Tina Turner is a soaring example of strength in the storm
When the documentary Tina was released on HBO, I was riveted to the screen, moved by both the music and the majesty in which she unfurled her bittersweet life’s narrative.
This image released by HBO shows Tina Turner in a scene from the documentary Tina. (HBO via AP)(HBO via AP / AP)
By Lorrie Irby Jackson
At the edge of the stage and in the gleam of a spotlight stood a wild-haired, honey-hued, long-legged siren. With one hand perched on her hip and another wrapped around a mic, she issued a command to the throng below: “All right, ladies, your turn now: What’s love got to do, got to do with it? What’s love, but a secondhand emotion?”
Tina Turner: Es war kein gutes Leben
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Tina Turner performing in 1976, from the documentary “Tina.” (Rhonda Graam/HBO)
We know the Tina Turner story through Turner’s bestselling autobiography, “I, Tina,” and the Angela Bassett-starring “What’s Love Got to Do With It?” from 1993 and the Broadway jukebox musical “Tina – The Tina Turner Musical” and countless print and broadcast profiles, and yet there’s something fresh and timely and inspiring and uplifting about the new documentary titled simply “Tina,” now streaming on HBO and HBO Max.
Oscar-winning directors Daniel Lindsay and T.J. Martin (“The Undefeated”) revisit Tina’s life story, from her humble beginnings to her commercially successful but personally devastating partnership with Ike Turner to her incredible reinvention and rise to global superstar at an age when most rock singers are cruising along on greatest-hits tours. The result is a documentary with more dramatic swings, more triumphs and setbacks, more insanely entertaining
If HBO’s Tina Turner documentary is goodbye, it’s a heck of a farewell Troy L. Smith, cleveland.com
CLEVELAND, Ohio – There’s a very good chance Tina Turner will be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame this October. But it’s also likely Turner won’t be there in person to accept the honor.
HBO Max’s new documentary “Tina” has proven a huge success for the streaming network as a compelling look at the life, struggles and triumphs of a music icon. But Turner, who appears in the documentary for a rare interview from her home in Switzerland, also says goodbye to the spotlight.