Their tumultuous marriage led to a divorce and disbanding in , [ 6 ] with Turner embarking on a successful solo career and becoming one of the greatest cultural icons of all time. In , Turner launched "one of the greatest comebacks in music history", [ 7 ] with her multi-platinum album Private Dancer. Her Break Every Rule World Tour β became the highest-grossing female tour of the s and set a Guinness World Record for the then- largest paying audience in a concert , Turner continued her success as a live performer with Wildest Dreams Tour β , the second highest-grossing female tour of the s, and Twenty Four Seven Tour , the highest-grossing tour of the year in North America.
Turner was also the subject of a jukebox musical , Tina , and a documentary film of the same name Turner had reportedly sold around to million records worldwide, [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] and becoming one of the best-selling recording artists of all time. Rolling Stone ranked her among the greatest artists and greatest singers of all time.
Turner has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and on the St. Louis Walk of Fame. Bullock and her sisters were sent to live with their maternal grandmother, Georgeanna Currie, in Brownsville, Tennessee. As a teenager, Bullock worked as a domestic worker for the Henderson family in Ripley, Tennessee. She graduated from Sumner High School in I would have been lost in my life at that point without him. I mean, I could do two things: work in a hospital or sing in Ike's band.
I didn't know anything else. Or anyone else. And I wanted to sing. Bullock and her sister began to perform frequently at nightclubs in St. Louis and East St. She sang the rest of the night and became a featured vocalist with his band. She is credited as a vocalist on the record alongside Ike and fellow Kings of Rhythm singer Carlson Oliver. Bullock was to sing background with Lassiter's backing vocalists, the Artettes. Lassiter failed to show up for the recording session at Technisonic Studios.
It was a funky sound". Journalist Kurt Loder described the track as "the blackest record to ever creep into the white pop charts since Ray Charles 's gospel-styled ' What'd I Say ' that previous summer". He remained in the background as the bandleader. Ike Turner put the entire revue through a rigorous touring schedule across the United States, performing 90 days straight in venues around the country.
