Both of us love the music, but for my mum it was more than that. My mother, who just turned 67, is one of the world’s biggest Tina Turner fans. She sat down to deliver Let’s Stay Together – but it was an emotional moment for me, as it was her collaboration with the BEF on the song that began her relaunch to megastardom, and her rendition of the song is so uplifting. Years later, I returned to Joburg after many years in London, and she returned to perform to a packed stadium this time. I blew my meagre salary on the ticket to see her live and, naturally, we gave her a long standing ovation. Years later, she had left Ike and came out to do a show in Johannesburg, where I had just begun working. Her performance was a slow-burn bluesy classic, but her performance was utterly mesmerising. One of the supporting acts we were given a glimpse of was Ike and Tina Turner. The film was Gimme Shelter – the Maysles brothers’ documentary on the notorious Rolling Stones Altamont concert. I was just entering high school, and, obsessed with classical music, I was studying the violin. Lenneke Boss-van der Houwen, 52, from the Netherlands, now living in Wolverhampton ‘Her performance was utterly mesmerising’Īround 1970 I went to the see a film at the military base where I lived with my parents. My first thought when I heard about her passing was to phone my mum. We went to another Tina concert in Rotterdam together and recently to Tina the musical in London in 2019. My mum was 60 at the time and had never experienced anything like it. It was a special bonding experience for us and I have admired Tina ever since. I needed convincing, but Gary Moore was the warm-up act. My mum was a Tina fan and asked me to go. I was 20 and a veterinary science student. I saw Tina Turner in August 1990, at a concert in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
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