IT SHOULDN’T have been such a shock: she was 83 years old and everyone has to go at some stage. But when that person is Tina Turner, you might be lulled into thinking she’d go on forever.
She was such a life force – big smile, big hair, big voice, big personality, big energy – that it was almost as if ordinary rules shouldn’t apply to her.
Yet of course they do. And the truth is Tina was a lot more vulnerable than her formidable presence suggested. The woman who overcame misogyny and abuse and became one of the most successful singers of all time was also plagued by ill health.
As the tributes poured
