European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 10, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Profile Ike Turner Tina s made a comeback and he s making 01 by Frank Spotnitz United press International Ike Turner whom sex wife Tina says brainwashed her Inlo is lying with him for 1f years despite his physical abuse unfaithfulness and drug use has Rome Oul of hiding. The ret elusive elder half of the Ike and Tina Turner revue said in a recent interview he has no hard feelings toward his sex wife and musical partner hut wanted to give his version of their trouble to marriage. Turner 54, has been working on a new album recently and Hopes to get Jack on of i of it you did t Ivan to quit it now you to to i like the Farmer do is potato you int to me now and dig me liter with the ref rence to his sex wife s hit Vav or t iou1 cot to do Iii i / Turner said the song is not a message to Tina. Anything i write anything i say they the critics Are going to claim it is so Why not he said. His husky voice1 Anco murmured speech imply a big Man but in person Turner is of medium height and much thinner than he was in old publicity stills for the Ike am Tina Turner revue. The couple married in 1958 in a Tijuana ceremony Ike says was not Lega recorded hits like a fool in love it s Conns work out Fine and River deep Mountain High. Then there were unforgettable versions of come jo1 c / Crand after some Roubes of his own Ike Turner has career plans. Proud Mary and their final hit Nutbush City limit in 1973. They divorced three years later. Tina said she must have been brainwashed into putting up for so Long with Ike s beatings philandering and drug use. Neither had much of a career for the rest of the de Cade and in 19u2, Ike called Tina with an idea for a to special called Ike and Una Sonny ind Cher the broken pieces put together by crazy glue. I hey Haven t spoken since. The same ear a cherished recording studio Turner had in los Angeles was destroyed by fire. Turner hit Bottom after that but he now credits the fire with fore ing him to come to terms with his desire to perform. A Young Singer named Barbara Cole will assume the role Tina had in Ike s revue although he will be doing a lot of the singing himself and plans never again to have someone else play such an important part in his act. He said he feels no bitterness or jealousy about Tina s come Back although one Maga Ine interview got me Cray because she said she Only fell like a Mother toward the child she had with Ike Craig not his other three. Turner is not bothered by Tina s accounts of the abuse he used to inflict. Everybody has fights Turner said. Some of them say i beat her i was brutal to her. I think you can look at her and see about How brutal i be Boon. Anyway everybody loves her today so i definitely think if was brutal to her i m saying if 1 was and she s the one everybody loves today Well then they should be proud i was brutal because she s what they like to Turner who controls All the Ike and Tina records said he s got enough unreleased i material for "10 years Worth of albums and plans several reissues in the Wake of Tina s come Back. Why not he said. 20 stripes Magazine sex Ober 70, 1985
