Tina Turner Dead at 83
May 24, 2023 12:18 PM Subscribe
The Queen of Rock dies in Switzerland at 83 Another 60's icon passes on. Tina Turner died at her home in Küsnacht, Switzerland, at 83.
Her publicist Bernard Doherty announced the death in a statement but did not provide the cause, although she had suffered a stroke in recent years, according to the NY Times obituary.
I was thinking about her the other day, I can't recall why. She was an amazing artist.
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Simply the best.
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WHAT'S DEATH WHAT'S DEATH GOT TO DO WITH IT?
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WHAT'S DEATH WHAT'S DEATH GOT TO DO WITH IT?
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posted by praemunire at 12:46 PM on May 24, 2023
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She was a force to be reckoned with musically and I certainly don't want to minimize that or define her by her abuse, but her story of getting free of Ike and achieving success on her own terms was an inspiring example for many people of my generation.
So yes, she rocked. But she also showed us that overcoming a terrible situation, taking ownership of your own destiny, and forging your own path was not just possible but potentially transcendent.
If nobody ever played one of her songs ever again she'd still be worth remembering for the inspiration she provided to countless people.
posted by Nerd of the North at 12:48 PM on May 24, 2023 [61 favorites]
So yes, she rocked. But she also showed us that overcoming a terrible situation, taking ownership of your own destiny, and forging your own path was not just possible but potentially transcendent.
If nobody ever played one of her songs ever again she'd still be worth remembering for the inspiration she provided to countless people.
posted by Nerd of the North at 12:48 PM on May 24, 2023 [61 favorites]
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posted by GenjiandProust at 12:48 PM on May 24, 2023
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presence for days
chops for days
pipes for days
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posted by lalochezia at 12:48 PM on May 24, 2023 [6 favorites]
chops for days
pipes for days
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Just listened to the episode on her in 500songs.com. Amazing what she went through. And I had no idea she was a backup singer for Frank Zappa!
posted by rouftop at 12:49 PM on May 24, 2023 [8 favorites]
Just listened to the episode on her in 500songs.com. Amazing what she went through. And I had no idea she was a backup singer for Frank Zappa!
posted by rouftop at 12:49 PM on May 24, 2023 [8 favorites]
She’ll always rule Bartertown now.
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posted by JohnFromGR at 12:51 PM on May 24, 2023
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A couple who were both friends of mine had bought tickets for the Private Dancer tour and then broken up, they didn't want to go together anymore so asked me if I would buy his ticket off him. It was an incredible experience, absolutely one of the top 3 concerts I've been to.
posted by Runes at 12:52 PM on May 24, 2023 [8 favorites]
A couple who were both friends of mine had bought tickets for the Private Dancer tour and then broken up, they didn't want to go together anymore so asked me if I would buy his ticket off him. It was an incredible experience, absolutely one of the top 3 concerts I've been to.
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posted by kensington314 at 12:52 PM on May 24, 2023
posted by kensington314 at 12:52 PM on May 24, 2023
I'm just so glad she got basically all the flowers before she died. She was so conflicted about her career in a lot of ways, and seeing her coming to peace with her legacy and being honored by her peers, as if she had peers!, was wonderful over the past couple of years.
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posted by Hairy Lobster at 12:54 PM on May 24, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by Hairy Lobster at 12:54 PM on May 24, 2023 [1 favorite]
So, what do we do with our lives
We leave only a mark
Will our story shine like a light or end in the dark?
She certainly shined; her music, her story.
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posted by nubs at 12:56 PM on May 24, 2023 [3 favorites]
We leave only a mark
Will our story shine like a light or end in the dark?
She certainly shined; her music, her story.
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posted by nubs at 12:56 PM on May 24, 2023 [3 favorites]
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She was one of the first celebrities I knew who was. She had such an incredible career, and she’s one of the few superstars who seems like she was inevitable. With those musical chops and that stage presence, it seems impossible she wouldn’t have been who she was.
There are few singers like her, who could take any song, make it hers and elevate it. Like, I don’t think anyone could take an already damn good Willie Nelson song, covered by Elvis and Al Green, and just take absolute ownership of it.
posted by Kattullus at 12:56 PM on May 24, 2023 [4 favorites]
She was one of the first celebrities I knew who was. She had such an incredible career, and she’s one of the few superstars who seems like she was inevitable. With those musical chops and that stage presence, it seems impossible she wouldn’t have been who she was.
There are few singers like her, who could take any song, make it hers and elevate it. Like, I don’t think anyone could take an already damn good Willie Nelson song, covered by Elvis and Al Green, and just take absolute ownership of it.
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Words cannot describe how groundbreaking she was
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my dad saw an ike and tina gig at a st louis public swimming pool in about...'61?
i loved her 80s stuff. esp the duo with jeff beck. and, of course, The Acid Queen and Aunty Entity.
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posted by j_curiouser at 1:10 PM on May 24, 2023 [4 favorites]
i loved her 80s stuff. esp the duo with jeff beck. and, of course, The Acid Queen and Aunty Entity.
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posted by j_curiouser at 1:10 PM on May 24, 2023 [4 favorites]
i cannot fathom the interest people place in hereditary monarchies when we could all simply sing praises to this queen, this absolute gem of a person
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My introduction to here was Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome where she played Auntie. She was great.
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Everybody is talking about the great cover of "Let's stay together".
But this is her true cover version that outshines the original - Massive Attack's "Unfinished Sympathy"
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But this is her true cover version that outshines the original - Massive Attack's "Unfinished Sympathy"
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posted by May Kasahara at 1:19 PM on May 24, 2023
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I first encountered her in The Big T.N.T. Show, back in high school. What a revelation that was. So sad to hear this.
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Herbie Hancock / Edith and the Kingpin with Tina Turner
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I saw her perform twice, the last time in Chicago in 2008. It was an electrifying concert, and it confirmed to me that I was in the presence of a unique firebrand of a talent. And who can forget the way she sauntered through "Goldeneye," only to erupt in blazing fury at the end? Yet for all the music, that voice, the presence, what I will remember most about Tina Turner is her infectious laugh--makes me smile just to think about it.
That and, oh, her classic line delivery: "Ain't we a pair, raggedy man?"
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That and, oh, her classic line delivery: "Ain't we a pair, raggedy man?"
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I'm so glad she had way more time without Ike than with him. :)
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I'm so glad she had way more time without Ike than with him. :)
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something I just discovered recently ...
You Got What You Wanted
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posted by philip-random at 1:32 PM on May 24, 2023
You Got What You Wanted
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Pick Me Up (Take Me Where Your Home Is)* was on the first mixtape I made my wife, a million years ago when I was trying to convince her to go out with me.
* (with Ike)
posted by The Card Cheat at 1:40 PM on May 24, 2023
Pick Me Up (Take Me Where Your Home Is)* was on the first mixtape I made my wife, a million years ago when I was trying to convince her to go out with me.
* (with Ike)
posted by The Card Cheat at 1:40 PM on May 24, 2023
To me, one of the most amazing things about her was how effortlessly she exuded sexiness and beauty without seeming to care whether anyone else found her sexy or beautiful. She was gorgeous for generations without ever seeming like she worked at it or bothered wondering about the result. Tina Turner simply was, in a way that very few people ever manage.
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posted by Etrigan at 1:49 PM on May 24, 2023 [9 favorites]
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posted by Etrigan at 1:49 PM on May 24, 2023 [9 favorites]
I just remember the film Gimme Shelter which showed Tina Turner performing as an opening act at a Stones concert in NYC. This was at the beginning of the film. And for all the rest of the film when Jagger was performing all I could think of was her. He was copying her.
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posted by njohnson23 at 1:52 PM on May 24, 2023 [13 favorites]
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posted by njohnson23 at 1:52 PM on May 24, 2023 [13 favorites]
I’ve just gone on a bit of a YouTube Tina Turner bender and, unexpectedly to me, the video that’s affected me the most is her live cover of a couple of late seventies AOR hits, fairly maudlin in the original, which she turns into real cries of the heart. This performance is from just after she’s divorced.
Tina Turner performing You Don't Bring Me Flowers and Sometimes When We Touch at Warner Theatre
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Tina Turner performing You Don't Bring Me Flowers and Sometimes When We Touch at Warner Theatre
posted by Kattullus at 2:01 PM on May 24, 2023 [6 favorites]
She was so badass. Rest in Power!
posted by otsebyatina at 2:02 PM on May 24, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by otsebyatina at 2:02 PM on May 24, 2023 [1 favorite]
Harvard Business Review: Interview with Tina Turner (2021)
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Harvard Business Review: Interview with Tina Turner (2021)
posted by hippybear at 2:20 PM on May 24, 2023 [40 favorites]
When you were touring, how did you prep to take the stage in front of millions of people? Did you have a preshow routine?What an amazing person!
Yes, once I started my solo career, I would chant for an hour before each show, focusing on the true happiness of each person who came to see me. I visualized my audience and prayed that I could be whoever each person needed me to be that day so that I could inspire their dreams and help them recharge their souls. For me, being onstage was the best—a great exchange of energy with each person in the audience. Afterward, it often felt like a blur of color, light, joy, and visions of the many smiling faces who had come to see me.
posted by hippybear at 2:20 PM on May 24, 2023 [40 favorites]
The 2021 documentary Tina is a fantastic overview of her life, with lots of amazing live footage and interviews. Must-watch for fans, not least because of the raw, honest way she talks about her very mixed feelings about discussing the abuse she suffered and how inspirational her public story was for so many folks.
posted by mediareport at 2:21 PM on May 24, 2023 [9 favorites]
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My moment was hearing a DJ play her awesome slow-funk Zeppelin cover, couldn't believe my ears.
posted by ovvl at 2:25 PM on May 24, 2023 [1 favorite]
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In Australia she has a legacy of an extraordinary pair of promotions she did for rugby league, which are cultural touchstones here in their own right; for simply the best, and what you get is what you see from 1989, one of the horniest things ever shown on television.
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one of the horniest things ever shown on television.
And yet, right at the beginning, For General Audiences!
Australia, you fascinate me.
posted by hippybear at 2:32 PM on May 24, 2023 [2 favorites]
And yet, right at the beginning, For General Audiences!
Australia, you fascinate me.
posted by hippybear at 2:32 PM on May 24, 2023 [2 favorites]
I'm sad that she's not in this world anymore. She earned the title Legend. So much respect.
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posted by theora55 at 2:32 PM on May 24, 2023 [1 favorite]
Yes the 2021 documentary is very good. What a loss.
posted by SoberHighland at 2:34 PM on May 24, 2023
posted by SoberHighland at 2:34 PM on May 24, 2023
I think I first saw her on some variety TV show or other in the '60s, when I was a little kid. She made SUCH an impact on me and I was a fan even in the years where she wasn't much in the public eye. Her "comeback" made me so happy, it was so wonderful to see the world finally really seeing and valuing her, and of course, after the movie came out and people hearing her story. Such a fucking icon.
I've been rewatching Miami Vice recently and it's always amazed me how well they made use of her songs on that show.
posted by kitten kaboodle at 2:42 PM on May 24, 2023
I've been rewatching Miami Vice recently and it's always amazed me how well they made use of her songs on that show.
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posted by The Bellman at 2:50 PM on May 24, 2023
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I really did think, after all she had survived, she might live forever!
Rest in power, Anna Mae. ❤️
posted by armeowda at 3:27 PM on May 24, 2023 [3 favorites]
Rest in power, Anna Mae. ❤️
posted by armeowda at 3:27 PM on May 24, 2023 [3 favorites]
This is the one rock and roll obituary where I don't even know how to begin. The Queen is dead, long live the Queen.
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posted by Joey Michaels at 4:03 PM on May 24, 2023
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We're so lucky to have shared time with her talent and spirit
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posted by JoeXIII007 at 4:07 PM on May 24, 2023
posted by JoeXIII007 at 4:07 PM on May 24, 2023
We're so lucky to have shared time with her talent and spirit
i know! So many legends were not being legends during my life, but she was at her peak during the prime of my life! So astonishing, really.
*Wayne&Garth* We're Not Worthy! We're Not Worthy!
posted by hippybear at 4:08 PM on May 24, 2023 [3 favorites]
i know! So many legends were not being legends during my life, but she was at her peak during the prime of my life! So astonishing, really.
*Wayne&Garth* We're Not Worthy! We're Not Worthy!
posted by hippybear at 4:08 PM on May 24, 2023 [3 favorites]
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I was stranded in Nairobi airport for 8 hours in 2018, going from Doha to Addis Ababa. Tina Turner's "What's Love Got to Do With It" played overhead nearly the whole time. Rest in power, Ms. Turner.
posted by wicked_sassy at 4:28 PM on May 24, 2023 [3 favorites]
I was stranded in Nairobi airport for 8 hours in 2018, going from Doha to Addis Ababa. Tina Turner's "What's Love Got to Do With It" played overhead nearly the whole time. Rest in power, Ms. Turner.
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posted by oozy rat in a sanitary zoo at 4:34 PM on May 24, 2023
posted by oozy rat in a sanitary zoo at 4:34 PM on May 24, 2023
presence for days
chops for days
pipes for days
Legs for days
God, that woman could strut!
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posted by BlueHorse at 5:17 PM on May 24, 2023 [6 favorites]
RIP dear Tina!
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posted by cupcakeninja at 5:44 PM on May 24, 2023
posted by cupcakeninja at 5:44 PM on May 24, 2023
Ike was awful to her, but in the spirit of appreciating the art despite the artist, when I hear her 1960 It's Gonna Work Out Fine I hear the beginnings of the best of the 60s.
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posted by johnxlibris at 6:19 PM on May 24, 2023
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njohnson23 (above): Also in the film Gimme Shelter, there is a scene where Mick Jagger watches the film of Tina Turner's opening performance with admiration and envy.
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posted by Faintdreams at 4:05 AM on May 25, 2023
posted by Faintdreams at 4:05 AM on May 25, 2023
Goodbye Aunty Entity.
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"All the children say
We don't need another hero
We don't need to know the way home
All we want is life beyond
Thunderdome."
posted by Faintdreams at 4:06 AM on May 25, 2023 [2 favorites]
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"All the children say
We don't need another hero
We don't need to know the way home
All we want is life beyond
Thunderdome."
posted by Faintdreams at 4:06 AM on May 25, 2023 [2 favorites]
My moment was hearing a DJ play her awesome slow-funk Zeppelin cover, couldn't believe my ears.
What clicked into place for me, hearing that, is just how much of Robert Plant's tone and phrasing style it reveals as essentially imitative of hers.
Tina Turner will live on for centuries, in the voices of thousands.
posted by flabdablet at 5:10 AM on May 25, 2023
What clicked into place for me, hearing that, is just how much of Robert Plant's tone and phrasing style it reveals as essentially imitative of hers.
Tina Turner will live on for centuries, in the voices of thousands.
posted by flabdablet at 5:10 AM on May 25, 2023
An exceptional talent and a noble soul. She fought hard and sang hard. In her interviews you can tell that she was a sensitive person and not hardened by the abuse she suffered earlier in her life. I found it interesting that she lived in Küsnacht Switzerland. It was also the home of CG Jung, Marie Louise von Franz, Barbara Hannah and Thomas Mann.
posted by DJZouke at 5:12 AM on May 25, 2023 [3 favorites]
posted by DJZouke at 5:12 AM on May 25, 2023 [3 favorites]
For your viewing pleasure - Tina Turner and Mick Jagger teaming up at Live Aid; they started with a song Mick had just done with Michael Jackson, "State Of Shock", and then segued into "Only Rock n' Roll".
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 6:31 AM on May 25, 2023 [2 favorites]
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 6:31 AM on May 25, 2023 [2 favorites]
Her passing leaves us all poorer! •
posted by Katjusa Roquette at 6:58 AM on May 25, 2023
posted by Katjusa Roquette at 6:58 AM on May 25, 2023
Her music and presence helped me get through some tough times in high school and college. What a force and it sounds like her last years were good ones for her.
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posted by Sheydem-tants at 7:26 AM on May 25, 2023
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posted by Sheydem-tants at 7:26 AM on May 25, 2023
I recently ran across this delicious cover of Under My Thumb. She was still married to Ike when she recorded it, and it's so blatantly a fantasy about treating him how he deserved, and I can't get over what a badass she was and how much shit she fought through that she never should have had to.
posted by nebulawindphone at 7:41 AM on May 25, 2023 [3 favorites]
posted by nebulawindphone at 7:41 AM on May 25, 2023 [3 favorites]
At the height of her fame and after the initial European leg of her Private Dancer tour, Tina and her entourage descended upon my home town to spend several weeks rehearsing the revised setlist for the North American dates. I'd left for grad school the year before, but friends told me it was not uncommon to see the musicians, road crew, and even the lady herself enjoying the city, and from all accounts they were classy gracious guests, and are still fondly remembered almost 40 years later. Their tenure ended with four sold-out concerts at the downtown hockey arena, probably the most dumpy dilapidated venue she would play during the year-long tour. Hard to believe that only two days later she'd be with Mick Jagger in front of almost 90,000 at the aforementioned Live Aid concert in Philly, then filling stadiums and arenas across the U.S. and Canada through the summer and autumn. Simply the best.
posted by hangashore at 9:35 AM on May 25, 2023 [5 favorites]
posted by hangashore at 9:35 AM on May 25, 2023 [5 favorites]
Tina Turner - Proud Mary - 1993
I posted Ike & Tina Turner doing "Proud Mary" because you can see her taking it from him and becoming Tina Turner. She owned him so hard she took his name.
posted by kirkaracha at 9:47 AM on May 25, 2023 [5 favorites]
I posted Ike & Tina Turner doing "Proud Mary" because you can see her taking it from him and becoming Tina Turner. She owned him so hard she took his name.
posted by kirkaracha at 9:47 AM on May 25, 2023 [5 favorites]
I have a treasured record. Black vinyl record. Old. Used.
"River Deep, Mountain High".
Only the best pop song in history. No big deal.
posted by Savannah at 10:47 AM on May 25, 2023 [2 favorites]
"River Deep, Mountain High".
Only the best pop song in history. No big deal.
posted by Savannah at 10:47 AM on May 25, 2023 [2 favorites]
"River Deep, Mountain High" (1971) it's Ike & Tina Turner but he's just a dude in her backup band. Tina Turner live at Wembley, 2000.
Ann-Margret and Tina Turner crushing "Nutbush City Limits," "Honky Tonk Women," and "Proud Mary" on The Ann-Margret Show after an odd intro. Caution: contains 1970s humor.
Tina Turner and Rod Stewart, "Hot Legs"
posted by kirkaracha at 11:21 AM on May 25, 2023 [2 favorites]
Ann-Margret and Tina Turner crushing "Nutbush City Limits," "Honky Tonk Women," and "Proud Mary" on The Ann-Margret Show after an odd intro. Caution: contains 1970s humor.
Tina Turner and Rod Stewart, "Hot Legs"
posted by kirkaracha at 11:21 AM on May 25, 2023 [2 favorites]
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posted by SystematicAbuse at 12:39 PM on May 25, 2023
posted by SystematicAbuse at 12:39 PM on May 25, 2023
better than all the rest
posted by HiddenInput at 1:06 PM on May 25, 2023
posted by HiddenInput at 1:06 PM on May 25, 2023
Simply the best. She was an amazing woman, who reinvented herself and never lost her legend status. What a life she lived.
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