Tina Turner, “merely the perfect”: 10 songs that made her the ‘queen of rock’

From her cradle in Tennessee (USA) the place she was born in 1939 as Anna Mae Bullock, that of Tina Turner – who died this Wednesday on the age of 83 – was a profession by which she managed to beat racism and machismo of a business and a society that later ostracized her… till she was reborn unbiased and reinvented as “the perfect”.

Here are ten songs that illustrate why earlier than Beyoncé there needed to be that girl who traveled probably the most tortuous and on the similar time triumphant paths within the historical past of music, ten songs hooked up to an iron will and a throat cast in hearth, like her hips.