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They Rejected Her First, Then She Became a LEGEND | Tina Turner's Full Story

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In 1984, sitting across from David Letterman, Tina Turner told a story she had carried quietly for eighteen years — how her 1966 record with Phil Spector, River Deep — Mountain High, became a massive hit across Europe while American radio refused to play it at all. Black stations called it too pop. White stations called it too Black. The record had no home. This is the story behind that night on Letterman — what really happened in the strange silent house where the record was made, and what it cost the people who made it when America turned away
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TINA TURNER
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