Ike Turner

Tina Turner may become a Swiss citizen, give back U.S. passport

2013-01-25 12:50:00

Tina Turner wants to become a Swiss citizen, and love has everything to do with it. If you've been wondering what the iconic diva has been up to lately, she's been living in�Kuesnacht, a Zurich suburb, since 1995. A Swiss paper wrote Friday that the...

André 3000's Jimi Hendrix biopic underway without estate support

2012-05-11 16:36:28

'The X Factor' recap: Who will survive boot camp?

2011-10-06 16:35:40

In Rotation: The Mike Eldred Trio's '61 and 49'

2011-07-31 16:36:10

Pinetop Perkins dies at 97; Mississippi Delta blues piano player

2011-03-22 00:00:00

Pinetop Perkins, a regal piano player who was one of the last of the original Mississippi Delta blues musicians, died Monday of cardiac arrest at his home in Austin, Texas. He was 97. "He was absolutely the premier blues piano player," said Bruce...

Kenneth Kahn dies at 66; L.A. defense attorney moonlighted as a comedian

2009-05-31 00:00:00

Kenneth Kahn, a Los Angeles criminal defense attorney who had a side career as a briefcase-toting comic in a double-breasted suit who irreverently poked fun at the legal system, has died. He was 66. Kahn, a Santa Monica resident, died Wednesday in a...

Gold Derby nuggets: Pete Hammond: Best actress 'down to the wire' | Oscars leading men

2010-03-02 16:33:11

A sound check along the Memphis-to-Nashville 'Music Highway'

2007-07-22 00:00:00

Memphis, Tenn. Knowing how obsessed Elvis fans can be, I wasn't surprised when my wife and I drove up to the Heartbreak Hotel and found, true to the song's lyrics, that it was actually "down at the end of Lonely Street" and that the desk clerk was...

The soul of Ike & Tina Turner

2008-01-01 00:00:00

The pop world has focused for so long on the remarkably sensual energy and excitement of Ike & Tina Turner's old live show that it is often easy to forget the duo also made some dynamic records. But even if you have wanted to go back and check up on the...

Requiem: 2007 passings of note

2007-12-29 00:00:00

Among the major notables who passed from the scene this year, three of the most famous -- two masters of cinema and a genius of football -- died on the same day: July 30. Two others -- a historic Russian leader and a U.S. chronicler of war -- left us...

Ike Turner died of cocaine overdose, coroner says

2008-01-17 00:00:00

Music legend Ike Turner died of a cocaine overdose, the San Diego medical examiner's office concluded today. Turner, the musician who gave the world what many historians consider the first rock 'n' roll record -- "Rocket 88" in 1951 -- died in December...

Last laughs

2007-12-30 00:00:00

Faced with a choice between an eleventh-hour shot at a Pulitzer Prize-winning stroke o' genius and a little holiday-season R & R, most editorial cartoonists took last week off. This probably meant that Benazir Bhutto received fewer graphic obit tributes...

Tina and Ike Turner at home, Los Angeles, 1974. Pictured in "Steve Schapiro: Then and Now."

2013-01-15 00:00:00

With a steady stream of film and television projects to his credit -- perhaps most notably his roles as Ike Turner in "What's Love Got to Do With It" (which reunited him with "Boyz" costar Angela Bassett ) and as Morpheus in the "Matrix" films -- Fishburne recently concluded a stint on CBS' " CSI:

2011-07-25 19:42:04

The Mississippi Delta blues piano player was born on a cotton plantation and taught himself guitar, but his arm was hurt in a stabbing, ending his dreams of becoming a guitar man. He collaborated with Muddy Waters, B.B. King and Earl Hooker and inspired Ike Turner.

2011-04-14 09:46:49