Happy Birthday to one-half of rock’s first couple Ms. Tina Turner! Before Paul and Linda, Mick and Marianne, John and Yoko, Sonny and Cher and Bobby and Whitney there was Ike and Tina. And before any woman received any recognition in rock there was Tina.
Happy birthday to the first lady of rock!
Deja Vu? This happened when Jay-Z toured with R.Kelly a few years ago. Hear Ne-Yo, one of today’s best songwriters explain to Big Tigger why he was dismissed from the tour.
People heard him before they saw him, mumbling — croaking, really — in a low voice that seemed to come from nowhere. “Is the show starting?†Then: “Hold up, hold up.†Then, seemingly to an assistant: “I don’t want to fall.†This was good news. It was Tuesday at the B. B. King Blues Club & Grill, and Sly Stone was in the building.