 Popsugar Reading Challenge category: A memoir by a woman in rock & roll.
I, Tina: My Life Story, by Tina Turner with Kurt Loder. This book follows the Queen of Rock & Roll from Nutbush, Tennessee (where she was born Anna Mae Bullock), through her early years of performing on the road with Ike Turner, and her eventual rise to stardom and emerging from his shadow. The book came out in 1986, so it's not her full life story, but there's plenty about the music, the family, and oh yes, the violence. No matter how low your opinion of Ike Turner, it will be worse after reading this. I'm kind of amazed he agreed to be interviewed for it. Constant abuse of Tina, and also of the women he cheated with, and the kids. He couldn't keep musicians long because of his outbursts of rage. Interestingly, one of the things Tina credits with helping her endure this was her frequent visits to psychics and card readers, who promised a brighter future ahead. The book quotes extensively from interviews with the people in her life: family members, colleagues, even the other women in Ike's life, some of whom became friends. The portrait that emerges is an unstoppable survivor, a woman whose powerful voice transcends the music.
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