There's always been something larger than life about Tina Turner, but sometimes these realizations don't actually hit home until one sees the R&B dynamo suspended 30...
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After an eight-year hiatus, Tina Turner brought her famous voice and energy back to the stage Wednesday, opening her 36-date North American tour with a hit-filled concert at...
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Tina Turner has recorded two new songs for a compilation CD that will be released just in time for the October 1 start of her comeback tour in Kansas City, Mo. "It...
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Tina Turner took a break from
retirement in Europe to perform a duet with R&B singer Beyonce
at the Grammy Awards on Sunday, the soul legend's first concert
performance...
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At age 68, Tina Turner kept those fabled legs largely covered by a silver pantsuit. But she proved she could still shake 'em.
The singer was given a generous three-song...
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Rock 'n' roll pioneer Ike Turner's death last month at age 76 was caused by a cocaine overdose, the San Diego County Medical Examiner's office said Wednesday.
"We are...
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Ike Turner went to prison because of cocaine. And, according to coroner investigators, he went to his grave for the same reason.
Turner, the revered and reviled Rock and...
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Ike Turner wasn't interested in a past he never got past.
Turner, the self-styled "Father of Rock 'n' Roll" whose reputation as a music pioneer and...
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She was an "amazing talent," a young singer with a wonderful voice who wrote beautiful songs. But she was no beauty, plus flat-chested and overweight to boot.
Remembering...
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From Grammy Award nominee to free
agent: singer-songwriter Tamar survived a wild ride on the
music industry roller coaster last year, finding her solo
project shelved but...
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For someone who's had less than glowing words for the goings-on at American Idol, Justin Timberlake seems to have no problem participating in a copycat competition.
The...
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Playing its first U.S.
show ever, Australia's Radio Birdman lived up to its reputation
as a legendary cult band powered by bluster and sheer nerve.
While the group briefly...
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You may have seen the recent photos
of Bob Dylan looking uncannily like Charlie Chaplin, and his
44th album, "Modern Times," shares a title with Chaplin's 1936
classic about...
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Audioslave vocalist Chris Cornell
will sing the main title song for the upcoming James Bond film
"Casino Royale."
Cornell, perhaps best known as the frontman for...
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Enough with the boxing and baseball and gridiron flicks. Hollywood has decided that the best spectator sport is the good old spelling bee.
We've had a mini-flurry, first...
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50 Cent is lighting up
movie houses, but Saturday night at the Gibson Amphitheatre,
Kanye West proved that he's hip-hop's brightest star: His
100-minute set showed the...
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Legendary singer/songwriter Sam
Cooke had a dream. So did biographer Peter Guralnick. Their
visions intertwine in Guralnick's new book, "Dream Boogie: The
Triumph of Sam...
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"She's the woman who puts sequins
and feathers on the funky blues," label executive Aaron Fuchs
says of "Joshie" Jo Armstead.
The soul singer launched her self-released...
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Spin magazine has built a veritable rock star Frankenstein, composed of Michael Stipe's skull, Elvis Presley's pelvis and Madonna's bellybutton.
Spin charts the 25 "most...
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No disrespect to Harry Potter, but J.K. Rowling isn't the
only one who knows how to write a great chapter.
New England
rockers Staind have landed their third...
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Bass guitarist Guy Pratt has backed
some of the world's biggest rock acts, and his comedy routine
at the Edinburgh Fringe presents a cast of famous characters
whose behavior...
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Tina Turner meets James Brown.
That's the indelible image one gets after watching Leela
James perform. Belying her petite frame -- topped by a mountain
of hair -- and a...
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Twenty years later, it is still considered one of the greatest rock 'n' roll concerts of all time. During Live Aid, top musicians played simultaneous shows in London and...
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Two decades after the original Live Aid, when rock stars raised money for Ethiopian famine relief, singer-activist Bob Geldof is planning another star-studded, humanitarian...
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Two decades after the original Live Aid, when rock stars descended on Philadelphia and London to raise money for Ethiopian famine relief, singer-activist Bob Geldof is...
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Rock 'n roll legend Chuck Berry had just returned from a European tour when he learned at Chicago's O'Hare Airport that his longtime friend and collaborator Johnnie Johnson...
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Tina Turner considers Danish fairy tale writer Hans Christian Andersen "simply the best," and will perform at the 19th century author's bicentennial next week.
The singer...
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Some bands just want their 15 minutes on top, 3 Doors Down got
Seventeen Days.
While the Mississippi rockers' first
two albums sold more than 12 million combined copies...
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Tina Turner is back with a brand-new compilation called All The Best. The CD features all of Turner's greatest hits from "Proud Mary" from her days with the Ike & Tina...
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Like that smiling skydiver on the deodorant ads? Can't get enough of his sunny joshing on MTV's "Pimp My Ride"?
Prepare to meet the cunning, sometimes caustic musician...
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EMI Group PLC, one of the world's biggest music companies, reported a small loss for the first half of its fiscal year Friday but said it expected an improvement in the...
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EMI Group PLC, one of the world's 'big three' music companies, reported a fall in sales and a net loss for the first half of its fiscal year Friday but said it expected an...
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Some people swap stories around the
campfire; others, like Tony Joe White and Shelby Lynne, write
songs.
They wrote a handful together a few years ago, when Lynne,
who...
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In one of the longest goodbyes in
music history, Cher is preparing yet another North American leg
for her Farewell tour.
Cher will begin a run of 33 shows July 23 at the...
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Hip-swiveling Elvis, womanizer Mick Jagger and "Material Girl" Madonna may be some of rock 'n'
roll's greatest musical icons but as positive role models,
they've yet to...
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In an unlikely double-bill, hard
rock band Metallica and folk singer/songwriter Jackson Browne
were honored at performing rights groups ASCAP's annual Pop
Music Awards on...
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A star-studded cast assembled by "We Are
the World" producer Quincy Jones rocked Rome's ancient chariot
track on Sunday in a concert to raise money for children...
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Nearly 20 years after recording the
ground-breaking charity album "We Are the World," producer
Quincy Jones is at it again -- assembling an all-star ensemble
concert to...
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A number of veteran artists have
inked new label deals and have their first releases in many
years forthcoming.
Brian Wilson 's album "Gettin' in Over My Head" will be...
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Anastacia has America to
thank for her upbringing. But the pop singer has Europe to
thank for her success. Born in Chicago and raised in New York,
Anastacia has seen her...
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Phil Collins will bring his First
Final Farewell tour to North America in late summer, beginning
Aug. 26 in Anaheim, Calif.
The one-month trek will follow a European...
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Producer Ismail Merchant says pop diva Tina Turner 's two-week tour of India has prepared her for her role as a singing, dancing Indian goddess in a new Merchant-Ivory...
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Tina Turner will play an Indian goddess in a new Merchant-Ivory film and sing Indian classical songs, a newspaper report said Tuesday.
Turner, who had a successful...
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If someone compiled a list of the
most commercially successful and prolific producers in
R&B/hip-hop, Timbaland's name would likely be near the top of
the list.
In less...
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On January 23rd, 1958, Brunswick Records released "Maybe Baby" backed with "Tell Me How" by The Crickets.
In 1970, singer Judy Collins was denied permission to sing her...
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Musicians worried that new media ownership rules will make it harder to get airtime are taking the fight from the Capitol to their own turf, embarking on a grass-roots music...
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The Phil
Spector case is playing like a broken record.
The
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame music producer will remain free on $1 million
bail for the next two months as...
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She may have been the most seasoned artist touring in 2000, but at age 61, Tina Turner proved she can still pack 'em in. Turner's Twenty Four Seven world tour ranked as the...
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Tina Turner announced on Friday (June 30) that her current Twenty Four Seven tour is her last. While stories have circulated for some time that Turner was going to stop...
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Keyboardist/vocalist Billy Preston is now a part of the Tina Turner Twenty Four Seven tour as a member of her backing band, but it was unknown at press time when Preston...
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Last night (March 23),
Tina Turner kicked off her
Twenty Four Seven Tour in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The special guest on the North
American leg of the tour is Lionel...
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If one of
Tina Turner's
background singers during her pre-Super Bowl performance last Sunday (Jan. 30) looks
familiar, she should. Actress Gloria Reuben -- who...
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The people lucky enough to go to the Super Bowl on Sunday (Jan. 30) just got a bit luckier. Every person in the Georgia Dome will be given a free "musicvideocard"...
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Tina Turner says that "there comes a point where it is just undignified to be a rock 'n' roll star," which is why she plans to bring an end to her nearly 40-year performing...
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Bryan Adams and Tina Turner, who collaborated on the top 15 hit "It's Only Love" in 1986, have teamed up again on the track "Without You," a song that will appear on...
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Courtesy of RockOnTV (www.rockontv.com):
NBC:
Today - Barbra Streisand talks about her new CD, marriage, politics, and her career (part 1 of 2).
Conan O'Brien - Musical...
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Divas Live '99, the second live broadcast in as many years presented by VH1 in support of the charity organization Save The Music, lived up to its name last night at New...
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"Rocket Man" Elton John and "Private Dancer" Tina Turner will take the stage at the newly remodeled Thomas & Mack Center Dec. 30 to launch the Millennium Celebration at...
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Capitalizing on the hype surrounding this Summer's second annual Lilith Fair tour, this June the Razor & Tie record label will join forces with Rolling Stone magazine to...
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