She overcame an abusive marriage and later almost died of kidney failure. Despite these obstacles, Tina Turner became the Queen of Rock 'n' Roll.
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00:00Today I say, I don't know when I'm stopping, just look for me when I'm there and miss me
00:15when I'm gone.
00:35Hi, this is Tina Turner.
01:16Sometimes it was, but I don't remember what it was, but I remember there were days that
01:20was lighter and nicer, but mostly he was just really always angry with me. Oh, he treated me
01:30like I was a prisoner and he was the guard.
01:45And I just thought, totally helpless. And when I was really, really, really fed up,
01:59that's when I just took a chance and said, come with me and left. I was just really tired of my
02:05life and the situation I was in with Ike.
02:07So if you have been tempted to mime.
02:33Well, I like to sing. That's first of all. I'm always changing the tempos, etc. And it's
02:41just something that couldn't happen. And I think, well, you can listen to me on record,
02:47but when you come to see me, it's a live performance. It's supposed to be live.
02:51And my attitude is that I don't think I want to play with it.
03:03I wanted to still be able to stand there and not actually take away from the credibility
03:10that I have for performing. I want them to always remember that I stood and gave a performance and
03:15not come out on a stick halfway trying to sing Proud Mary. So that was the decision.
03:22My attitude about being there is I had lived there the first 50 years of my life, and now I'm
03:38moving to another country. Part of that was because of my relationship with Irvin.
03:46Part of that was I was always treated a little bit different in those other countries than in
03:51America. Because in America, a black singer, R&B singer, is always a black singer, R&B singer.
04:07I have no idea what pulled him down except something that followed him
04:13with loneliness. And the last few times we talked, the conversation was different.
04:22I did feel like I was older. I was already in my 70s.
04:36So why should I take the kidneys from a young man and let him finish his life? That's what I felt
04:42like. And he said, no, no, no, my life is fine how it is. I'll give you one of my kidneys.
05:01And I was sitting there watching them do a show that it took me years to learn and do.
05:12And here it took them a matter of months to master and to do. I felt really proud as well.
05:21I'm happier than I ever thought that life would become for me. So that means that most of my
05:44hardships came while I was young and growing up. And in the last days, when normally people suffer
05:49from old age and sicknesses, my happiness came. I am, I'm really thoroughly happy.