![]() In a Phoenix concert Wednesday, Lizzo performed Ike and Tina Turner's fiery rendition of "Proud Mary," complete with Turner-esque dance moves. Tina Turner: Queen of rock 'n' roll dies after long illnessĬelebrity tributes to Turner have been pouring in over the last few days. Today we say goodbye to a dear friend who leaves us all her greatest work: her music," read a statement.ĭespite her pop cultural stature, Turner had led a reclusive life in recent years while she battled ill health, including a stroke in 2013, intestinal cancer in 2016 and a kidney transplant in 2017. "It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Tina Turner. Turner died at the age of 83 at her home in Switzerland after a long illness, according to a statement on her official social media accounts. ![]() Performing is all to do with interpreting the song and the beat which is propelling you.Tina Turner was “simply the best,” and the entertainment world is sharing its appreciation of the rock icon. Obviously other instruments come into it. If he’s not doing what my feet are, it doesn’t work. I have to be together with Charlie Watts, and he is aware of that. ![]() In its most expressive you see it in African dancing, Indian dance. Drums and dancing, the interpretation of the rhythm, has to be the earliest and most primeval expression of the human spirit – you the dancer and the drummer. The sound of the drums and stamping of your feet is hundreds of thousands of years old. Dancing is in it, but the big thing is dancing and drums are the total connection, and it’s very ancient and primitive, in the best sense of the word. The guy who was most influential to me in many ways was Little Richard, but it was moving more than dancing, gesticulation and interpretation. It wasn’t just the moves he made – it was the energy he put into it that was amazing. “Then we travelled to the USA and caught James Brown at the Apollo Theatre in New York, and that was a huge influence. The Rolling Stones' Kid-Approved Fisher-Price Collab Just Got Restocked Online It was seen as far too vulgar, but undoubtedly more fun, and then you could do it to the likes of Little Richard.” “They banned it, although it had been around since the war. “The Jive wasn’t allowed in most ballrooms,” Mick recalls. Suddenly the whole pre-war culture was ripped apart by what came next – the Jive and the Twist and all the following dance crazes. The square dancing at the youth club was more fun.” You would ask the girls from the local grammar school for the next dance, and that was hard enough as they sat there, and they might say, ‘I am already booked for it, I am afraid,’ whereupon you would blush heavily and move on. Mick recalls the school dance, however, with some horror. It was the one chance you had to meet and hold a girl. Back then, being able to do the quick-quick-slow was a necessity for a chap unless you wanted to end up a wallflower. I might add that our mother was a keen dancer, and Dad not too slack, either. I think I also heard the polka and foxtrot and the quickstep – all the dances Mum and Dad would do when they went out to the local gatherings.” Then on Thursday night I would go on my bike to the youth club in Crayford, where they had square-dancing Scottish reels and a caller, you know, take-your-partner thing, and that was more fun. Even if you could see the heads of the band on that tiny stage, the main action was out on the floor, and the job of the Rolling Stones was to provide the music for the dancers. The leading mods would have their own fan clubs and show off the various new moves every Sunday night, when the band would perform there. I remember the scene years back down at the so-called Crawdaddy Club in Richmond. ![]() Maybe it’s not Fred Astaire, but it’s surely encouragement for us all to dance and move as that’s a great freedom for our bodies, trapped as they are within our own inhibitions and inability to move to the rhythm.Īs the Stones started out way back as an outfit to dance to, I thought it might be appropriate, given the recent interest in TV dance shows, to look at Mick’s connection with the art of hoofing and what makes him move. What to my eye separated the Rolling Stones from the other bands of their day in London, for instance the Yardbirds or even the Beatles, was their onstage moves, due in no small part to Mick’s gyrations which have to date achieved legendary status as moves in their own right. ![]()
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