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Tina Turner Revue

Ken Williams

High energy levels steaming up the Auckland Town Hall. Rocking with Tina Turner, last of the tent show queens, spangles, flashing things and glistening body sweat.

The split with husband and mentor Ike hasn’t brought significant changes to the Tina Turner Show. There’s some seventies instant nostalgia the dinner-jacketed band, the lounge-y non-funk singer-dancers and an attempt to establish a broader base (her three-piece pimp suit, complete with flop-brim hat, evoking Diana Ross evoking Dietrich). But mostly it’s the Tina of old, that unique paintblistering voice, the unbelievable nakeder-than-thou costumes, the heavy innuendo in both movement and manner. Above all, that keening, shattering voice and the tireless body. Her show is turbo-charged. That's

its stength and its weakness. From the outset she builds to incredible climaxes, but having driven each song into the ground her only recourse seems to be to tackle the next one in the same stomp-it-to-the-bricks manner.

The exception is a high spot of the show, a languid “Funny How Time Slips Away”. Otherwise, she cools the audience by relinquishing the stage to the band and the dancys, and the energy levels drop appreciably.

Her show lasts an hour and five costume changes a rush of R& B classics, “I Want to Take You Higher”, “River Deep Mountain High”, “Honky Tonk Women” and the crusher, “Nutbush City Limits” but it seems abbreviated abruptly. A quick reprise of “Nutbush” and over. Ecstatic cries for more. Maybe one more? Maybe next time.

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Rip It Up, Issue 5, 1 October 1977, Page 8

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Tina Turner Revue Rip It Up, Issue 5, 1 October 1977, Page 8

Tina Turner Revue Rip It Up, Issue 5, 1 October 1977, Page 8

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