She helped me so much when I was young and I will never forget her."īorn Anna Mae Bullock on Nov. She was inspiring, warm, funny and generous. "She was truly an enormously talented performer and singer. "I'm so saddened by the passing of my wonderful friend Tina Turner," Jagger said in a statement on Instagram. "In fact, to be more accurate, one should call Mick 'the male Tina Turner.'" (This is no mere critical hyperbole: In the same Rolling Stone feature, Turner herself insinuated that Jagger studied her moves rather closely when she and Ike toured with the Rolling Stones in 1969.) Naturally, when the pair teamed up for a barnburning cover of the Jacksons' "State of Shock" at Live Aid in 1985, the combination was incendiary.
"Someone once called Tina 'the female Mick Jagger,'" Rolling Stone's Ben Fong-Torres wrote in 1971.
In addition to her vocal prowess, Turner had a commanding stage presence that was often characterized as "electrifying." This descriptor somehow always seemed like an understatement: At the microphone, Turner vibrated with energy, like a simmering pot about to boil over, and she possessed natural athleticism that translated to lithe but powerful onstage dancing. She would win eight Grammys overall - including best female rock vocal performance for three years in a row during the '80s. The latter song won Turner her first Grammy Award, for best R&B performance by a duo or group with vocal. There’s only one Charli and I can’t touch her version, we can only try and pay homage… I’m relieved it sounds different than the original… tho my daughters got her melody down pretty great, gotta say, and yeah Charli is just our favest.An agile vocal interpreter, Turner also made other people's iconic songs her own - adding a tone of yearning and desperation to The Beatles' already-pleading "Come Together," and layering on more of a country twang to The Rolling Stones' "Honky Tonk Women." Her signature tune, a fiery transformation of Creedence Clearwater Revival's laid-back "Proud Mary," became a showcase for her sultry soul drawl and raspy rock 'n' roll yelp. When I was asked to record a Charli XCX song in honor of her Ivors Visionary Award (!!!) my brain kept going back to “Constant Repeat” which hit me hardest first (back then on that flight), it’s such a killer… while knowing it’d be no easy feat and I was nervous but hey… I definitely couldn’t’ve done this song any justice alone so that’s why my girls sang their hearts out with me, so… I had to slow my version down a lil, maybe forget a chord or two, play some mellow acoustic gtr (and shoegaze electrics!) and keep it chill in my wheelhouse. No disrespect (and total respect!) to the Angels who’ve been Charli fans since the beginning… but that said me and my daughters Awilda (13) and Delphine (10) know most of her catalog by heart at this point (on constant repeat!) and that’s just a testament to how amazing and infectious (and beautiful!) her songs are. I flew home the next morning listening to my newly acquired CRASH cd over and over again (through a discman, naturally!) …I turned my daughters on as soon as I got home and yeah we’ve been super fans ever since. I played an in-store at Rough Trade East London and her poster covered the entire front door. I became an overnight fan of Charli XCX a lil over a year ago (on the release date of my last album April 2022).
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