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    My Love Story: A Memoir
    My Love Story: A Memoir
    My Love Story: A Memoir
    Audiobook8 hours

    My Love Story: A Memoir

    Written by Tina Turner

    Narrated by Heather Alicia Simms

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    In this New York Times bestseller, Tina Turner—the long-reigning queen of rock & roll—reveals personal stories she’s never told before in print or film, about her complicated relationship with her mother, the tragic death of her son, and finally finding true love with Erwin, setting the record straight about her illustrious career in this eye-opening and compelling memoir.

    From her early years in Nutbush, Tennessee to her rise to fame alongside Ike Turner to her phenomenal success in the 1980s and beyond, Tina candidly examines her personal history, from her darkest hours to her happiest moments and everything in between.

    My Love Story is an explosive and inspiring story of a woman who dared to break any barriers put in her way. Emphatically showcasing Tina’s signature blend of strength, energy, heart, and soul, this is a gorgeously wrought memoir as enthralling and moving as any of her greatest hits.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateOct 16, 2018
    ISBN9781508276692
    My Love Story: A Memoir
    Author

    Tina Turner

    Tina Turner, born Anna Mae Bullock, was a singer and actress whose career spanned more than sixty years. She won numerous awards, including eight Grammys. Tina began her music career with her husband Ike Turner as a member of the Ike & Tina Turner Revue. Success followed with a string of hits including “River Deep, Mountain High” and “Proud Mary.” She divorced Ike in 1978 and, after virtually disappearing from the music scene for several years, rebuilt her career, launching a string of hits including her 1984 solo album Private Dancer. In 1986, she published a bestselling memoir I Tina which was turned into the Academy Award-nominated film What’s Love Got to Do with It in 1993. One of the world’s most popular entertainers, Tina sold more concert tickets than any other solo music performer in history. She lived with her husband in Zurich, Switzerland until her death in 2023 at the age of eighty-three.

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    • 5/5
      Heartbreaking story but with a positive vibe to the end!

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    • 4/5
      The narrator made it so real that I imagined it was Tina, a story of courage and perseverance.
    • 5/5
      I really enjoy autobiographies of famous people! I could have cried how cruel Ike was to her!
    • 3/5
      Didn’t like the narrator. Too dramatic, unlike a story teller.
    • 5/5
      This book is a must read. Tina Turner is a warrior queen
    • 5/5
      There was no one like Tina. This book reminded me that I am stronger than I have ever realized
    • 5/5
      This book was inspiring,every twist and turn connects you to her and I pray for her tragic loss
    • 5/5
      very moving, well written and incredibly insightful to tina’s life
    • 1/5
      I wanted to just listen to this as an audiobook, but I had to stop and just read the book. The actress they hired to read for the audiobook is just plain awful. Overacting every third word of every sentence, absolutely horrendous. Wish they’d had Tina Turner read it herself. Send this person back to Acting 101: “Does anybody talk like this in real life??”
    • 5/5
      Oh Tina <3
      My new mantra Be Strong Like Tina
    • 5/5
      The story was gripping ad the narrator was amazing! I definitely recommend this book.
    • 5/5
      Tina:the best
      A story, candid,authentic, no sugar coating
      Humility while displaying courage, trust,and imagination to reinvent her life and take risks and later on to fight illness
      This is true love story with Erwin
    • 5/5
      I have always been a Tina Turner fan but it was interesting to hear how she got her start, life with Ike and finally how she found peace and true happiness with her love of her life. Her courage with her serious illnesses left me humbled. I also enjoyed the narrators voice it was calming and I’m sure this is what Ms Turner’s voice sounded like in her earlier years.
    • 5/5
      I loved this book by Tina Turner. My heart ached for all the things she has went through in her life.
      What a strong woman.
    • 5/5
      Every chapter was great. Couldn’t put it down. Thanks and enjoy retirement
    • 5/5
      I really loved this audiobook because it was so heartfelt to me.
    • 5/5
      It’s a story about survival and perseverance. Despite the travails of her earlier years, she managed an astounding emotional, mental, and spiritual transformation. There were some slow parts, mainly attributed to whoever edited the book, but just listen to it. You’ll be better for it. If you haven’t already, you will cross paths with someone who is or was in Ms. Turner’s situation. At the very least, you will impress upon them the need to listen to this book. And hopefully they will be better for it too.
    • 5/5
      I love you Tina Turner! Than you so very much for sharing your Live Story in such a positive light.
    • 5/5
      Such a strong and powerful LADY, so inspiring! Very glad i listened to her story, had such a big impact on my thinking and seeing the life. Love it, love it!!
    • 5/5
      From her early years in Nutbush, Tennessee to her rise to fame alongside Ike Turner to her phenomenal success in the 1980s and beyond, Tina candidly examines her personal history, from her darkest hours to her happiest moments and everything in between. My Love Story is an explosive and inspiring story.From her early years in Nutbush, Tennessee to her rise to fame alongside Ike Turner to her phenomenal success in the 1980s and beyond, Tina candidly examines her personal history, from her darkest hours to her happiest moments and everything in between. My Love Story is an explosive and inspiring story.Tina Turner, the long-reigning queen of rock n' roll and living legend, sets the record straight about her illustrious career and complicated personal life in this eye-opening and compelling memoir. From her early years in Nutbush, Tennessee to her rise to fame alongside Ike Turner to her phenomenal success in the 1980s and beyond, Tina candidly examines her personal history, from her darkest hours to her happiest moments and everything in between. “My Love Story” is an explosive and inspiring story.Even though the chapters were read by Heather Alicia Simms. I could hear Turners voice and her honest thoughts, emotions, feelings in her own words. Singing was both a form of expression and a source of comfort for Mrs. Turner, which exemplifies why she was so good at her craft. Ike Turner nicknamed “Pistol Whippin’” was an angry and unpredictable man with an infamous dark side. Like Tina, many of Ike’s struggles began at birth. When he was a boy, he watched his father die a slow, painful death. When he was older, he had a hard time at school. he was embarrassed about his lack of education and his poor manners. Success would be his revenge. Ike Turner was verbally abusive, then became physically abusive and controlling. Their relationship was defined by abuse and fear, no love or affection, and stifling of her creativity. She described sex with Ike had become an expression of hostility. Eventually, Ike turned to drugs and alcohol and formed an addiction, habit. Often times while on the road touring in the southern states, the revue had to deal with racial tensions, and blatant discrimination. In the music industry there was rejection from the US when their music was widely accepted in the UK, such as “River Deep-Mountain High” written by Phil Spector in 1966. Which ultimately led to Tina’s love for the UK, and an intro into psychics, readers, and later turning to Buddhism, meditation prayer, and cleaning was a form of therapy. Later as Ms. Turner resided in Europe, and had homes in England, Germany, France, and Switzerland. Tina was amongst celebrities, such as Jaqueline Onassis Kennedy, her idol, Sammy Davis Jr, whom bought her first Jaguar, Ann-Margret Olsson, a fan of Tina Turner, Cher after she divorced Sonny and appeared on her show as a solo artist, Bob Mackie, the fashion designer who designed her costumes. Her meeting with Erwin Bach, her future husband was magical, love-at-first-sight. She was free to love and love she did, with Erwin.Turner was a caring, nurturing, and optimistic woman who created lifetime friendships while endured the worst of times and found a love story all her own, byenjoying artistic freedom and commercial success. I saw her as a beautiful woman, young and aged, who radiated beauty, class, talent, and happiness while gracing the cover of magazines, such as Vogue. She will always be my idol!I thought the co-authors and Tina Turner did a wonderful job with the writing of this book, I was very surprised to see all the pictures from within the book also at the end of the ebook with explanations and index references that you can click on to take you back to those subjects within the book. I bounced back and forth between audio (which was well done by the narrator) and the ebook.