As the years pass it’s clear that the impact of one of the biggest music stars of the latter half of the 20th Century is starting to fade. Ask anyone under 30 who Tina Turner is and unless they are a pop culture connoisseur they’ll probably just recognize the name. Maybe they’ve heard “The Best” in their neighborhood supermarket or at a sporting event. For anyone else, Turner was the epitome of the great American comeback. A woman who reclaimed her stage name after years of abuse at the hands of her former husband and musical partner, Ike Turner, and became an unlikely worldwide superstar after the age of 40. Turner’s life story was chronicled in the 1993 movie “What’s Love Got To Do With It” and, more recently, in the stage musical “Tina – The Tina Turner Musical,” but now directors Daniel Lindsay and T.J. Martin have chronicled as much of her life as possible in the new documentary “Tina.”
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The filmmakers, best known for the Oscar-winning “Undefeated” and “LA 92,” admit they weren’t the obvious picks to tackle this topic. But the more they discovered about Anna Mae Bullock‘s life the more their respect grew for their subject.
During this podcast episode, Lindsay and Martin discuss balancing a new sit-down interview with the now 81-year-old icon with unknown audiotapes recorded with music journalist Kurt Loder and a People magazine author who ended up breaking the story of Ike Turner’s years of abuse.
Oh, and where they keep their Oscars too.
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