She said: "Mick wanted to dance - and I was a dancer i was the one who taught the Rolling Stones frontman his moves, despite his claims he was taught by his mother.
But he never gave me the credit! We worked with him in the dressing room, me and the girls, and we taught him how to Pony." I taught Mick to dance, but he never made a move on me! Jagger and David Bowie were 'like the brothers I never had'.
She opened up about her retirement, her old poker pals David Bowie and Mick Jagger, and of course, the point of the evening, the upcoming musical on her life opening next year in London. As a follow-up to her first best-selling memoir, I, Tina, the book will go into more detail about the nearly fatal moments with Ike during their violently toxic relationship that ended in 1973
Tina reveals that the story will start all the way back in the cotton fields of Tennessee, being raised by her grandmother in her native Nutbush as well as her debuts in Missouri with the fearsome Ike Turner.
“It starts from Nutbush growing up, all the involvement with the cotton fields, church house, gin house, school house, out house, it really quite old now but it’s still there… It starts with that. It starts with the grandmother raising me and all of the early stages into moving into teenager and then into St. Louis.”
David and Mick? First of all Mick wanted to do the dance. David was just a gentleman, being there in some kind of way, trying to find out what he wanted to do with Tina. Because they were like brothers or close, close, close friends and then I ended up doing an album with David and a live show. We were dancing, Tonight.”
Tina concurs that the two of them together on stage was something special (“that was chemistry, that was!”) but, not surprisingly goes all coy about the boy, refusing to reveal what the Thin White One had whispered in her ear during the sax-dominated instrumental break:
“No, I’m not telling ya!” Cue lots of hysterical laughter, hoping Wossy changes the subject sharpish. Of course he doesn’t. Last time I saw David
“I think I saw him in Brussels and that was the actual last time that I went to his dressing room and said Hello and talked about the show and where he was going. “He was just in a shirt, trousers and a guitar and almost acapella and that was the actual last time I went to his dressing room and said hello and talked about the show.
I remember the last thing he said. ‘I love you Tina’ and I said ‘I love you David.’ and that was all.
The next thing I heard he was sick and then after that I saw Iman and asked her how he was and she said “He’s OK”, because they kept it undercover, and then the news came through –
And the 'What's Love Got To Do With It' hitmaker also opened up on her collaboration with the late icon David Bowie, and says their relationship was more about "singing", as he believed there was something he could learn from her voice.
"I had a different kind of collaboration with David and it was more to do with the singing. All those English guys felt I could sing. They felt there was something to learn from my singing. My vocals are natural. I hit the note naturally and they'd go: 'What?! How'd you do that?!'"
In 1985, Tina Turner and Mel Gibson starred together in the film, Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome which became a massive hit at the box office. Tina was at the height of her fame at the time, and of course, she played a queen while on the set.
In an interview Mel revealed exciting details regarding his relationship with Tina Turner. According to Mel, at that time in his life, his career was about to hit rock bottom because of his rapacious lifestyle.
However, Tina stepped in to help the Braveheart alumni. Gibson told the reporters from the publication that he used to be “a wild boy” and would get “loaded” all the time.
Tina was aware of Mel’s behavior, and one day she sent him a photograph of himself and told him, “Please don’t mess this up.”
I never used sex to sell music when I performed on stage.
‘All I ever wanted to do was give people a good time,’ the rock-n-roll legend tells me. ‘I never did sexual moves, and I never did sexual gestures.’
‘I played with se But I never actually did it, so they thought I was really trying to come on to someone.'
‘When I stood there, sweat dripping from me, all the make-up on, and the hair, and everybody looking up at me, smiling. That was what I always left the stage with,’ Turner says, adding she always knew when enough was enough. ‘Give them too much and you’ll get them on stage with you.’
Tina, now 77, draws a sharp contrast between her act, at the height of her solo fame in the Eighties, and the female superstars of today: women like Beyonce, Rihanna and Jennifer Lopez.
She blames competiveness — and weak management — for the sexual provocativeness that pervades the world of female music stars now.
‘There’s not a lot of people in their ear, trying to talk about manners on stage,’ she says. ‘I think they started out doing what they wanted to do; and you weren’t able to correct them. So I think that’s why they’re taking off more clothes.
" I never slept" with with either Jagger or Bowie, adding that neither of them ever "came on" to her.
She said: "[They were] like the brothers that I never had. We never slept together; and they never came on to me, because I think they saw me as a role model in some kind of way."
