I, Tina

Sexy godmother of rock, ageless honky-tonk angel, musical lioness, devout Buddhist, the hardest-working woman in show business...all these and more have been used to describe the astonishing Tina Turner. What is it that makes a farmer's daughter from Nut Bush, Tennessee burst upon the music scene at the beginning of the swinging sixties, light up the entertainment skies with her heartbreaking voice and scorching stage persona, and then, two decades later, reemerge as today's hottest, sexiest, and most charismatic female performer?  Whatever it is, Tina's got it! How she got there, what art, what anguish, what accomplishment spin through her life, is told in these pages for the first time in her own words. Tina's is a hard story to forget.  How as a raw teenager in East St. Louis she grabbed the mike and convinced Ike Turner to hire her as a singer for his Kings of Rhythm (he changed her name from Anna Nae Bullock to Tina Turner without even consulting her); her marriage to the domineer