The medicine is most commonly used as treatment for bipolar disorder, Alzheimer's disease and schizophrenia. Ike Turner began playing piano as a child and by the late 1940s had played with a number of the leading blues musicians in the . To strip him from having the opportunity to get recognition in an area where he was entitled to deserve it, it's so wrong to me. [192] However, Turner asserted in his book that he is not the biological father. One faction wanted to play jazz music and the Dukes of Swing. [167] He was a recipient of the Legend Award at the 2007 Mojo Awards. The singer was married to Ike Turner from 1962 until 1978. The pair met at a nightclub in Manhattan and sparked up a romance after singing together. But as the documentary Tina reveals, even 43 years after her divorce, the icon still has nightmares. [17], According to Turner, he witnessed his father beaten and left for dead by a white mob. [207][208], Following a violent altercation in July 1976, Tina filed for divorce on the grounds of irreconcilable differences. In 1986, Turner was arrested for cocaine possession. [224] She became his lead vocalist and they married in a private ceremony at Circus Circus Hotel & Resort in Las Vegas on July 4, 1995. Ike Turner Jr. Ike Turner had six children, but Tina only adopted two of his sons. [104][105] This exposure introduced them to a wider audience outside of R&B. The wailing saxophone and that distorted electric guitar. Ike Turner's cause of death was due to a reported cocaine overdose, and he passed away in his home in San Diego. [197], "I still love Tina as much as I ever loved herI wrote her a letter five years ago. Walking past her house to school, she would invite him to help feed her chickens and then take him to bed. despite their origins, the ikettes . "[183] Phil Spector criticized Tina's book and called the film a "piece of trash" during his eulogy at Turner's funeral. [111] Artists who recorded there included Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Duane Allman, Little Richard, Gayle McCormick, and Frank Zappa. Last edited on 26 February 2023, at 08:14, You Can't Miss Nothing That You Never Had, Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album, Proud Mary: The Best of Ike & Tina Turner, Takin' Back My Name: The Confessions of Ike Turner, Ike & Tina Turner's Kings of Rhythm Dance, His Woman, Her Man: The Ike Turner Diaries Unreleased Funk/Rock 19701973, The Bad Man: Rare & Unreissued Ike Turner Produced Recordings 19621965, Jack Rabbit Blues: The Singles of 19581960, "Ike Turner, Musician and Songwriter in Duo With Tina Turner, Dies at 76", "Will They Still Like Ike? [88] He was inspired by Sheena, Queen of the Jungle and Nyoka the Jungle Girl to create her stage persona. [156] Little Richard was inspired to play the piano after he heard Turner's piano intro on "Rocket 88", and later used it note for note on "Good Golly, Miss Molly". It peaked at No. 4 in the Billboard Hot 100 and Turner earned around half a million dollars in royalties. [72] In addition, Turner recorded numerous sessions for Stevens with various vocalists and musician lineups of the Kings of Rhythm. Turner said, "we wanted to play blues, boogie-woogie and Roy Brown, Jimmy Liggins, Roy Milton. Studio-psychedelic New Orleans, echoes of the Band and Dr. John, some brilliant minor r&b mixed in with the dumb stuff. Nonetheless, in 2017, Tina was able to give her blessings to a high-profile musical depicting her life story, which debuted the following year in London starring Adrienne Warren. [88] The duo switched to Turner's Sonja label in 1963. [100], In January 1970, they performed on The Ed Sullivan Show and released their rendition of "Come Together", which reached No. [139], In 2006, Turner released his last album Risin' With the Blues on the independent label Zoho Roots. Despite routine intimidation, Tina eventually divorced her husband, taking no other assets besides her performance name and two cars. He had tried to sell his studio Bolic Sound in 1980 to raise funds to avoid foreclosure, but the studio burned down on the day a potential buyer was scheduled to view it in January 1981. At the first trial, the jury failed to reach a verdict, and at the retrial a year later he was found not guilty. [189] They were married on April 10, 1948. [26] WROX is noted for being the first radio station in Mississippi to employ a black DJ, Early Wright. Ike Turner died of an accidental cocaine overdose. [3] Turner received $45,000 for the film, but he had unknowingly signed papers waiving the right to sue Disney's Touchstone Pictures for his depiction. Ike Turner Jnr claims his star mother has all but abandoned her family in the US. The late Ike Turner stated quite often that he was married a whopping 13 times in his 76 years of life. But more than that, it broke his heart". He was a great innovator. "Rocket 88" is one of the two records that can claim to be the first rock 'n' roll record, the other being "The Fat Man" by Fats Domino from 1949. Ike Turner was the innovator, for rhythm and blues and for rock 'n' roll. According to Turner, they did not consummate their marriage. [33] Turner associated with many of these musicians, and at 13 years old he backed Sonny Boy Williamson II on piano. She told Jet: "He's been real inspiration and a catalyst emotionally and in other ways as well. Because he had such a big band and entourage he desegregated a lot of the hotels because the hotel chains wouldn't want to miss out on the money they would make from him touring the southern states. She was a pianist in his band, and they married in the mid-1950s. They rekindled their friendship years after their divorce, and she found Turner unconscious at his home the day he died. [160], In 2009, a Nashville-based band, Mr. [29] The pair played drums and piano on radio sessions. [12] In 2002, Turner's performance at the Montreux Jazz Festival was released as a live album and DVD. [72], Turner maintained strict discipline and the band lived at his home on Virginia Place in East St. Louis which doubled as a studio. [71], In between live dates, Turner took the band to Cincinnati to record for Federal Records in 1956. [48], The success of "Rocket 88" generated tension and ego clashes in the band which culminated with Brenston leaving to pursue a solo career, causing the band to fall apart. [132] Turner's work on the tour led to the recording and release of his Grammy-nominated album Here & Now (2001). [123][124] After his release from prison, Turner told the press that he was nervous about returning to performing live, but had plans to return to the studio. [36] The other band led by Turner became the Kings of Rhythm. 27 on the Billboard Disco Top 100 chart. How many wives did Ike Turner have? 1958) and Michael Turner (b. Tina would be a mother figure to Ikes other two sons as well. This sometimes created conflicts of interest. [173], Turner then married Rosa Lee Sane in West Memphis, Arkansas. Tina would later pen a bouncing, up-tempo ode to her roots, 1973s Nutbush City Limits, that hit both the pop and R&B charts and became a long-time favorite. In June 1985, Turner was arrested and charged with conspiracy to sell $16,000 worth of cocaine, possession and maintaining a residence for selling or using a controlled substance. [11], Ike & Tina Turner were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1991. He was portrayed on Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update by Tim Meadows in a pageboy wig. 22 on the Billboard Hot 100, No. Her parents were poor sharecroppers, who split up and left Turner and her sister to be. When Turner applied for his first passport in the 1960s, he discovered that his name was registered as Ike Wister Turner. "[181][182] In 2018, Tina told Oprah Winfrey that she only recently watched the film, but she could not finish it because she "didn't realize they would change the details so much. [16] He would fire anyone in his band who used any substances. [264] His daughter Mia was said to be surprised at the coroner's assessment, believing his advanced stage emphysema was a larger factor. It was number one in the rhythm and blues chart for five weeks, it is in the Grammy Hall of Fame and it was an indisputable claim to fame for Ike Turner.To critics he will be known as a great founder, unfortunately to the general public he will always be known as a brutal man.[9]. Their cover of "I Want to Take You Higher" by Sly and the Family Stone was also successful on the charts in 1970. [142][143] After Turner's death, the songs were used for their 2008 album Attack & Release. Mini Bio (1) Ike Turner is best known for his career as half of the duo Ike & Tina Turner with his former wife Tina Turner, but before he discovered her, Turner was already a pioneer in rhythm & blues and rock & roll. Johnny Otis said, "Ike Turner is a very important man in American music. [181][217] In 2018, Tina told The Sunday Times that "as an old person, I have forgiven him, but I would not work with him. Less than a week after his death, his former wife Audrey Madison Turner filed a petition stating that he had penned a handwritten will naming her as a beneficiary. Ike Turner married four times and had four children: Ike Jr., Michael, Ronald and Mia. [187], Turner claimed to have been married fourteen times. . "[155] Turner was a big influence on Little Richard, who wrote the introduction to Turner's autobiography. Rock 'n' roll came from rhythm and blues: rock 'n' roll ain't nothing but rhythm and blues up-tempo. Their divorce was finalized in 1955. 27 on the Hot 100. [172] On August 6, Clarksdale officials and music fans gathered to unveil a marker on the Mississippi Blues Trail and a plaque on the Clarksdale Walk of Fame in downtown Clarksdale honoring Turner and his musical legacy. Izear Luster Turner Jr. was born in Clarksdale, Mississippi on November 5, 1931[15][16] to Beatrice Cushenberry, a seamstress, and Izear Luster Turner, a Baptist minister. "[222] Their daughter Mia was born in January 1969. [121] He re-recorded "I'm Blue" as a duet with singer Billy Rogers in 1995. [91] The Turners received the Golden European Record Award, the first ever given, for selling more than one million records of "Nutbush City Limits" in Europe. Born Anna Mae Bullock in 1939, the woman who would become known as Tina Turner had a rough family life. [244], In 1974, Turner was arrested for using illegal blue boxes at Bolic Sound studio to make long-distance phone calls. The texture and flavor of R&B owe a lot to him. King and the Beale Streeters to record for Modern at the YMCA in Memphis. Together they were, as Tina would later proclaim, nice and rough. Alongside his former wife, he was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991. "[227], Turner met San Francisco native singer Audrey Madison through a mutual friend in 1993. [223] Turner stated, "I loved Tina, but I was in love with Ann Thomas. [106], In April 1969, Turner and the Kings of Rhythm released an album, A Black Man's Soul, on Pompeii Records. [13] Turner is inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame and the Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Fame. [198] Hill injured his ankle and left Bullock before their son Craig was born in August 1958. Blues Music Awards.mw-parser-output .awards-table td:last-child{text-align:center}, 19461950: Formation of the Kings of Rhythm, 19511954: Session musician and talent scout. All Rights Reserved. By then both of his parents were deceased, so he could not verify the origin of his name. Her parents owned the Taylor Sausage Factory in St. In January 1987, Turner was arrested for trying to sell 10 ounces of cocaine to an undercover police officer; he pleaded not guilty. [27] One day Friskillo spotted Turner watching and put him to work; teaching him the ins and outs of the control room. In 2003, John Collis published Ike Turner: King of Rhythm about the life and musical contributions of Turner. Turner has received various awards in recognition for his significant role as a pioneer of rock and roll. 1 in the U.S. and is seen by many as Tinas trademark song. Ike Turner, original name Izear Luster Turner, Jr., (born November 5, 1931, Clarksdale, Mississippi, U.S.died December 12, 2007, San Marcos, California), American rhythm-and-blues and soul performer and producer who was best known for his work with Tina Turner. The act scored their first R&B hit in 1960 with A Fool in Love, reaching No. [16] They married at A Special Memory Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas on October 8, 2006. [4] He formed the Ike & Tina Turner Revue in 1960, which over the course of the decade became a soul/rock crossover success. King, Howlin' Wolf, and Bobby "Blue" Bland. The band consisted of Willie Kizart on guitar, Willie "Bad Boy" Sims on drums, vocalist Johnny O'Neal, Turner's nephew Jesse Knight Jr. on bass, and Turner's wife Annie Mae Wilson on piano and vocals. "[147], Turner's guitar style is distinguished by heavy use of the whammy bar to achieve a strong reverb-soaked vibrato, string bending, hammer-ons and triplets in his blues phrasing. Turner said he only fired a shot to scare him off and that the man had injured himself when he climbed over the fence to get away. [35] The Tophatters played big band arrangements from sheet music. [180], Commenting on the historical accuracy of the film, Tina told Larry King in 1997: "I would have liked them to have more truth, but according to Disney [owner of the film's production company], they said it's impossible, the people would not have believed the truth. Turner tried to get Rosa out, but he never saw her again. [115] On July 1, the Turners got into a violent altercation en route to their gig at the Dallas Statler Hilton. He revealed he hasn't spoken to Tina Turner since 'probably the year 2000'. [34] Members of the band were Clarksdale musicians and included Turner's school friends Raymond Hill, Eugene Fox and Clayton Love. He brought Emerson to record at Sun Records and backed him on guitar in 1954. [8], Before the age of thirty, Turner did not use drugs or drink alcohol. [263] Among those who spoke at the funeral were Little Richard, Solomon Burke and Phil Spector. [60] Turner also attempted to poach Elmore James from Trumpet Records and record him for Modern. If the drummer had to pee, I would play drums until he returned.There were no breaks. "If I married her, he couldn't do nothing," he said. [101] The failure of the single in America triggered Spector's retreat from the music industry. [64] Turner recalled, "Bonnie played piano. A native of Clarksdale, Mississippi, Turner began playing piano and guitar as a child and then formed the Kings of Rhythm as a teenager. [85] Impressed by her voice, Turner invited her to sing with the band. [142] Although Turner does not appear on the album, Pitchfork noted his influence in the production. . [95] He produced singles by the Ikettes, Jimmy Thomas, Fontella Bass, George Jackson, and other artists on his labels. [87] That year, they headlined at the Waldorf Astoria New York and signed a television deal with CBS-TV. "[151] Turner himself said of his tremolo technique: "I thought it was to make the guitar screampeople got so excited when I used that thing. A jury. [178], After the release of the film, the fictionalized version of Turner from the movie was seized on by comedians, who reused the persona in sketches. 104 and No. Tina was 22 when she married Ike, and they went on to become a famous husband-and-wife R&B act. [42] Turner blamed Phillips for this misrepresentation. 1969), with Ann Thomas,[16] and he later discovered he had another daughter, Twanna Melby Turner (b. Turner went on to have a massively successful solo career after "Ike & Tina," getting her first No. "[8], Turner was first married at 16 years old to Edna Dean Stewart of Ruleville, Mississippi. [2] In the 1950s, Turner's group got regular airplay from live sessions on the radio stations WROX in Clarksdale and KFFA in Helena, Arkansas. Ike modestly terms what he does on the guitar as 'tricks', but make no mistake, he attacked his axe with the conviction of a man who knew precisely what he wanted to hear come out of it. [169][170], In 2004, Fender Custom Shop manufactured a limited edition Ike Turner Tribute Stratocaster. [130] Turner credited Joe Louis Walker with encouraging him to return to his roots in blues music. We had fights and there have been times when I punched her to the ground without thinking. [64], Unbeknownst to Turner, during his time in West Memphis, he met Elvis Presley who was a truck driver. He played at Johnny's Lounge and the Club Imperial which was popular with white teenagers. When Ike and Tina Turner got together, it was volatile. [195] Sources often incorrectly refer to Taylor as one of Turner's wives, but she was his live-in girlfriend. [43][44] The record sold approximately half a million copies. [96] Between 1964 and 1965, they scored fourteen top 40 R&B hits with "You Can't Miss Nothing That You Never Had", "Tell Her I'm Not Home", "Good Bye, So Long", and "Two Is a Couple". Turner was cremated after the funeral service. "[231], Turner had six children. [16], Ike Turner Jr. released an album, Hard Labor, in 1987. How many wives did ike turner have? [190], Turner married Marion Louis Lee (Bonnie Turner) in Clarksdale on September 24, 1952. Ike wasn't someone you could forgive and allow him back in. The husband-wife duo established themselves throughout the 1960s and 70s as chart-topping artists, with most of the public not realizing the abuse that existed in the couples private life. He had struggled for many years with drug addiction. [13] Tina did not attend because she took the year off from making public appearances, so Phil Spector delivered a speech at the ceremony on their behalf. I think that Rocket 88 is R&B, but I think Rocket 88 is the cause of rock and roll existing". He fitted them out with state-of-the-art equipment. He found the experience terrifying and from then on preferred not to be the focus of attention, but rather to be in the background controlling the show. His early influences included Amos Milburn and Louis Jordan, as well as country music artists such as Hank Williams Sr. and Merle Travis. [84] One night during an intermission, Bullock got hold of the microphone from Washington and sang "You Know I Love You" by B.B. [91] Turner added a backing girl group he renamed the Ikettes, and along with the Kings of Rhythm they began performing as the Ike & Tina Turner Revue. They played on many recording for Bihari's Modern, RPM, and Flair labels. [16], His funeral was held on December 21, 2007, at the City of Refuge Church in Gardena, California. Biography and associated logos are trademarks of A+E Networksprotected in the US and other countries around the globe. Louis. She reported a positive working relationship with Turner, and later released the memoir Freebase Ain't Free about their close friendship. The track "Funky Mule", also from A Black Man's Soul, has been sampled extensively by jungle DJs, with the drum introduction being a very popular break. During this period, the couple formed a band known as 'Ike & Tina Turner' and belted out hits like 'Proud Mary', 'River Deep', etc. [233], In 1959, Turner was charged with what he described as "interstate transportation of forged checks and conspiracy" and was forced to stand trial in St. Louis. After dating for some time, Tina and Ike traveled to Tijuana, Mexico to get married in 1962. [8] He later settled his account. Vera Clyburn, who was an Ikette in the 1970s was the lead singer. [259], Turner died without a valid will. In 1973, the duo released "Nutbush City Limits" penned by Tina. Rasool said she talked to Turner about his bipolar disorder and witnessed its effects. [70], In 1954, Turner visited his sister Lee Ethel Knight in St. Louis, Missouri. [53] Artists Turner discovered for Modern and Sun include Bobby Bland, Howlin' Wolf, Rosco Gordon, Boyd Gilmore, Houston Boines, Charley Booker, and Little Milton. Turner was pronounced dead at 11:38am. 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