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I decided to read my Love Story: The Autobiography by Tina Turner after a visit to London to see a friend perform in Tina: The Tina Turner Musical.
I loved listening to Tina Turner's music growing up, the pure energy and power to her voice as she sang the likes of Private Dancer, Steamy Windows and River Deep, Mountain High, to name but a few of them.
My Love Story: The Autobiography is a challenging read as she recalls her life with Ike Turner, performing in clubs around the USA, to touring the globe and playing to filled stadiums of fans. She writes about her life with her second husband, Erwin Bach, including collaborating on Tina: The Tina Turner Musical and how her health declines in her later years and the challenges this brought into her life.
Her life was one of magnificent highs and extreme lows, yet her beauty, strength and power where beacons that blazed throughout her story.
I loved listening to Tina Turner's music growing up, the pure energy and power to her voice as she sang the likes of Private Dancer, Steamy Windows and River Deep, Mountain High, to name but a few of them.
My Love Story: The Autobiography is a challenging read as she recalls her life with Ike Turner, performing in clubs around the USA, to touring the globe and playing to filled stadiums of fans. She writes about her life with her second husband, Erwin Bach, including collaborating on Tina: The Tina Turner Musical and how her health declines in her later years and the challenges this brought into her life.
Her life was one of magnificent highs and extreme lows, yet her beauty, strength and power where beacons that blazed throughout her story.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Abandonment
Moderate: Alcoholism, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Suicide, Medical content, Death of parent, Alcohol
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Like most I’ve read the articles, watched the movies and documentaries about Tina Turner but reading about her life through her own words hit way different.
I am so glad she was able to rewrite the 2nd act of her life the way she wanted to; and finding peace and love in all aspects of her life before she transitioned on ❤️
Also Heather Simms did an amazing job narrating!! 10/10 book
I am so glad she was able to rewrite the 2nd act of her life the way she wanted to; and finding peace and love in all aspects of her life before she transitioned on ❤️
Also Heather Simms did an amazing job narrating!! 10/10 book
When I started reading this book, I thought I wouldn't like it. I was mistaken. I could not put it down until I finished it.
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5★: IT IS POSSIBLE TO TURN POISON INTO MEDICINE. Tina Turner, the Queen of Rock and Roll, passed away at the age of 83 on May 24, 2023. Even though she had largely retired from performing 14 years prior, some irrational part of my brain was upset that I didn’t get to see her in person. She had been a part of my life since I was six years old, first as a soundtrack, then in my teens as an icon of resilience and choice, next in my 20s and 30s as comforting nostalgia, and last as classy legend. She was a TRUE DIVA — not a spoiled, demanding, selfish princess — but a humble, generous, grounded queen.
When, 25 days ago, I learned that she had died, I did three things: (1) I shot the messenger [figuratively], (2) I showed my kids some of her classic performances, and (3) I put this audiobook on hold. I was 15 when I watched the 1993 film What’s Love Got to Do with It, starring Angela Bassett and Laurence Fishburne. I hadn’t previously known anything about her life before her Private Dancer album — especially that she survived all forms of horrendous abuse from her World’s Worst A$$hole husband, and that she credited Buddhism at least in part for her escape and recovery. I had also recently watched the 2021 HBO documentary Tina, which was shockingly just as upsetting in that FORTY-FOUR YEARS LATER, the stupid-a$$ media was STILL asking her about frickin’ Ike‼‼ The misogynistic dinosaurs need to GROW UP and CATCH UP and EVOLVE! I was happy, though, to see the most mature Tina in her Swiss abode, peaceful and happy, living the life she had always deserved. I wanted MORE of that, and that’s why I wanted to pay tribute to this legend by hearing her truth, her way.
And this book delivered. She owns her journey and success, and I learned even more about her family relationships, her soulmate Erwin Bach, her health challenges, her sense of style and fashion and beauty, her insecurities, and her tragedies. You can hear and even feel her strength and optimism. She was more than a sultry voice or famous set of legs. She was and will forever remain an inspiration — a powerful alchemist capable of turning poison into medicine. She was SIMPLY THE BEST.
When, 25 days ago, I learned that she had died, I did three things: (1) I shot the messenger [figuratively], (2) I showed my kids some of her classic performances, and (3) I put this audiobook on hold. I was 15 when I watched the 1993 film What’s Love Got to Do with It, starring Angela Bassett and Laurence Fishburne. I hadn’t previously known anything about her life before her Private Dancer album — especially that she survived all forms of horrendous abuse from her World’s Worst A$$hole husband, and that she credited Buddhism at least in part for her escape and recovery. I had also recently watched the 2021 HBO documentary Tina, which was shockingly just as upsetting in that FORTY-FOUR YEARS LATER, the stupid-a$$ media was STILL asking her about frickin’ Ike‼‼ The misogynistic dinosaurs need to GROW UP and CATCH UP and EVOLVE! I was happy, though, to see the most mature Tina in her Swiss abode, peaceful and happy, living the life she had always deserved. I wanted MORE of that, and that’s why I wanted to pay tribute to this legend by hearing her truth, her way.
And this book delivered. She owns her journey and success, and I learned even more about her family relationships, her soulmate Erwin Bach, her health challenges, her sense of style and fashion and beauty, her insecurities, and her tragedies. You can hear and even feel her strength and optimism. She was more than a sultry voice or famous set of legs. She was and will forever remain an inspiration — a powerful alchemist capable of turning poison into medicine. She was SIMPLY THE BEST.
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I dare you to read My Love Story and not admire this woman. Talent, heart, perseverance -- she has true grit and the character many of us lack nowadays. Constantly tested throughout her life, she never gave up her dreams and she never surrendered her Self.
What you'll read about in My Love Story is Tina's drive to achieve all that she dreamed she can be. She doesn't shy away from her mistakes. She doesn't gloss over her struggles. And she's not afraid to share her deepest vulnerabilities.
Structured around her relationship with Erwin Bach, their wedding, which Tina describes as the happiest day of her life, and the subsequent deterioration of her health. The narrative is pretty much chronological from her childhood to her early romances to meeting Ike Turner to leaving him to having to battle to reclaim her career to the hard work she put in to be the artist she always wanted to be.
She shares the stories behind her so-called comeback (though, she reminds the reader, she was never actually away) to the boosts she received from other artists like Cher and David Bowie.
She also mentions Beyoncé as a young artist much like herself. (I can totally see it!) And I respect Tina's view of her image, one she was quite deliberate about creating, one of being sexy without being threatening to other women. She said she's sexy without being sexual.
And, evidenced in her relationships with people like David Bowie and Oprah, Tina embodies the most valuable aspect of networking: true connection. So much of social media, online communities, and even in-person events are saturated by a gimme, gimme mindset. I really enjoyed reading about a legendary rock star who first and foremost creates relationships based on genuine interest and reciprocity rather than from a "What can this person do for me or my career" place.
Re-reading this "review" I realize I'm gushing, but this is a woman who deserves to be gushed over. I truly regret never getting to see her perform, but I'm thankful for her willingness to share of her personal life, to let us see the woman behind the star. As usual, Tina did not disappoint.
One disclaimer: The final chapter, about her son, is devastating. Be warned. I was a sobbing fool when I closed the book.
What you'll read about in My Love Story is Tina's drive to achieve all that she dreamed she can be. She doesn't shy away from her mistakes. She doesn't gloss over her struggles. And she's not afraid to share her deepest vulnerabilities.
Structured around her relationship with Erwin Bach, their wedding, which Tina describes as the happiest day of her life, and the subsequent deterioration of her health. The narrative is pretty much chronological from her childhood to her early romances to meeting Ike Turner to leaving him to having to battle to reclaim her career to the hard work she put in to be the artist she always wanted to be.
She shares the stories behind her so-called comeback (though, she reminds the reader, she was never actually away) to the boosts she received from other artists like Cher and David Bowie.
She also mentions Beyoncé as a young artist much like herself. (I can totally see it!) And I respect Tina's view of her image, one she was quite deliberate about creating, one of being sexy without being threatening to other women. She said she's sexy without being sexual.
And, evidenced in her relationships with people like David Bowie and Oprah, Tina embodies the most valuable aspect of networking: true connection. So much of social media, online communities, and even in-person events are saturated by a gimme, gimme mindset. I really enjoyed reading about a legendary rock star who first and foremost creates relationships based on genuine interest and reciprocity rather than from a "What can this person do for me or my career" place.
Re-reading this "review" I realize I'm gushing, but this is a woman who deserves to be gushed over. I truly regret never getting to see her perform, but I'm thankful for her willingness to share of her personal life, to let us see the woman behind the star. As usual, Tina did not disappoint.
One disclaimer: The final chapter, about her son, is devastating. Be warned. I was a sobbing fool when I closed the book.