Product Description

Tina Turner's is the most fascinating true story in show business. From Nut Bush, Tennessee, to Hollywood stardom...from Ike's Kings of Rhythm to onstage with Mick Jagger and the Stones...from the lowest lows to the highest highs, Tina has seen, done, suffered and survived it all. And in her spectacular bestseller I, TINA, she tells it like it really is...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10385 in Books
• Published on: 1987-08-03
• Released on: 1987-08-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 272 pages

Review
"And what a tale she has to tell!" -- --Liz Smith, New York Daily News

"Splendid...this is rock history with substance!" -- --Susan Brownmiller, Newsday

About the Author
Marion Morra is the Associate Director of the Yale Cancer Center in New Haven, Connecticut. She is Associate Research Scientist at the Yale School of Medicine and Associate Clinical Professor at the Yale School of Nursing. Marion is widely published, having written articles and authored books for both health professionals and the public, with emphasis on health, especially in the field of cancer. She serves on major national committees for the National Cancer Institute and the American Cancer Society.Eve Potts has been writing on medical subjects for more than 30 years. Her expertise is in making difficult medical information easy to understand. She has served as a medical writer and consultant to the Department of Health and Human Services and many medically oriented companies and institutions. Her interest in history is represented by another book, Westport A Special Place, 1987The two authors who are sisters, have collaborated on five other books: three editions of the best-selling book for cancer patients Choices (Avon Books, 1980, 1987, and 1994), Triumph: Getting Back to Normal When You Have Cancer (Avon Books, 1990), and Understanding Your Immune System (1986). In 1993, the authors received the Natalie Davis Springarn Writer's Award from the National Coalition for Cancer Survivors for "their valuable contributions to the literature of survivorship and for their books, Choices and Triumph." They also were awarded the 1995 National Health Information Silver Award, which honors the nation's best consumer health information programs and materials, for Choices.

Customer Reviews

Wow, never knew
I must say this book is a good read. I knew a lot from the movie but as with books, it is more detailed. Kudos to her for being able to fight past it.

What A Story
This book is great. I have long been a Tina Turner fan and saw the movie but the story in the book makes the movie look like a fairytale. Not only does this woman have an iron clad voice, she is inspirational in her resolve. God Bless you, Tina!

You've Got to Be True to Yourself!
I first remember hearing Tina Turner when I was four years old. Naturally, this first taste was "What's Love Got to Do with It?" (The single was on its way to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.) It was apparently two years later when Tina's biography, I, Tina was assembled with the help of Rolling Stone editor Kurt Loder. While I always appreciated Tina's music at any given part of my young life (after age four), I never knew that it was chronicled in literary form, until the motion picture, What's Love Got to Do with It?, had made it to video. Watching it was a big wake-up call for me, especially in the realization that Tina Turner's birth name is Anna Mae Bullock. (Also, I'd only just realized that Tina's part black.)

As I watched the film, I was easily bowled over by the graphically violent existence Tina had during her marriage to (now diseased) Ike Turner. After absorbing this gruesome information, I was then informed that this realistic account was based on Tina's own published life story, I Tina. Not long after hearing about the book, I searched for it in the Washingtonville Middle School library. This was around April of 1995 (when I'd just started learning to play the guitar). After I'd been reading it for less than a week, I started wondering why this book with its graphic language and violent depictions was available to children ages eleven to (my age at the time) fifteen. But, I still found it a real pleasure to read. I took the book out of the library several times after moving up to high school, even though it meant returning to the old library.

Kurt Loder referred to Tina's return to super stardom as a "parable." I took this straight to heart at age 25, when I was facing big changes in my young adult life. I was exploring other corners of the world, reeling from my parents' separation (and pending divorce), missing the presence of other musicians in my life and contemplating relocation from Upstate NY to Indianapolis, IN. It took huge influence from Tina's epilogue to put a cap on that contemplation: "If you are unhappy with anything - your mother, your father, your husband, your wife, your boss, your car - whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you'll find that when you're free, your true creativity, your true self comes out." She also said that she hoped there was a message for people in the book. I've got to say, the message couldn't be any clearer if you carved it into a granite wall with a chisel.

You've got to be true to yourself.

I moved to Indy in October 2006. Nobody's life is perfect, but her words have remained in my head, like the voice of a Prophet, ever since the moment came to make the move.

[One thing which I elected to ask Miss Turner about in a piece of fanmail I composed to her in 2006 is the section of the book where she talks about having just about never found a real love, up to that point (1986) I doubt that she got my letter, but I wanted to know if that feeling of unrequited love has changed in the years since.]