Goodnight Lady
When I was a kid, about 13-14, I saw Tina Turner being profiled on ABC's 20/20 news series. This would have been around `80-`81. She was working the comeback trail, playing clubs and I guess at one point working day jobs to keep food in the fridge. I wasn't the immersed music geek I am now at that age. I was just getting into listening to rock radio a lot. I didn't know much about Tina Turner. I'd seen her on variety shows a couple of times but didn't know quite what to make of her back then. I knew there was such a thing as spousal abuse, or as we called it back then, wife-beating. But I was shocked that such a powerful-seeming woman could have been subjected to it. And by the gruesome realities of it she so unflinchingly shared. And I watched a clip of her belting out an aching, gospel-y version of "Help". The music I head there didn't necessarily move me (though I later came to appreciate her version of "Help"), but her story did....