Music editor Jacob Haagsma is experiencing something in pop and wider surroundings. What moved him to tears again this week?
And Jacob….
Yes, stop it. Tina Turner . People die every day, even or maybe especially when they are 83. And that includes many pop musicians – mostly younger. I know. But such a great lady as Tina Turner, that’s something else bass players whose names probably not everyone knows .
And thus…
So in this corner I pause for a moment with Tina Turner. Yes dear, this world has produced few more explosive female singers than Tina.
I heard she once performed in Don Pedro, in Franeker.
I also heard that story today, only, I don’t believe it. But she did perform in our corner of the country. In 2000 for about 65,000 people in the Stadspark in Groningen , more than a year after the Rolling Stones were there. And in 1990 and 1996 in Thialf in Heerenveen, just in the years when the greats of the earth performed there. The Cure, Prince, Simple Minds, Eric Clapton, and Tina Turner.
Twice in Heerenveen?
Three times actually. Only, the strange thing is that she was still there in 1996, I had completely forgotten, and I still remember little of it. While I was indeed there, our archive shows. My review was even more enthusiastic than the first time in 1990 . In ’96 she even sold out that ice rink twice in a row, I see now, so about 30,000 people. So makes three times Thialf, together.
Have you ever spoken to her?
I don’t speak to every celebrity. I do remember something that the editors received a phone call from Thialf that I could interview her. But I smelled wet, because such things never go through the venue but rather through the record company or maybe through Mojo, the organizer. Later it turned out that it was a joke by some Thialf people, because I had sometimes spoken less than kindly about the noise in that ice rink. That was just a reverberation box, not built for concerts and there is never anything like it there again. A failed joke or revenge, therefore, because this boy does not fall for it.
You can do everything too.
Well, that’s not quite true either. I did have a telephone appointment with Ike Turner, the discoverer and Tina’s husband for a long time – until Tina had enough of his loose hands. I first called his son/tour manager at the hotel and he put me through to Ike’s room, or gave me the number, details like that elude me. But sir didn’t feel like it, or didn’t know anything. Anyway: two lines of indistinct growls reached my earcups and that was it. So I called my dear son (I don’t know if Tina was the mother) again, but she also said no more than a resigned: ,, Man, what can I say.” So there went my in-depth interview with the man who is known as the inventor of rock ‘n’ roll.
huh?
Because of Rocket 88 , from 1951. Released at the time under the name of singer Jackie Brenston, but it was actually by Ike Turner. So loose hands or not, we can thank that man on our knees.
Gee, big tearing guitar. That does rock. And that in 1951!
That came from an amplifier, which broke down a bit when loading or unloading, I want to get rid of that. You see, history is full of these small but very significant accidents. Even rock and roll. Or just that one.
By the way, Tina herself could also rock a lot. Even in a disco song. Here she does Shame Shame Shame , a hit by Shirley And Company at the time, I remember it well. It’s a duet with Cher, you see. And let’s face it, Cher might be thinner here, but Tina finally sings her home .
Lightning still. More living singers on the radar?
Zoë Tauran’s debut album has just been released today, that young and talented singer from Roden. She was recently in the news because she died four times in July is the support act for Coldplay not nothing either, and just yesterday she got one FunX Award for Best Female Singer .
Her debut album was just released today, untitled. And it has become a damn fun album, not even in the first place because of the guest roles of people like Frenna, Kris Kross Amsterdam and Ronnie Flex. A bit of R&B, a bit of pop, a bit of sixties girl pop, even a pinch of life song. And sing! Nice melody twists! Really cool.
Cool! Well, you can go into the weekend with that.
Just about the same.