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MYSTERIOUS: 4 - What They Never Told You

Through her seismic anthems of Black liberation and her ability to conjure fire, fury and tenderness, Turner’s music evolved to soundtrack a changing world

The Guardian - AU

Tina Turner, resilient star who sang ‘Proud Mary’ and ‘What’s Love Got to Do With It,’ dies at 83

For Oprah Winfrey, bearing witness to one of Tina Turner’s frenetic, high-octane performances was nothing short of a spiritual experience.

Los Angeles Times

Tina Turner obituary

Rock’n’roll singer whose comeback after her turbulent early career made her one of the great superstars of the 1980s and 90s

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Tina Turner, resilient star who sang ‘Proud Mary’ and ‘What’s Love Got to Do With It,’ dies

Tina Turner, the yowling powerhouse who helped pioneer a high-octane brand of R&B as half of the incendiary Ike & Tina Turner duo and belted out soul-rock gems such as "Proud Mary," "River Deep, Mountain High" and "What's Love Got to Do With It," has died at 83.

Los Angeles Times

Ruva Ngwenya’s singing career started with Tina Turner, and now she’s playing the icon in a new musical opening in Sydney

Ruva Ngwenya has been performing in musicals for 10 years but Tina – the Tina Turner Musical will be the first time she’s playing a lead role, and it’s one that has been 15 years in the making.

ABC News

Post your questions for singing legend Darlene Love

As well as having her own timeless hits, Love has sung with everyone from Frank Sinatra to Cher – and she will answer your questions on anything in her starry career

The Guardian - UK

10 things you didn’t know about Carol Kaye

She played for Elvis, Sinatra, Spector, the Beach Boys - but just how did she do it?

Guitar World

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‘He was central to music history’: the forgotten legacy of Leon Russell

In an illuminating new book, the incredible highs and devastating lows of the influential musician are remembered

The Guardian - US

Lana Clarkson’s final day with her mum Donna is still ‘so vivid’ 20 years after murder

Actress Lana Clarkson was shot dead at point blank by record producer Phil Spector 20 years ago. Her mum Donna reflected on the final day she saw her

Daily Mirror

Rock’s best kept secret: Tony King on life with John Lennon, Elton John and Freddie Mercury

He held Mercury’s hand in hospital, retrieved Lennon from a cocaine escapade with David Bowie, and was upbraided by Keith Richards for smoking a joint. Now the Zelig of the music world is looking back

The Guardian - UK

Spector review – a complex portrait of the murderer behind pop’s most iconic songs

This four-part series about Phil Spector walks the tightrope between sensitive and salacious – and refuses to diminish the importance of Lana Clarkson, the woman he killed

The Guardian - UK

Spector on Sky and NOW review: an excellent account of the famous producer’s fall - and why it took so long

The directors deserve great credit for this nuanced and even-handed account of Spector’s misdeeds

Evening Standard

The new films and shows out on Now this weekend – January 6

Sky’s subscription service has some great new content dropping in December

Manchester Evening News

I’m dreaming of a bestseller: what makes Christmas songs stick?

We analyse the most popular festive songs to find that all we want for Christmas is mid-century nostalgia

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The Guardian - UK

The 20 greatest Christmas albums – ranked!

Whether you fancy a heartwarming carol with Elvis or the story of a yuletide drug dealer from OutKast, there’s a festive album for you in our rundown of the best ever

The Guardian - UK

‘I wrote it about an ex who borrowed my car to take out another girl’: Voice of the Beehive on Don’t Call Me Baby

‘We wanted a Phil Spector kind of feeling. The studio we recorded it in was so hi-tech we couldn’t even work the salt shakers.’

Salon

All hail Christmas Queen Darlene Love

In this "Everything Fab Four" interview, the legendary vocalist talks Christmas, the Beatles and Phil Spector

The Guardian - US

‘He was celebrated and protected’: revisiting the dark story of Phil Spector

In a new docuseries, the life of the abusive music mogul is contrasted with that of Lana Clarkson, the woman he was convicted of murdering

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Chicago Sun-Times

4-part doc ‘Spector’ deepens our understanding of the killer — and his victim

While detailing the music producer’s history of studio success and bizarre behavior, the Showtime true-crime series also makes time to remember the slain Lana Clarkson as more than just a ‘B-movie actress.’

Los Angeles Times

Phil Spector killed her. The press tarred her. Her mother wants to 'set the story straight'

LOS ANGELES — It's been nearly two decades since Lana Clarkson, the statuesque sword-wielding star of "Barbarian Queen" and other action films by Roger Corman, was murdered by songwriter and music producer Phil Spector at his sprawling faux French chateau in Alhambra known as the Pyrenees Castle.

Benzinga

10 Weirdest Talk Show Moments: Phil Spector's Intrusion, Tom Cruise's Bouncing And Frank Sinatra As The Host!

For most of television history, talk shows have been benign yet entertaining distractions, with pleasant guests offering amusing if not entirely memorable chatter. But on several occasions, talk shows departed from their safe realm into explosions of bizarre and remarkable happenings.

Liverpool Echo

Paul McCartney 'hated' Beatles final number one

Cracks within the band were beginning to show by the late 1960s

The Independent UK

Ronnie Spector: Lead singer of The Ronettes who took charts by storm

Ronnie Spector was the lead singer on ‘Be My Baby’, a 1963 track which sold more than a million copies

Louder

The 20 worst music biopics ever made

Forget The Dirt, Bohemian Rhapsody and Rocketman: music biopics used to be badly researched, badly scripted, badly acted and badly received

Louder

What have The Ramones ever done for us?

They weren’t just a band. The Ramones were a goddamn revolution

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