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Ike Turner is one of the great unsung heroes of modern music. If he is known at all, it is as Mr Tina Turner: domineering, drug-crazed and violent. He was all of those things, perhaps a reason for the tut-tutting airbrush of history. Not a nice chap; but in musical terms he was deservedly the King of Rhythm. Now respected rock and blues writer John Collis has written the first major study of one of music's most complex characters. John Collis writes: 'If rock 'n' roll burst out with Little Richard's demonic Awopbopalula-awopbamboom, an inspired perversion of his sacred singing style, then its story requires what in the movie industry is now called a prequel. And the star of the prequel is Ike Turner. 'When he was 19 his band travelled to the Sun studios in Memphis and cut a car-loving boogie called Rocket 88, long predating Berry's fascination with the subject. Many people, including Sun owner Sam Phillips, have called this the first rock 'n' roll record. 'From then on, Ike Turner blazed a trail that influenced the whole of blues, R&B and rock 'n' roll music. I attempt to get behind the myth and reveal the real Ike Turner.' Includes the only complete Ike Turner discography in existance!
Ike Turner is one of the great unsung heroes of modern music. If he is known at all, it is as Mr Tina Turner: domineering, drug-crazed and violent. He was all of those things, perhaps a reason for the tut-tutting airbrush of history. Not a nice chap; but in musical terms he was deservedly the King of Rhythm. Now respected rock and blues writer John Collis has written the first major study of one of music's most complex characters. John Collis writes: 'If rock 'n' roll burst out with Little Richard's demonic Awopbopalula-awopbamboom, an inspired perversion of his sacred singing style, then its story requires what in the movie industry is now called a prequel. And the star of the prequel is Ike Turner. 'When he was 19 his band travelled to the Sun studios in Memphis and cut a car-loving boogie called Rocket 88, long predating Berry's fascination with the subject. Many people, including Sun owner Sam Phillips, have called this the first rock 'n' roll record. 'From then on, Ike Turner blazed a trail that influenced the whole of blues, R&B and rock 'n' roll music. I attempt to get behind the myth and reveal the real Ike Turner.' Includes the only complete Ike Turner discography in existance!
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