In pictures: Tina Turner, Queen of rock ‘n’ roll whose career spanned 60 years
The singer has died at the age of 83 after a long illness
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Your support makes all the difference.Singer Tina Turner has died at the age of 83 after a long illness and a lifetime as one of rock’s most famous voices.
The American-Swiss singer – born Anna Mae Bullock – had a career that spanned six decades and gave the world classic tracks such as “River Deep – Mountain High”, “Proud Mary”, “Nutbush City Limits” and “The Best”.
The star was a two-time inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and won a total of 12 Grammy Awards.
She previously held a Guinness World Record for the largest paying audience for a solo performer – attracting an audience of 180,000 for her show at the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1988.
Follow live updates as tributes roll in for Turner following her death here.
Here we take a look some of the most striking pictures of Tina Turner’s stunning life:
In a career spanning more than 60 years, Turner won eight competitive Grammy Awards. Here she is performing at the Shoreline Amphitheatre on May 23, 1997 in Mountain View, California.
She regularly shared her talent with other artists and can be seen here peforming with David Bowie on stage at the NEC Birmingham in 1985.
Roger Davies, the singer’s manager of 30 years, said the star was a “unique and remarkable force of nature”. Here she is performing during rehearsals at London’s Royal Albert Hall, ahead of the MOBO (Music Of Black Origin) Awards.
The photo above shows Turner wearing a fur coat as she poses next to a fountain on the eve of her first solo performance in Britain, at the Inn on the Park Hotel in London, 10 February 1978.
The Rolling Stones’ Sir Mick Jagger, who is pictured here duetting with Tina Turner during Live Aid in 1985, was among many stars to tell of his sadness at the news of her passing.
He wrote on Instagram: “I’m so saddened by the passing of my wonderful friend Tina Turner. She was truly an enormously talented performer and singer.
“She was inspiring, warm, funny and generous. She helped me so much when I was young and I will never forget.”
As well as her successful music career, Turner also has a star on both the Hollywood Walk of Fame and the St Louis Walk of Fame.
She is pictured here during the presentation of the music project “Beyond – Three Voices For Peace” on May 14, 2009 in Zurich, Switzerland.
In this snap Turner peforms one of her most famous hits, “What’s Love Got to Do With It”, in Los Angeles on 2 September, 1984.
And here she is in a fur coat, circa 1975.
A musical based on her life, titled Tina – The Tina Turner Musical, opened on London’s West End in 2018. Here she is (pictured right) with Oprah Winfrey for the opening night at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on Thursday, 7 November 2019, in New York.
In 2008 she is pictured duetting at the Grammys with Beyonce for a rendition of “Proud Mary”, which featured both the powerful singers, in sparkly outfits, mirroring each other’s choreography.
She is pictured here with her long-time German beau, the music executive Erwin Bach, who she wed in a Swiss civil ceremony in 2013. She had lived in Switzerland with him since 1994.
Tina Turner celebrates her birthday with Erwin Bach and American singer and songwriter Lionel Richie, at a party in Zurich, Switzerland, 26 November, 1998.
In 2005 President George W Bush described Turner’s legs as “the most famous in showbusiness” and it was reported she insured them for hundreds of millions of US dollars.
Here she is pictured with President Bush, right, and first lady Laura Bush, centre, at the Kennedy Center Honors Gala on 4 December, 2005 in Washington.