Tina Turner
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ARTE has changed its evening program for May 26th. In memory of the deceased Tina Turner, the station shows the documentary “Tina Turner – One of the Living” by Schyda Vasseghi at 9.45 p.m. and at 10.40 p.m. a concert by the “Queen of Rock and Roll” in Rio from 1987 – at that time she performed Turner performed in front of 180,000 people, a record. Both contributions can be viewed in advance on arte.tv. The time slots were originally intended for the Rolling Stones documentary Crossfire Hurricane and Rolling Stones: A Bigger Bang – Live on Copacabana Beach.
Tina Turner passed away on May 24 at the age of 83. A spokesman said she died in Küsnacht after a long illness. The “Queen of Rock and Roll” has brought an audience of millions into ecstasy with her powerful voice, daring costumes and dance routines and exuberant energy. That was mainly in the 80s and 90s. After a farewell tour in 2009, she retired into private life at the age of 70. According to her own statements, after decades of hard work, she now enjoyed life without obligations.
After that, Turner rarely appeared in public, for example to promote a book or a musical about her life story. With her German partner Erwin Bach, who is 16 years her junior, she has lived on Lake Zurich in Switzerland since the 1990s. The two celebrated a lavish wedding party there in 2013. Turner later even accepted Swiss citizenship.