Turner, who died Wednesday at age 83, last performed in Cleveland at Gund Arena in 2000 during her Twenty-Four Seven Tour, but her roots as an R&B and rock-star performer in Northeast Ohio go much further back into the 1960s.
Over the years, Tina Turner worked her musical magic in Northeast Ohio. This is a review from 1985.CLEVELAND, Ohio - Rock and pop music and pop culture icon Tina Turner has died. Long live the Acid Queen of rock and soul and an icon of perseverance and finding one’s inner strength to move past your pain and remake yourself as whoever you strive to be.
An advertisement from June 1966 beckons music fans to come see the Ike & Tina Turner Revue featuring The Ikettes at Leo's Casino.In 1972, The Ike & Tina Revue headlined Blossom Music Center to a crowd of more than 6,000 people and were an hour late to their performance much to the consternation of Plain Dealer reviewer Chris Columbi Jr., who described the frontwoman as “The sexy songstress who brings a tireless energy and an “entrancing vocal quality to the mike.
A year later Turner would meet Australian manager Roger Davies, who would put Turner on the track to become one of the biggest and most admired and unlikely hitmakers and arena-filling popstars of the 1980s.
“Turner’s shows not only have raw energy and gentle sexiness - remember the electric duo with Mick Jagger at Live Aid? - but that illusive something called heart that young things like Madonna don’t have yet. You know Turner’s warming smile is only a wink away. She has an amazing ability to connect with the audience. She made the cavernous Coliseum, seem like the old Agora. Besides, she’s graceful.
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