him. A 163 00:09:14,760 --> 00:09:18,800 Speaker 2: big smile broke over his fat face. Oh man, Ike Turner, 164 00:09:19,080 --> 00:09:23,000 Speaker 2: can you believe it? Boys? Elvis went straight at Ike. 165 00:09:23,280 --> 00:09:26,520 Speaker 2: Ike stiffened his backbone, clenched his fists, and steeled himself. 166 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:28,360 Speaker 2: He was about to lay a hard ride on the 167 00:09:28,440 --> 00:09:30,800 Speaker 2: king when Elvis offered his hand to shake Ike's. 168 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:34,160 Speaker 3: Man, it's good to see you. Do you recognize me? 169 00:09:35,480 --> 00:09:38,280 Speaker 2: Ike give him a puzzled look, stared said nothing, but 170 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:43,560 Speaker 2: thought recognize you, motherfucker? I have eyes, don't I? Elvis Presley. 171 00:09:44,280 --> 00:09:48,160 Speaker 2: Elvis kept at it. Hey, do you remember me? Ike's 172 00:09:48,160 --> 00:09:52,120 Speaker 2: expression softened to touch. Elvis is getting more excited from 173 00:09:52,120 --> 00:09:54,719 Speaker 2: back in Memphis. Man the juke joined on eleventh used 174 00:09:54,720 --> 00:09:58,080 Speaker 2: to let me in the back door. Ike remembered. Now 175 00:09:58,800 --> 00:10:01,800 Speaker 2: it was distant button Elvis's fat mug. I could see 176 00:10:01,840 --> 00:10:04,920 Speaker 2: back twenty years to another time, a time when only 177 00:10:04,960 --> 00:10:07,080 Speaker 2: one of the two men had made a name for himself, 178 00:10:07,520 --> 00:10:09,640 Speaker 2: and it wasn't the white man with the entourage looking 179 00:10:09,640 --> 00:10:12,400 Speaker 2: at him funny. It was Ike Turner, who back in 180 00:10:12,480 --> 00:10:15,920 Speaker 2: nineteen fifty one was enjoying the success of Rocket eighty eight, 181 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:19,640 Speaker 2: knocking him dead alongside Little Junior Parker and Willie Nicks 182 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:22,079 Speaker 2: and whatever bucket of blood could afford him. That night. 183 00:10:23,240 --> 00:10:26,000 Speaker 2: Ike was on piano back then at those West Memphis gigs. 184 00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:28,600 Speaker 2: At the gig on eleven, the piano was set up 185 00:10:28,640 --> 00:10:30,520 Speaker 2: at the back of the stage, right next to the 186 00:10:30,559 --> 00:10:33,200 Speaker 2: exit door which led to the alley out back, where 187 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:35,520 Speaker 2: on most knights, a good looking kid with a bad 188 00:10:35,559 --> 00:10:38,600 Speaker 2: complexion and silly looking sideburns would double park his work 189 00:10:38,640 --> 00:10:40,560 Speaker 2: truck and do his best to sneak into the All 190 00:10:40,559 --> 00:10:43,920 Speaker 2: Black Club through the back. He had a friendly enough 191 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:47,000 Speaker 2: demeanor and for whatever reason, didn't rub Ike the wrong way, 192 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:49,360 Speaker 2: so Ike would let him in to watch the show 193 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:52,920 Speaker 2: from behind his piano, where Ike would mess around playing 194 00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:56,400 Speaker 2: while standing up, googly eyeing the crowd, dancing like a fool, 195 00:10:56,720 --> 00:11:00,200 Speaker 2: purposefully knocking his knees together and shaking his hips all 196 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:03,839 Speaker 2: abandoned all R and B and the teenage truck driver 197 00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:06,800 Speaker 2: studying it all behind the piano none other than the 198 00:11:06,800 --> 00:11:10,480 Speaker 2: pubescent would be king of rock and roll himself, Elvis Presley. 199 00:11:11,920 --> 00:11:13,400 Speaker 3: It all came back to Ike. Now. 200 00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:16,040 Speaker 2: He had no idea back then, no idea that the 201 00:11:16,120 --> 00:11:19,240 Speaker 2: young kid who would blanket airways with blue suede shoes 202 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:22,000 Speaker 2: and melt teenage hearts on the big screen in Blue 203 00:11:22,040 --> 00:11:25,280 Speaker 2: Hawaii was the same kid who I gave incidental rock 204 00:11:25,320 --> 00:11:29,720 Speaker 2: and roll lessons to back in West Memphis at fifty one. Yeah, 205 00:11:30,200 --> 00:11:34,520 Speaker 2: I recognize you, Ike said flatly, Now, if you'd excuse me, 206 00:11:34,960 --> 00:11:38,560 Speaker 2: I'm late for my date. And with that Ike paraded 207 00:11:38,600 --> 00:11:41,319 Speaker 2: past Elvis's entourage and down the corridor with all the 208 00:11:41,480 --> 00:11:44,680 Speaker 2: entitlement of a pavity hotel, duck into the elevator, down 209 00:11:44,720 --> 00:11:48,280 Speaker 2: into the lobby, and off into the night. As the 210 00:11:48,320 --> 00:11:51,760 Speaker 2: elevator descended, I couldn't help but think about those days 211 00:11:51,800 --> 00:11:54,520 Speaker 2: back in Memphis. But his mind took him further back 212 00:11:54,600 --> 00:11:57,920 Speaker 2: past Memphis to Clarksdale, Mississippi, where he grew up in 213 00:11:57,960 --> 00:12:01,120 Speaker 2: a modest house on Washington Avenue, a house that, back 214 00:12:01,160 --> 00:12:03,680 Speaker 2: in the late nineteen thirties was nothing more than a 215 00:12:03,720 --> 00:12:07,800 Speaker 2: house of horror for the young boy Ike Turner. The 216 00:12:07,840 --> 00:12:10,680 Speaker 2: first thing he heard were the trucks screeching up out front. 217 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:13,959 Speaker 2: There wasn't a lot of traffic in Ike's childhood neighborhood, 218 00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:18,120 Speaker 2: especially not at night. Then the voice is angry, excited, 219 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:22,199 Speaker 2: and unmistakably white. Then the door busted open and broke 220 00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:24,880 Speaker 2: and clean off its lock and loudly puncturing the wall 221 00:12:24,920 --> 00:12:27,640 Speaker 2: with the backside of the doorknob. The man entered the 222 00:12:27,679 --> 00:12:31,160 Speaker 2: Turner home with bats, loudly forcing themselves in through everything 223 00:12:31,160 --> 00:12:33,800 Speaker 2: in their way. Ike rose up out of his bed 224 00:12:33,840 --> 00:12:35,880 Speaker 2: and ran to his doorway to see what was happening. 225 00:12:36,280 --> 00:12:38,680 Speaker 2: And that's when he saw his father being dragged, kicking 226 00:12:38,679 --> 00:12:41,000 Speaker 2: and screaming down the hall by a small mob of 227 00:12:41,040 --> 00:12:43,880 Speaker 2: white men. And they were gone almost as quickly as 228 00:12:43,920 --> 00:12:46,839 Speaker 2: they came, stealing away his father in the dead of night, 229 00:12:47,160 --> 00:12:52,240 Speaker 2: leaving behind his mother hysterical, screaming, crying, horrified. Ike was petrified, 230 00:12:52,640 --> 00:12:56,119 Speaker 2: unable to move, unable to cry, scared in the stillness, 231 00:12:56,520 --> 00:12:59,679 Speaker 2: hardened in that one moment, like a rock a stone 232 00:12:59,679 --> 00:13:02,320 Speaker 2: result to make sure nobody ever came into his house 233 00:13:02,360 --> 00:13:06,880 Speaker 2: again like that, not without a fight. An hour or 234 00:13:06,960 --> 00:13:09,880 Speaker 2: so later, there was the sound of familiar tires rumbling 235 00:13:09,880 --> 00:13:12,560 Speaker 2: down the dirt road and squealing to a stop in 236 00:13:12,559 --> 00:13:16,680 Speaker 2: front of their house, voices a loud thud, the acceleration 237 00:13:16,760 --> 00:13:19,880 Speaker 2: of the truck once again, and then nothing. Ike with 238 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:21,920 Speaker 2: his mom and toe, ran out to the front yard, 239 00:13:21,920 --> 00:13:24,439 Speaker 2: and there, lying on the grass was what remained of 240 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:27,959 Speaker 2: the man of the house, Ike's dad, a mangled mess 241 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:32,360 Speaker 2: of broken bones, blood and bruises, unconscious but breathing, barely 242 00:13:32,880 --> 00:13:40,120 Speaker 2: dead quiet. Serious medical treatment for African Americans and segregated 243 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:45,920 Speaker 2: nineteen thirties Clarksdale, Mississippi was poor at best. Extended hospital stays, 244 00:13:45,960 --> 00:13:48,720 Speaker 2: even for the near dead, were not allowed, so the 245 00:13:48,760 --> 00:13:51,320 Speaker 2: Board of Health built a tent, a tent in the 246 00:13:51,360 --> 00:13:53,800 Speaker 2: Turner's backyard for Ike's dad to convalesce. 247 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:54,840 Speaker 3: There. 248 00:13:54,840 --> 00:13:58,280 Speaker 2: He remained for several years, immobile in a near vegetative 249 00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:03,720 Speaker 2: state in a tent backyard. The beating, it was later learned, 250 00:14:03,800 --> 00:14:06,719 Speaker 2: was because Ike's dad had supposedly been sleeping with a 251 00:14:06,760 --> 00:14:10,160 Speaker 2: white woman. Whatever the reason, the state he was in 252 00:14:10,160 --> 00:14:13,160 Speaker 2: in his presence in the backyard was a constant reminder 253 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:16,480 Speaker 2: of the brutally racist and rough reality Ike Turner lived 254 00:14:16,480 --> 00:14:21,040 Speaker 2: in mercifully. Ike's father, after a few years, finally succumbed 255 00:14:21,040 --> 00:14:25,040 Speaker 2: to his wounds and died. Ike's mom remarried, and from 256 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:29,080 Speaker 2: there things somehow got worse for Ike. His stepfather drunk 257 00:14:29,160 --> 00:14:31,440 Speaker 2: most of the time, violent all of the time, beat 258 00:14:31,480 --> 00:14:34,320 Speaker 2: young Ike regularly, and by age six, Ike was sleeping 259 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:36,680 Speaker 2: with an adult neighborho would invite the boy into her 260 00:14:36,760 --> 00:14:39,760 Speaker 2: yard to feed her chickens and proceeded to take advantage 261 00:14:39,800 --> 00:14:43,240 Speaker 2: of him. He was also raped repeatedly by two other 262 00:14:43,280 --> 00:14:46,680 Speaker 2: local adult women, a charge that in adulthood, Ike didn't 263 00:14:46,680 --> 00:14:49,280 Speaker 2: seem to mind and used to burnish his manly image. 264 00:14:50,920 --> 00:14:54,240 Speaker 2: But his childhood was a nightmare until he found music 265 00:14:54,280 --> 00:14:58,760 Speaker 2: over at Clarksdale's local radio station WROX, where Ike Turner, 266 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:01,080 Speaker 2: by the time he was eight years old, would spend 267 00:15:01,120 --> 00:15:04,200 Speaker 2: most of his days at first running errands for the 268 00:15:04,240 --> 00:15:07,000 Speaker 2: local DJs, and eventually subbing for them when they needed 269 00:15:07,040 --> 00:15:10,360 Speaker 2: time off. It was during this time that Ike met 270 00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:13,320 Speaker 2: piano player pine Top Perkins and convinced his mother to 271 00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:19,480 Speaker 2: pay for piano lessons. Ike graduated from Pinetop anyway, having 272 00:15:19,520 --> 00:15:22,440 Speaker 2: learned piano, he moved on to teaching himself guitar. It 273 00:15:22,560 --> 00:15:26,360 Speaker 2: moved into the Riverside Hotel in Clarksdale, the local establishment 274 00:15:26,360 --> 00:15:29,360 Speaker 2: that hosted most of the day's prominent touring musicians, Duke 275 00:15:29,360 --> 00:15:33,840 Speaker 2: Ellington and Sonny Boy Williamson among them. The Riverside, along 276 00:15:33,880 --> 00:15:37,960 Speaker 2: with downtown Clarksdale, was Ike Turner's campus. His education was 277 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:40,960 Speaker 2: in full swing, his professors some of the greatest blues 278 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:42,320 Speaker 2: and jazz men of all time. 279 00:15:43,440 --> 00:15:44,080 Speaker 3: Ike took his. 280 00:15:44,120 --> 00:15:47,360 Speaker 2: Education and formed the Ike Turner Kings of Rhythm his 281 00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:50,880 Speaker 2: master's thesis, Rocket eighty eight, a single that sold close 282 00:15:50,920 --> 00:15:53,160 Speaker 2: to half a million copies, but only made Ike im 283 00:15:53,160 --> 00:15:56,000 Speaker 2: easily twenty dollars due to the fact that Ike wasn'tcredited 284 00:15:56,040 --> 00:15:59,000 Speaker 2: on the original recording. But the song did make Ike 285 00:15:59,040 --> 00:16:01,280 Speaker 2: Turner one of the most happy being musicians in Memphis 286 00:16:01,280 --> 00:16:04,320 Speaker 2: at the time, and that was something money couldn't buy. 287 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:08,680 Speaker 2: But Ike quickly outgrew Memphis. New gigs were needed and 288 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:11,400 Speaker 2: new digs desired, so Ike Turner and his Kings of 289 00:16:11,480 --> 00:16:14,400 Speaker 2: Rhythm headed north about three hundred miles to Saint Louis, 290 00:16:14,680 --> 00:16:17,280 Speaker 2: where he would discover the raw talents of seventeen year 291 00:16:17,280 --> 00:16:20,440 Speaker 2: old Anime Bullock, who Ike would soon make known to 292 00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:42,640 Speaker 2: the world over as Tina Turner. Tina Turner grew up 293 00:16:42,640 --> 00:16:45,560 Speaker 2: as Anime Bullock in a one horse town in Tennessee 294 00:16:45,680 --> 00:16:48,800 Speaker 2: called Nutbush, with a population of two hundred and fifty 295 00:16:48,920 --> 00:16:52,680 Speaker 2: nine and exactly one road running through it. The town 296 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:55,080 Speaker 2: had a church, a post office in a schoolhouse with 297 00:16:55,160 --> 00:16:58,160 Speaker 2: a single room, where Anime studied until the ninth grade. 298 00:16:58,920 --> 00:17:02,800 Speaker 2: Nutbush was deep cotton country, a place where African American 299 00:17:02,840 --> 00:17:06,760 Speaker 2: sharecroppers tended fields that were once worked by their slave ancestors, 300 00:17:08,119 --> 00:17:12,159 Speaker 2: Floyd and Zelma Bullock. Anime's parents were a sharecroppers, and 301 00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:15,280 Speaker 2: while Tina would later say she never felt poor, there 302 00:17:15,320 --> 00:17:18,280 Speaker 2: was always food on the table when sometimes even new clothes, 303 00:17:19,080 --> 00:17:21,719 Speaker 2: But life in the Bullock household was far from happy. 304 00:17:22,320 --> 00:17:25,399 Speaker 2: Annime and her sister were routinely shuttled among the homes 305 00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:28,600 Speaker 2: of grandparents and cousins in and around Hayward County, but 306 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:31,120 Speaker 2: even still, that was a lot better than being around 307 00:17:31,119 --> 00:17:34,960 Speaker 2: when their parents were fighting. Oftentimes the spats turned physical. 308 00:17:35,280 --> 00:17:39,720 Speaker 2: Divorce was inevitable. When her mother, Zelma had had enough 309 00:17:39,760 --> 00:17:42,480 Speaker 2: of being a wife and mother enough of Nutbush in 310 00:17:42,520 --> 00:17:45,199 Speaker 2: its one horse, she packed up and lit out of 311 00:17:45,240 --> 00:17:48,639 Speaker 2: town on her own without her eleven year old daughter Anime, 312 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:52,680 Speaker 2: without even saying goodbye. For Anime, this was a hurt 313 00:17:52,720 --> 00:17:54,919 Speaker 2: that was never going to go away, and for the 314 00:17:54,960 --> 00:17:57,560 Speaker 2: next few years she was raised by her grandmother in 315 00:17:57,640 --> 00:18:00,960 Speaker 2: a tidy house with a large garden. She loved her grandmother, 316 00:18:01,040 --> 00:18:03,040 Speaker 2: and her grandmother loved her, and life was as good 317 00:18:03,080 --> 00:18:05,760 Speaker 2: as it could be for her parentless child until suddenly 318 00:18:05,960 --> 00:18:09,400 Speaker 2: her beloved grandmother died and Anime Bullock, who was still 319 00:18:09,400 --> 00:18:12,720 Speaker 2: in high school, was suddenly on her own, so she 320 00:18:12,760 --> 00:18:14,880 Speaker 2: moved to Saint Louis to live with her unloving mother. 321 00:18:16,640 --> 00:18:19,080 Speaker 2: A lot of things about Tina's years with Ike Turner 322 00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:22,600 Speaker 2: make more sense if you remember this. When she met him, 323 00:18:22,720 --> 00:18:25,800 Speaker 2: she was seventeen years old. With her big sister Aileen, 324 00:18:25,880 --> 00:18:28,520 Speaker 2: she hit the Manhattan Club in East Saint Louis, where 325 00:18:28,560 --> 00:18:31,520 Speaker 2: Ike and his band played. When Tina got her chance 326 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:34,040 Speaker 2: on stage, it turned out to the delight of the 327 00:18:34,040 --> 00:18:38,440 Speaker 2: Manhattan Club that Aileen's little sister could sing, and Little Anne, 328 00:18:38,440 --> 00:18:40,840 Speaker 2: as she was then known, loved singing and dancing and 329 00:18:40,880 --> 00:18:43,960 Speaker 2: connecting with the crowd. As for Ike, he did a 330 00:18:43,960 --> 00:18:46,480 Speaker 2: double take. He liked what he heard because what he 331 00:18:46,480 --> 00:18:48,800 Speaker 2: heard was the sound of money. So he did what 332 00:18:48,880 --> 00:18:51,240 Speaker 2: I like usually did, threw his money around like a fool. 333 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:55,400 Speaker 2: He bought Anime clothes jewelry, a fur coat. Before long 334 00:18:55,440 --> 00:18:58,120 Speaker 2: she was driving a cadillact to school, and Little Anne 335 00:18:58,160 --> 00:19:01,119 Speaker 2: admired the man's music and charisma and liked the idea 336 00:19:01,119 --> 00:19:02,400 Speaker 2: of a career he could give her. 337 00:19:02,920 --> 00:19:04,080 Speaker 3: She just had a change of name. 338 00:19:04,640 --> 00:19:07,840 Speaker 2: Little Anne wasn't powerful enough for her voice, so at 339 00:19:07,840 --> 00:19:10,080 Speaker 2: the age of twenty, convinced by Ike that it was 340 00:19:10,160 --> 00:19:12,560 Speaker 2: the right thing to do, she took the professional name 341 00:19:12,640 --> 00:19:16,560 Speaker 2: Tina Turner. Now that sounded more powerful, she went along 342 00:19:16,560 --> 00:19:18,960 Speaker 2: with it. The man a good show, biss since she thought, 343 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:21,560 Speaker 2: even though when she first laid eyes on him on 344 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:24,840 Speaker 2: stage that night, she said she couldn't help thinking, God, 345 00:19:25,359 --> 00:19:29,800 Speaker 2: he's ugly. At that point, Tina didn't know just how 346 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:33,119 Speaker 2: ugly it would get. Ugly and rough go hand in hand, 347 00:19:33,160 --> 00:19:36,320 Speaker 2: and life with Ike was rough. The way Ike chose 348 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:38,360 Speaker 2: to live. He had a way of sapping the joy 349 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:41,840 Speaker 2: out of everything. Case in point, Ike in Tina's wedding, 350 00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:45,760 Speaker 2: it was transactional, no heart, and pulled off on the 351 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:50,159 Speaker 2: fly over the border in Tijuana, Mexico. For Tina, the 352 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:54,119 Speaker 2: wedding was a straight up humiliation in the heat in 353 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:56,720 Speaker 2: the filth of the office of the very First Justice 354 00:19:56,720 --> 00:19:59,680 Speaker 2: of Peace that they found Tina batted away the flies 355 00:19:59,680 --> 00:20:03,200 Speaker 2: and on the dotted line. There was no bridle dress, 356 00:20:03,320 --> 00:20:06,240 Speaker 2: no you may now kiss the bride, no wedding cake, 357 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:10,760 Speaker 2: just sweat, grime and a very horny Ike. Horny for what. 358 00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:13,040 Speaker 2: Tina didn't know, but she could tell Ike had his 359 00:20:13,119 --> 00:20:17,440 Speaker 2: thoughts on more than just her. Once the transaction was complete, 360 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:20,919 Speaker 2: Ike decided it was time to celebrate, so naturally, he 361 00:20:20,960 --> 00:20:23,880 Speaker 2: took his newlywed bride to a live Tijuana sex show. 362 00:20:26,880 --> 00:20:30,040 Speaker 2: Superman was his name, and he was part Carney's side 363 00:20:30,040 --> 00:20:34,280 Speaker 2: show and part Central American legend, a freak show, and 364 00:20:34,359 --> 00:20:39,440 Speaker 2: a main attraction twelve inches below the belt, flaccid, unbelievable 365 00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:42,320 Speaker 2: to the naked eye. The rumor was that he took 366 00:20:42,359 --> 00:20:45,720 Speaker 2: his name from the original Superman, not the George Reeves 367 00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:49,399 Speaker 2: character from the popular American television series, but from the 368 00:20:49,440 --> 00:20:53,120 Speaker 2: Cuban sex worker who worked two, sometimes three, live sex 369 00:20:53,160 --> 00:20:55,800 Speaker 2: shows a night in a musty old Havana theater and 370 00:20:55,880 --> 00:21:00,480 Speaker 2: went by the name Superman. Tijuana Superman, a journal or 371 00:21:00,520 --> 00:21:03,879 Speaker 2: not was about to horrify the newly minted missus Ike Turner. 372 00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:08,480 Speaker 2: The audience, drunk and giddy with anticipation, shifted anxiously on 373 00:21:08,520 --> 00:21:12,399 Speaker 2: their beer stained wooden chairs. Dank smoke hung low throughout 374 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:17,199 Speaker 2: the club. Ike sipped his drink expressionless, a cold, flat 375 00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:20,760 Speaker 2: stare fixed upon his wife, who sat quietly in fear 376 00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:25,040 Speaker 2: of protesting, knowing that any complaint would invite Ike's fists 377 00:21:25,040 --> 00:21:26,200 Speaker 2: to rain down upon her. 378 00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:28,440 Speaker 3: As much as she didn't. 379 00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:30,560 Speaker 2: Want to bear witness to a live sex show hours 380 00:21:30,560 --> 00:21:33,480 Speaker 2: after getting married, or at all, for that matter, she 381 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:35,280 Speaker 2: sure as hell did not want a black eye on 382 00:21:35,320 --> 00:21:41,720 Speaker 2: her wedding night, so she sat quiet, uncomfortable, scared. The 383 00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:44,280 Speaker 2: music hit and the audience turned their attention to the 384 00:21:44,359 --> 00:21:49,480 Speaker 2: tiny stage. 385 00:21:50,040 --> 00:21:51,399 Speaker 3: MC curtain was drawn back. 386 00:21:51,960 --> 00:21:54,840 Speaker 2: At center stage, there was a loosely bound female sex 387 00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:58,800 Speaker 2: worker wearing next to nothing, her binds tended to by 388 00:21:58,840 --> 00:22:01,399 Speaker 2: too scantily clad wind in veils made it look like 389 00:22:01,480 --> 00:22:11,159 Speaker 2: traditional belly dancers. Then, from stage left, Superman appeared, wearing 390 00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:14,000 Speaker 2: a dark red velvet cape. His black hair and oil 391 00:22:14,080 --> 00:22:16,600 Speaker 2: slick combed straight back over his head to the nape 392 00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:20,359 Speaker 2: of his neck, his skin caramel colored with beads of 393 00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:23,760 Speaker 2: sweat obvious to those in the first few rows. He 394 00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:29,360 Speaker 2: was tall, homely, menacing. He slowly walked the stage circling 395 00:22:29,440 --> 00:22:32,959 Speaker 2: the women, before stopping and turning to the audience. He 396 00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:36,359 Speaker 2: dropped his cape and robed and revealed his superpower to 397 00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:40,240 Speaker 2: the crowd. Short gasps and applause spread and burst throughout 398 00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:42,600 Speaker 2: the moon. The few women who were in the audience 399 00:22:42,600 --> 00:22:46,560 Speaker 2: looked horrified, most of the men smiled in disbelief, and 400 00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:49,320 Speaker 2: a few did their best to secretly suppress their arousal. 401 00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:53,520 Speaker 2: Superman turned toward his partner in this unholy union. What 402 00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:57,280 Speaker 2: came next was rough. Tina Turner covered her eyes and 403 00:22:57,280 --> 00:23:00,240 Speaker 2: her husband, White Turner, held back a devilish smile. Wow 404 00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:05,520 Speaker 2: sipped his drink slowly. Somehow with more menace than Superman. 405 00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:13,840 Speaker 1: We'll be right back after this word word word. 406 00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:17,280 Speaker 2: Back Before Tiajuana, Superman, mister and missus, Ike Turner had 407 00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:21,480 Speaker 2: a different kind of relationship. Ike was betting on Tina's talent, 408 00:23:21,760 --> 00:23:24,400 Speaker 2: and in the beginning it was a risk born more 409 00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:29,600 Speaker 2: out of necessity and circumstance than foresight and faith. Art 410 00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:33,159 Speaker 2: was late for the recording session. Ike was pissed. It 411 00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:36,320 Speaker 2: was a power move. Ike knew it. Art wanted more money, 412 00:23:36,359 --> 00:23:39,520 Speaker 2: but fuck that. Ike was the star. Ike was the 413 00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:42,200 Speaker 2: band leader, even if he didn't sing lead. Art was 414 00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:44,760 Speaker 2: only fronting the Kings of Rhythm because Ike Turner led. 415 00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:46,200 Speaker 3: Him front the Kings of Rhythm. 416 00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:48,560 Speaker 2: If Art wanted more bread, he could go out and 417 00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:51,199 Speaker 2: get it himself, just like Ike had done. This was, 418 00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:54,040 Speaker 2: after all, still America. Ike would be damned if he 419 00:23:54,119 --> 00:23:56,760 Speaker 2: was going to let some glorified backup singer leverage him 420 00:23:56,760 --> 00:24:00,439 Speaker 2: into increasing his salary, especially when said singer had no 421 00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:01,959 Speaker 2: real leverage. 422 00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:03,520 Speaker 3: So fuck them. 423 00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:06,040 Speaker 2: When Art didn't show for the session, Ike simply called 424 00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:08,600 Speaker 2: up one of his female backup singers into the vocal booth. 425 00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:11,720 Speaker 2: Little Anne could handle the tune, I thought. He just 426 00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:14,040 Speaker 2: switched the lyrics around so it could be sung from 427 00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:18,119 Speaker 2: a female's perspective, and the result a rhythm in blues explosion. 428 00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:21,360 Speaker 2: A Fool in Love written and recorded by Ike Turner's 429 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:24,879 Speaker 2: sung by Anime Bullock aka Tina Turner and released in 430 00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:28,200 Speaker 2: July nineteen sixty on the Sue Records label. Jumped off 431 00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:31,480 Speaker 2: of the vinyl and stirred listeners at their core. Tina's 432 00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:34,359 Speaker 2: sultry gospel vocal intro quickly gives way to an r 433 00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:36,880 Speaker 2: and b rave up that is nothing short of exhilarating. 434 00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:41,000 Speaker 2: The song cooks and it quickly ascended the charts. A 435 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:43,080 Speaker 2: Fool in Love crossed over from the R and B 436 00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:45,720 Speaker 2: charts to the pop charts and became a million seller. 437 00:24:46,359 --> 00:24:50,280 Speaker 2: Ike and Tina Turner were suddenly stars. Tina, at twenty 438 00:24:50,359 --> 00:24:52,560 Speaker 2: years old and with Ike at her side, made her 439 00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:55,199 Speaker 2: first televised appearance on American Bandstand. 440 00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:57,720 Speaker 3: She was nine months pregnant at the time. 441 00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:00,200 Speaker 2: Ike wasn't gonna let a little thing like his a 442 00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:03,159 Speaker 2: baby mama getting the way of his success. It had 443 00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:05,360 Speaker 2: been a long time since his first and only hit, 444 00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:08,760 Speaker 2: Rocket eighty eight, a hit he did not benefit from financially, 445 00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:11,160 Speaker 2: so there was no way he wasn't going to milk 446 00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:14,359 Speaker 2: this run a success for all it was worth. Tina 447 00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:17,400 Speaker 2: could holler pregnants up on stage and shake it. Preggers 448 00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:20,520 Speaker 2: are not And Tina brought it, sang her ass off. 449 00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:22,679 Speaker 2: It was heavy, deep, and she shook it with the 450 00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:24,720 Speaker 2: power of a thousand suns and let the world know 451 00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:27,439 Speaker 2: that there was more than one badass on stage that night. 452 00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:30,679 Speaker 2: The last name of Turner, A Fool in Love was 453 00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:33,879 Speaker 2: followed by more hits, but Ike did not rest the 454 00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:36,439 Speaker 2: Ike and Tina Turner review played up to three hundred 455 00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:39,720 Speaker 2: shows a year on their own in support of megastars 456 00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:43,359 Speaker 2: like the Rolling Stones. Ike made deal a deal writing 457 00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:45,560 Speaker 2: and recording whenever you get the chance, in order to 458 00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:49,040 Speaker 2: bring in as much bread as possible. Famed record producer 459 00:25:49,119 --> 00:25:52,720 Speaker 2: Phil Spector came calling for Tina, not Ike. Phil paid 460 00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:54,560 Speaker 2: twenty grand to get Ike to fuck off out of 461 00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:56,399 Speaker 2: the studio so that he could have Tina all to 462 00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:59,520 Speaker 2: himself while the tape was rolling. The result was the 463 00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:03,120 Speaker 2: impecct We produced and performed Single River, Deep Mountain High. 464 00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:05,800 Speaker 3: In the heady days of all of this. 465 00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:09,360 Speaker 2: Success, after the Tiajuana wedding, Ike and Tina settled into 466 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:13,240 Speaker 2: the Baldwin Hills section of Los Angeles, alongside other celebrities 467 00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:17,320 Speaker 2: like Tina's idol, Gray Charles. Success was sweet, but not 468 00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:23,760 Speaker 2: sweet enough to mask Ike's rough nature. Ike was relentless, 469 00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:27,240 Speaker 2: rain or shine, in sickness or in health. He worked 470 00:26:27,280 --> 00:26:31,000 Speaker 2: Tina in this band like Georgia Mules. For Tina, it 471 00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:33,440 Speaker 2: wasn't just the travel and schedule of the gigs that 472 00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:36,840 Speaker 2: was rough, or later, the longer hours and the variety shows, 473 00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:40,600 Speaker 2: the residency in Las Vegas. Yes, all of that took energy, 474 00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:44,920 Speaker 2: but Tina herself a perfectionist gave her all on stage 475 00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:48,240 Speaker 2: without fail, but it was more than the work. Ike 476 00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:52,120 Speaker 2: wore her down in their private moments. The man was mean, 477 00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:55,600 Speaker 2: a world class prick. When he had first bestowed the 478 00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:59,320 Speaker 2: name Tina Turner upon her, she pushed back. He chosen 479 00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:02,200 Speaker 2: Tina because it rhymed with Sheena of Sheena, Queen of 480 00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:04,639 Speaker 2: the Jungle, the image he had in mind for his 481 00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:08,280 Speaker 2: future wife. He'd also trademarked the name. He owned it, 482 00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:11,400 Speaker 2: but Tina didn't want it. Anime is who I am, 483 00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:15,280 Speaker 2: she said, resting her hand on her pregnant belly. Ike 484 00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:19,320 Speaker 2: reacted viciously. First he screamed, Then, to her horror, he 485 00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:22,119 Speaker 2: picked up a wooden shoe stretcher smacked her across the 486 00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:24,679 Speaker 2: head with it. He always hit her in the head, 487 00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:28,879 Speaker 2: and always was something hard and blunt. Ike used to say, 488 00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:31,679 Speaker 2: a guitar player needs his hands, so he never fights 489 00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:35,040 Speaker 2: with his fists. So he beat Tina about her head 490 00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:38,359 Speaker 2: over and over and over until she was bloody. And 491 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:40,399 Speaker 2: then he beat her some more for crying about it. 492 00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:43,360 Speaker 2: And after that he ordered her under the bed, where 493 00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:45,640 Speaker 2: he would then rape her. And that was the way 494 00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:49,359 Speaker 2: I turned her. Like to end an argument, piece of 495 00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:57,119 Speaker 2: shit Ike pushed Tina hard. He had no patience for 496 00:27:57,240 --> 00:28:00,240 Speaker 2: illness or weakness of any kind. It fucked with his 497 00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:04,520 Speaker 2: total control. After torn with the rolling stones, Tina was sick. 498 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:07,560 Speaker 2: She'd driven herself into the hospital, where she was admitted 499 00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:10,679 Speaker 2: and treated for TV, an illness that was practically a 500 00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:11,480 Speaker 2: death sentence. 501 00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:12,440 Speaker 3: Up until about. 502 00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:16,280 Speaker 2: Nineteen forty making Keys sent flowers, but Ike nothing, not 503 00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:20,440 Speaker 2: a He never even visited. Not much later in the relationship, 504 00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:23,920 Speaker 2: Ike would humiliate Tina daily by openly sleeping with three 505 00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:26,280 Speaker 2: other women who he kept at their house. At their house, 506 00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:30,159 Speaker 2: Tina felt powerless and visible. She began to think of 507 00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:33,399 Speaker 2: ways to escape. She went to the doctor for sleeping pills. 508 00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:36,560 Speaker 2: After dinner one night, she retired to the master bathroom 509 00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:37,560 Speaker 2: and swallowed them all. 510 00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:40,000 Speaker 3: She placed each of the fifty pills. 511 00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:41,960 Speaker 2: On her tongue one at a time, filled the paper 512 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:45,120 Speaker 2: cup with water, and gulped hard. It would be over soon, 513 00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:49,120 Speaker 2: thank God, she thought. She awoke in the hospital to 514 00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:52,480 Speaker 2: Ike clutching her shoulders and shaking her, screaming into her face, 515 00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:55,600 Speaker 2: calling her a failure. She wasn't even woman enough to 516 00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:58,760 Speaker 2: kill herself to finish the job, Ike repeated to her, 517 00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:01,360 Speaker 2: over and over again she should just fucking die do 518 00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:04,160 Speaker 2: him a favor. When she didn't, he told her she 519 00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:05,880 Speaker 2: better have her ass out of bed on the quick 520 00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:10,200 Speaker 2: because they had a gig that night. The abuse continued, 521 00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:13,920 Speaker 2: physical and emotional. As Ike's use of cocaine increased, he 522 00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:17,040 Speaker 2: took to beating Tina with more regularity, and the beating 523 00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:19,840 Speaker 2: seemed born just as much from Ike's short coke addled 524 00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:24,840 Speaker 2: fuse as they were some sick sexual kink. Somehow, Tina 525 00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:27,760 Speaker 2: held on for dear life, becoming a pro at excuse 526 00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:29,959 Speaker 2: making and applying makeup and just the right way to 527 00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:32,480 Speaker 2: mask the darkness she was living through while it manifest 528 00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:38,800 Speaker 2: about her repeatedly swollen face and head. Until nineteen seventy six, anyway, 529 00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:44,080 Speaker 2: en route to Dallas from La Tina in a window 530 00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:48,120 Speaker 2: seat scrunched up uncomfortably next to her husband's new pregnant girlfriend, 531 00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:51,000 Speaker 2: with Ike in the coveted aisle seat next to them. 532 00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:55,400 Speaker 2: Unfucking believable, Tina thought Ike had some golf and he 533 00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:59,880 Speaker 2: had zero self awareness. Furthering the insult, Ike stretched himself 534 00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:02,400 Speaker 2: out and lay his long legs across the laps that 535 00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:05,680 Speaker 2: both of the women he thought belonged to him. For Tina, 536 00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:09,240 Speaker 2: there was something about the way he imposed himself, draping 537 00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:12,120 Speaker 2: his body across her and his girlfriend that got to her. 538 00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:15,120 Speaker 2: The way I put his big shiny shoes on the 539 00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:18,280 Speaker 2: freshly pressed slacks of her pretty white suit. The weight 540 00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:20,240 Speaker 2: of him on her body, the weight of him on 541 00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:25,240 Speaker 2: her life. At this moment, it was too much. Internally, 542 00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:28,520 Speaker 2: Tina had reached a tipping point. But on the outside, 543 00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:32,280 Speaker 2: Tina remained in her seat, still afraid to move. She 544 00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:34,920 Speaker 2: didn't want another beating. The beatings were bad, but what 545 00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:37,880 Speaker 2: was almost worse was the time just before the beating, 546 00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:42,120 Speaker 2: the anticipation, when you felt that dreg when you knew 547 00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:45,560 Speaker 2: it was coming. Throughout all of the beatings, Tina had 548 00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:48,040 Speaker 2: managed to acclimate herself to the fucked up ways of 549 00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:51,400 Speaker 2: her abusive husband. The way she saw it, he was 550 00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:53,680 Speaker 2: so goddamn mean that once he was around, he didn't 551 00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:55,560 Speaker 2: want him to leave, because then he'd have to deal 552 00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:57,200 Speaker 2: with the dread of knowing he was eventually going to 553 00:30:57,280 --> 00:31:00,520 Speaker 2: come back. But for Tina, in this moment the plane, 554 00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:04,600 Speaker 2: something was shifting in the limo on the way to 555 00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:08,400 Speaker 2: the hotel, Ike was feeling playful. He tried feeding Tina 556 00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:11,120 Speaker 2: some chocolate. Normally, she'd have gone along with it and 557 00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:13,520 Speaker 2: taken what he offered, even when she didn't want it. 558 00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:16,640 Speaker 3: But she I kept insisting. 559 00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:19,440 Speaker 2: And he eventually shoved the melting chocolate into Tina's face 560 00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:22,640 Speaker 2: and it dripped onto her white suit. Normally should have 561 00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:26,040 Speaker 2: brushed us off, But not today, I said. 562 00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:32,120 Speaker 3: No, Tina shouted. Predictably, Ike flew into a rage. 563 00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:34,480 Speaker 2: But on that day, in that limo, somewhere in the 564 00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:37,240 Speaker 2: middle of that big state of Texas, Tina Turner did 565 00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:38,240 Speaker 2: not endure the beating. 566 00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:39,480 Speaker 3: She fought back. 567 00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:42,120 Speaker 2: She fought rough and hard with her teeth and her 568 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:44,920 Speaker 2: nails and her stilettos. And when the couple emerged from 569 00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:47,440 Speaker 2: the car at the hotel, they were bloody. Ike's shirt 570 00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:49,880 Speaker 2: was torn and Tina's white suit was turned red with 571 00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:53,240 Speaker 2: her blood. Once in the room, he raped her, then 572 00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:58,680 Speaker 2: fell asleep. Tina, shaken but determined, quietly dressed and gathered 573 00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:02,240 Speaker 2: a few belongings and escaped. Staggering from her injuries, she 574 00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:05,640 Speaker 2: split from the hotel across the highway on foot, unafraid 575 00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:09,720 Speaker 2: of the oncoming traffic. She'd survive worse. At the counter 576 00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:12,840 Speaker 2: of a small one star motel, she introduced herself as 577 00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:16,880 Speaker 2: if she needed any introduction. I'm Tina Turner. I need 578 00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:19,360 Speaker 2: a place to stay. I have twenty six cents in 579 00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:21,440 Speaker 2: my pocket, but if you give me a room, I 580 00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:25,040 Speaker 2: promise I will pay it back. The clerk took a moment, 581 00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:27,720 Speaker 2: surveyed her cuts and bruises, and looked through the eye 582 00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:29,840 Speaker 2: and said, welcome, missus Turner. 583 00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:31,720 Speaker 3: Let me show you then room. 584 00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:49,120 Speaker 2: Back before Tina split from Ike, the two were the 585 00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:53,000 Speaker 2: picture of domesticity on the outside, despite the horror show 586 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:57,200 Speaker 2: that was their actual relationship. Their home near suburban Englewood, 587 00:32:57,240 --> 00:33:00,960 Speaker 2: with their massive Imperial Oil painting portrait the couple, state 588 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:04,720 Speaker 2: of the art, high five high pile shag, elaborate fish tanks, 589 00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:07,800 Speaker 2: swimming pool, revolving door of coming and going musicians, in 590 00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:10,680 Speaker 2: a steady flow of children being shuffled to and from 591 00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:14,600 Speaker 2: sports practices, seemed to say nothing to see here, just 592 00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:17,360 Speaker 2: a slightly eccentric rock and roll couple living the white 593 00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:21,760 Speaker 2: picket fence life in our mildly ostentatious way. Tina ran 594 00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:24,400 Speaker 2: the home, Ike ran the business, and taking care of 595 00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:27,200 Speaker 2: business at home wasn't going to happen. So Ike built 596 00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:31,360 Speaker 2: Bullock Sound his studio, a private studio where musicians were 597 00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:34,960 Speaker 2: welcome and Tina could visit, but never unannounced, and of 598 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:37,440 Speaker 2: course Ike's special guests were always around. 599 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:38,680 Speaker 3: Ballock was a. 600 00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:41,520 Speaker 2: Short ride away from the Turner home and operated under 601 00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:44,200 Speaker 2: the guise of work, but its other purpose was his 602 00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:48,000 Speaker 2: Ike's own personal clubhouse, or as Tina called it, the whorehouse. 603 00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:52,280 Speaker 2: Ike had an apartment built upstairs in the studio where 604 00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:55,239 Speaker 2: he spent most nights. He decorated the joint with his 605 00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:59,960 Speaker 2: own flare, lots of jungle prints, candelabras, Kamasutra murals, gold 606 00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:03,360 Speaker 2: played the tables, ten foot tall Romanesque statues, a garish 607 00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:06,760 Speaker 2: canopied bed, and a sofa with massive hard ons for arms. 608 00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:11,080 Speaker 2: Ballock Sound had other interesting features as well, like the 609 00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:14,600 Speaker 2: three inch thick doors that locked automatically behind each visitor 610 00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:17,640 Speaker 2: and required a secret code to exit, and the elaborate 611 00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:21,120 Speaker 2: security system. Nothing strange for a recording studio except for 612 00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:23,880 Speaker 2: the internal eye in the sky cameras I get installed 613 00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:27,480 Speaker 2: throughout the control room in his second floor apartment. Ike 614 00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:32,040 Speaker 2: kept himself busy, first with sex near constant orgies, drugged 615 00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:35,600 Speaker 2: out sex slaves, burned out starlets from Hollywood. On the backside, 616 00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:39,400 Speaker 2: working girls from the CD motels over by lax aspiring, 617 00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:41,960 Speaker 2: I gets looking for the next big break, singing back 618 00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:45,200 Speaker 2: up behind Tina. They all took their turn in Ike's barrow. 619 00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:48,839 Speaker 2: When Ike wasn't partying, he was writing and recording, trying 620 00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:51,880 Speaker 2: to keep up with the seventies. George Clinton and James 621 00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:56,400 Speaker 2: Brown did not sleep. They had LSD and PCP, respectively. 622 00:34:56,800 --> 00:34:58,920 Speaker 2: Ike had to find his own funk. It was a 623 00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:01,799 Speaker 2: full time job in a assistance was needed, and that's 624 00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:04,960 Speaker 2: where the cocaine came in. Lots and lots and lots 625 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:09,200 Speaker 2: and lots and lots of cocaine. Ike started freebasing in 626 00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:12,399 Speaker 2: nineteen seventy four and kept a massive stockpile of coke 627 00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:15,440 Speaker 2: around him at all times, once spending as much as 628 00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:17,880 Speaker 2: one hundred thousand dollars in a two month period on 629 00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:21,680 Speaker 2: cocaine to fuel the constant party. In ongoing recording sessions 630 00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:25,399 Speaker 2: of Bolok later, I would estimate that he had spent 631 00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:28,880 Speaker 2: eleven million dollars on cocaine over a fifteen year period 632 00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:33,120 Speaker 2: from nineteen seventy four to nineteen ninety. During that time, 633 00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:35,640 Speaker 2: he burnt a hole cleaned through his septum and would 634 00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:38,359 Speaker 2: horrify friends by sticking a pen through it from one 635 00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:41,960 Speaker 2: side to the other. He was also arrested ten times, 636 00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:45,600 Speaker 2: convicted twice, and served hard time thirteen months of a 637 00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:49,319 Speaker 2: four year sentence. The security cameras of Bolock Sound were 638 00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:53,160 Speaker 2: not apparently cop proof. The voice on the other side 639 00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:56,200 Speaker 2: of the door was clear, open the fuck up now, 640 00:35:56,520 --> 00:36:01,279 Speaker 2: or we're coming in. Ike could see them out on 641 00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:04,000 Speaker 2: the street from his massive wall of video monitors in 642 00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:09,160 Speaker 2: his control room. Local cops yokels LA's mildless. It wasn't 643 00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:11,480 Speaker 2: the Feds, so it would take them puttson around for 644 00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:13,640 Speaker 2: an hour at least to break through the steel doors 645 00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:16,160 Speaker 2: and find their way to Ike through the studio's maze. 646 00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:16,640 Speaker 3: Of car doors. 647 00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:19,040 Speaker 2: Ike, standing in the middle of his control room and 648 00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:22,520 Speaker 2: nothing but a silk kimono in velvet slippers, calmly sipped 649 00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:25,239 Speaker 2: his drink. This was the moment he'd waited for all 650 00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:28,799 Speaker 2: of his life to show the invasive authority figures that 651 00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:31,759 Speaker 2: he would not go quietly, if at all, he'd make 652 00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:32,520 Speaker 2: them work for it. 653 00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:34,360 Speaker 3: This was his fortress. 654 00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:38,360 Speaker 2: He patted his newest girlfriend on her ass, nearly naked 655 00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:41,040 Speaker 2: at his side, picked his forty five up off the 656 00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:43,520 Speaker 2: studio console. The one with the state of the art 657 00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:46,760 Speaker 2: IBM mixed memorizer, and calmly went about trying to locate 658 00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:48,680 Speaker 2: the rest of the firearms. 659 00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:49,280 Speaker 3: And cocaine in the studio. 660 00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:52,759 Speaker 2: He was able to squirrel most of the contraband wave 661 00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:55,680 Speaker 2: before the cops finally busted in, But what he forgot 662 00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:58,680 Speaker 2: the hide were the blue boxes he legal devices that 663 00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:01,440 Speaker 2: allowed Ike in his boys to place free long distance 664 00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:05,400 Speaker 2: telephone calls, seemingly harmless compared to the drugs and weaponry 665 00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:09,080 Speaker 2: Ike had hidden in his possession, but still very much illegal. 666 00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:11,680 Speaker 3: Ike Turner was busted. 667 00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:16,360 Speaker 2: It was the first of a series of arrests that 668 00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:19,440 Speaker 2: would disrupt the rest of Ike Turner's career in personal life. 669 00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:23,440 Speaker 2: It signaled the end Forbolic Sound, a studio that ultimately 670 00:37:23,480 --> 00:37:26,200 Speaker 2: caught fire mysteriously and burnt to the ground at a 671 00:37:26,239 --> 00:37:28,319 Speaker 2: time later in Ike's life when he was in the 672 00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:32,400 Speaker 2: middle of extreme financial hardship. By the time Tina left, 673 00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:35,040 Speaker 2: Ike had little but his name, which, by then in 674 00:37:35,080 --> 00:37:37,759 Speaker 2: the music industry, at least from the perspective of the 675 00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:42,640 Speaker 2: people who wrote the checks, was mud. Tina, on the 676 00:37:42,680 --> 00:37:46,239 Speaker 2: other hand, had her name Tina Turner, ironically, a name 677 00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:49,000 Speaker 2: I had given her a name Ike had trademarked, and 678 00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:51,200 Speaker 2: a name that Ike had tried to claim was his 679 00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:53,640 Speaker 2: and the divorce and thus prevent her from using it 680 00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:57,400 Speaker 2: going forward in her career, a claim he lost. Tina 681 00:37:57,440 --> 00:37:59,840 Speaker 2: Turner took her name and her immense talent out for 682 00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:03,439 Speaker 2: under her abusive, controlling, piece of shit husband and turned 683 00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:06,280 Speaker 2: herself into literally the biggest pop star on the planet, 684 00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:10,600 Speaker 2: a level of success that Ike Turner, despite whatever claims 685 00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:12,960 Speaker 2: he had on the invention of rock and roll, would 686 00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:15,919 Speaker 2: never attain, and it drove him crazy and deeper into 687 00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:20,640 Speaker 2: a coke field madness. Ike finished as he started on 688 00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:24,240 Speaker 2: a rough road. His descent ran parallel to Tina's rise, 689 00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:27,799 Speaker 2: a nice cap to a rough career. Her nineteen eighty 690 00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:29,839 Speaker 2: four single What's Love Got to Do With It from 691 00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:32,520 Speaker 2: her solo album Private Dancer, went to number one on 692 00:38:32,560 --> 00:38:35,360 Speaker 2: the pop charts and won three Grammy Awards for Record 693 00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:37,440 Speaker 2: of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Female 694 00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:42,000 Speaker 2: Pop Vocal Performance. Throughout the eighties and nineties, Tina Turner 695 00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:45,680 Speaker 2: released several multi platinum albums, appeared in feature length films, 696 00:38:45,719 --> 00:38:47,920 Speaker 2: and saw her own biopic, What's Love Got to Do 697 00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:51,960 Speaker 2: With It? Cementer's status as a musical icon these days. 698 00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:54,839 Speaker 2: At the time of this recording, Tina Turner, the Queen 699 00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:57,640 Speaker 2: of Rock and Roll, is seventy nine years old, worth 700 00:38:57,680 --> 00:39:00,480 Speaker 2: over a quarter of a billion dollars in shilling in 701 00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:04,120 Speaker 2: her Swiss mansion, reportedly planning her own funeral, an affair 702 00:39:04,239 --> 00:39:06,680 Speaker 2: she claims will be a bigger and better sendoff than 703 00:39:06,680 --> 00:39:09,280 Speaker 2: that of her one time rival, the recently the parted 704 00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:11,280 Speaker 2: Queen of Soul Erretha Franklin. 705 00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:13,719 Speaker 3: Ike Turner won't be attending. 706 00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:16,680 Speaker 2: He died of a cocaine overdose at the age of 707 00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:21,439 Speaker 2: seventy six in two thousand and seven. 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