Tina Turner News Archives

There's a widely held belief that blues music was born in the Mississippi Delta, traveled up river to places like Memphis and then north to Chicago.

Mobile native Fred Wesley Jr. worked with Ike and Tina Turner, James Brown, and leading funk musicians of the 70s such as Bootsy Collins.

Let's be real: if you actually make it to the Safety Dance, you're probably going to be so drunk that you won't remember the awesome 80s aspect of it.

During much of 2008 and early 2009, smooth jazz saxophonist Euge Groove joined Tina Turner on her 50th anniversary worldwide Tina: Live in Concert Tour in one of the top-grossing tours in recent years, according to Billboard magazine.

Jones hit 40 last month she claimed her days as a sex siren were officially over.

Cheryl Cole has warned Olly Murs he will lose his place in the show unless he starts to fulfil his potential.

The annual Brooklyn festival is striking out across the nation Punk: The dissonance often attributed to radical White people.

Lee Phillippo is backing Olly Murs to win OLLY Murs may be downplaying his own brilliance but his best friend is backing him to go all the way as 'Ollymania' sweeps the nation.

I used to listen to the album of The Who's 'Tommy' as an angst-filled teen hiding in my peach-colored bedroom in a small, stifling Pennyslvania town.

Rachel Adedeji fell to the floor in shock when pop diva Whitney Houston turned up to give her and Lucie Jones a surprise masterclass on Friday.

THE X Factor dream of Witham's Olly Murs remains very much alive and kicking after he secured enough public votes to return to next Saturday's show.

English playwright Joe Orton's irreverent comedy Loot kicked open the door for others to overtly send up the police, religion, death and postwar middle-class manners, says veteran Kiwi comic David McPhail.

The editors of Modern Tonic present a weekly music update here on Towleroad. The rest of the week, they scan the pop culture landscape for movie, TV, book and Web recommendations in their daily email.

1977 - Paul Simon released "Slip Slidin' Away." 1987 - The Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia opened a solo run on Broadway.

Tony Joe White, best known for his 1969 hit, "Polk Salad Annie" will be inducted in the Delta Music Museum Hall of Fame on April 3, 2010.

Spotlight Youth Theatre follows up its production of "Bye Bye Birdie" with the edgy rock musical The Who's "Tommy." Director Kenny Grossman said audiences shouldn't expect the show to be exactly like the movie or the original rock opera album.

Delta Music Museum officials announced Wednesday that swamp rock musician Tony Joe White will be the 2010 inductee into the museum at the Delta Music Festival.

Before the E Street Band, there was Steel Mill. Drummer Vini "Mad Dog" Lopez, a fellow Jersey native, joined with Bruce Springsteen and several others in that band from 1969 to 1971.

If Memphis only had Elvis Presley and Willie Mitchell, we'd have plenty to be proud of.