On February 24, 1982, at the 24th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, two of the greatest performers in the history of American music crossed paths in a backstage corridor at the Shrine Auditorium. James Brown. Tina Turner. Both at crossroads. Neither performing for the other.
James Brown looked at her and said one word: Anna Mae. Her real name. The name that existed before Ike Turner renamed her in a car on a highway. Almost nobody used it anymore. James Brown used it.
What happened next in that corridor — what James Brown said, and what Tina Turner heard, and what she carried out of that building and into the two years of work that would produce Private Dancer — became one of the most private and most consequential conversations of her career.
This is that story.
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James Brown looked at her and said one word: Anna Mae. Her real name. The name that existed before Ike Turner renamed her in a car on a highway. Almost nobody used it anymore. James Brown used it.
What happened next in that corridor — what James Brown said, and what Tina Turner heard, and what she carried out of that building and into the two years of work that would produce Private Dancer — became one of the most private and most consequential conversations of her career.
This is that story.
Subscribe for more untold stories about the human beings behind music's greatest legends
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