Tina Turner was undoubtedly one of the greatest live performers in music history. Watch Turner play her final 'Proud Mary’' at her last concert in 2009.
, the ‘Queen of Rock & Roll’ has died peacefully today at the age of 83 after a long illness in her home in Küsnacht near Zurich, Switzerland,” her family said in a statement. “With her, the world loses a music legend and a role model.”
Turner was undoubtedly one of the greatest live performers in music history. She nearly managed to upstage the Rolling Stones when she opened up for them on their legendary 1969 North American tour, and she packed stadiums all throughout the Eighties and Nineties. She announced she was retiring in 2000 and played 121 shows that year, but she came back in 2008 for one final tour to commemorate her 50th anniversary.
“I was at the Armani show in Milan just chatting with Sophia Loren,” Turner told Oprah in 2008. “I told her I was taking a break. She said, ‘For how long?’ I said, ‘Oh, seven years.’ She said, ‘Break over. People want to see you. Get back to work.'” The push from Loren got her thinking about a comeback, but she wasn’t sure until she played at the Grammy’s with Beyonce. “After the Grammys when I got home to Zurich, people would come up to me in the restaurant, in the ladies room, on the street, everywhere,” she said. “I started getting lots of little slips of paper and napkins with notes from fans. Some of them were so touching about my life, or a song and how it helped them. Each time I kept the note, and suddenly there was a pile.
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