I didn’t see a thread on this one (I looked - honest!) 
http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Music/12/12/obit.ike.turner.ap/index.html
VCNJ~
I wanna keep a webcam on the grave. You know Tina will be showing up shortly for a dance.
Ike Turner was still alive? I would’ve lost a bar bet on that nugget!
Saw this on another site and couldn’t stop laughing: “Ike Turner beats Tina to death.”
That’s GOLD Jerry! (the witticism, not spouse abuse)
I really feel terrible that I’m laughing my ass off right now 
Yup, yup yup!
Huh. It was either yesterday or Thursday that I asked a coworker if Ike Turner was still alive. I looked him up on Wiki and he was.
Is there anyone else I should ask my coworker about?
He’s slappin’ angels around now.
Man, he was surely a mess, with his personal life, but just as surely a powerhouse musician, who ushered in the era of rock-n-roll with Rocket 88, now acknowledged as the first Rock-n-Roll recording, helping Sun Studios rise to fame and changing the earbones of America.
He was a bridge between the blues music of his Clarksdale, Mississippi youth, where he paid good attention and learned from the brilliant musicians there. He acted as a hustler for the music of the time; as a talent scout who helped get Howlin’ Wolf, Sonny Boy Williamson, Elmore James and others up and recorded on Sun: pianist, vocalist and guitarist on many sessions. He was an incredible force; as a producer and bandleader, touring the US with his amped up revue in the fifties when it wasn’t so easy to do that as a Black band. For all the personal abuse issues that surfaced later, his musical partnership with Tina Turner gave rise to a prominent dynamic couple who were the royalty of African American music of the time. Tina was the voice that Ike needed to get his musical ideas through, she was the damn force in that. (And, continued and rose into her ownself beyond that in the eighties)
I last saw Ike playing 10 years ago, in Clarksdale, MS, his hometown. He still had every bit of energy, and could command a revue band excellently.
RIP, Ike, hope you get some peace, and thanks for the riffs, gifts, and prominent shifts.
I love you, Kevin Nealon!
I thoughted he was already long deaded.
I knew he was alive but I was surprised to learn he was only 76. I’d have thought he was older- hell, he was playing rock’n’roll almost 60 years ago. He was truly, warts and all, one of the fathers of that genre.
Pity that like Joan Crawford he’ll only be remembered as an abusive psycho (and that mostly from the movie, which even Tina says was embellished [among other things it depicted him as the father of her oldest son, which he wasn’t- they didn’t become romantically involved until well after that child and weren’t legally married until near the end of their act).
I read somewhere he’s been married (not always in the legal sense) something like 14 times. No idea how many kids he had.
Well anyway, RIP Ike. In your honor I’ll wear black. And blue.
I betcha Tina Turner is doing one helluva Happy Dance.
And here’s that headline, courtesy of the New York Post:
I was coming in to make comments like this - great work, elelle. He may have been an awful human, but he was a great musician and at the nexus of a lot of important stuff…
Here’s Rocket 88 with a montage and overview of its history on Youtube (oh, and Bettie Page, too!)
Rolling on the riv-eerrrrr
This headline is pretty funny when read as a commentary on the state of popular music:
The morning after Ike Turner dies Miley Cyrus books more dates and Liza Minelli collapses.
A genius with a serious character flaw. Not all that uncommon, you know. Unfortunately, it overshadowed his tremendous talent. The music world has lost a giant, and there’s no taking away from that with all the easy cheap shots.
Floating, not rolling.
Rolling on the riverrrr…Styx!
And boy, would that be a funny cover.