Start Me Up
Start Me Up/Always Tina
Coming July 24 to the Fox Performing Arts Center in Riverside California! Start Me Up, your favorite Rolling Stones Tribute with special guest Always Tina, The Ultimate Tina Turner Tribute. A full evening of great music with tributes to the Worlds Greatest Rock and Roll Band and the Queen of Rock!! One Night Only Tina and the Stones!!
The Rolling Stones
The group’s fortunes changed in 1978, after the band released Some Girls, which included the hit single “Miss You“, the country ballad “Far Away Eyes“, “Beast of Burden“, and “Shattered“. In part as a response to punk, many songs, particularly “Respectable“, were fast, basic, guitar-driven rock and roll,[221] and the album’s success re-established the Rolling Stones’ immense popularity among young people. It reached number 2 in the UK and number 1 in the US.[222] Following the 1978 US Tour, the band appeared on the first show of the fourth season of the TV series Saturday Night Live. Following the success of Some Girls, the band released their next album, Emotional Rescue, in mid-1980.[223] During recording sessions for the album, a rift between Jagger and Richards slowly developed. Richards wanted to tour in the summer or autumn of 1980 to promote the new album. Much to his disappointment, Jagger declined.[223] Emotional Rescue hit the top of the charts on both sides of the Atlantic[224] and the title track reached number 3 in the US.[223]
In early 1981, the group reconvened and decided to tour the US that year, leaving little time to write and record a new album, as well as to rehearse for the tour. That year’s resulting album, Tattoo You, featured a number of outtakes from other recording sessions, including lead single “Start Me Up“, which reached number 2[225] in the US and ranked number 22 on Billboard‘s Hot 100 year-end chart. Two songs (“Waiting on a Friend” (US number 13) and “Tops”) featured Mick Taylor’s unused rhythm guitar tracks, while jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins played on “Slave“, “Neighbours”, and “Waiting on a Friend”.[226] The album reached number 2 in the UK and number 1 in the US.[227]
The Rolling Stones reached number 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1982 with “Hang Fire“. Their 1981 American Tour was their biggest, longest, and most colourful production to date. It was the highest-grossing tour of that year.[228] It included a concert at Chicago’s Checkerboard Lounge with Muddy Waters, in one of his last performances before his death in 1983.[229] Some of the shows were recorded. This resulted in the 1982 live album Still Life (American Concert 1981) which reached number 4 in the UK and number 5 in the US,[230] and the 1983 Hal Ashby concert film Let’s Spend the Night Together, filmed at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona and the Brendan Byrne Arena in the Meadowlands, New Jersey.[231]
In mid-1982, to commemorate their 20th anniversary, the Rolling Stones took their American stage show to Europe. The European tour was their first in six years and used a similar format to the American tour. The band was joined by former Allman Brothers Bandkeyboardist Chuck Leavell, who continues to perform and record with them.[232] By the end of the year, the Stones had signed a new four-album recording deal with a new label, CBS Records, for a reported $50 million, then the biggest record deal in history.[233]
Tina Turner
ina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock; November 26, 1939 – May 24, 2023) was a singer, songwriter, actress and author. Dubbed the “Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll“, she broke both racial and gender barriers in rock music with her vocal prowess and stage presence. She is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, with estimated sales of over 100 million records worldwide.
Turner rose to prominence in the 1960s as the lead vocalist of the R&B husband-wife duo Ike & Tina Turner, known for their explosive live performances with the Ikettes and Kings of Rhythm. The duo achieved chart success with songs including “A Fool In Love,” “River Deep – Mountain High,” “Proud Mary,” and “Nutbush City Limits.” After separating from Ike Turner in the 1976, she launched a solo career. Following the 1983 hit “Let’s Stay Together,” she made a comeback with her multi-platinum fifth solo album, Private Dancer (1984). The single “What’s Love Got to Do with It” won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year in 1985 and became her only number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100. She continued her success with the Top 10 singles “Better Be Good to Me,” “Private Dancer,” “We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome),” “Typical Male,” and “I Don’t Wanna Fight“.
Turner’s Break Every Rule World Tour became the highest-grossing tour by a female artist in the 1980s, and her 1988 concert in Rio de Janeiro set a Guinness World Recordfor the then-largest paying audience in a concert by a solo artist. She continued touring successfully in the 1990s and her Twenty Four Seven Tour was the highest-grossing tour of 2000. In 2009, she retired from performing after completing the Tina!: 50th Anniversary Tour. As an actress, Turner appeared in the films Tommy (1975), Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985), and Last Action Hero (1993). Her life was portrayed in the biopic What’s Love Got to Do with It (1993), based on her autobiography I, Tina(1986), and later in the musical Tina (2018) and documentary Tina (2021).
Turner received 12 Grammy Awards, including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Awardand three Grammy Hall of Fame inductions. In 1967, she became the first black artist and the first woman to appear on the cover of Rolling Stone in 1967, which later ranked her among the greatest artists and greatest singers of all time. She was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1986 and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice—first with Ike Turner in 1991 and again as a solo artist in 2021. Turner received the Kennedy Center Honors in 2005. In 2013, Turner relinquished her U.S. citizenship and became a Swiss citizen, residing there until her death in Küsnacht in 2023.
