Saw her during the Private Dancer tour. She electrified the arena to the rafters. That was a couple years after I was hired on a recording session by a producer who'd rented Ike Turner's dingy recording studio. Fortunately, he wasn't there. The walls and ceilings in the control room were pockmarked all over with bullet holes inflicted, I was told, during frequent drunken rages. I remember thinking at that concert how she was Ike & Tina Turner, and what a loser of a POS he was without her.

Abandoned by her sharecropper parents, beaten by her husband, yet rising to become one of the most respected and admired performers worldwide. Factoid: in 1988, she set a then-Guinness World Record for the largest paying audience (180,000) for a solo performer.