“I was just tired of singing and making everybody happy,” she recalled to The New York Times. She formally retired in 2009, after her “Tina! 50th Anniversary” tour. But amidst her successes, she also survived terrible abuse from her former husband and musical partner, Ike Turner. She has sold nearly 200 million records and more tickets than any other solo performer in history. Turner, born Anna Mae Bullock in Tennessee, has lived quite the life at 81. “And I think this documentary and the play, this is it. “She said, I’m going to America and say goodbye to my American fans and I’ll wrap it up,” he says in the documentary, recalling Turner’s plans ahead of the musical debut. The doc and her 2018 Broadway musical, which tell her life story in their own ways, mark her bittersweet farewell to her fans, her husband Erwin Bach says. After eight Grammys, a number one hit, and an inimitable decades-long career, the music icon takes her curtain call with this two-hour, intimate portrait of her life, premiering tomorrow on HBO. The answer to her question seems to be the very film in which she asks it. “How do you bow out slowly, just go away?” Tina Turner asks, fighting tears, at the end of the documentary, TINA.
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