The music world has taken to social media to pay tribute to Tina Turner, who has died on the age of 83. Her demise was introduced by her publicist, who mentioned, “Tina Turner, the ‘Queen of Rock’n Roll’ has died peacefully in the present day on the age of 83 after a protracted sickness in her residence in Kusnacht close to Zurich, Switzerland. Together with her, the world loses a music legend and a job mannequin.”
A second tribute was posted on Turner’s Fb web page. It learn: “Together with her music and her boundless ardour for all times, she enchanted thousands and thousands of followers all over the world and impressed the celebrities of tomorrow. At the moment we are saying goodbye to an expensive pal who leaves us all her best work: her music. All our heartfelt compassion goes out to her household. Tina, we are going to miss you dearly.”
Fellow musicians had been swift to pay tribute.
“I am so saddened by the passing of my great pal Tina Turner,” mentioned Mick Jagger. “She was really an enormously proficient performer and singer. She was inspiring, heat, humorous and beneficiant. She helped me a lot once I was younger and I’ll always remember her.”
“God bless you Tina,” added fellow Stone Ronnie Wooden. “The Queen Of Rock And Soul and an expensive pal to our household. Love and prayers to all of Tina’s household, associates and family members.”
“Unhappy to listen to of Tina Turner passing,” wrote Black Sabbath’s Geezer Butler. “I noticed her on her first main tour, supporting The Rolling Stones at Birmingham Odeon on 1966 and have become an instantaneous fan. RIP.”
“Now we have misplaced one of many world’s most enjoyable and electrical performers,” wrote Elton John in an Instagram submit. “A complete legend on document and on stage. She was untouchable. Condolences to Erwin and her household. The saddest information.”
“I used to be a benefactor of the vitality, creativity and skills of Tina Turner,” wrote Blondie’s Debbie Harry. “A girl who began in rural Nutbush, TN cotton fields and labored her solution to the very prime. Tina was a terrific inspiration to me once I was beginning out and stays so to this present day. Love you Tina. RIP.”
“The world simply misplaced one of many best performers of all time,” tweeted Bryan Adams, who duetted with Turner on It is Solely Love in 1985. “I will be perpetually grateful for the time we spent collectively on tour, within the studio and as associates. Thanks for being the inspiration to thousands and thousands of individuals all over the world for talking your fact and giving us the present of your unbelievable voice.”
Ringo Starr tweeted, “God bless Tina turner, peace and like to all her household Ringo, peace and love.”
Creedence Clearwater Revival’s John Fogerty wrote, “So deeply unhappy to listen to about Tina Turner’s passing. I liked her model of Proud Mary! It was completely different and unbelievable. I used to be additionally so blissful as a result of she selected my music and it was her breakthrough document.
Residing Color’s Vernon Reid mentioned it was, “Unattainable to overstate Tina Turner’s significance to rock’n’roll stagecraft, apart and aside from her unbelievable vocal primacy.”
“My darling Tina Turner. I’ve been loving you so lengthy,” Rubbish’s Shirley Manson wrote on Twitter. “A lot to thanks for. Love you eternally. Can’t consider this terrible information. Can’t consider you might be gone.”
Stevie Van Zant mentioned, “RIP Tina Turner. Considered one of our best rock’n’soul voices, performers, and tales. She lives perpetually within the Underground Storage.”
Billy Bragg wrote, “Tina Turner starred on my first TV look on The Tube, October 1983. When she carried out all the opposite artists – Eurythmics, PiL, Paul Younger and myself – got here onto the studio ground to look at her. She was unbelievable. That is what immortality appears like. RIP Tina.”
“I’m so unhappy to listen to that Tina Turner has left us,” wrote Jimmy Barnes, who recorded a duet model of (Merely) The Finest with Turner in 1993. “It was such an honour to work with somebody so proficient, robust and giving. It was actually a spotlight of my profession to have sung and shared the stage with such an exquisite human being. Thanks and R.I.P.”
Longtime Billy Idol guitarist Steve Stevens wrote, “There are music giants, there are legends after which there’s Tina Turner. Placed on our planet to do precisely what she completed… every little thing.”
Away from the music world, NASA tweeted “Merely the most effective. Music legend Tina Turner sparkled throughout the stage and into thousands and thousands of hearts because the Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll. Her legacy will perpetually dwell among the many stars”, whereas the NAACP wrote, “The NAACP mourns the lack of the queen of rock’n’roll, Tina Turner, whose pioneering artistry and triumphant life story have impressed thousands and thousands for many years. Her impression will probably be felt for generations to come back within the music business and past.”
