Turner was not mistaken in his calculations - little Ann fell for his bait. And who could resist his charm and power? Now Anna was completely in his power. However, Anna Bullock already ceased to exist. To light a singer by the name of Tina Turner.
Name is clear, and the strange name came up to her IKE. He loved stories about strong, brave Amazons. Most likely, he wanted to make Anna. Here and gave her the name of Tina, it is nicknamed "the Bus - Queen of the jungle".
In a small shop on the outskirts of Zurich came a woman, nothing like the local resident - low growth, with a magnificent mane of brown hair, black glasses covering half of his face, and with a surprisingly dark, almost black skin. "Unearthly" visitor smiled, English greeted the owner of the store and made the order. Paid, the woman said goodbye and left. "Good morning, Frau Bach" she heard behind. The woman winced. "Frau Bach"? "she thought. If he has no clue who I really am? "
Of course, the seller knew that his constant customer - star rock ' n ' roll, the legendary Tina Turner, but, as a polite person and a true Swiss (and they are restrained in the expression of feelings), he did not want to violate the privacy of ladies. Meanwhile, the woman sat in a luxurious black Mercedes - a gift from her husband to the decade of their life together and left.
For several years now Tina lives in Switzerland, and before her, there was still no one cares. It sometimes seems that this country is far from civilization and progress. No, it is comfortable and cozy, but the locals have no reverence and delight in relation to famous persons. Maybe because they are here anyway - many "stars" prefer to live and entertain in this fabulous country. But, most of all, the fact that the Swiss are very carefully related to the private life of any person from the millionaire to the clochard - and do not tolerate encroachment on personal freedom.
Tina liked such things - let her know how Frau Bach, the wife of a prosperous businessman and the owner of a respectable mansion by the lake. Especially because she is not a star, but just a woman. She has no need to prove anything, all that it was possible, it has long been proved. She just wants to live a quiet, peaceful life, to enjoy the long-awaited happiness and meditate...
To meditate failed. First, Tina was driving, and even though the highway is smooth, the road must be monitored. Secondly, gasoline at zero.
Barely reached the nearest petrol, she opened the window and instructed the mechanics. While the young man was refueling the car, Tina turned on the radio. Sounded cutting hearing music - hated rap. She groped for another wave - that's what we need. Sang her favorite Bono. She smiled... the Guy at this time protirusky the windscreen of the car, smiled at her in response.
Tina remembered how Bono invited her to his home (she lived next door to him, in the South of France). They're cute communicated Tina, Bono and his awesome wife Alison. Next frolicked daughter of a musician. Was a pleasant and relaxing atmosphere. This meeting proved to be very useful. Tina once again left the stage. Naturally, the conversation turned to music. Bono showered with compliments guest, Tina, in turn musician. And then she take it and say, "Bono, if you like what I do, write me a song! "
The next day she already forgot about this conversation, but Bono is not a joke "wound up". After a month he brought to the song. "You know how I wrote it? - started from afar musician. - Cannot believe it! I ordered a song for the film "Goldeneye", the next series of bodinieri, and I remembered that our honeymoon with Alison we spent in Jamaica, at the Villa "father" James bond writer Ian Fleming. Guess what the title of this Villa? Right: "Goldeneye".
Bono was happy as a child: "somehow I imagined hot Jamaica, bond with a gun and a glass of cocktail and... you, Tina. It can do only you! "
But Tina just did not think so. What is this song "muddle instead of music"?! She absolutely did not fit in the classic film about the bond. And, finally, how it will look: everyone knows that Turner left the stage. "And suddenly you, Bono, bond with the song and I totally not my style," sharply replied Tina.
"Please be calm, " Bono was adamant. - All will be well. I want to make a song that could exist outside of the film".
The composer was right. The song became a hit, and the name of Turner once again soared on the charts. And began the old vanity, tours, concerts, taking pictures, interviews, fans, nomadic life...
How many times Tina said to myself, enough is enough, I'm tired, I want to belong only to myself, to live my life, I deserve it! And many times could not refuse this incomparable pleasure to go on stage under the scorching applause of the public, to bathe in the limelight and light emitted enabled cameras to feel an adoring glances fans...
Tina shuddered again played rap. It is with disgust, turned off the receiver. Looked in the side mirror - mechanics still tinkered with the machine. She went out, spread the word with the guys and at gunpoint of their prying eyes went to the nearest café. "I tell you: it - Tina Turner" she heard behind him. "What are you, Turner has long been the old woman". "Funny, thought Tina. - Apparently, I have not been preserved in its sixty-three years".
"Coffee, please" - these words were addressed to the waiter. The café was empty. On the small stage musicians - very young boys - tuned instruments. Next I was a girl of sixteen.
Tina glanced around the room. It is a cozy, quiet place wasn't noisy, flooded with questionable types "Manhattan" - nightclub provincial American town St. Louis.
The first 16-year-old Tina there have led older sister Ellen. Although, where is Tina? Tina was not. Was Anna. And if to be exact - Anna Mae Bullock.
She felt the most miserable of mortals. Parents after long quarrels, fights and violent scandals broke up. Mother left Tennessee in a more respectable St. Louis. For ten years Anna it was a real shock - she was crying day and night. And then there's one trouble: the father married a second time and also left in Detroit. Anna and Ellen took on the care of relatives. If anyone was concerned at that time about that little girl is Ellen. But how can even the most devoted sister to replace the child tenderness of the mother and the father's love?
But, strangely enough, she had held for parents of evil. She just learned to rely only on themselves and to hide their feelings deeply, so that, God forbid, someone guessed how she was bad. Pomykalski some time with relatives, Ellen went to his mother, and Anna lost the only close person. Then she decided: in Tennessee she has nothing else to do. She has collected things and has left behind her sister in St. Louis is a city of its future triumph and the biggest disappointment...
One day my sister decided to take her with him to a party in "Manhattan". That night in the club played super popular in St. Louis band the Kings of Rhythm ("Kings of rhythm"). The soloist was not much attractive type. But he sang well. At least all the girls in the club with tenderness looked at him. "This is IKE Turner," he whispered Ellen's younger sister. But Anna caught it, and saxophonist.
After the performance, the musicians came to Ellen. Struck up a conversation. Anna was quiet, only cast shy glances at the saxophonist. IKE invited Ellen to perform with them. The girl was suddenly opened and said, "Let Anna will sing. She has a good voice." All laughed. Especially laughed saxophonist. Anna touched his reaction. She stood up, approached the microphone and began to sing...
"Your coffee, Frau, - politely said the waiter. - Anything else? "No, thank you, absently replied the lady. And immediately asked: " how Soon will you be playing your musicians? " "Oh, no. They play loud music, so speak here at night, when going to a specific audience. However, sometimes they come at this time... " "Sorry," replied the visitor. But well-mannered waiter failed to clarify exactly what "sorry" this rich lady and what she's doing there.
... Now Anna every night appeared in "Manhattan". She immediately felt an incredible surge of strength, as if her life has a purpose. Stepping on an improvised club scene, Anna turned from the plain and fairly ordinary person into a "star", though the scale of this provincial institution. And the moment she started to sing, as the public had forgotten about everything and listened to her.
From past sorrows Anna is not gone. Is it possible to mourn, when so many people give you compliments, and even recognised in love...
First confessed saxophonist. He was the first. From him a year later Anne gave birth to a son Raymond. She was happy - the worst is behind us. And ahead...
"Little Anne, " so loved to call it, IKE Turner, - you have a bright future. What to do in St. Louis? Throw his saxophonist and went to California. You will become a "star", the whole world will lie at your feet. And I'll be your pioneer. Agree! " To himself, he added: "For me you are the goose that lays the Golden eggs".
Turner was not mistaken in his calculations - little Ann fell for his bait. And who could resist his charm and power? Now Anna was completely in his power. However, Anna Bullock already ceased to exist. To light a singer by the name of Tina Turner.
Name is clear, and the strange name came up to her IKE. He loved stories about strong, brave Amazons. Most likely, he wanted to make Anna. Here and gave her the name of Tina, it is nicknamed "the Bus - Queen of the jungle".
Tina Turner really was a very profitable enterprise. Money rained down on IKE, as from a cornucopia. But Tina was also a diligent student - Turner dictated to her repertoire, chose musicians for their new group, "review", agreed about the tour only in those cities where promised a large fee. Everything else, from Tina turned out to be docile wife. They had a son Ricky, and she took to raising two sons IKE from his first marriage. Tina, despite the dictates of her husband, worked selflessly, and her work was rewarded by the love of the public. And not only.
One of the most popular group "the rolling stones" invited her to a joint tour. This was a real success! But it was marred by a little, then seemed to Tina. Keith Richards is one of the stones has led her to a fortune. Tina was sceptical (she's guess, because everything is so wonderful) and went to veroica with a light heart. "You'll be rich and famous. And the person who is with you now, will fall like a leaf from a tree," he heard Tina. Strange, but it was then that she realized that in her life, something not so...
The door to the café noise was opened, and in came a couple - a man and a woman. They sat down at the bar counter and began sorting out the relationship, not paying attention to only the visitor café. Tina eagerly watched scandalous couple. They are about something argued. Then the woman stood up abruptly, throwing phrase his counterpart, and went out, slamming the door behind me. The man ordered a Scotch and began quietly to drink...
This scene somehow reminded Tina of her last "conversation" with IKE. She often already after breaking up with her husband, asked themselves the question: what kept her close with this person?
Countless times he in the eyes of the astonished audience insulted her last words. He could throw her in the face with hot coffee or whiskey with ice. Could a cigarette put out on her face. Bruises and abrasions on her body was not living space. Once, in a moment of despair, Tina decided to commit suicide. Alive she remained quite by accident... What did "love you," her husband? IKE kept saying she, Tina, was held as a singer only. Without him her career will come to an end. Husband criticized her vocal abilities, never cheered only made sarcastic remarks, while Tina out climbed to earn praise. At some point she realized that she can no longer live without the insults and reproaches of her husband-producer. It was like a drug that stimulates Tina to work.
Okay - work. But what power had forced her to live under the same roof with her husband is a tyrant? This has also been the explanation. Before the eyes of Tina always, when she wanted to fight the antics IKE, there was the image of her parents. Endless scandals that accompanied all her childhood, and after her parents ' divorce - longing and loneliness. To forget this is not possible. Tina did not want such a fate for their children. Therefore tolerated. She was sure that in family battles one of the spouses must give. But at some point to live in a state of war was for Tina unbearable. She decided to leave the field of battle...
Tina and now all the details remembers that day - July 2, 1976. They IKE and the band went to the concert in Dallas. On the way to the airport, IKE offered his wife a chocolate bar. She refused. Then the husband habitually hit it. But Tina behaved non - traditional-for the first time in sixteen years of marriage, she gave the date. The fight started and it is unknown who was resolutely configured - IKE or Tina. They continued to battle it out on the plane and arriving in Dallas on the way to the hotel. Tina said to her husband all that had been accumulated over many years of humiliation and suffering. "You never told me this! "oral amazed unprecedented head wife Hayk. In the hotel room, he, exhausted, collapsed on the bed and fell asleep. Tina was shaking with excitement and. triumphed for the first time won the moral superiority of the. She quickly brought herself up, threw on her cloak and went out of the room. In the pocket Tina felt a trifle - 36 cents. "Well, to begin a new life," she thought.
"More coffee? "he heard Tina's voice waiter. "Yes, perhaps, ' she said remotely. "What o'clock? " "Three-thirty," replied the waiter and left. "An hour passed and I had not even noticed, thought Tina. But she didn't want to leave. Especially since "abandoned" the man at the bar returned his companion. "And I didn't even notice, thought Tina. Now they peacefully talked. The woman smiled, and the man, sepnov her something in his ear, got up and went to the musicians who continued to conjure on their instruments. He talked with them, those nodded in response, and the man with a satisfied went back to the bar. After a few minutes the music started.
At professional hearing Tina a few "crushed" artisanal sound homebrew orchestra. But the music did not destroy peace of mind, but rather relaxed.
"You will not hurt? "asked timely with the coffee the waiter. "Oh, no, " said Tina.
She remembered where have heard this popular tune. However, when it was performed by professional musicians before her triumphant performance at the Ritz in new York. It was the summer of 1981 - the year of its "resurrection" as singer after breaking with IKE.
In the audience were her best friends - Rod Stewart, Keith Richard, David Bowie. That night she sang like never before and after this performance. It showered with compliments, she sang the praises... And who? Megastar show business. But the most important at the moment for it was not the recognition of colleagues, and the realization that she had gotten the victory over herself and permanently cured of the disease called "IKE Turner". Then we were behind years of litigation with a former husband and producer. Tina shudder, but with dignity and recalled how the first two months after escaping she was hiding from IKE, and he searched for her in all the motels. And when found, sent all her four children.
But Tina didn't give up. Then former hubby decided to crush her "money". Through his lawyers, he said that his ex-wife owed him 500 thousand dollars for the cancelled tour and disrupted concerts. But that Hayk was not enough. He demanded to give everything they had worked exclusively talent and labor Tina, up to jewelry. To his extreme surprise, Tina without hesitation agreed to these conditions. "You take away everything I worked for sixteen years, and I take back their own future," were her last words, addressed to Hayk Turner. At that moment he realized that he had lost her forever...
Tina had to start from scratch. But she felt like never easy and free and updated, plunged into the work. But why "updated"? Actually Tina was the same, which it was before I met IKE. No one did not force her opinions and was not required to do what she doesn't like. She didn't have to hide my feelings and pretend. She cried when she was sad and something didn't work, and was glad at heart, when she wanted. She was free. But only free in all respects a person is capable of genuine creativity, unrestrained flight of the soul...
Tina flew so high that sometimes her breath caught. 1985. She has received three Grammy nominations - the highest award in the world music: "Best pop singer", "Best rock singer" and "Best album" ("What's love got to do with it"). In all the leading tabloids Turner called "the most beloved star of the ' 80s. "I learned to be happy and independent in life it is quite rare. Made me happy for my success. I don't really believe that I can make happy any man," said Tina in one of his numerous interviews.
"Erwin, reading these lines, terribly offended. However, sulked not for long," she thought.
"Erwin! suddenly she remembered Tina. "I promised to call him! He is nervous, and I turned off my cell phone. She hurriedly took out his phone and dialed a number. "Ann! she heard in the receiver. Erwin sometimes called her this baby name. - Where you been all this time? I called on a cell, and home - you did not answer. I was worried... "
"Don't worry, dear, " as gentle as possible said Tina. - I'm all right. Soon I'll be home." "Are you really all right? " - not appeased Erwin. It was so not like him, always calm and balanced German. "Yes. All okay. I'll see you tonight".
The voice of the beloved she realized that Ervin in fact experiencing. Surprisingly, they almost fifteen years together, and still each meeting as the first.
Although her first meeting with Erwin Bach, managing a recording Studio EM in Germany, was so commonplace that you can't remember something is nothing. The only thing that Tina remembered when she presented Bach, she wanted to make a joke: not in a relationship whether it is with his brilliant namesake? But seeing how excited Ervin looks at her, she changed her mind. If at that moment someone said Tina, 48-year-old Grand Dame of rock and roll, this 30-year-old handsome guy will change her life, she would, at least, was surprised.
By the time Tina finally came to the conclusion that love is a feeling that she no longer have to worry. It seemed IKE a hot iron forever burned from her soul the ability and desire to love. Of course, she had a short-lived Hobbies, fleeting romances, which she tried not to pay attention. All the emotions and experiences Tina was doing in the works. "Only on the stage I can love and be loved", she decided.
We must pay tribute to Erwin - he was sympathetic to her feelings. His delicate courtship, romantic dinners in restaurants, night walks in the city lulled Tina, and she didn't notice as love, no (tried to dissuade themselves Tina), rather fond of them, Erwin.
She could not grasp what Erwin need from her? Money? He was quite a rich man. Her glory? He, on the contrary, tried to be discreet about their relationship, taking it to Europe on the weekends, away from the crazy American hustle. "What can we link? a lot of times asked yourself this question, Tina. The answer suggested itself. Once Erwin said to her, "Tina, throw all the scene, America, glory, and come to me in Cologne. I miss you. We're good together, right? And we should be together always."
Tina remembers that at that moment had nothing to say on the eyes filled with tears, and tightness gripped her throat. She only nodded in response. It was the happiest moment in her life, next to which all its achievements Merck and seemed worldly...
Persistently, the phone rang. "Tina, where are you? she heard a voice on the phone Erwin. He's already not a little excited. - Did something happen? Called again Ricky? " "No, I'm fine. Don't worry, soon I'll be home".
Strange, Tina knew that to stay in the cafe is indecent, especially, have already started to gather visitors. But, on the other hand, she didn't want to part with their memories.
Yes, Ricky. He looks like his father! The same daring and reckless. From childhood she had tried to protect him and Raymond from the burdens of life that she had at one time suffered the most. Ricky is very hard moved their divorce from IKE, sometimes accused the mother of all misery, which then fell on the father.
IKE represent Tina everything I wanted, wrote two disks, but they had no success. Then he burned his Studio. During the time of their marriage, IKE was addicted to drugs. And after many years they became his only consolation. No wonder that with his quarrelsome character Hayk was a direct route to prison, where he spent a significant part of the remaining life.
Ricky all wanted to be like his father. Decided whatever it was to make a career musician. Here God is the only talent he has not given... Angry at his fate and his mother, Ricky forty years has turned into a complete loser. Tina tried to support him morally and financially. Ricky decided in my own way to secure a comfortable existence: the car will be taken away, then come into the store with a fake credit card... But, it can be seen in the fraud, he was not lucky. Police routinely caught Ricky on the hot. Raymond, unlike younger brother, decided to go into business. But the special achievements in this field is not earned. His only creditor is still the mother. Each time, taking her tidy sum "of a loan," he says, "his finest hour is yet to come". "I want to believe", tiredly replies Tina.
"I guess I'm to blame, that the sons did not fate", is often tormented herself with doubts.
After her divorce from IKE she tried to survive in the cruel world of show business. Then there were the glory and recognition of children was again in the background.
However, the fate to Tina, too, was not always gentle. She had brick by brick to build your own happiness. Just as it had made its home in Zurich, Switzerland, on the shores of fairy lake. The house where happiness dwells...
Tina has always wanted to live here in Switzerland. And here and Erwin moved to work in Zurich. She gladly took up the construction of a new dwelling. Tina knew that the house is a reflection of the inner world of his masters. Hence, the new-fangled designer stuff is not for her. The house was built a long time - six years. During this time the wife of the builders gave birth to a whole bunch of kids. But the owners were not in a hurry. Tina hired a stylist who has traveled all the antique shops of the world in search of suitable furniture and accessories. Every thing in the house had to breathe history, to be self-sufficient.
"Site" was a place even for a small Buddhist chapel, where Tina could meditate. Tina believes that meditation helps her to control his inner life.
Even when creating a family Tina was guided by the principle that helped her to succeed in work and life. She always had very high standards for herself, she yearned for something more, didn't stop there. All, no matter what she did, she did well, as far as possible. "All to reach perfection" is her credo.
Only now reaching all possible vertices, finding happiness and peace in life, what she has become? Perfection? A role model for millions of women? The legend of rock-n-roll or his mummy? No, it's all flashy - to the public and interviews.
Tina thought... If you look, her whole life is a desire to return to basics, to itself. Its main achievement in life is that, despite all the trials that befell her, she remained true to herself. Somewhere deep inside, she remained "little Ann" - a shy girl from a provincial St. Louis, piously believing in the goodness and justice, in this sense between a man and a woman and that his work you can achieve a lot and keep the good name and dignity.
It was already quite late. Unfinished Tina coffee warm. The waiter stopped paying attention to the strange visitor, lost in thought. Tina has paid off, said goodbye and left the café. Went to my car and then heard: "I'm sorry, Frau! " She turned around and saw the guy who masterminded her Mercedes. "I was not mistaken? You - Tina Turner? Doth not the autograph? " Tina with feigned astonishment looked at him and replied calmly: "You are mistaken, young man. My name is Anna Bullock. But my husband, Erwin Bach, familiar with Tina, how, Turner. If you want, I can ask that he take her autograph for you." And, not waiting for an answer, drove away in a black Mercedes on the highway leading to magically beautiful home on the lake...
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