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Ike Turner Dead At 76Rock n roll pioneer Ike Turner, who rose to fame in the 1950s and became a star performing with his ex-wife Tina Turner, has died at age 76, said an official with the performers management company. "Ike Turner passed away this morning. He was at his home," in San Marcos, California, outside San Diego, said Scott Hanover of Thrill Entertainment. Hanover did not have any further information about the cause of death. Turner helped pioneer rock n roll in 1951 when his band The Kings of Rhythm recorded the song Rocket 88, a tune widely regarded as the first record in the nascent genre. The Chess Records release was credited to the bands saxophone player Jackie Brenston "and his Delta Cats." As a guitarist and pianist, Turner played with the likes of B.B. King, Howlin Wolf, Muddy Waters and Willie Dixon in the 1950s. He married Annie Mae Bullock in 1958, she changed her name to Tina, and they enjoyed such hits as River Deep, Mountain High, Proud Mary and Nutbush City Limits. The pair won a Grammy in 1972 for Proud Mary" and earlier this year Ike Turner was awarded again with the record industrys top honor for his traditional blues album, Risin with the Blues. After his and Tina Turners 1976 divorce, Ike Turner was crippled by a cocaine addiction and was widely vilified in the mid-1980s as Tina Turner mounted a huge comeback and said she had suffered abuse and humiliation at his hand. While contemporaries such as Chuck Berry, Little Richard and Bo Diddley crossed over to white audiences, Ike Turner never made the jump and was confined to the less-lucrative R&B category. The Turners were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991. Reuters Tag CloudExternal InformationAdditional InformationFor Film Companies, a State of Flux...Passing the Baton: Beethoven as Popcorn Idol... In Third Chapter, No Box Office Rush on ?Rush Hour?... Every Tom, Dick and Jonah... Where Am I?News Main Page - Business - Ike Turner Dead At 76 |
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