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These adjectives are nothing short of an overstatement.
Tina Turner concerts are indeed all these and more.
It could be because of her traumatic past that lead her to such great performances.
Or it may simply be because of her personality as a strong, willful and passionate woman.
Tina Turner was born Anna Mae Bullock in Nutbush, Tennessee.
She developed her musical and singing skills as was eventually noticed by one Ike Turner in St Louis.
Ike changed her name to Tina after Sheena: Queen of the Jungle and they became The Ike & Tina Turner Revue.
She married Ike in 1962.
The band rose to fame during the 1960s and 1970s, recording songs like "A Fool in Love", "It's Gonna Work Out Fine" and "River Deep, Mountain High".
Her difficult and at times disastrous married life continued well into the 70s.
Tina's husband was a cocaine user who mismanaged the band and he produced Tina's first solo album.
It did not do well commercially.
In 1976, over the Fourth of July weekend, Tina Turner finally left Ike Turner when he beat her before a Dallas show.
She had nothing but thirty-six cents in her wallet.
She left behind her abusive marriage as well as breached contracts.
Tina lived off on food stamps and appeared in TV shows to supplement her income.
She finally got a divorce from Ike in 1976 and with trepidation commenced in earnest her solo career.
She finally got the recognition she craved for in 1984 when she released her fifth album, Private Dancer.
The album earned her three top ten singles in the United States, topped the charts in Europe UK and Australia and established her as a rock diva.
She earned Record of the Year, Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and Record of the Year all in the 1985 Grammys.
The unstoppable Ms Turner also made forays into film appearing in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, sung numerous soundtracks for movies, wrote her autobiography I, Tina and toured in Europe, the US and Latin America.
In the latter, she performed for 184,000 fans and entered the Guinness Book of World Records as the single performer to have performed to the largest paying crowd in history.
For most people with a lifetime of achievements, time to settle back and reflect on life would be in order.
But not this lady, as she is coming out of 8 years of retirement.
She probably never did retire.
She will be touring the states in Ocotober 2008 kicking off in Kansas City.
She will continue to tour until November and you can get Tina Turner tickets in registered ticket sellers.
Tina Turner tickets are already available for her shows in Chicago, Minneapolis, Rosemont, Los Angeles, among others.
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