This is the week that was in matters musical … 1951, Ike Turner and his Kings of Rhythm record "Rocket 88" credited by many rock historians to be the first rock ‘n’ roll record … produced by the legendary Sam Phillips at Sun Records in Memphis, it’s consider...

Ike Wister Turner, born Clarksdale, Mississippi, 5th November 1931, died December 12th 2007. It is a wet Wednesday, March 3rd 1951, and Ike Turn er and his Kings of Rhythm are travelling up from Clarksdale into Memphis in the back of a Chrysler. An acquaintance of theirs, Riley King , has just got s...

Ike Wister Turner, born Clarksdale, Mississippi, 5th November 1931, died December 12th 2007. Let us go back to Clarksdale, Mississippi, back to around the year 1935. Ike lives in a small house ... Ike looks up. Somewhere outside in t he street there is a dist urbance. People are yelling for his fath...

Filed under: Obits, Michael Moore, Cinematical Indie St. Claire Bourne (1943-2007) - Filmmaker who directed the documentary John Henrik Clarke: A Great and Mighty Walk and was the unit manager for When We Were Kings. He also appears as himself in the doc How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (...

Guest Editorial by Ike Turner Listen: I know y'all found me this morning in my home near San Diego, and I wasn't exactly what you might call "responsive" when the paramedics showed up. And the whole defibriliatutiary deal, with the electric paddles and shit? I swear to God, that about knocked me acr...

…yeah I’ll give him an R.I.P, after he died on Wednesday aged 76. I know, I know the first image you have when you hear the name is of a coked up scumbag slapping Tina around, like you saw in the film. But he played a major part in the history of popular music that we know as Rock and or...

Oh hey, Ike Turner is dead. Pop-culture fans remember him as Tina Turner's abusive ex-husband, and contrarian music geeks remember him as one of the most underrated guitarists of the second half of the 20th century. But the best reaction......

Filed under: Music & Musicals, Critical Thought, Newsstand, Obits With Ike Turner dying yesterday, most of the obituaries felt obliged to lead with the wife-beater stuff and then sort of follow up with the 'helped invent rock n' roll' part.' Some papers are also making a lot of hay over the fact...

The death of Ike Turner has been announced. He was 76. Born in Mississippi in 1931, the young Ike started to earn money from his music when, as an eleven year-old, he played piano for Sonny Boy Williamson and Robert Nighthawk. By the end of the second world war, he was combining djing for WROX with ...

Earlier today, Ike Turner passed away. If the man we saw Larry Fishburne (remember when he was Larry? LMAO) portray was the real Ike, Tina's ex-husband was a hard, hard man at least in part of his life. I'm not......