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[gentle music]

- It's 20 years later, I think,
probably a little bit more

and a lot has happened
since the stage life

and my life changed.

I had sicknesses and I moved
from America to Switzerland.

And retirement set in

and things changed.

[gentle music]

- [Narrator] The queen
of rock and roll herself.

The indomitable, Tina Turner.

[audience cheering]

- Who are you here to see today?

- [Crowd] Tina.

- That's right.

- [Narrator] Her
incredible life and career

is like a roller coaster ride

of indescribable highs

and unimaginable lows.

She has overcome hardship with
an infectious love for life

and a perspective on existence
that transcends her music.

- Some people called
me afoolish woman.

I think it took a smart
woman to live with a man

and to live in that situation.

[gentle upbeat music]

Every now and then
there was some fun.

Why I felt so comfortable
leaving America

was because everyone treated
me not as a black person,

they treated me just as a star.

- [Narrator] With over
100 million records,

Turner is one of the best
selling record artists

of all time.

She has received
12 Grammy awards

which include eight
Competitive Awards,

three Grammy Hall of Fame Awards

and a Grammy Lifetime
Achievement Award.

She was the first black
artist and first female

to be on the cover
of Rolling Stone.

- I think if I'd had as
many records as The Stones,

I could justify it,

but two albums and having this,

almost like saying, well,
this because of the book

it's because I've
worked at it a lot.

You can put 10,000
becauses on it

because you don't
really know why.

[gentle upbeat music]

People still see me as Tina,

I will always be Tina to them

because that they
only see me on stage.

- Behind the scenes,
Tina was very much,

she didn't want the shame of it

of people knowing
what was going on.

[gentle upbeat music]

- I'm happier than
I ever thought

that life would become for me.

So that means that
most of my hardships

came while I was young,

growing up in the last days

when normally people suffer
from old age and sickness,

my happiness came, I am,
I'm really thoroughly happy.

[gentle upbeat music]

- [Narrator] From "Proud Mary"

to "What's Love
Got To Do With It."

Tina Turner is

simply the best.

- So aside of being really
tired of talking about myself,

I'm really proud of what my
future, as a star became.

I feel proud that I
hold that in my hand.

[gentle music]

It's very good.

I go to the doctor
now once a month

for them to just check, to
make sure everything is going.

I take medicine once
a day that I have to

for the rest of the life.

And I did fall a couple of
days ago and broke something,

so I was in the wheelchair
and on the crutches.

But now I'm going
through my sick period.

And I think that will take
me right into the 90s,

or whatever, I'll be
around for a while.

[gentle music]

- [Narrator] Tina Turner
was born Anna Mae Bullock

on November 26, 1939, in
Brownsville, Tennessee,

the youngest daughter
of Zelma Priscilla

and Floyd Richard Bullock.

The family lived in
the nearby rural,

unincorporated community
of Nutbush, Tennessee,

where her father
worked as an overseer

of the sharecroppers at
Poindexter Farm on Highway 180.

She later recalled
picking cotton

with her family at an early age.

Tina had two older sisters,
Evelyn Juanita Currie

and Ruby Alline Bullock.

As young children, the
three sisters were separated

when their parents relocated
to Knoxville, Tennessee

to work at a defense
facility during World War II.

She went to stay
with her strict,

religious paternal grandparents,

Alex and Roxanna Bullock

who were Deacon and Deaconess

at the Woodlawn
Missionary Baptist Church.

After the war, the sisters
reunited with their parents

and moved with
them to Knoxville.

Two years later, the
family returned to Nutbush

to live in the Flagg
Grove community,

where Bullock attended Flagg
Grove Elementary School

from first through eighth grade.

As a young girl, Tina,
sang in the church choir

at Nutbush's Spring
Hill Baptist Church.

When she was 11, her mother
Zelma ran off without warning,

seeking freedom from her
abusive relationship with Floyd

by relocating to
St. Louis in 1950.

Two years after her
mother left the family,

her father married another woman

and moved to Detroit in 1952.

Tina and her sisters
were sent to live

with their maternal
grandmother Georgeanna Currie

in Brownsville, Tennessee.

She stated in her
autobiography, "I, Tina"

that she felt her
mother had not loved her

and that she wasn't wanted.

And that her mother had planned

to leave her father
when pregnant with her.

"She was a very young woman

"who didn't want another kid."

Turner wrote.

[gentle music]

A self-professed
tomboy, she joined

both the cheerleading squad
and the female basketball team

at Carver High
School in Brownsville

and socialized every
chance she got.

When she was 16, her
grandmother died.

So she went to live with
her mother in St. Louis.

She graduated from Sumner
High School in 1958.

After her graduation, she
worked as a nurse's aid

at Barnes-Jewish Hospital.

[gentle music]

Turner began her career in 1958,

appearing under the
name Little Ann.

And it wasn't until 1960

that she started
performing as Tina Turner.

[upbeat music]

Tina and her sister began

to frequent nightclubs in
St. Louis and East St. Louis.

She first saw Ike Turner
perform with his band,

the Kings of Rhythm
at The Manhattan Club

in East St. Louis.

She was so impressed
by his talent,

recalling that she
almost went into a trance

watching him play.

[gentle upbeat music]

She asked Ike to let
her sing in his band,

despite the fact that few
women had ever sung with him.

He said, he'd call
her but never did.

One night in 1957, she
got hold of the microphone

from Kings of Rhythm
drummer, Eugene Washington,

during an intermission

and she sang the BB
King blues ballad,

"You Know I Love You."

Upon hearing her sing, Ike asked
her if she knew more songs,

she sang the rest of the night

and became a featured
vocalist with his band.

[gentle upbeat music]

During this period,
he taught her

the finer points of vocal
control and performance.

[gentle upbeat music]

Tina's first
recording was in 1958

under the name Little Ann
on the single, "Boxtop."

She is credited as a vocalist
on the record alongside Ike

and fellow Kings of Rhythm
singer Carlson Oliver.

After the release
of "A Fool In Love"

Ike created the Ike
& Tina Turner Revue

which included the
Kings of Rhythm

and a girl group
called the Ikettes

as backing vocalists
and dancers.

Ike put the entire Revue,

through a rigorous
touring schedule

across the United States,

performing 90 days straight
in venues around the country.

During the days of
the Chitlin Circuit

the Ike & Tina Turner
Revue built a reputation

as one of the most
hottest, most durable

and potentially most explosive
of all R&B ensembles.

With its show rivaling that
of the James Brown Revue

in terms of musical spectacle.

[upbeat music]

[audience cheering]

[upbeat music]

In 1960, Ike wrote,
"A Fool In Love"

for singer Art Lassiter.

Tina was succinct background

with Lassiter's backing
vocalists the Artettes.

Lassiter failed to show up
for the recording session

at Technisonic Studios.

Since I could already
paid for the studio time,

Tina suggested to sing lead.

He decided to use
her to record a demo

with the intention
of erasing her vocals

and adding Lassiter's
at a later date.

Local St. Louis disc
jockey, Dave Dixon

convinced Ike to send
the tape to Juggy Murray,

president of R&B
label Sue Records.

Upon hearing the song
Murray was impressed

with Bullock's vocals,

later stating that Tina
sounded like screaming dirt,

it was a funky sound.

Murray bought the track and
paid Ike a $25,000 advance

for the recording and
publishing rights.

Murray also convinced to make
Tina the star of the show.

However, family and friends
still called her Ann.

- People still see me as Tina,

I will always be Tina to them

because they only
see me on stage.

They're not in my home
and in my private life.

I don't travel a
lot, I stay at home,

so they can go by how
I live my life here

to know that, "No, oh no, she's
not that way or this way."

So they would know that that
part of Tina is only for stage.

- [Narrator] Turner likened
her early relationship

with Ike Turner to that
of a brother and sister

from another lifetime.

They were platonic friends

from the time they met
in 1957 until 1960.

Their affair began while Ike

was with his live-in
girlfriend, Lorraine Taylor.

They became intimate when
she went to sleep with him,

after another musician
threatened to go to her room.

After recording "A Fool
In Love" Turner told Ike

that she didn't wanna
continue their relationship.

He responded by
striking her in the head

with a wooden shoe stretcher.

Turner recalled that this
incident was the first time

he instilled fear in her.

- Every now and then
it was some fun.

Sometimes it was, but I
don't remember what it was,

but I remember there were days
that was lighter and nicer

but mostly he was just a
really, always angry with me,

he treated me

like I was a prisoner
and he was the guard.

- [Narrator] After the
birth of their son, Ronnie,

in October, 1960, they
moved to Los Angeles in 1962

and married in Tijuana.

In 1963, Ike purchased a
house in the View Park area.

They brought their son,
Ronnie, Turner's son, Craig

and Ike's two sons with
Lorraine, from St. Louis,

to live with them.

Later, she revealed in "I, Tina"

that Ike was abusive
and promiscuous

throughout their marriage,

which led her to a
suicide attempt in 1968

by overdosing on Valium pills.

[gentle music]

- When it looked like I
possibly couldn't get out

because I was really afraid,

I planned, okay,
then I'll just die

because I'm really tired
of everything, you know.

And no hit records, being
blamed for Ike not being able

to come up with hit records

because I wasn't
singing properly.

And then the one night

when it really just
got a bit too much

where crying didn't even help,

I took them all, almost
like in two swallows

and I didn't regret any of it.

And actually when
I opened my eyes,

I went, excuse the expression,

I'm still here.

[laughing]

I really had planned
to leave here.

[gentle upbeat music]

And then I just started
feeling a bit better.

I said, well, that's
not time yet then.

So that was that experience.

[gentle upbeat music]

- [Narrator] She said, "It
was my relationship with Ike

"that made me most unhappy.

"At first, I had really
been in love with him.

"Look what he'd done for me.

"But he was totally
unpredictable."

Ike was later diagnosed
with bipolar disorder

in his old age.

[gentle music]

Due to their profitable
performances,

they were able to perform in
front of desegregated audiences

in Southern clubs and hotels.

Impressed by the
duos performance on
The Big T.N.T Show,

Phil Specter was eager
to produce Turner.

Working out a deal

with Ike and Tina Turner's
manager, Bob Krasnow,

who was also head of Loma,

Specter off $20,000
for creative control

over the sessions to produce

and have them released from
their contract with Loma.

They signed to Spector's
Philles label in April, 1966

after Turner had already
recorded with him.

Their first single on his label
"River Deep-Mountain High"

was released in 1966.

[upbeat music]

♪ And I love you honey

♪ Like a robin loves to sing

♪ I love you baby

♪ Like a school
boy loves his pie ♪

♪ I love you honey

♪ Rivers deep, mountain high

♪ Oh baby

♪ Oh baby

♪ I said baby oh

♪ Oh

♪ Yeah I love you

♪ My oh my

[upbeat music]

- [Narrator] The impact of the
record gave I can Tina Turner

an opening spot on The
Rolling Stones' UK Tour

in the fall of 1966.

- When we was on stage, you
feel it pretty strongly,

because people giving
you this energy.

And you don't really
understand, you just feel it,

you don't understand really
what they're trying to say,

what they want, what
they need from you,

what they need from
life, but you just feel

that they need something and
they're giving it to you.

- [Narrator] In November,
1967, Tina became

the first female
and black artist

to appear on the cover of
Rolling Stone Magazine.

The duo signed with Blue
Thumb Records in 1968,

releasing the album
"Outta Season" in 1969.

The album produced their
charted cover of Otis Redding's

"I've Been Loving You Too Long."

Later that year, they
released, "The Hunter."

The title track, Albert
King's, "The Hunter"

earned Turner a
Grammy nomination

for Best Female R&B
Vocal Performance.

[upbeat music]

The success of the
albums led to The Revue

headlining in Las Vegas

where their shows were attended
by a variety of celebrities

including David Bowie, Sly
Stone, Janice Joplin, Cher,

James Brown, Ray Charles,
Elton John and Elvis Presley.

[upbeat music]

- Some people called
me a foolish woman.

I think it took a smart
woman to live with a man

and to live in that situation.

That's the credit I give myself.

But most of all, I think I was
trying to say to Ike Turner,

I'm your friend, I am your
friend, I'm not gonna leave you,

I'll stand by you.

Until I found that it was
being used against me.

It was used to hold me there
as a guilt kind of thing.

- [Narrator] Their
time in Las Vegas

was also the beginning of a
dark turn in their relationship.

Ike had always been
controlling and dominant.

However things were about
to become even worse.

As the story goes,
one night in Vegas,

Ike was partying
after one of his shows

when he was offered cocaine

by none other than
Elvis himself.

Notorious for his
hard party lifestyle,

Elvis had a reputation
in the industry

but this would be Ike's first
introduction to the hard drug

and he became hooked.

[gentle music]

Ike & Tina Turner Revue
hit the mainstream

with "Proud Mary" on
the Ed Sullivan Show

on January 11th, 1970.

Their energy was unstoppable.

But behind the scenes,
things were falling apart.

♪ Left a good job in the city

♪ Working for the man
every night and day ♪

♪ And I never lost one
minute of sleeping ♪

♪ I was worrying 'bout the
way the things might've been ♪

♪ Big wheel keep on turning

♪ Proud Mary keep on burning

♪ Rolling, rolling

♪ Rolling down the river

♪ Rolling, rolling

♪ Rolling down the river

♪ Yeah

♪ Ooh

- [Narrator] By the mid 1970s,

Ike was heavily
addicted to cocaine

which hindered his
relationship with Turner.

In 1976, they headlined at the
Waldorf Astoria in New York

and signed a television
deal with CBS TV.

Ike made plans to leave
United Artists Records

for a five-year deal
with Cream Records

for $150,000 per year.

The deal was to be
signed on July 5th.

On July 1st the Turners flew
from Los Angeles to Dallas,

where The Revue had a gig at
the Dallas Statler Hilton.

They got into a
physical altercation
in route to the hotel.

Shortly after
arriving at the hotel,

Turner fled from Mike and
later hit at a friend's house.

- I didn't know, that the only
way out is through the door

but that didn't
come at the time.

I just thought totally helpless.

And when I was really,
really, really fed up,

that's when I just took a chance

and said come what
may, and left.

I was just really
tired of my life

and the situation
I was in with Ike.

[gentle music]

- [Narrator] Her dramatic
escape was immortalized

in the controversial
film about her life,

"What's Love Got To Do With
It" starring Angela Bassett.

This was the end of their
music and their Marriage.

- [Angela Bassett] I need
to speak with your manager.

- Yes, ma'am right away.

George.

- I'm Tina Turner,

my husband and I
just had a fight.

I'm supposed to open
at The Academy tonight.

I have 36 cents
and a mobile car.

But if you would give me a room,

I swear, I will pay you back.

- No, no, no, that
won't be necessary.

Ms. Turner, I'd be
honored, really.

We'll take care of you.

- Thank you.

- [Narrator] She filed
for divorce on July 27th

and it was finalized
on March 29th, 1978.

[gentle music]

In 1876 and 1977,
Turner earned income

by appearing on TV shows

such as, "The
Hollywood Squares."

"Donny and Marie."

"The Sonny and Cher Show."

And, "The Brady Bunch Hour."

As lawsuits were mounting

for canceled Ike and
Tina Turner gigs,

Turner resumed touring
to pay off her debts

with finances given to her

by United Artists'
executive Mike Stewart.

[upbeat music]

♪ I got music in me

♪ I got music in me

♪ I got music in me

♪ Yeah

♪ I feel funky

♪ Feel good

♪ I wanna jam yeah
in the name of ♪

♪ I wanna fly like
a bird with wings ♪

♪ Hold on to your hat

♪ Sing, sing, sing

[gentle music]

- [Narrator] In 1977
Turner re-emerged

with a sexier image and
costumes created by Bob Mackey.

She headlined in a
series of cabaret shows

at Caesar's Palace in Las
Vegas, and then took her act

to smaller venues in
the United States.

[gentle music]

In 1978, Turner released her
third solo album, "Rough"

on United Artists,

with distribution in North
America and Europe on EMI.

[gentle music]

That album, along with
this 1979, follow-up,

"Love Explosion" which
included a brief diversion

to disco music, failed to chart.

So United Artists Records
and Turner parted ways.

Without the premise
of a hit record,

she continued performing.

[gentle music]

Until 1983 Turner was
considered a nostalgia act,

performing mostly
at hotel ballrooms

and clubs in the United States.

She was finally
given a second chance

and signed with Capitol
Records in 1983.

In November, 1983,
she released her cover

of Al Green's "Let's
Stay Together"

which was produced by BEF.

The record became a
hit, reaching several
European charts,

including number six in the UK.

Following the single
surprise success,

Capitol Records
green-lighted a studio album.

Turner had two weeks to record
her "Private Dancer" album

which was released in May, 1984.

It became an outstanding
commercial success,

peaking at number three
on the Billboard 200.

And number two in
the United Kingdom.

"Private Dancer" was
certified five times platinum

in the United States

and sold 100 million
copies worldwide,

becoming her most
successful album.

Also in May, 1984 Capitol issued

the album's second single,
"What's Love Got To Do With It."

Although undoubtedly her
most successful single,

Tina never wanted
to sing the song

and admitted many times
she didn't enjoy it.

[gentle upbeat music]

♪ You must try to ignore that
it means more than that ♪

♪ Oh, oh, what's love got
to do, got to do with it ♪

♪ What's love but a
second-hand emotion ♪

♪ What's love got to
do, got to do with it ♪

♪ Who needs a heart when
a heart can be broken ♪

- [Narrator] On
September 1st, 1984,

Tina achieved her first
and only number one

on the Billboard Hot 100 with,

"What's Love Got To Do With It."

The followup singles
"Better Be Good To Me"

and "Private Dancer"
were both US Top 10 hits.

Turner culminated her comeback

when she won three Grammys at
the 27th Annual Grammy Awards,

including the Grammy Award
for Record Of The Year

for, "What's Love
Got To Do With It."

- It's that big.

I think if I'd had as many
records as The Stones,

I could justify it.

But to two albums and having
this almost like saying,

wow, this is because of the book

it's because I've worked on.

You can put 10,000
becauses on it,

because you don't
really know why.

[gentle upbeat music]

- [Narrator] Not
satisfied with being

one of the biggest stars
in the history of music,

Tina has also tried
her hand at acting.

She appeared in the 1975
rock musical, "Tommy"

as well as the action movies
"Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome"

in 1985 and "Last
Action Hero" in 1993.

In 1991, Ike and Tina
Turner were inducted

into the Rock &
Roll Hall of Fame.

Ike was incarcerated
and Tina did not attend.

Turner stated
through her publicist

that she was taking a leave
of absence following her tour.

And she felt emotionally
unequipped to return to the US

and respond to the
night of celebration,

in the manner she would want.

Phil Spector accepted the
award on their behalf.

- Why I felt so
comfortable leaving America

was because everyone treated
me not as a black person,

they treated me just as a star.

Difference, it's different
than when I was there.

My attitude about
being there is,

I had lived there the
first 50 years of my life

and now I'm moving
to another country.

Part of that was because of
my relationship with Erwin.

Part of that was I was always
treated a little bit different

in those other countries
than in America,

because in America, a
black singer, R&B singer

is always a black
singer, R&B singer.

I'm happier than I ever thought

that life would become for me.

So that means that
most of my hardships

came while I was
young and growing up.

And then the last days
when normally people suffer

from old age and sicknesses,
my happiness came.

I am, I'm really,
thoroughly happy.

[gentle upbeat music]

I don't think he really
meant for me to sing it.

I don't think he really meant

that anything could
come from that.

I don't even really
think he cared

to write a song for "Bond"
with what he gave me.

I wish I still have
some of that stuff,

but yeah, I knew then
that I had talent

to sing anything put before me.

♪ Goldeneye I found
his weakness ♪

♪ Goldeneye he'll
do what I please ♪

♪ Goldeneye no time
for sweetness ♪

♪ But a bitter kiss will
bring him to his knees ♪

I chill now, I mean it was,

it was another feeling
to sing to that.

♪ When I was

You know, really
to sing into that.

♪ Da, dam, da, dam

I saw exactly what
Phil was producing.

He didn't make a proper demo,

someone just threw
the music together

and he had just written a song.

And when Roger,
my manager, said,

"Tina, this is a
song, this is a."

He told me it was a big break,

so he said, "It's a
little bit rough."

And I thought, how do
I put this together?

He wasn't showing me
what the melody was.

And so I, yeah, I would
have to say I created,

as close to what I thought
the melody was of that.

So when I went to actually
audition with Phil,

he said, "No, no, no,
no, just the melody."

And he would, with the piano.

and then I thought,
oh, well, that's easy.

You know I can say anything

if you tell me how to sing
it, give me the melody.

[crowd cheering]

- Who are you here to see today?

- [Crowd] Tina.

- That's right.

Well, ladies and gentlemen,

we are gonna honor Tina Turner
today with star number 1,831

in Hollywood's
famous Walk Of Fame.

Today we honor Tina
Turner for her many,

many outstanding
achievements in recording.

[audience cheering]

- Make sure that the world
knows the great affection

that we of Hollywood
have for Tina

and how the great admiration
we have for her great talents.

- It's been about 15
million records up 'til now.

We're gonna start
all over again.

And Tina we're so honored
and graced by your presence.

We look forward most of all to
many, many more celebrations

'cause they're
always a lot of fun.

Congratulations on your day.

And thank you very much for
being part of our family.

[gentle upbeat music]

- [Narrator] In December,
2005, Turner was recognized

by the Kennedy Center Honors

at the John F. Kennedy Center
for the Performing Arts

in Washington, D.C.

And was elected to join an
elite group of entertainers.

In December, 2007, Ike
Turner passed away.

Tina didn't attend the funeral

and issued a brief statement
through her spokesperson.

"Tina hasn't had any contact
with Ike in more than 30 years.

"No further comment
will be made."

In 1986 Turner met German
music executive Erwin Bach,

who was sent by her
European record label EMI

to greet Turner at
Dusseldorf Airport.

Bach is over 16
years her junior.

He was born on January 24th,
1956 in Cologne, Germany.

Initially friends, they
began dating later that year.

In July, 2013, after a 27
year romantic relationship,

they married in a civil ceremony

on the banks of Lake Zurich
in Kusnacht, Switzerland.

[gentle music]

- It's 20 years later, I think,
probably a little bit more.

And a lot has happened
since the stage life.

And my life changed,
I had sicknesses

and I moved from
America to Switzerland.

And retirement set in
and things changed.

No, actually I had retired,

I haven't actually tried to
sing since, but I'm sure I can.

♪ Oh yes

[gentle upbeat music]

- [Narrator] Turner revealed

in her 2018 memoir,
"My Love Story"

that she had suffered
life-threatening illnesses.

In 2013, three weeks after
her wedding to Erwin Bach,

she suffered a stroke and
had to learn to walk again.

- So mild stroke from
the back of the head.

And then they took
me down to the room,

I didn't believe it, I
said, ah, stroke, ah, ah,

like that.

They left the room,

blop, hit the floor.

[gentle music]

After we finally got
rid of the stroke,

then a swindles
started, this dizziness.

So they found out what
that was in the inner ear.

We corrected that.

And then after that
was the kidney thing,

they found that,

no, that was this one
next to the colon.

- [Narrator] In 2016,
she was diagnosed

with intestinal cancer.

Turner opted for
homeopathic remedies

to treat her high blood pressure

that resulted in
damage to her kidneys

and eventual kidney failure.

Her chances of receiving
a kidney were low.

And she was urged
to start dialysis.

She considered assisted suicide

and signed up to be
a member of Exit.

But Bach offered to donate
a kidney for her transplant.

Turner had kidney transplant
surgery on April 7th, 2017.

- The Swiss people are like
the English, they have manners.

[laughing]

So I said, well,
so what happens?

He said, "If you don't maintain,

"if you don't do what
we recommend, you
will probably die."

[gentle music]

"Only one of your
kidneys are functioning."

Actually, what happened was,

I stopped medication for kidney

because I was tired
of the medicine

and I wanted to see what
I felt like my old self,

because it has the
blood pressure medicine,

it restricts you a little bit.

And they said to Erwin, "You
can live with one kidney."

So Erwin thought, no
Irvin said to the doctors,

"Can I give her one of mine?"

Something similar to
this, I wasn't there.

And then he found out that
he doesn't need two kidneys.

So then he came to me and said,

"Tina, you don't have to
make this decision now,

"I can give you
one of my kidneys."

And I said, oh Erwin, you're
young, I'm already older,

it's okay, just get used
to me not being here.

And I did feel like I was
older, I was already in my 70s,

so why should I take the
kidneys from a young man

and let him finish his life?

That's what I felt like.

And he said, "No, no, no,
my life is fine how it is,

"I'll give you one
of my kidneys."

[gentle music]

In Buddhism you accept
the life and the death.

Yeah, I was ready.

I was set, I just thought
that it's my time.

Anyway, death is not
a problem for me,

I don't really mind leaving.

I know a lot of people
don't think that way

but I'm happy that I do

because it's something
that is inevitable so.

- [Narrator] Turner
announced in December, 2016

that she had been
working on "Tina"

a musical based
on her life story

in collaboration with Felita
Lloyd and Stage Entertainment.

The show opened in
London in April, 2018

with Adrian Warren
in the lead role.

- Everyone is a Tina Turner fan.

- And if you're not,
we don't believe you.

- You're a liar, you're not
telling the truth, yeah.

[both laughing]

Even if you're not lying,
your not telling the truth.

[both laughing]

- She is perseverance,
personified

and resilience personified.

And it's something that
all of us can be inspired,

no matter what is going through,

whatever you're going
through in your life,

whether it's a bullying
situation or domestic violence.

- I feel desperate to
meet and make, you know,

yeah make momma proud, you know.

- Yeah.

How do you have so much energy?

You know, all those
things that you think,

oh what would I
possibly as Tina Turner?

I made a list and I asked her.

[laughing]

- [Narrator] Warren reprized
her role on Broadway

in the fall of 2019.

[upbeat music]

- [Crowd] Tina, Tina,
Tina, Tina, Tina

♪ You're simply the best

[upbeat music]

- As I came in this evening,

there was a wonderful
applause for me

and I thank you for that.

[audience cheering]

This musical is my life,
but it's like poison

that turned to medicine.

Thank God for her.

[audience cheering]

I can never be as happy as I am.

Thank you all.

♪ Oh, you're the best

- There's a musical
that's a hit.

I think the documentary
will be a hit.

So aside of being really
tired of talking about myself,

I'm really proud of what my
future, as a star became.

I feel proud that I
hold that in my hand.

- [Narrator] Turner received

the 2018 Grammy Lifetime
Achievement Award

and her second memoir,
"My Love Story"

was released in October, 2018.

She came out of
retirement in July, 2020

to collaborate
with producer Kygo

on a remix of, "What's
Love Got To Do With It."

With this release,

she became the first
artist to have a Top 40 hit

in seven consecutive
decades in the UK.

In 2020 Turner released
her third book,

"Happiness Becomes You."

A guide to changing
your life for good.

She co-wrote the book with
American author, Taro Gold

and Swiss singer, Regula Curti.

It was chosen by
Amazon's editors

as a Best Non-Fiction
Book of 2020.

In 2021 Turner appeared
in the documentary film,

"Tina" directed by Dan
Lindsay and T.J. Martin.

The documentary represents
a great sense of closure

to an often unpredictable
and difficult life.

♪ Oh

♪ Oh, oh

♪ Oh, oh

♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh

♪ Oh, oh

What do I want to come back?

I think as a teacher,

I think I want to come
back with the knowledge

that I learned this lifetime.

And I think I want
to teach spiritually

to help people know how to live.

[upbeat music]

People still see me as Tina.

I will always be Tina to them

because they only see me stage.

Some people called
me a foolish woman.

I think it took a smart
woman to live with a man

and to live in that situation.

♪ Oh

♪ Oh, oh

- [Narrator] The real Tina
Turner, off the stage,

and in the quiet privacy of her
home is an incredible woman,

a Testament to the durability
of the human spirit

- Behind the scenes,
Tina was very much,

she didn't want the shame of it,

of people knowing
what was going on.

[upbeat music]

- [Narrator] Despite
relentless pain

and hardship
throughout her life,

she has overcome all
obstacles and soared.

The legacy of Tina Turner
is that of a trailblazer,

an icon, and rock
and roll legend,

the queen, to be exact.

[gentle music]